Comparison

Bust vs Inkfalls

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

Head to head
About

Bust

Match three or more same-colored bubbles to rescue astronauts trapped in time bubbles. Explore four distinct play modes, including a casual option for relaxed play, a timed challenge, and two puzzle modes with endless or hand-designed levels. Create and play your own levels with the built-in editor.

Highlights
  • Match-3 bubble popping gameplay
  • Rescue trapped astronauts
  • Four distinct play modes
  • Built-in level editor
  • Casual, Timed, and Puzzle modes
  • Game Center leaderboards
Features
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Astronauts are trapped in time bubbles. Match 3 or more of the same color bubbles to rescue them. Bust-A-Bubble has 4 play modes plus a built in level editor. Design and play your own levels. Casual mode allows you to play at your leisure with no pressure to finish the level. Timed mode will drop the bubbles down every 8 shots. Finish the level before the bubbles cross the terminator line. Puzzle mode uses a custom algorithm to build an endless number of levels that are quickly completed when making all the right shots. PB2X Puzzle mode includes 456 hand designed puzzles from the Puzzle Bobble 2X game. Make all the right shots to finish each level quickly. Bust-A-Bubble has multiple Game Center leaderboards. Can you top all of them? How many astronauts can you rescue?

About

Inkfalls

Features
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Letters fall. Words rise. The rarer the etymology, the higher the score. Inkfalls is a quiet, parchment-styled word puzzle. Single letters drop down an 8 by 14 grid. Form a valid English word along a row or column and it clears in gold ink. Form a word made of letters borrowed from a rare ancestor tongue and the score multiplier climbs. Inkfalls ships with eight game modes: - Marathon: an endless run that ramps up with your score. - Daily Folio: one worldwide letter sequence per day, one attempt, resets at UTC midnight. - Lexicon: a 30 level handcrafted campaign that introduces a new constraint and a small history note at each level. - Sprint: ninety seconds against the clock. - Zen: no clock and no game over, a calm session. - Master: the letter bag is biased toward J, Q, X, and Z for etymology hunters. - Crossword: letters that clear in both directions score double. - Polyglot: the etymology multiplier table is reshuffled each Monday so yesterday's rare may be today's common. Every word is scored by its real etymological tier, hand curated across ten ancestor groups: Old English, Norman French, Latin, Old Norse, Greek, Celtic, Arabic, Sanskrit, East Asian, and Indigenous. The Etymology Reference inside the app lays out each tier with example words and the multiplier it grants. The soundtrack is generated procedurally as you play. Three voices, a sine piano, a sawtooth cello, and a triangle reed, weave a slow line that brightens as the grid fills. There is no licensed music and no third party SDK in the binary. Inkfalls includes a 25 achievement set and local progress saved with SwiftData.

Screenshots

Bust4 screens
Inkfalls3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bust at Free against Inkfalls's $0.99. Bust also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 11 days) and iOS requirement (7.0 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Bust is free to download; Inkfalls costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bust ships an update every 2 days, Inkfalls every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bust versus Inkfalls: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBustInkfalls
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 11 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS7.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLes BirdRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

None

Bust

No in-app purchases

None

Inkfalls

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bust free?
Bust is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inkfalls free?
Inkfalls costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Bust or Inkfalls have ads?
Neither Bust nor Inkfalls shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bust or Inkfalls?
Bust ships an update every 2 days, and Inkfalls every 11 days. Most recently, Bust was updated on October 25, 2026 and Inkfalls on October 24, 2026.

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