Hold The Button vs Press under stress
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!
Press under stress
A fast-paced brain puzzle game requiring quick decisions and precise taps based on changing instructions. It challenges focus, memory, and timing with increasing difficulty and strict time limits.
- Tricky tap rules
- Instant decision making
- Focus and memory challenges
- Timing and self-control tests
- Constantly changing rules
- Increasing pressure and difficulty
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Press Under Pressure is a fast brain puzzle built around tricky tap rules and instant decisions. Each level gives you a simple instruction — but reacting correctly is harder than it looks. Sometimes you tap. Sometimes you wait. Sometimes you must remember what happened before. One mistake and it’s over. This reaction-based logic challenge tests focus, memory, timing, and self-control under strict time limits. The rules change constantly, forcing you to slow down, read carefully, and think before acting. As levels progress, pressure increases. Tight timers, deceptive prompts, and evolving mechanics push your brain to stay sharp. Perfect for quick sessions or intense focus runs. Stay calm. Read carefully. Press only when you’re sure.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Hold The Button at 4.3 against Press under stress's 2.1. Hold The Button also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Press under stress's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (151 vs 29). On price and device support 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. Press under stress sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Hold The Button asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hold The Button holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Press under stress has 151 ratings behind it against 29, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Hold The Button's written reviews are positive against 14% of Press under stress's.
Hold The Button ships an update every 3 months, Press under stress every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hold The Button | Press under stress |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (29 ratings) — better | 2.1 (151 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 41.3% of reviews — better | 14.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 29 | 151 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 188 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alvaro Balbontin | Thuy On |
Customer experience
Hold The Button
Press under stress
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
Press under stress
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Hold The Button
No in-app purchases
Press under stress
- Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
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