Comparison

Kolumno vs CityPainter

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Kolumno

Guide a ball through complex columns by timing your drops and utilizing special abilities. This puzzle game offers challenging mechanics, elegant graphics, and a relaxing soundtrack.

Highlights
  • Timing-based gameplay
  • Special abilities
  • Intricate column puzzles
  • 75 challenging levels
  • Elegant graphic and sound styles
Features
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Wait for the right moment and make the ball fall through the intricate columns. Does it seem easy for you? It isn’t! Behind its apparent simplicity, Kolumno hides really challenging and fun game mechanics. Kolumno, as other puzzle games, requires intelligence, planning, and patience, but the challenge doesn’t stop there. It will also test your reflexes with puzzles that will require you to use special abilities such as: stopping mid-air, falling faster, making smaller or breaking the rings that make up the columns. Don’t let yourself be fooled by its minimalistic style and its relaxing soundtrack, Kolumno is one of the most elegant and challenging games in recent times. Features: - 4 different items that expand the complexity of the puzzles. - 75 levels full of challenges. - Elegant graphic and sound styles. - Easy to start, hard to master.

About

CityPainter

Race through famous cities worldwide, painting roads while evading police. Use oil cans to disable pursuers and jump over obstacles. Collect balloons to warp to new countries for bonus points and extra lives.

Highlights
  • Global city locations
  • Police pursuit evasion
  • Oil can combat
  • Jumping mechanics
  • Balloon collection bonuses
  • Collectible oil cans
Features
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Controls -------------- · GamePad MFI Compatible: Joystick, change car direction. Button A,B: oil shooting and jump (press short jump, press and hold large jump). · Screen Controls: Left Joystick, change car direction. Right Buttons, oil shooting and jump (tap short jump, tap and hold large jump). The Game -------------- Must paint all the road throughout countries, each taking place in a famous city from around the world (USA, Spain, UK, France, Australia,...). Your car is constantly under pursuit by police and taxi cars, which you can take out by launching oil cans at them, stunning them, and then ramming into them with your car. Your car can jump over large gaps to reach higher sections of the stage. By collecting oil cans found in each stage, the player can shoot these at other cars. If the player remains on the same stage for an extended period of time, spikes will extrude from the ground... be careful with spikes and cats. Balloons may appear in the stage. The player should collect three of these balloons, they will be warped to a new country and be granted with a large sum of bonus points. Extra life each 100.000 Points! Enjoy!!!!

Screenshots

Kolumno4 screens
CityPainter4 screens

Verdict

The call

Kolumno and CityPainter are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Kolumno costs $1.99 and CityPainter $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Kolumno against 5.0 for CityPainter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kolumno ships an update every 21 months, CityPainter every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Kolumno versus CityPainter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKolumnoCityPainter
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 21 months — betterEvery 38 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB7 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperDevilishGamesIvan Cerra de Castro

Customer experience

Kolumno

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

CityPainter

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Kolumno

No in-app purchases

None

CityPainter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kolumno free?
Kolumno costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CityPainter free?
CityPainter costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kolumno or CityPainter?
Kolumno and CityPainter are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Kolumno or CityPainter have ads?
Neither Kolumno nor CityPainter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kolumno or CityPainter?
Kolumno ships an update every 21 months, and CityPainter every 38 months. Most recently, Kolumno was updated on November 2, 2026 and CityPainter on November 7, 2026.

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