Comparison

subpar pool vs Day Repeat Day

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

subpar pool

Engage in a unique pocket billiards experience across procedurally generated levels. Strategize your shots, adapt to unpredictable physics, and customize challenges with a deck of cards for endless replayability. Immerse yourself in a vibrant world with a charming art style and a relaxing soundtrack.

Highlights
  • Procedurally generated levels
  • Card-based challenge customization
  • Four distinct worlds
  • Thousands of gameplay combinations
  • Bite-sized play sessions
  • One-handed play
Features
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Dive into each procedurally generated level, consisting of a series of tables filled with balls you must pocket within a set number of shots. Escape into the fantastically vibrant world, while strategizing the best plan to pocket your balls. Watch your plan inevitably combust as you adapt your next move to skillfully take home the win. Progress in the game and create your course choosing cards from a deck to tailor the challenges to your desired game experience and playstyle. Want to feel stressed to the max? Take part in the Fast Run, which limits the time you have to aim. Want a level with portals? Subpar Pool has you covered. Or want to see what happens when you play Subpar Pool with glass balls as they roll and collide? There’s thousands of ways to combine the dynamic cards to create a unique playthrough experience, every time. Immerse yourself in the charming, lively world of Subpar Pool while you find out if you can master the unpredictability of ever-changing balls colliding in this satisfying and mesmerizing mashup experience. Features: • Four different worlds, each with its own set of constraints and challenges • Procedurally generated tables and 18 different cards with more than 14,000 ways to combine for an always fresh gameplay experience • A compact game experience designed for bite-sized play sessions (or longer if you prefer!) • A stunning, vibrant french-inspired art style that transports you into the enchanting world • Plays comfortably with one hand • A soothing, mini-golf funk soundtrack to get you in the spirited mood • Created by grapefrukt games, the dev behind beloved and acclaimed games holedown, twofold inc & rymdkapsel

About

Day Repeat Day

Experience a life simulation through engaging match-3 puzzles. Navigate relationships, career choices, and existential questions in a satirical, interactive narrative. Discover the meaning of the daily grind and life's mysteries.

Highlights
  • Interactive life story
  • Match-3 puzzle gameplay
  • Relationship management
  • Career progression
  • Satirical narrative
  • Existential themes
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Day Repeat Day is an interactive story and a match-3 game that takes you through the years in a life of an average person. You're hired to do a job. You try to manage your relationships. But you're never really sure where it's all leading to. It's a story about living, the daily grind and what it all means in the end, topped with a sprinkle of satire and mysteries. After doing a lot of action games, I wanted to do something much more intimate and personal and Day Repeat Day is what came of it. Press: - It takes some serious ingenuity to subvert a genre as entrenched as the mobile match-3 game, but somehow developer Kimmo Factor, probably most well-known for the awesome hack ‘n slash game Barbearian, has done exactly that - Game of the Week / Touch Arcade - It turns out to be much, much more than this, than either genre, a whole, complicated and unique creation, that speaks truth about life, about work, about hierarchies and about mistakes. It’s stunning. - Kotaku

Screenshots

subpar pool4 screens
Day Repeat Day4 screens

Verdict

The call

subpar pool and Day Repeat Day both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 78% of subpar pool's written reviews are positive against 70% of Day Repeat Day's. Day Repeat Day's advantage is price ($3.99 vs $4.99). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

subpar pool costs $4.99 and Day Repeat Day $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for subpar pool against 4.5 for Day Repeat Day. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 39 and 55 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of subpar pool's written reviews are positive against 70% of Day Repeat Day's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

subpar pool ships an update every 2 weeks, Day Repeat Day weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
subpar pool versus Day Repeat Day: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametersubpar poolDay Repeat Day
Price$4.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.6 (39 ratings) — better4.5 (55 ratings)
Positive reviews78.3% of reviews — better70.0% of reviews
Number of ratings3955 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#185 — better#199
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size74 MB560 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developerwebbfarbror ABKimmo Factor Oy

Customer experience

subpar pool

All ratings39 ratings
Positive87.2%
Neutral7.7%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews23 reviews
Positive78.3%
Neutral8.7%
Negative13.0%

Day Repeat Day

All ratings55 ratings
Positive89.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.9%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive70.0%
Neutral6.7%
Negative23.3%

In-app purchases

None

subpar pool

No in-app purchases

None

Day Repeat Day

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is subpar pool free?
subpar pool costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Day Repeat Day free?
Day Repeat Day costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, subpar pool or Day Repeat Day?
subpar pool is rated higher. subpar pool averages 4.6 out of 5 from 39 ratings, while Day Repeat Day averages 4.5 from 55 ratings.
Do subpar pool or Day Repeat Day have ads?
Neither subpar pool nor Day Repeat Day shows ads.
Which is updated more often, subpar pool or Day Repeat Day?
subpar pool ships an update every 2 weeks, and Day Repeat Day weekly. Most recently, subpar pool was updated on September 28, 2026 and Day Repeat Day on September 30, 2026.
Which is more popular, subpar pool or Day Repeat Day?
subpar pool currently peaks at #185 in the App Store charts, and Day Repeat Day at #199. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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