Spots and Dots vs Popsui
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spots and Dots
Collect matching colored spots to grow your shield and score points in this physics-based arcade game. Avoid different colors to prevent losing progress. Discover new challenges and use power-ups to achieve higher scores.
- Physics-based gameplay
- Collect matching colored spots
- Build a shield
- Avoid different colors
- Discover new enemies
- Use power-ups
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A perfect physics game app for those moments where you have just a few minutes to spare. You start out as a colored Dot floating in space and your objective is to try to collect as many spots that are the same color as you floating through space and simultaneously avoid colors that are not similar to yours. Touch a different color and you lose all your points and restart as the color you just touched. The similar colored spots you collect become your shield against the different colored spots floating around. Discover the new enemies as you collect more and more points. Use power-ups and advance your way to a higher score.
Popsui
A unique stacking game where players release balloons upward, aiming to reach a goal line. The challenge lies in avoiding balloons of the same color touching, which causes them to pop and hinder progress. It offers simple mechanics with increasing difficulty.
- Balloon stacking gameplay
- Avoid same-color collisions
- Reach the goal line
- Simple to learn, hard to master
- Game Center leaderboards
- No ads
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Popsui flips the stacking game on its head. Instead of matching colors, you're avoiding them. Release balloons upward, build your stack, and reach the goal line — but the moment two balloons of the same color touch, they pop and take your progress with them. Every balloon you place is a calculated risk. Simple to learn. Surprisingly hard to master. Free to play, and even NO ADS! Compete for the lowest score with your friends on Game Center! This game takes heavy inspiration from Suika Game and almost plays like reverse Suika Game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Popsui at none against Spots and Dots's 6. Popsui also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Spots and Dots's advantage is ratings volume (62 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Spots and Dots sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Popsui asks for nothing beyond the download.
Popsui holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spots and Dots has 62 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Spots and Dots's written reviews are positive against 100% of Popsui's.
Spots and Dots ships an update every 2 weeks, Popsui daily. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spots and Dots | Popsui |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (62 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 62 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LoopDev, LLC | Puzzaholics LLC |
Customer experience
Spots and Dots
Popsui
In-app purchases
Spots and Dots
- Unlimited Wild$0.99
- Unlimited Magnet$0.99
- Unlimited Shield$0.99
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- Remove Ads$0.99
- All Items$0.99
- Premium$2.99
Popsui
No in-app purchases
