Comparison

TapTower vs Falling Matter

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

Head to head
About

TapTower

Manage your finances and make strategic decisions to construct a unique skyscraper. With each tap, improve your tower's design and materials, aiming to create the most impressive building in the city and amass a fortune.

Highlights
  • Manage cash flow
  • Make construction decisions
  • Tap to improve tower
  • Choose building materials
  • Design unique floors
  • Build a profitable business
Features
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Time to build up your profitable business! Manage cash and make decisions as a construction manager and with every tap your tower will improve. And it’s only for you to know how your tower will look like. - Decide what parts to buy for your tower building. - Distribute cash and choose what materials to use in the construction. - Accept the challenge for true capitalist. Make your tower the best in the city! Let’s make something fantastic! Each floor of your tower will have its own design. It can be anything: stone fortress, giant fairy tree, sand castle or even space station! Creating your own design as simple as it sounds: buy a piece of building materials with one tap, check out how it looks on the walls of your high-rise tower. Enjoy creation process, build an amazing construction and make a fortune!

About

Falling Matter

Explore a pixel physics sandbox with over 60 materials like sand, water, and lava. Simulate realistic heat transfer, material reactions, and explosive events. Build, save, and share your unique creations with others.

Highlights
  • Realistic pixel physics simulation
  • Over 60 materials and tools
  • Heat transfer and material reactions
  • Explosive events and special tools
  • Build, save, and share creations
  • Tilt controls for pouring
Features
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Falling Matter is a pixel physics sandbox where every grain matters. Pour sand, flood it with water, drop lava on top and watch the world react. REAL PHYSICS, REAL HEAT • Every pixel has a temperature. Heat spreads fast through metal and slowly through wood and air. • Water boils and freezes, ice melts, lava cools into obsidian, sand melts into glass. • Liquids settle into layers by weight: gasoline floats on oil, oil on water, mercury sinks below everything. • Turn on Heat view to see your world through a thermal camera. 60+ MATERIALS AND TOOLS Powders, liquids, gases, metals, explosives, plants and people. Mix acid with metal to make hydrogen, cool red-hot metal in water, burn wood into glowing charcoal, or let thermite burn through a steel plate. BIG BOOMS Drop an atomic bomb on a city, call down a meteor, strike with lightning, or open a black hole and watch it swallow everything nearby. Explosives, black holes, meteors, lightning and people are part of the Unlock All Matter upgrade. BUILD, SAVE, SHARE • Start from six ready-made worlds or a blank sandbox. • Four save slots with previews. • Share a picture or an 8-second video clip of your creation. • Pinch to zoom in on the smallest grains. AND MORE • Tilt your phone to pour, like sand in a jar. • 13 trophies, with Game Center achievements. • Sound effects and vibration for explosions and lightning. • Tips that explain each material (turn them off any time). • In English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. • Free to play. Remove ads or unlock every material with one-time purchases.

Screenshots

TapTower4 screens
Falling Matter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: TapTower at 3K against Falling Matter's 1. TapTower also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). Falling Matter's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, update cadence, 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. TapTower sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Falling Matter sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Falling Matter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: TapTower has 3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

TapTower ships an update every 3 weeks, Falling Matter every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
TapTower versus Falling Matter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTapTowerFalling Matter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3K ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews48.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3K — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size752 MB35 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperWAZZAPPS GLOBAL LIMITEDJaylen Byrd

Customer experience

TapTower

All ratings3,022 ratings
Positive92.4%
Neutral3.7%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews152 reviews
Positive48.0%
Neutral17.1%
Negative34.9%

Falling Matter

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

TapTower

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezes and crashes
  • Offline rewards and ads not working
  • Progress and upgrades randomly reset

Requested features

3 requests
  • More levels and content updates
  • Option to disable ads or pay to remove them
  • Improved save/load functionality

Falling Matter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

8 purchases

TapTower

One-time8
  • Tiny Pack of Crystals$1.99
  • Starter Kit2 variants$1.99
  • Medium Pack of Crystals$9.99
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  • Voxie - personal manager$9.99
  • Subvertiser Uni$9.99
  • Uni & Voxy$14.99
  • Large Pack of Crystals$19.99
  • Huge Pack of Crystals$49.99
3 purchases

Falling Matter

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Unlock All Matter$2.99
  • Everything Bundle$3.99

Questions

Is TapTower free?
TapTower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Falling Matter free?
Falling Matter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, TapTower or Falling Matter?
Falling Matter is rated higher. TapTower averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3K ratings, while Falling Matter averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do TapTower or Falling Matter have ads?
Both TapTower and Falling Matter show ads.
Which is updated more often, TapTower or Falling Matter?
TapTower ships an update every 3 weeks, and Falling Matter every 2 weeks. Most recently, TapTower was updated on November 7, 2026 and Falling Matter on November 10, 2026.

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