Shift vs Help Red
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shift
A straightforward puzzle game where players move colored dots onto their matching spots on the board. Navigate through increasingly complex levels with multiple colors and challenging line-based movement mechanics. It's easy to learn but difficult to master.
- Move colored dots to matching spots
- Dots move along connecting lines
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Increasingly complex color puzzles
- Easy to learn, hard to master
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Relax with shift, an easy to play puzzle game. Make your way through the beginner, normal, clever, smart, and genius level brackets! Easy to learn but hard to beat, it's a straightforward puzzle game that can become deceptively tricky as the game goes on. HOW TO PLAY The goal of the game is to move the dots around the board to get them onto their own color. But there's a catch... the dots can only move along the connecting lines on the board. Early levels only have two colors, but later levels have 5 different colors! See if you can make it through all the genius levels.
Help Red
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Your job is to lead the character Red to the next tube. You can draw lines on the screen that Red can roll or bounce on. As you clear the levels the game gets harder and you will be challenged with brain teasing problems. A clean good looking game perfect to open up when you are bored to clear some levels
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shift at Free against Help Red's $1.99. Help Red's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 27 months). On ads 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
Shift is free to download; Help Red costs $1.99 up front. Shift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Help Red asks for nothing beyond the download.
Shift ships an update every 27 months, Help Red every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 1, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shift | Help Red |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.0 (11 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 27 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jackson Perkins | Perkodar AB |
In-app purchases
Shift
- Ad Free$0.99
Help Red
No in-app purchases
