Comparison

Panda Swap vs Gem Falls

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

Head to head
About

Panda Swap

Embark on a match-3 adventure with a panda and her dragon to reclaim temple artifacts. Utilize unique diagonal swaps and grid rotations to strategize and conquer challenging levels.

Highlights
  • Diagonal swapping
  • Grid rotation
  • Match-3 gameplay
  • Temple artifact collection
  • Challenging levels
  • Regular new content
Features
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Swap, Pop, Rotate, Match through challenging levels. It's only up to you to beat the game. Help our Panda and her trustworthy Dragon in their quest to take back their temple's artifacts, from mischiefs, in a journey through the provinces of China. You can swap diagonally and rotate the whole grid to unlock new strategies and give you another perspective on the match-3 gameplay. These new techniques will help you find unique tactics to beat each level on your terms. New content is regular, be sure to update your game.

About

Gem Falls

Features
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Match three or more, watch the cascade take the rest, and keep going. Gemfall is an endless match-3 built for picking up and putting down. Every level asks for something different. Clear a colour, break through the ice, bring the cargo home. And when you close the app mid-run, the board, the score and your powerups are waiting exactly as you left them. No timer running against your day, no lives to wait for, no move you have to make right now. FOURTEEN WORLDS Every level is set somewhere, and where never changes: level two is a Maya temple in the jungle, level four is a dead valley under an erupting volcano, and they will be next time too. A wreck on the sea floor. A sweet factory. A frozen kingdom, a haunted mansion, a marble gate in the clouds, a garden at sunset, a gorge full of waterfalls, a toy box at the end of the afternoon, a fjord under the northern lights. Each world has its own six pieces, its own board, and its own weather in the air above it. CLASSIC Endless levels, each with its own objective. Chain your matches to build heat, and every gem on the board is worth more while it lasts. Clear the level, fall through the warp, and the next one asks a little more of you. TIME ATTACK Sixty seconds. Every match buys you a few more. See how far you can stretch the clock. POWER GEMS Four in a row makes a gem that clears a whole line. An L or a T makes one that blows a hole in the board. Five in a row makes the star. The rarest piece in the game and worth waiting for. Put two power gems together and the board comes apart. ICE, STONE AND CARGO Later levels do not just hand you the board. Ice freezes gems in place until you break the shell. Stone blocks take repeated knocks. Cargo has to be walked all the way to the bottom before it counts. FAIR BY DESIGN · Free. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no ads. Nothing is locked behind a paywall, because there is no paywall. · Fully playable offline. · Nothing is collected. No analytics, no tracking, no account, no sign-up. Your run lives on your phone and nowhere else. · The six gems differ in shape as well as in colour, so they stay apart if you do not see colour the way most people do. GAME CENTER Sign in to Game Center and your best Classic and Time Attack scores go on Apple's global leaderboards. Skip it and the game plays exactly the same, minus a rank. Gemfall is built from scratch in Swift for iPhone, rebuilt from the browser game of the same name. iPhone, portrait, iOS 18 or later.

Screenshots

Panda Swap4 screens
Gem Falls4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gem Falls at none against Panda Swap's 10. Gem Falls also leads on ads (none vs shown). Panda Swap's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 18.0). On price and update cadence 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. Panda Swap sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Gem Falls asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Panda Swap versus Gem Falls: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPanda SwapGem Falls
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size346 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlug In DigitalSandrino Kelders

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Panda Swap

One-time7
  • Special Offer$4.99
  • Bundle of coins and boosters$6.99
  • Special Offer$6.99
Show 4 more
  • Special Offer2 variants$9.99
  • Special Offer$14.99
  • Special Offer2 variants$29.99
  • Special Offer2 variants$49.99
None

Gem Falls

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Panda Swap free?
Panda Swap is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Gem Falls free?
Gem Falls is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Panda Swap or Gem Falls have ads?
Panda Swap shows ads; Gem Falls does not.
Which is updated more often, Panda Swap or Gem Falls?
Panda Swap ships an update weekly, and Gem Falls weekly. Most recently, Panda Swap was updated on November 3, 2026 and Gem Falls on October 29, 2026.

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