Comparison

Gravitations vs Pulse Dive

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

Head to head
About

Gravitations

Engage in a space-themed puzzle game featuring thousands of player-created missions. Plot your ship's course, avoid obstacles, and rescue astronauts. Design and share your own challenging missions with a vast library of interstellar objects.

Highlights
  • Thousands of player-created missions
  • Space and gravity puzzle gameplay
  • Ship course plotting
  • Obstacle avoidance and astronaut rescue
  • Mission creation tools
  • Collect over 30 spaceships
  • Publish and share custom missions
Features
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There are over 4,500 unique missions to complete in Gravitations and they are all made by the players. And every day even more amazing missions are being made. Gravitations is a space and gravity themed puzzle game where all of the missions are created by players! Each mission you plot your ship's course to successfully reach the goal station while dodging obstacles and saving lost astronauts along the way. Collect over 30 different spaceships and use the one that best fits your style. Build your own missions inside the app using a library of interstellar objects, each with their own special properties: -Planets -Moons -Anti-Gravity -Space Stations -Astronauts -Wormholes -Space Mines -UFOs -Laser Walls -Turrets -Black Holes -Fuel Canisters -EMPs Publish your missions online to let players from around the world compete for the fastest time and highest fuel efficiency. Compete in Builders' Contests, see who can make the best mission out of the same objects.

About

Pulse Dive

Control a pulsing orb falling through a neon abyss. Hold to expand and shatter glass, release to compress and slip through gaps. Learn astrophysics facts and take quizzes as you descend.

Highlights
  • One-thumb control
  • Expand vs. compress mechanic
  • Living neon world visuals
  • Legendary vessels to earn
  • Masterable modules
  • Global leaderboard
  • Daily astrophysics facts and quizzes
Features
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Pulse Dive - Neon Arcade Endless Faller One thumb. One rule. Fall forever. You are a pulsing orb plunging down an endless neon abyss. HOLD to expand - grow wide to ease your fall, and shatter neon glass. RELEASE to compress - go small and dense, and slip through the obsidian gaps. Get it backwards and it's over. That's the whole game, and it's harder to put down than it sounds. No timers, no forced logins, no walls. Just a clean, fast, one-handed descent tuned to run at a silky 60 frames per second. WHY YOU'LL KEEP DIVING • Pure one-thumb control anyone can pick up in a second • Expand vs. compress - a simple mechanic with real depth • A living neon world: shattering glass, obsidian apertures, violet lattices • Legendary vessels to earn - from the Astral Ray to the Celestial Koi to the Dragon • Modules to master: Quantum Shield, Time Dilation, Geodesic Snap • A global leaderboard - post your deepest dive against the world LEARN AS YOU FALL Pulse Dive is quietly a STEM game. Every day brings a new Astrophysics Fact Of The Day and a five-question Daily Quiz, drawn from a pool grounded in NASA, ESA, and textbook astrophysics. Answer three of five correctly to earn shard rewards - and pick up a little real cosmology on the way down. A Science Sources list is available in Settings for anyone who wants to check the references. PLAYS ANYWHERE Pulse Dive is fully playable offline. On a plane, on the subway, in a dead zone - the entire game, leaderboard fallback included, keeps working. Nothing to download mid-game, nothing to wait for. FAIR BY DESIGN Every upgrade, vessel, and theme can be earned by playing. Rewarded video ads are completely optional and player-initiated - watch one for bonus shards, or don't. Respects reduced-motion settings, portrait one-hand play, and your time. Grow. Compress. Descend. How deep can you go?

Screenshots

Gravitations4 screens
Pulse Dive4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Pulse Dive at 5.0 against Gravitations's 4.4. Pulse Dive also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Gravitations's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pulse Dive holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gravitations has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gravitations ships an update every 3 weeks, Pulse Dive every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Gravitations versus Pulse Dive: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGravitationsPulse Dive
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (10 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB14 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJLOOPJean Desnoyers

Customer experience

Gravitations

All ratings10 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive73.8%
Neutral7.7%
Negative18.5%

Pulse Dive

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Gravitations

Reported bugs

7 issues
  • Game crashes after mission completion
  • App won't open on certain devices
  • Update incompatibility with older iPads
  • Game closes during gameplay
  • App crashes on opening screen
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  • Tutorial step two is too difficult
  • iOS update required for online content

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add a 'Next' button for levels
  • Option to turn off music
  • German language localization
  • Zoom out camera option
  • More structured tutorial

Pulse Dive

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Gravitations

No in-app purchases

None

Pulse Dive

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Gravitations free?
Gravitations is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pulse Dive free?
Pulse Dive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Gravitations or Pulse Dive?
Pulse Dive is rated higher. Gravitations averages 4.4 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Pulse Dive averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Gravitations or Pulse Dive have ads?
Pulse Dive shows ads; Gravitations does not.
Which is updated more often, Gravitations or Pulse Dive?
Gravitations ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pulse Dive every 4 days. Most recently, Gravitations was updated on November 6, 2026 and Pulse Dive on November 6, 2026.

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