Blue Defense! vs Tap A Dot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Blue Defense!
Defend your planet from an relentless invasion force. This action-packed game challenges your reflexes and strategic thinking as you manage increasing pressure from attackers. Experience classic gameplay with modern features like level selection and global leaderboards.
- Classic mode gameplay
- Quick Start difficulty selection
- Level Select for practice and medals
- Global High Scores list
- Save state functionality
- Tilt controls for aiming
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Defend your planet! Blue Defense puts you in charge of protecting your world from an invasion force that wants nothing more than your utter destruction. 6.7 billion lives hang in the balance... are your hands steady enough to handle the ever-increasing pressure of the attackers? Features: - Classic mode: play the game as it was in the original game - Quick Start mode: choose a starting difficulty! - Level Select mode: practice individual levels, start the game on your favourite level, or try to earn medals! - Clean, oldschool graphical style - Global High scores list - Save state ensures that you can leave and come back to your game at any time Controls: - Hold the device upright - Tilt left and right to control the stream of bullets - Double-tap the screen to pause Reviews: "If you like shooters, you should just get this game ... it’s all about the gameplay." -Touch Arcade "Fantastic, simple, fun, wonderful game. Very unexpected but very much appreciated." -148Apps "the way it effortlessly shifts from style to style and handles motion controls make[s it] fresh in a decades-old genre. It's a bullseye for any shooter fan." -Maclife "Blue Defense! is tastefully designed and brimming with twists, turns and tongue biting. Its polished graphics, smooth animation and habit-forming gameplay are praiseworthy." -TouchMyApps "A great space shooter that utilizes the iPhones controls to the max." -Everyday Gamers "Apple has finally released the [2.0] update and it does NOT disappoint." -The APPera "'Tilt to aim. Bullets shoot straight up.' I said, 'that’s it?' The answer was a wall of red death streaming down towards my planet." -appleiphoneapps.com
Tap A Dot
Engage in a fast-paced tapping challenge across three distinct game modes. Test your reflexes by tapping randomly appearing dots before time runs out or clear the screen as quickly as possible. Compete for high scores in this addictive arcade experience.
- Survival Mode with increasing difficulty
- Blackout Mode for speed clearing
- Blackout 60 mode
- High score tracking
- Simple tap-based gameplay
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A simple game of tapping dots! 3 game modes: Survival Mode: Tap the dots as they randomly appear on the screen and before the timer runs out. Miss one dot and it’s game over. It gets increasingly difficult as your score increases, ranging from a possible 12 spots to appear and up to 6 dots to tap on the screen at one time. High score is recorded. Blackout Mode: Speed-clear the screen! Tap the dots to clear the screen as quickly as possible to record the lowest time. High score is recorded. Blackout 60: 5x regular version
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tap A Dot at Free against Blue Defense!'s $0.99. Tap A Dot also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.1) and iOS requirement (7.1 vs 16.0). Blue Defense!'s advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 67%) and chart position (#191 vs unranked). On 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
Tap A Dot is free to download; Blue Defense! costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tap A Dot holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Blue Defense!'s written reviews are positive against 67% of Tap A Dot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
| Parameter | Blue Defense! | Tap A Dot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (9 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | — |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #191 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | — |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 7.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cat in a Box Software | Matthew Kiernan |
Customer experience
Blue Defense!
Tap A Dot
Bugs and requests
Blue Defense!
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on newer iOS versions
- Medals not saving properly
Requested features
5 requests- Add sound effects and background music
- Option to invert or adjust controls
- Gradual difficulty increase
- Power-ups and weapon upgrades
- Global high score leaderboards
Tap A Dot
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Blue Defense!
No in-app purchases
Tap A Dot
No in-app purchases
