Color Wave vs Kromatica
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Kromatica
A unique puzzle game that blends color, motion, and sound for a captivating sensory experience. Swipe to merge tiles of the same color, progressing through five difficulty levels. Enjoy all future content with your one-time purchase.
- Color-based tile merging gameplay
- Seamless sensory experience
- Five difficulty levels
- High score tracking
- All future content included
- No ads or data collection
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NO ADS! Your purchase includes all future content that we add to Kromatica! Welcome to Kromatica! A puzzle game where color, motion, and sound combine into a seamless sensory experience. We think it's best played with sound on! Swipe to combine tiles of the same color. Blue tiles merge to become green, green tiles merge to become yellow, and so on. Combine two gray tiles to win the game! Don't worry, you can keep playing for a high score after you win. We have five levels of difficulty: Beginner, Experienced, Challenging, Formidable, and Impossible. Can you beat them all? Kromatica will never have ads, and we don't collect your data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Color Wave at Free against Kromatica's $0.99. Color Wave also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 3). Kromatica's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On rating, review sentiment, 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
Color Wave is free to download; Kromatica costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Color Wave against 5.0 for Kromatica. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Color Wave ships an update every 6 months, Kromatica every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Wave | Kromatica |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 93 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dylan Pearce | Xenophora Studios |
Customer experience
Color Wave
Kromatica
In-app purchases
Color Wave
No in-app purchases
Kromatica
No in-app purchases
