Ripple vs The Pointless Tapping Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ripple
Engage in a calming puzzle experience with simple rules and immersive visuals. Discover new challenges daily and share your progress with friends. Enjoy a peaceful escape with this tile-tapping game.
- Easy-to-grasp rules
- Immersive visual and audio effects
- Multiple stages and level collections
- Randomly generated daily puzzles
- Theme and audio settings
- Share moments and challenge friends
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FEATURING: • Easy-to-grasp rules, meaning that you'll catch on in no time! • Immersive visual and audio effects to help you relax • Multiple stages with multiple collections of levels, so you will never run out of levels • A new set of randomly generated puzzles every day! • Settings to toggle themes and audio • Easily share your Ripple moments and challenge your friends! COMING SOON: • Consistent updates with new features, enhancements, and bug fixes! Enjoying the game? Leave a positive review! Did you find a bug? Have any other feedback? Please contact me. App by Peter Lin: https://peterlin.ca
The Pointless Tapping Game
Engage in a simple yet addictive tapping experience across 60 levels. Unlock achievements, boosters, and compete in time attacks. Enjoy a game free of ads and paywalls, with everything earnable through gameplay.
- 60 levels to conquer
- Unlockable boosters
- Time Attack mode
- In-game achievements
- Light and dark mode support
- Extensive pointless statistics
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The Pointless Tapping Game is a game where you tap on the screen... a lot... and sometimes as fast as you can. It is all about tapping and unlocking achievements, boosters, beating the 60 levels and your personal bests at the time attacks. So yeah... It really is pointless... It is The Pointless Tapping Game, and you will not believe me, but it is quite addictive and fun. Features: * 60 levels to conquer. * One big button that can be tapped and modified with boosters. * A lot of pointless statistics from simply playing the game. * Time Attack mode with potential for earning bragging rights. * Achievements in the form of special titles to prove your ferocious tapping skills. * Supports both light and dark mode. And last but not least: * NO ads or paywalls anywhere! Everything in the game is unlockable through gameplay.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ripple at none against The Pointless Tapping Game's 1. Ripple also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). The Pointless Tapping Game's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. The Pointless Tapping Game sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ripple asks for nothing beyond the download.
Ripple holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Ripple ships an update every 3 weeks, The Pointless Tapping Game every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Ripple | The Pointless Tapping Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.8 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | pod product | Patrik Ell |
Customer experience
Ripple
The Pointless Tapping Game
In-app purchases
Ripple
No in-app purchases
The Pointless Tapping Game
- Buy me a coffee$0.99
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