Match Emojis vs Pen Stacks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Match Emojis
A simple concentration-style game where players match emoji cards. It's designed as a fun distraction and a learning tool for Swift development. The game features a leaderboard for high scores with point penalties.
- Emoji card matching
- Concentration game style
- Leaderboard high scores
- Point penalties
- Swift learning tool
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This is a simple Concentration style game. I created it as a tool to learn Swift and SwiftUI. It's a fun distraction game when waiting in long lines. 1. Pick an Emoji Theme. 2. Tap on two cards to revile the emoji on the underside of card. If cards match you get 1 point. If cards don't match and you've seen the second card before so you know it's not a match you lose 1 point, you also can lose 2 points. You can't touch more than two cards at a time. You have to wait for animations to complete before touching new card. 3. Easy Scoring mode doesn't go below 0 and only penalies 1 point. This is to not discourage young kids or people with disabilities. 4. You post your score by tapping the Score icon in the bottom tab bar 5. The game uses the new Leaderboard "High Score - With Penalties_V1" 6. You can create your own Theame game by pressing the + button. You then can type any character from the keyboard (minimum of 10). Each time a new game is run a random number of 10 characters are picked for that game. Note that Emojis are just characters. You can create a game with all uppercase letters for example. This application gathers NO user personal data at all, period! It has not Social Media capability.
Pen Stacks
Match same-colored pencils and stack them to guide them to the sharpener. Navigate through levels filled with blockers. A colorful and engaging puzzle experience awaits.
- Match same-colored pencils
- Stack pencils
- Guide pencils to sharpener
- Overcome blockers
- Colorful puzzle gameplay
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Your mission is simple: match the same-colored pencils, stack them, and lead them to the sharpener! Watch out for blockers!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Match Emojis at none against Pen Stacks's shown. Match Emojis also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Pen Stacks's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Match Emojis against 4.9 for Pen Stacks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 23 respectively.
| Parameter | Match Emojis | Pen Stacks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better | 4.9 (23 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 156 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mike Retondo | Kaliba Games & Technologies Inc. |
Customer experience
Match Emojis
Pen Stacks
In-app purchases
Match Emojis
No in-app purchases
Pen Stacks
No in-app purchases
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