Snake vs Save The Dot!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snake
A classic arcade game where players control a growing snake. The objective is to eat food blocks while avoiding collisions with walls and the snake's own body. Multiple game sizes and speeds are available for varied challenges.
- Eat food blocks
- Avoid walls
- Avoid own tail
- Three sizes
- Three speeds
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Very simple snake game. Eat food blocks. Avoid hitting walls and snake's tail. - three sizes (26x26, 26x15, 16x16) - three speeds
Save The Dot!
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One dot. A screen full of moving squares. How long can you survive? Keep the dot away from every square in Save The Dot!, a quick arcade game where every second counts. Start a round, find a gap and chase your best survival time. CLASSIC Play an endless survival round. Squares arrive faster as time passes, and new enemy patterns keep you moving. Your best time stays on your device. DAILY CHALLENGE Try a new challenge each UTC day. The same date uses the same arena and enemy sequence across devices. Practice your route and beat your daily record. MAKE IT YOURS Choose a dot color, turn sound on or off and pause whenever you need a break. Clear menus, a subtle arena grid and a bright outlined dot keep the action easy to follow. The app supports English and Danish. FREE PLAY AND SAVETHEDOT PRO Start up to three games per UTC day on each device, shared across all game modes. Violet and Ocean are included. The allowance resets at 00:00 UTC; replaying or restarting uses a game, while resuming a paused round does not. SaveTheDot Pro is an optional, permanent one-time in-app purchase. It removes the daily game limit and unlocks all five colors: Violet, Ocean, Sunset, Mint and Gold. There is no subscription. You can restore the purchase from the Pro screen using your Apple Account. Pro does not change the difficulty or reset your records. GAME CENTER Sign in when you choose to compare solo survival times and earn achievements. You can play solo without Game Center or an app account. Solo gameplay works offline; purchases, online rankings and delivered support messages require a connection. PLAY ON IPHONE AND IPAD Tap or drag to move the dot. Turn haptics on or off in Settings. Send feedback from Help & information, or report a bug with context from the pause and result screens. No account is required.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snake at none against Save The Dot!'s 1. Snake also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 28 months). Save The Dot!'s advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Save The Dot! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snake asks for nothing beyond the download.
Snake ships an update every 2 months, Save The Dot! every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snake | Save The Dot! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (124 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 124 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 28 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | FujiCubeSoft | Emil Starup |
Bugs and requests
Snake
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game sometimes freezes or crashes
- Revive feature doesn't work as expected
- Controls become unresponsive at higher scores
Requested features
4 requests- Add different speed/difficulty options
- Implement swipe controls
- Include a dark mode option
- Introduce new game modes and levels
Save The Dot!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Snake
No in-app purchases
Save The Dot!
- SaveTheDot Pro$1.99
Questions
Is Snake free?
Is Save The Dot! free?
Do Snake or Save The Dot! have ads?
Which is updated more often, Snake or Save The Dot!?
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