Comparison

Rotten Tangerines vs Inkfalls

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

Head to head
About

Rotten Tangerines

A fantasy-action game where you tap rotten fruit to prevent mold from spreading and build chains for bonuses. Battle monsters by tapping them and manage the "rotten gauge" to avoid game over. Includes a mini-game for smashing collected tangerines.

Highlights
  • Tap to remove rotten fruit
  • Trace for chain bonuses
  • Tap monsters to defeat them
  • Manage rotten gauge
  • Tangerine smashing mini-game
  • Multi-touch support
Features
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Tap to collect! Trace to build chains! If you leave the rotten tangerines in the crate to sit, they'll spread and make the fresh ones around them moldy! Presenting an all-new fantasy-action tangerine battle game! === Rotten Tangerines === - Tap the rotten tangerines to remove them from the crate! - When rotten tangerines appear in a row, you can trace them with your finger for a chain bonus! - Tap repeatedly on monsters to kill them! - You'll lose time if you tap the healthy tangerines! - If the “rotten gauge” at the top of the screen fills up, it's game over! - The more rotten tangerines onscreen, the faster the “rotten gauge” - The faster you remove the rotten fruit, the higher your score! - Supports multi-touch: play with a friend for even more fun! === Tangerines Smasher === - Bonus: Smash the tangerines you collected in the main Rotten Tangerines game! - The more rotten tangerines you collect in Rotten Tangerines, the more available to you to smash in this mini-game! - Once the stock of tangerines runs out, you can go back to the main game to collect more!

About

Inkfalls

Features
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Letters fall. Words rise. The rarer the etymology, the higher the score. Inkfalls is a quiet, parchment-styled word puzzle. Single letters drop down an 8 by 14 grid. Form a valid English word along a row or column and it clears in gold ink. Form a word made of letters borrowed from a rare ancestor tongue and the score multiplier climbs. Inkfalls ships with eight game modes: - Marathon: an endless run that ramps up with your score. - Daily Folio: one worldwide letter sequence per day, one attempt, resets at UTC midnight. - Lexicon: a 30 level handcrafted campaign that introduces a new constraint and a small history note at each level. - Sprint: ninety seconds against the clock. - Zen: no clock and no game over, a calm session. - Master: the letter bag is biased toward J, Q, X, and Z for etymology hunters. - Crossword: letters that clear in both directions score double. - Polyglot: the etymology multiplier table is reshuffled each Monday so yesterday's rare may be today's common. Every word is scored by its real etymological tier, hand curated across ten ancestor groups: Old English, Norman French, Latin, Old Norse, Greek, Celtic, Arabic, Sanskrit, East Asian, and Indigenous. The Etymology Reference inside the app lays out each tier with example words and the multiplier it grants. The soundtrack is generated procedurally as you play. Three voices, a sine piano, a sawtooth cello, and a triangle reed, weave a slow line that brightens as the grid fills. There is no licensed music and no third party SDK in the binary. Inkfalls includes a 25 achievement set and local progress saved with SwiftData.

Screenshots

Rotten Tangerines4 screens
Inkfalls3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Rotten Tangerines at Free against Inkfalls's $0.99. Rotten Tangerines also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Inkfalls's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 11 days vs every 4 months). On 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

Rotten Tangerines is free to download; Inkfalls costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rotten Tangerines ships an update every 4 months, Inkfalls every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Rotten Tangerines versus Inkfalls: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRotten TangerinesInkfalls
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating3.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 11 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasakazu YoneharaRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

None

Rotten Tangerines

No in-app purchases

None

Inkfalls

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Rotten Tangerines free?
Rotten Tangerines is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Inkfalls free?
Inkfalls costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Rotten Tangerines or Inkfalls have ads?
Rotten Tangerines shows ads; Inkfalls does not.
Which is updated more often, Rotten Tangerines or Inkfalls?
Rotten Tangerines ships an update every 4 months, and Inkfalls every 11 days. Most recently, Rotten Tangerines was updated on November 6, 2026 and Inkfalls on November 5, 2026.

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