Color Stacks! vs Color Wave
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Stacks!
A minimalist puzzle game where players use colored tiles to fill boards. Offers a relaxed experience with options to undo moves or restart levels. Challenge yourself to solve puzzles efficiently.
- Minimalist design
- Tile stacking gameplay
- Level-based puzzles
- Undo move option
- Restart level option
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In this minimalist game, use your stacks of colored tiles to fill each board. You can take your time, undo your moves, restart every level; but smartest people don't need any of these features! Are you one of them? Good luck & have fun!
Color Wave
A relaxing color matching game where you tap tiles to change their color and connect adjacent tiles. The goal is to cover the entire board with a single color wave. Enjoy a simple, colorful, and fun puzzle experience.
- Color matching gameplay
- Tile-tapping mechanics
- Relaxing puzzle experience
- Simple interface
- Single-player mode
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Take a moment to relax and enjoy a no-stakes color matching game. When the app launches you'll be immediately shown a colorful board of tiles and six color keys at the bottom. Tapping a color will change the top left tile to your new color and will link it with any adjacent tiles of the same color. Continue tapping until you've taken over the whole board with a wave of colors.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Color Wave at 100% against Color Stacks!'s 0%. Color Wave also leads on rating (5.0 vs 1.5) and ads (none vs shown). Color Stacks!'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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.
Color Wave holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Color Stacks!'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Color Wave's.
Color Stacks! ships an update every 5 months, Color Wave every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on September 17, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Stacks! | Color Wave |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.5 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Benjamin Richy | Dylan Pearce |
Customer experience
Color Stacks!
Color Wave
In-app purchases
Color Stacks!
No in-app purchases
Color Wave
No in-app purchases
Questions
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