Colibricks vs GyrOrbital
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Colibricks
Experience a classic brick-breaking game with realistic ball physics and dynamic level designs. Destroy bricks by bouncing balls, utilizing power-ups, and navigating challenging rotated layouts. Enjoy 50 unique levels that test skill and strategy.
- Realistic ball physics
- Rotated brick layouts
- Power-ups and equipment
- 50 unique levels
- Touch or tilt controls
- Smooth gameplay
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iOS version of the popular Macintosh brick breaking game. Destroy the bricks by bouncing up one or more balls. Contrary to other similar games, these balls actually behave like real balls, bouncing off corners correctly and even colliding with each other. Colibricks also features rotated bricks, so instead of boring horizontal grids you'll get circles, spirals, and so on. Many kinds of special bricks will grow or shrink the paddle, give you extra lives, points or equipment like the magnet or laser, and even change the size of the balls so you'll sometimes end up with a screen full of balls of different sizes (and corresponding weights). Some bricks will actually try to shoot your paddle, so stay away from those arrows! Colibricks features 50 different levels, many of them requiring different strategies so that your score depends on skill and cleverness rather than luck. Gameplay is extremely smooth. The paddle can be controlled by touch or tilt.
GyrOrbital
Defend a planet from an endless barrage of enemy missiles using gyroscope controls. Aim and destroy incoming threats to prevent them from breaching planetary shields. Compete with friends via Gamecenter integration.
- Gyroscope controlled aiming
- Destroy enemy missiles
- Protect planetary shields
- Endless enemy horde
- Gamecenter integration
- Twitter integration
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Gyroscope controlled missile defense! Protect a doomed world by finding and destroying an endless horde of enemies before they can break through your planet's shields. * Use your gyroscope to its full potential! * Target and destroy the enemy missiles to protect the planet. * Gamecenter and Twitter Integration
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: GyrOrbital at Free against Colibricks's $0.99. GyrOrbital also leads on iOS requirement (6.0 vs 11.0). Colibricks's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 3.9). On review sentiment, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
GyrOrbital is free to download; Colibricks costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Colibricks holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 17 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Colibricks's written reviews are positive against 76% of GyrOrbital's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Colibricks ships an update every 9 months, GyrOrbital every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Colibricks | GyrOrbital |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.8 (8 ratings) — better | 3.9 (17 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.7% of reviews | 75.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 17 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 8 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 6.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michel Colman | Patrick Winchell |
Customer experience
Colibricks
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In-app purchases
Colibricks
No in-app purchases
GyrOrbital
No in-app purchases
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