Stack Rider vs People Wheel
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stack Rider
Navigate a challenging obstacle course by collecting balls to build a towering stack. Avoid walls that are too high to maintain your momentum and reach the finish line.
- Build a tall stack
- Collect balls
- Avoid high walls
- Race to the finish
- Obstacle course navigation
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Ride the stack to the finish without hitting a wall too high! Pick up balls to make your stack higher!
People Wheel
Gather a massive human wheel by collecting people as you run. Navigate through challenging obstacles, dodge dangers, and reach the finish line to earn treasures and multipliers. Upgrade your abilities to boost your performance.
- Gather people to form a human wheel
- Race through moving obstacles
- Dodge thorny abysses
- Reach the finish for multipliers
- Collect treasure chests
- Upgrade abilities
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GATHER THE BIGGEST HUMAN WHEEL Start running alone and gather people on your way to collect a massive wheel. Lead your team through all sorts of moving, rotating, and expanding obstacles. Calculate your moves on the run and save as many members of the wheel as possible. RACE THROUGH THE OBSTACLES Let’s see how far you can get in this crazy survival race! Dodge obstacles and avoid a thorny abyss to make it to the finish and get the biggest chest of treasures! HOW TO PLAY Tap and hold to roll around Collect people to make a giant human wheel Avoid obstacles and bridge the gaps Reach the end for the biggest multiplier Collect the chest for gold Upgrade to boost up
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Stack Rider at 60% against People Wheel's 0%. Stack Rider also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.8) and ratings volume (756 vs 170). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Stack Rider sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and People Wheel sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Stack Rider holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 756 and 170 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Stack Rider's written reviews are positive against 0% of People Wheel's.
Stack Rider ships an update every 2 weeks, People Wheel every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stack Rider | People Wheel |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (756 ratings) — better | 3.8 (170 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 59.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 756 — better | 170 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 393 MB | 185 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SUPERSONIC STUDIOS LTD | Vadim Fonderkin |
Customer experience
Stack Rider
People Wheel
Bugs and requests
Stack Rider
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes after update
- Levels glitch and become unplayable
- Controls become unresponsive
- Losing progress/data
Requested features
4 requests- Increase level difficulty and variety
- Reduce ads or offer ad-free option
- Improve coin/purchase system
- Fix bugs and crashes
People Wheel
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Stack Rider
- No Ads$2.99
People Wheel
- Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
Is Stack Rider free?
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