Comparison

Nifty Smashers vs Paper

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

Head to head
About

Nifty Smashers

Engage in casual online multiplayer brawls against players worldwide. Select from diverse tribes, each with unique special moves. Unlock and upgrade weapons, level up your character with customizable stats, and express your style with cosmetic items.

Highlights
  • Online multiplayer brawls
  • 6 unique tribes with special moves
  • Unlock and upgrade weapons
  • Character leveling and stat customization
  • Cosmetic item customization
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Brawl Against Other Players: Enter the arena and fight against players from all around the world in this fun and casual online multiplayer game. Choose Your Tribe: Select from 6 different tribes, each with their own unique special move. Choose wisely to gain an advantage in battle. Unlock New Items: As you progress, unlock new weapons and bats to give you an edge over your opponents. Upgrade Your Weapons: Level up your weapons to make them more powerful and deadly in the arena. Level Up your Character: As you gain experience, level up your character and unlock new stats to become a true brawler. Assign Stat Points: Customize your character's attributes by assigning stat points to one of the several stat categories that the characters have. Choose wisely to suit your play-style. Dress Up Your Character: Show off your style and creativity by dressing up your character with cool cosmetic wearable items. Become The Ultimate Brawler: Master your skills, dominate the competition, and become the ultimate brawler in the arena.

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Paper

Features
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Fall fast. Bank late. Find the line. Paper Drift is a one-thumb arcade game about steering a folded paper plane down an endless shaft. Flying flat falls fastest; banking buys you time and costs you speed. Read the next gap, commit to a line, and keep the plane clean. SEVEN WORLDS, ONE LONG FALL • Endless tours seven maps: Classic, the Depot, the Aliens, the Foundry, the Jungle, the Glacier and the Desert. Every 400 points the run moves on to the next one. • Each map has obstacles of its own: swinging crates, drifting ice floes, flytraps, wall lasers, sliding slabs, and vines that slow you down. • Four of them send something after you: a parcel drone, a rockfall, a flying saucer whose tractor beam pulls your plane in, and a saguaro that throws cactus balls. • Every Halloween, a haunted manor joins the tour for three weeks. FOUR WAYS TO PLAY • Endless: chase your best down a new shaft every run. • Time Attack: eight hand-built courses, with checkpoints and a ghost of your best run. Four medals on every course, and medals open the later ones. • Daily Drift: one course a day, the same for everyone. One run, plus a bonus run. • Race: two players face to face on one phone, in split screen, with a handicap to even things out. COLLECT • Tap the figures that appear in the windows to keep them in the Showcase: 67 in all, from common to ultra rare, some only at Halloween. • Catch stamp pieces mid-flight and put together a 13-stamp album. Finish it and a plane of its own is yours. • Fly through paper coins and spend them on 99 colours for your planes and trails. • 18 planes and 19 trails, earned with levels, scores, medals and collections. KEEP FOLDING • Four daily quests, from easy to expert, and packs of mastery quests that climb in tiers. • 50 levels, with a reward at every one: titles, badges, planes and trails. • Game Center leaderboards for Endless, Daily Drift and each of the eight courses. • Share a run, or a finished stamp, as a picture. FAIR BY DESIGN • Every unlock is cosmetic. The plane you start with flies exactly like the one you finish with. • A deterministic simulation: the run that beat you can be learned, not blamed. • Every level is test-flown by the game's own simulation before it ships. MADE FOR YOUR HANDS • Steer with either half of the screen, a Steer Pad or Tilt, with a left-handed layout. • Reduce Motion, High Contrast, Bigger UI, colour-vision modes that hatch deadly beams, Slow Mode and haptics. • Portrait, one thumb, short sessions. • In English and Spanish. FREE TO PLAY Endless runs and Time Attack attempts use energy, which refills over time; Daily Drift and Race are always free. Optional videos can revive a run, reroll a quest, refill energy or add coins, and are never forced. An ad may play between runs, at most once every ten minutes. The shop sells coin packs, one-hour unlimited-energy passes and Remove Ads, which removes every ad. Nothing for sale changes how your plane flies. NO ACCOUNT NEEDED Every mode plays offline, and your progress stays on your device. Ads, the shop and leaderboards need a connection.

Screenshots

Nifty Smashers4 screens
Paper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Nifty Smashers at 12.0 against Paper's 15.0. On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nifty Smashers sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Paper sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Nifty Smashers versus Paper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNifty SmashersPaper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (20 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews96.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings20 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size575 MB110 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperNifty League Inc.Joan Marti Gimeno

Bugs and requests

Nifty Smashers

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Login screen freezes
  • Compatibility issues on older devices

Requested features

3 requests
  • More game modes and content updates
  • Ultimate ability or special moves
  • Expanded character roster and customization

Paper

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Nifty Smashers

One-time10
  • Golden Spin Pass$0.99
  • Double XP for 1 Week$1.99
  • Pack of 3 Golden Spin Passes$2.49
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  • Pack of 5 Golden Spin Passes$3.49
  • Double Combat Essence 1 Month$3.99
  • Double XP for 1 Month$3.99
  • Pack of 10 Golden Spin Passes$5.99
  • Profile Level Rewards - Tier 2$6.99
  • Profile Level Rewards - Tier 3$19.99
  • Profile Level Rewards - Tier 4$19.99
10 purchases

Paper

One-time10
  • 1 × 1-hour unlimited energy$0.99
  • 2 × 1-hour unlimited energy$1.99
  • 3 × 1-hour unlimited energy$1.99
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  • 4 × 1-hour unlimited energy$2.99
  • 5 × 1-hour unlimited energy$2.99
  • 6 × 1-hour unlimited energy$3.99
  • No-Ads$5.99
  • 8000 Coins$8.99
  • 17000 Coins$17.99
  • 46500 Coins$44.99

Questions

Is Nifty Smashers free?
Nifty Smashers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Paper free?
Paper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nifty Smashers or Paper have ads?
Both Nifty Smashers and Paper show ads.
Which is updated more often, Nifty Smashers or Paper?
Nifty Smashers ships an update weekly, and Paper weekly. Most recently, Nifty Smashers was updated on October 24, 2026 and Paper on October 29, 2026.

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