Comparison

Tower Swap vs Sumly

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

Head to head
About

Tower Swap

This match-3 puzzle game combines strategic tower defense with a medieval theme. Match three stones to create towers and defend your castle from incoming dragons. Enjoy instant play with no signup and offline capabilities.

Highlights
  • Match-3 puzzle mechanics
  • Tower defense gameplay
  • Castle defense against dragons
  • Merge stones to build towers
  • Offline play available
  • Online high score competition
  • Portrait mode for one-handed play
Features
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The match-3 Tower Defense game! It's like a match-3 puzzle game but your matches turn into towers! Then dragons fly over the board and you have to defend the castle. Merge three stones to make a tower. - No signup required. Try playing it instantly. - Play offline without internet when logged out. - Play online to compete for high scores against friends. - Portrait mode game. Play one-handed. - Turn based game. Look away any time and you're fine. - A small download, and loads quickly. - Over one million plays! Featuring retro medieval pixel art by Kyle McArthur.

About

Sumly

Features
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Every line has to add up. That's the entire rule, and it's enough to keep you thinking long after you meant to put the phone down. Sumly is a puzzle about magic polygons. Drag numbered tiles into the empty spots on a shape until every line - every side, every diagonal - reaches the same target sum. Some tiles click into place right away. Others force you to rework the whole board. No trick beyond arithmetic and patience. WHAT'S INSIDE 20 hand-built levels, running from simple triangles to a full hexagon. Along the way you'll meet square rings, pentagons, and two puzzles borrowed from real history: the Lo Shu square, one of the oldest magic squares on record, and the square carved into Albrecht Dürer's 1514 engraving Melencolia I. Solve one and you get a short historical note about it. HOW IT LOOKS Sumly is drawn like a technical blueprint: black ink on plan paper. Every line of the shape carries a blue dimension marker, the kind an architect uses to note a measurement, except here it tracks the running total of that line live. It turns green the moment the line is complete, and red the instant you overshoot, so you always know exactly where you stand. A CALMER KIND OF PUZZLE There are no timers, no lives, no energy meters, and no streaks nagging you to come back. Nothing interrupts a level once it starts. Undo is unlimited, so you can rearrange freely and test an idea without any penalty for being wrong. Play for two minutes or twenty - the puzzle waits for you. Sumly keeps a running score called your Mind Score, which starts at 1000 and only goes up as you clear levels. As it grows you move through ranks - Apprentice, Solver, Geometer, Archimedean - and you can add your score to a global Top 100 list under a nickname you choose. No account or sign-in required. Sumly is free to play. All 20 levels and your first 3 hints are always free. If you run out of hints, you can watch a short optional video to earn one more. SUMLY PRO Sumly Pro is a single one-time purchase. It removes ads completely and gives you unlimited hints, plus two alternate app icons (a night-blueprint blue and a green variant), and a small ◆ mark next to your name on the Top 100 list. Pro never touches your Mind Score - nobody can buy their way up the leaderboard, so every rank reflects an actual solve. No forced sign-ups. No nagging notifications. Just a quiet board, a pencil-and-paper puzzle turned digital, and every line adding up to exactly what it should.

Screenshots

Tower Swap4 screens
Sumly4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tower Swap at 3 against Sumly's 1. Tower Swap also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Tower Swap sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Sumly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tower Swap versus Sumly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTower SwapSumly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (76 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings76 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB6 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperCurtis RobinsonJeronimo Lascurain

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Tower Swap

One-time6
  • Pile of Gold$0.99
  • Pile of Gold$1.99
  • Barrel of Gold$2.49
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  • Barrel of Gold$4.99
  • Five Barrels of Gold!$9.99
  • Five Barrels Of Gold$19.99
1 purchases

Sumly

One-time1
  • Sumly Pro$0.99

Questions

Is Tower Swap free?
Tower Swap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sumly free?
Sumly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tower Swap or Sumly have ads?
Both Tower Swap and Sumly show ads.

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