Comparison

Tractor Beam vs Bit Night Runner

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

Head to head
About

Tractor Beam

Pilot a ship through an asteroid field using only a tractor beam. Slingshot your vessel and use the beam to manipulate asteroids, creating a unique and challenging arcade experience. Enjoy dynamic music or play your own.

Highlights
  • Tractor beam mechanics
  • Asteroid field navigation
  • Multi-touch gameplay
  • Procedurally generated music
  • Portrait and landscape modes
  • Three difficulty levels
Features
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Your engines are down. Use your tractor beams to move. "Some of the most fun we've had with $0.99 on the iPhone and we still can't put it down" - Slide To Play Tractor beam is a powerfully simple and addictive arcade game inspired by the classics. Unarmed and out of fuel, to survive you must slingshot your ship through an asteroid field using only your tractor beam. But the beam will also send the asteroids on a collision course with your ship, making for a unique challenge as you press onward to earn points. Tractor Beam can be played in either portrait or landscape orientation, and multi-touch gameplay allows for more than one beam and complex strategies. The procedurally generated background music is never the same twice, or choose to listen to your own music from within the iPod application. - Classic arcade look and feel - Multi-touch gameplay - Three levels of difficulty - Dynamic music is created on-the-fly - Allows for music from other applications

About

Bit Night Runner

Features
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Bit is a little robot on an endless midnight dash. Tap to jump, hold for height, swipe down to dive — stomp hazards, pogo off ghosts, and graze past danger for combo bonuses as the night races by faster and faster. • One thumb, real platforming — jump, double-jump, dive-slam, stomp-bounce, pogo chains • Fill the Overdrive meter with brave play and erupt into an invincible speed burst • 8 shifting zones — Night Yard, Frost Cliffs, Ember Caves, the Void, Neon Grid, Sunset Dunes, Toxic Bog, Thunderhead • Power-ups: shield, coin magnet, score rush, and the mystery box • High road or low road — launch pads and platform lanes make every run a choice • Down but not out? Spend banked coins on one revive per run • 10 Bit skins + 6 trails to unlock, rotating missions, a daily challenge and streak • Global Game Center leaderboards — Best Score, Distance, and Coins No ads. No accounts. No tracking. Just one more run.

Screenshots

Tractor Beam3 screens
Bit Night Runner3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Bit Night Runner at Free against Tractor Beam's $0.99. Bit Night Runner also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months). Tractor Beam's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). On ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Bit Night Runner is free to download; Tractor Beam costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, Bit Night Runner every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Tractor Beam versus Bit Night Runner: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTractor BeamBit Night Runner
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperManufacturing ContentAnguished LLC

In-app purchases

None

Tractor Beam

No in-app purchases

None

Bit Night Runner

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tractor Beam free?
Tractor Beam costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bit Night Runner free?
Bit Night Runner is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tractor Beam or Bit Night Runner have ads?
Neither Tractor Beam nor Bit Night Runner shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tractor Beam or Bit Night Runner?
Tractor Beam ships an update every 6 months, and Bit Night Runner every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tractor Beam was updated on October 24, 2026 and Bit Night Runner on October 25, 2026.

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