Stack The Box 2D vs PULSE1
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stack The Box 2D
Build the tallest tower of boxes possible in this physics-based 2D game. The higher you stack, the more challenging it becomes to maintain balance. The game ends when your tower topples.
- Physics-based stacking gameplay
- 2D graphics
- Offline play
- Free to play
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A fun 2D game in which you see how many boxes you can stack up but beware the taller your box tower the harder it gets to keep it from falling over and once your tower falls over you'll have nothing to stack your boxes on then it's game over. features - free to play - 2D graphics - No internet connection needed
PULSE1
This one-thumb arcade game challenges you to tap a sweeping pulse as it crosses a shrinking zone. Achieve higher tiers of heat with perfect timing, but one miss ends your run. Compete on global leaderboards and experience satisfying haptic feedback.
- One-finger control
- Short, engaging runs
- Infinitely climbing difficulty
- Mutators for varied gameplay
- Combo multiplier system
- Global leaderboards
- Haptic feedback
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PULSE1 is the one-thumb arcade game you'll open "just for one run" and look up twenty minutes later. A pulse sweeps around a ring. Tap when it crosses the zone. That's it — and that's the trap. Every hit shrinks the zone, reverses the sweep, and pushes your heat higher. Every ten hits the ring SHATTERS and you climb to the next tier — Ember, Kindling, Flicker, Flame, Blaze, Wildfire, Firestorm, Inferno, Meltdown... all the way up to Supernova, and tiers nobody has named yet. One miss ends the run. But PULSE1 always tells you exactly how close you were. 2° away. 3 from your record. You know you had it. You know the next run is the one. FEATURES • One-finger play — playable with your phone flat on a table • Runs of 1–3 minutes — perfect for a queue, an elevator, an excuse • Infinite heat — the difficulty never stops climbing • Mutators — twin pulses, phantom zones, flashpoints and reversals • Solar flares — rare golden zones worth 5x sparks • Combo system — perfect taps stack multipliers up to 5x • Top 100 leaderboards — see how hot the world burned • Haptic feedback on every hit, break, and heartbreak • Free forever — no purchases, no subscriptions, no paywall. Ever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Stack The Box 2D at none against PULSE1's shown. Stack The Box 2D also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Stack The Box 2D against 5.0 for PULSE1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Stack The Box 2D ships an update every 6 days, PULSE1 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stack The Box 2D | PULSE1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Just Faith Studios LLC | Eran Gilad |
Customer experience
Stack The Box 2D
PULSE1
In-app purchases
Stack The Box 2D
No in-app purchases
PULSE1
No in-app purchases









