Comparison

CityPainter vs Centric

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

Head to head
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!!!!

About

Centric

A minimalist arcade reflex game where you control a dot orbiting concentric rings. Collect white dots and avoid red ones to survive as long as possible. Features daily challenges and unlockable visual themes.

Highlights
  • One-hand, one-thumb gameplay
  • Minimalist arcade reflex mechanics
  • Daily challenges (Singularity)
  • Unlockable visual themes
  • Offline play
  • Instant restart
Features
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One dot. Three rings. Pure instinct. CENTRIC is a minimalist arcade reflex game built around a single elegant mechanic: your dot orbits three concentric rings. Hold the screen to push outward, release to snap back inward. Collect the white Echo dots. Avoid the red Void dots. Survive as long as you can. HOW TO PLAY • Your dot orbits the rings automatically. • HOLD anywhere on screen. Your dot expands toward the outer ring. • RELEASE. It contracts back to the inner ring. • Catch every glowing Echo dot that crosses your path. • One Void dot hit and it's over. THE LONGER YOU SURVIVE, THE HARDER IT GETS Void dots appear faster and in greater numbers as your score climbs. The spawn intervals shrink from 2 seconds all the way down to 0.6 seconds. The rings become chaos, and every point feels earned. DAILY SINGULARITY Every day, a new Singularity drops. One orbit. One seed. Every player on Earth plays the same run, at the same time. You get three attempts. No second seed. No replays. Miss all three and you wait until tomorrow. VOICE MODE Control your orbit with your voice. Make noise to expand outward, go silent to snap back in. Your microphone level is your only input. UNLOCK FIVE DISTINCT THEMES Play long enough and you'll unlock new visual identities for the game: • Zen: the clean, light default • Midnight: deep navy with glowing blue trails • Neon: pitch black with electric cyan • Gold: warm darkness and shimmering gold • Abyssal: the legendary theme. Pure black. Breathing red rings. Falling ash. Violet crack on death. Play 5 days in a row to unlock. SECOND CHANCE After a tough run, watch a short ad to revive and keep your score. One revive per round. FEATURES • One-hand, one-thumb gameplay • No timers, no lives, no pay-to-win • Synthesised audio, every sound generated in real time • Instant restart • Offline play, no internet required A game you can pick up in ten seconds and chase for an hour.

Screenshots

CityPainter4 screens
Centric4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Centric at Free against CityPainter's $1.99. Centric also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 38 months) and ratings volume (4 vs 1). CityPainter's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On rating and review sentiment 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

Centric is free to download; CityPainter costs $1.99 up front. Centric sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. CityPainter asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CityPainter against 5.0 for Centric. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CityPainter ships an update every 38 months, Centric every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
CityPainter versus Centric: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCityPainterCentric
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings14 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB7 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperIvan Cerra de CastroNiv Nisanov

Customer experience

CityPainter

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

Centric

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

CityPainter

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Centric

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is CityPainter free?
CityPainter costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Centric free?
Centric is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, CityPainter or Centric?
CityPainter and Centric are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 4 ratings respectively.
Do CityPainter or Centric have ads?
Centric shows ads; CityPainter does not.
Which is updated more often, CityPainter or Centric?
CityPainter ships an update every 38 months, and Centric every 2 weeks. Most recently, CityPainter was updated on September 21, 2026 and Centric on October 3, 2026.

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