Hold The Button vs A Button Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hold The Button
Test your patience, willpower, and stamina by holding down a button for as long as possible. Compete with friends and players globally in this reactivated classic game.
- Hold a button challenge
- Patience test
- Willpower assessment
- Stamina evaluation
- Global leaderboards
- Improved graphics and animations
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Hold The Button has captivated more than 250,000 players from around the world. After a while, we have reactivated it! You can play again the game that you have missed all this time. Do you think you are patient? Do you think you have willpower? Do you think you have stamina? Put it to the ultimate test with Hold The Button. Compare yourself and compete with your friends and gamers from around the world. More graphics! More animations! More fun!
A Button Game
Test your timing and precision in this simple game of holding a button for a specific duration. Compete with friends to see who has the best timing. It's a straightforward challenge of skill and accuracy.
- Button holding gameplay
- Timing precision challenge
- Competitive play with friends
- Simple and intuitive controls
- Accuracy testing
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A simple game where you're told how long to hold a button, and you have to see how close you can get. Think you can count better than your friends? Why don't you download this game and prove it!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: A Button Game at every 6 days against Hold The Button's every 3 months. Hold The Button's advantage is ratings volume (29 vs 5) and review sentiment (41% vs 33%). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Hold The Button against 4.2 for A Button Game. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hold The Button has 29 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 41% of Hold The Button's written reviews are positive against 33% of A Button Game's.
Hold The Button ships an update every 3 months, A Button Game every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hold The Button | A Button Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (29 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.3% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alvaro Balbontin | Luke Drushell |
Customer experience
Hold The Button
A Button Game
Bugs and requests
Hold The Button
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes after 10 minutes of use
- Crashes when timer hits certain intervals
- High scores not saving properly
- App fails to reopen after closing
- Profile creation stuck on 'sending to server'
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- High score list access causes crash to home screen
- Screen lock causes app to freeze
- Finger detection fails despite holding button
- Major lag and performance issues
- Assistive touch causes uncontrollable behavior
Requested features
7 requests- Remove or relocate ads from middle of screen
- Add missions or challenges during gameplay
- Implement lifelines feature
- Add chat/messaging with other players
- Reward system for top players
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- Better device compatibility updates
- Fix high score saving mechanism
A Button Game
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hold The Button
No in-app purchases
A Button Game
No in-app purchases
Questions
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