Color vs Stop the Balloons
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color
Control paint drops with your device's accelerometer to mix colors and fill buckets. Develop visual precision and reflexes while learning primary color combinations. The difficulty increases, requiring speed and vigilance to achieve high scores.
- Accelerometer controls
- Color mixing puzzles
- Develop visual precision
- Improve reflexes
- Increasing difficulty
- High score tracking
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••• Get the Full version of "Color Mixing" for Free! ••• Control your drop of paint with the accelerometer, use the color machines and get the right combination to fill the buckets and go to the next level. If the color combination is wrong, go to in the "Wash Machine" to clean your drop of paint. This application allows you to develop your visual precision and your reflexes while learning the primary colors combinations. Learn and develop your senses while having fun. Be careful, the difficulty always increases. Speed, vigilance and precision are your allies. The High Score and the Last Score are recorded. Game Features: • Learning is fun • Expand your reflexes and your visual precision • High control precision with the accelerometer • High graphics and animations quality • Unique GamePlay experience • Very addictive
Stop the Balloons
A simple game where players tap to pop balloons before they escape the screen. Dragging balloons can cause them to bump into each other, and releasing them makes them pop. The game ends after three balloons get away.
- Tap to pop balloons
- Drag balloons to bump others
- Release balloons to pop them
- Prevent balloons from escaping
- Simple, relaxing gameplay
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It's a nice sunny day in the neighborhood. It's the weekend and you can finally relax and enjoy this day to the fullest. You watch how the kids are all cheerfully running around and playing with balloons. However, as you leisurely watch the kids, one of them lost hold of the balloon! Oh no! Suddenly, many more balloons are all flying away! What would happen if the balloons actually fly away? It's up to you to stop the balloons and make sure they don't fly out of sight! Stop the Balloons is a simple game in which you try to stop the balloons from escaping the screen. Pop the balloons by tapping on them. You can keep dragging them if you hold them to bump them into other balloons. Once you stop holding the balloons, they will pop. After three balloons escape, the game will end. How many balloons will you be able to stop?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Stop the Balloons at none against Color's shown. Stop the Balloons also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Color's advantage is ratings volume (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stop the Balloons holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Color ships an update every 23 months, Stop the Balloons every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color | Stop the Balloons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 23 months | Every 17 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dream-Up | Vyrai |
Customer experience
Color
Stop the Balloons
In-app purchases
Color
No in-app purchases
Stop the Balloons
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Color free?
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Do Color or Stop the Balloons have ads?
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