Hoop Stack vs Bubble Pop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hoop Stack
Engage in a captivating puzzle experience by sorting and stacking colorful hoops. This game offers a mental challenge that requires strategic thinking and prediction of every move. Enjoy unlimited gameplay with numerous mind-bending levels.
- Sort colorful hoops
- Stack hoops strategically
- Mental challenge
- Unlimited gameplay
- Mind-juggling levels
- Easy to play, hard to master
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Hoop Stack will keep you hooked for hours! Solve the game by sorting colorful hoops. Enjoy the mental challenge as you stack the colorful hoops. Think, strategize and predict every move. It's a brand new addictive easy to play and hard to master game featuring unlimited gameplay. Filled with tons of mind juggling levels, color stack puzzle is everything you are looking for.
Bubble Pop
A relaxing color-matching puzzle game where you strategically fire arrows to pop bubbles. Enjoy satisfying 3D animations and no time limits as you clear each board.
- Color-matching puzzle gameplay
- Strategic arrow firing
- No timers or move limits
- Satisfying 3D bubble pops
- Special pieces like trampolines and splitters
- One-tap controls
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Fire colored arrows. Watch the bubbles burst. Clear the board. Bubble Pop: Color Splash is a satisfying color-matching puzzle with no timers and no move limits. Take as long as you like — every board has a solution, and finding it feels good. HOW TO PLAY - Tap an arrow to fire it into the grid - Each arrow pops only the bubbles matching its own color - Bubbles of other colors block the shot, so the order you fire in decides what you can reach - Clear every bubble to finish the level SPECIAL PIECES - Trampolines bounce an arrow in a new direction, opening paths across the board - Splitters divide one arrow into multiple shots travelling in fixed directions - Ice bubbles need more than one hit before they break WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT - Deeply satisfying 3D bubble pops with smooth animations - No timers and no move pressure — play at your own pace - One-tap controls, easy to pick up in seconds - Fresh layouts and color combinations introduced steadily as you progress Plan the order. Use trampolines and splitters to reach the awkward corners. Clear the grid in as few shots as you can.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hoop Stack at 4.6 against Bubble Pop's 3.5. Hoop Stack also leads on ratings volume (155K vs 10). Bubble Pop's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Hoop Stack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bubble Pop asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hoop Stack holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hoop Stack has 155K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Hoop Stack's written reviews are positive against 25% of Bubble Pop's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hoop Stack | Bubble Pop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (155K ratings) — better | 3.5 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 29.4% of reviews — better | 25.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 155K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 339 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Bigger Games | PlayBliss |
Customer experience
Hoop Stack
Bubble Pop
Bugs and requests
Hoop Stack
Reported bugs
3 issues- Hoops not moving as intended
- Game freezing or crashing
- Rewards not working properly
Requested features
4 requests- Undo/Redo function
- Hint system
- More challenging levels
- Ability to unlock new hoop designs
Bubble Pop
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hoop Stack
- Remove All Ads and Banners$2.99
Bubble Pop
No in-app purchases
Questions
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