Paint Dropper vs Grow Animals
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paint Dropper
A simple yet challenging puzzle game where players swap colors using a dropper to solve beautiful painting puzzles. Exercise your brain with engaging and visually appealing challenges.
- Color swapping mechanic
- Dropper tool
- Beautiful painting puzzles
- Challenging gameplay
- Brain teaser
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Simple yet challenging puzzle ! Solve the puzzle by swapping the colors using a dropper! Many beautiful painting puzzles !
Grow Animals
Design and raise your dream pet by combining traits like cute, smart, strong, and lovable. Witness their evolution from a single cell to a fully grown creature, and even merge animals to discover new breeds. Decorate their habitat and care for them.
- Create dozens of unique animals
- Experiment with trait combinations
- Witness animal evolution
- Decorate pet habitats
- Pamper and play with pets
- Merge animals to discover new breeds
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Create your ideal pet! Make any pet animal you’ve ever dreamed of, there are dozens to collect! House them in your personal zoo, decorate it to your liking to keep your lovable fur babies happy. What is your ideal pet? Is it Cute? Smart? Strong? Lovable? Some combination of the four, or maybe just two of those traits? Experiment to find out! Science has produced concentrated potions of cute, smart, strong, and love, mix these traits together to create your favorite animal! What kind of animal is all Love but no Cute? What’s the strongest animal? The Smartest? Only you can find out. Start raising new animals starting with a single cell. Whatever mixture of traits you choose will produce a cell of your new animal, clone and merge cells together to slowly grow your pet. Witness the amazing evolution! What will your pet look like in its earliest stages of development? How adorable will it be as a baby? See the greatest miracle of life play out before your very eyes! Bring mythical creatures to life with your wondrous scientific abilities! Create dragons and unicorns. Bring dinosaurs back to life. Raise every breed of dog and cat! Combine fully grown animals together to create new and wonderful new pets. What does merging two kittens together create? You’ll have to try it yourself to know. Main Features: - Create Dozens of Adorable Animals! - Experiment to Discover New Animals to Add to Your Collection! - Decorate Your Pets’ New Home, Create Your Dream Garden! - Pamper, Feed, Bath, and Play with Your New Pets! Your journey of life, discovery, and creation starts now! Visit https://lionstudios.cc/contact-us/ if have any feedback, need help on beating a level or have any awesome ideas you would like to see in the game! From the Studio that brought you Mr. Bullet, Happy Glass, Ink Inc and Love Balls! Follow us to get news and updates on our other Award Winning titles; https://lionstudios.cc/ Facebook.com/LionStudios.cc Instagram.com/LionStudioscc Twitter.com/LionStudiosCC Youtube.com/c/LionStudiosCC
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paint Dropper at none against Grow Animals's 2. Grow Animals's advantage is review sentiment (62% vs 33%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Grow Animals sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Paint Dropper asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grow Animals holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 36K and 45K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Paint Dropper's written reviews are positive against 62% of Grow Animals's.
Paint Dropper ships an update fortnightly, Grow Animals every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Paint Dropper | Grow Animals |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (36K ratings) | 4.7 (45K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 32.6% of reviews | 61.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 36K | 45K — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 164 MB | 334 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | KAYAC Inc. | Lion Studios |
Customer experience
Paint Dropper
Grow Animals
User reviews
Paint Dropper
From 36K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and relaxing game
- 💡 Satisfying to complete levels
- 🚀 Game is easy to pick up and play
Room to improve
- 🤯 Too many ads after every level
- 😩 Levels are too easy and repetitive
- 🐛 Game crashes and lags frequently
Grow Animals
From 45K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Cute and fun animals
- 🤗 Relaxing and enjoyable gameplay
- 🤓 Educational animal facts
- 👍 Great for kids and adults
Room to improve
- 😡 Too many ads and ad breaks
- 🤖 Lack of freedom to create own animals
- 🤯 Repetitive and limiting gameplay
- 🤔 Misleading advertising
Bugs and requests
Paint Dropper
Reported bugs
2 issues- Game freezes when transitioning between levels
- Levels sometimes don't load properly
Requested features
3 requests- Increase difficulty and complexity of levels
- Reduce frequency of ads
- Add more variety in level designs
Grow Animals
Reported bugs
4 issues- Animals disappearing after merging
- Freezing and crashing issues
- Incorrect animal spawning
- Progress reset problems
Requested features
4 requests- Allow users to create their own unique animals
- Reduce the number of ads and ad breaks
- Add more content and gameplay variety
- Fix bugs and glitches
In-app purchases
Paint Dropper
No in-app purchases
Grow Animals
- Remove Ads$2.99
- All In One Bundle$4.99
Questions
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