GUBBINS vs Slide Tap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GUBBINS
A friendly word puzzle game where you build words using tiles and special modifiers called Gubbins. Navigate a charming world with quirky characters that can help or hinder your progress.
- Tile-based word construction
- Wildcard Gubbins modifiers
- Charming cartoon characters
- Minimalist typography
- Moreish wordplay
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Gubbins is a friendly puzzle game where players place tiles to construct words, with the help and hindrance of wildcard modifiers called Gubbins. Minimalist typography alongside kooky cartoons serve as a canvas for moreish wordplay. Dig through the draw pile and make words on the board with hilarious friends wreaking havoc.
Slide Tap
This game combines crossword clues with slide puzzle mechanics. Rearrange letters to solve clues and progress through levels. It's a unique challenge for your vocabulary and spatial reasoning skills.
- Crossword clue integration
- Slide puzzle mechanics
- Vocabulary challenges
- Spatial skill development
- Offline play
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Slide Tap takes brain-teasing to the next level by fusing crossword clues with the addictive movement of a slide puzzle. Rearrange letters, solve clues, and shift your thinking—literally! - Challenge your vocabulary and spatial skills - Slide to align answers and unlock levels - Play offline, anytime, anywhere If a crossword and a sliding tile puzzle had a brainy baby, this would be it. Download Slide Tap now and puzzle like never before!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Slide Tap at none against GUBBINS's shown. Slide Tap also leads on review sentiment (86% vs 73%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.6). GUBBINS's advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 10). On price, rating, update cadence 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. GUBBINS sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Slide Tap sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for GUBBINS against 4.6 for Slide Tap. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GUBBINS has 1.7K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 73% of GUBBINS's written reviews are positive against 86% of Slide Tap's.
GUBBINS ships an update every 4 weeks, Slide Tap fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | GUBBINS | Slide Tap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.7K ratings) — better | 4.6 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 72.9% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 614 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio Folly Pty Ltd | Kevin Marshall |
Customer experience
GUBBINS
Slide Tap
Bugs and requests
GUBBINS
Reported bugs
4 issues- Tiles becoming unplayable after certain Gubbins
- Daily puzzle not updating correctly
- Inconsistent behavior of rotation and placement
- Crashes and performance issues on older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Word validity checker
- Multiplayer mode
- Customizable Gubbins selection
- Leaderboards and stats tracking
- Ability to revisit completed puzzles
Slide Tap
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
GUBBINS
- Planet GubbinFree
- Giant Postcard Pack$1.99
- Punctuation Pack$2.99
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- The Travel Gubbins Pack$4.99
- The Space Gubbins Pack$4.99
- Infinite Play$5.99
- The Space Punc Bundle$5.99
- Space Travel Bundle$7.49
- Launch Pack$9.99
- The Chonkiest Bundle$13.99
Slide Tap
- Booster Pack One$1.99
- Booster Pack Three$1.99
- Booster Pack Two$1.99
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- All Puzzles Pack$3.99
