Comparison

Snake vs Save The Dot!

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Eat food blocks
  • Avoid walls
  • Avoid own tail
  • Three sizes
  • Three speeds
Features
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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

About

Save The Dot!

Features
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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.

Screenshots

Snake1 screens
Save The Dot!3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Save The Dot! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snake asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Snake versus Save The Dot!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnakeSave The Dot!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (124 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews70.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings124 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 28 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size56 MB6 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperFujiCubeSoftEmil 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

None

Snake

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Save The Dot!

One-time1
  • SaveTheDot Pro$1.99

Questions

Is Snake free?
Snake is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Save The Dot! free?
Save The Dot! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Snake or Save The Dot! have ads?
Snake shows ads; Save The Dot! does not.
Which is updated more often, Snake or Save The Dot!?
Snake ships an update every 2 months, and Save The Dot! every 28 months. Most recently, Snake was updated on November 1, 2026 and Save The Dot! on November 2, 2026.

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