Comparison

Light Ignite vs circloO

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

Head to head
About

Light Ignite

Explore the mesmerizing physics of light in this captivating puzzle game. Manipulate lasers, mirrors, and prisms to solve intricate optical challenges. Unleash your creativity by building and sharing your own levels.

Highlights
  • Optical puzzle challenges
  • Laser manipulation
  • Level editor
  • Community level sharing
  • Real-time physics engine
  • Offline play
Features
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Light defines beauty: relax and immerse yourself with this gorgeous, hypnotizing phenomenon in a stunning optical physics light game. Experience the unique physics of light rays in an amazing laser puzzle which is as challenging as it is joyful. Play with laser physics and control the beams reflection, refraction, dispersion and curvature. Discover and become a virtuoso of dozens of exciting tools including lasers in all colors, lenses, mirrors and prisms - and even portals and black holes. And all of this with astonishing, real-time physics and visuals which will blow you away. Bring the light of creativity back into your life and build your own light games and levels - and enjoy countless puzzles by your friends, and the Light Ignite players community. LIGHT IGNITE FEATURES: - Explore: 100+ optical puzzle challenges in varying difficulty levels, from Apprentice to true Master of Light - Discover and master: dozens different exciting tools to use such as a laser light, mirror and semi-mirror, lens, filter, prism - and even a black hole, a portal, a balloon and a switch - Sandbox: Unleash the artist and architect within by building your own levels and art creations and sharing with your family and friends using our built-in sandbox level editor. - Share: countless additional levels built by our community and published frequently - Challenging: prove your mastery of light by collecting all of the stars. Do you have what it takes? - Accessible to all: Light Ignite - Laser Puzzle was built for everyone and can be equally enjoyed as a calm creative light game experience or as a super challenging light puzzle. What are you feelin’ like today? - Beautiful and accurate: believe it or not, we’ve built our own physics engine to make sure the light physics is realistic and fast, allowing for stunning, colorful effects on all devices. Light is so awe-inspiring in of itself, we decided to go natural, clean, simple, and elegant - True optics: explore the physical properties of reflection, refraction, dispersion and curvature - Intuitive, friendly user interface: easily and intuitively control everything so you can just enjoy and experience the marvelous world of Light Ignite with fluid, natural UX - Stunning: full HD graphics and special effects built from the ground up - Adaptive system making sure you’re always able to proceed, advance and even skip levels if you’d like - Completely portable and offline friendly: Light Ignite - Laser Puzzle does not drain your batteries and does not require Internet connectivity so you can play everywhere - on the bus, subway, or even on a plane flight - No physics PhD required to enjoy and master Light Ignite :) You can play and experience Light Ignite as you feel: as a calm, exploratory playful meditation, a challenging light game, or anything in between. Collecting all stars in a given level will provide the highest reward, but you don’t have to - the optical game puzzles are built to be flexible and welcoming. Either way, you’ll have a blast - so wait no more - download today and become a true MASTER OF LIGHT. Follow us and join our community at: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Light-Ignite-103286978119110/ Have a suggestion? Feedback? Let us know how we can make Light Ignite even better! contact@branchingfactor.com 3D models by Synthakat VR, Md Ibrahim Khalil, Thomas DR, Poly by Google on https://poly.google.com/. Sounds by LittleRobotSoundFactory, soneproject on https://freesound.org/. Emoji by https://openmoji.org/.

About

circloO

A colorful physics platformer where you guide a ball through growing circular levels. Collect circles to expand the play area, strategically using and avoiding obstacles. Discover unique physics mechanics and enjoy a vast collection of player-created levels.

Highlights
  • Circular physics puzzles
  • Level editor
  • Player-created levels
  • Unique physics mechanics
  • Growing levels
  • Hard Mode levels
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circloO is a colorful physics platformer in a growing circle. This app version contains all levels from circloO and circloO 2, plus brand-new bonus levels! There's also a level editor and already over 10,000 levels created by players like you! You're a small ball rolling around in a round level. Collect circles to grow the level circle. As it grows, everything stays in the level, so you'll have to avoid and use obstacles in everchanging ways. For example, a platform that was first very useful to gain height, may prove to be a challenging obstacle after the level has grown! You can only move left and right, so you'll want to use features of the level carefully to jump and gain height. You'll discover all sorts of physics features, such as changing gravity, a sea of tiny blocks, strange contraptions and even planets with a gravity field. In challenging parts, you'll find yourself fully immersed, pressing the screen as hard as you can trying to get closer to finally collecting that next circle. But don't worry: you'll never have to start over a level, so you can always try again really quickly! And I can guarantee you'll feel amazing once you finally manage it! circloO Complete features: - Lots of cool physics features: ropes, pulleys, changing gravity and much more! I've included quite a few mechanics for you to discover. - Over 75 fun, growing, ever more challenging levels! Can you complete the six almost-but-not-quite-impossible Hard Mode levels? - There's also a level editor and an ever increasing number of player created levels! - All levels from circloO 2 and the original circloO, plus 28 brand-new levels! - Unique physics puzzles in each level. - Great music and sound effects by Stijn Cappetijn. - Minimalist and colorful graphics. - The game will take most players three to five hours to complete. Level times are saved, so you can try to beat your own highscores and speedrun levels after that! Plus there are thousands of player-created levels to continue playing forever! - Relaxing yet challenging physics puzzle platforming fun! I'm very happy that circloO 2 on the web won the first Crazy Games developer contest out of 200 contestants! It was also third in the Kongregate contest of November 2018. You may remember it from CoolMath Games as well. Reviews: "It’s an excellent game that has a very playful and chilled out approach to the gameplay, whilst also featuring some wonderfully intricate level design. A very impressive puzzle platformer you’ll really want to roll with. Highly recommended." - Free Game Planet "The difficulty scales upwards nicely and you're constantly rewarded for learning new skills as these always come up in future levels." - Jayisgames The game contains occasional ads after a level, which can be removed with a one-time in-app purchase, which supports development as well. Have fun and I'm happy to hear what you think!

Screenshots

Light Ignite4 screens
circloO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: circloO at 89% against Light Ignite's 54%. circloO also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.5). Light Ignite's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, 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. Light Ignite sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and circloO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

circloO holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.1K and 2.4K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Light Ignite's written reviews are positive against 89% of circloO's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Light Ignite ships an update every 10 days, circloO every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Light Ignite versus circloO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLight IgnitecircloO
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.1K ratings)4.8 (2.4K ratings) — better
Positive reviews54.1% of reviews89.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.1K2.4K — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.010
Further details — not scored
Size277 MB63 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBranching Factor LTDFlorian van Strien

Customer experience

Light Ignite

All ratings1,067 ratings
Positive88.8%
Neutral4.2%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews294 reviews
Positive54.1%
Neutral8.8%
Negative37.1%

circloO

All ratings2,357 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.4%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews133 reviews
Positive89.5%
Neutral3.0%
Negative7.5%

User reviews

Light Ignite

From 1.1K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great game mechanics
  • 👍 Fun and challenging puzzles
  • 💡 Unique light/optics concept
  • 🚀 Smooth gameplay
  • 👍 Relaxing and enjoyable experience

Room to improve

  • 🔥 Excessive ads interrupting gameplay
  • 🐛 Crashes and bugs on some devices
  • 🔥 Ads longer than levels
  • 🔥 Ads even after purchasing ad-free version

circloO

From 2.4K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Relaxing and enjoyable gameplay
  • 🎨 Creative and unique levels
  • 🎶 Calming background music
  • 🧠 Challenging but not impossible
  • 🕹️ Smooth and responsive controls

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Occasional performance issues
  • 🕹️ Difficulty can be inconsistent
  • 📺 Ads can be disruptive at times
  • 🤑 Lack of free content/levels

Bugs and requests

Light Ignite

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game crashes on launch for some users
  • Levels freezing or not loading properly

Requested features

3 requests
  • More levels and increased difficulty
  • Sandbox mode with more customization options
  • Ability to create and share custom levels

circloO

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Glitches with level progression
  • Inconsistent touch/click registration

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and content updates
  • Character customization options
  • Improved level editor tools
  • Difficulty settings or options

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Light Ignite

One-time9
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • VIP Pass$0.99
  • Remove Ads$1.99
Show 6 more
  • Sandbox$1.99
  • VIP Pass$1.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Unlock + Remove Ads$2.99
  • VIP Pass$2.99
  • Sandbox, Level Packs, No Ads$3.99
1 purchases

circloO

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Light Ignite free?
Light Ignite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is circloO free?
circloO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Light Ignite or circloO?
circloO is rated higher. Light Ignite averages 4.5 out of 5 from 1.1K ratings, while circloO averages 4.8 from 2.4K ratings.
Do Light Ignite or circloO have ads?
Both Light Ignite and circloO show ads.
Which is updated more often, Light Ignite or circloO?
Light Ignite ships an update every 10 days, and circloO every 2 months. Most recently, Light Ignite was updated on September 21, 2026 and circloO on September 26, 2026.

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