Comparison

Snowball Spin vs PloppleDrop

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

Head to head
About

Snowball Spin

Features
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Find your rhythm, one tap at a time. Guide a little snowball through a beautiful winter landscape: tap to rise, glide through the ice and try to fly a little further. CLASSIC STAYS FREE Unlimited Classic flights, your best score, the original glacier world, pause and restart, and milestone badges. No ads, no energy limits and no account required. MORE WINTER WITH OPTIONAL SNOWBALL PLUS • Daily expeditions: a fresh, repeatable route with three missions every day. New routes arrive at 00:00 UTC. • A 30-day expedition archive: revisit routes and complete missions at your pace. • Zen flight: wider gaps and gentle bumps that let you keep flying. • Blizzard rush: faster ice and moving gaps for a new timing challenge. • Six winter worlds, eight snowball styles and four trail choices. • A personal flight journal with your last 500 runs, scores, clean center passes and time airborne. • Expedition completion and daily streaks, stored on your device. Choose Snowball Plus Monthly or Snowball Plus Yearly. Both offer the same premium features. Prices are shown in your local currency before purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel through your Apple Account settings. Classic remains free if you do not subscribe or your subscription ends. MADE FOR QUIET MOMENTS No ads, tracking, analytics, login or developer-operated backend. Your scores and preferences stay on your device. Apple processes purchases and verifies subscription access. Daily routes are generated on your device; an internet connection is needed to buy, restore or refresh a subscription. Privacy policy: https://oanarinaldi.com/snowballspinprivacy.html Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: oanaunciuleanu@gmail.com

About

PloppleDrop

A cozy physics game where you merge cute monsters by dropping them into a jar. Match identical creatures to create larger, stranger ones and climb the monster ladder. Enjoy a relaxing, no-timer experience with satisfying physics and collectible monsters.

Highlights
  • Drop and merge physics gameplay
  • Collect 13 unique monsters
  • Unlock 11 themed worlds
  • Earn 16 achievements
  • Daily gifts and bonuses
  • Offline play supported
  • No pay-to-win mechanics
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PloppleDrop is a cozy little physics game about merging the weirdest, cutest monsters you've ever seen. Drop a Plopple into the jar, bump it into a matching one, and POP — they squish together into a bigger, stranger creature. Keep the chain going and climb all the way from a tiny Quib to the mighty Plopplemax. It's the satisfying "drop and merge" loop you can't put down, with real bouncy physics and a jar full of googly-eyed blobs. SMOOSH & MERGE • Drag to aim, release to drop — simple to pick up, easy to lose an hour to • Real physics: Plopples roll, stack, wobble, and settle • Match two of a kind to merge them up the ladder of 13 weird monsters • Chain quick merges into combos for big bonus scores GO FOR GOLD • Keep an eye out for the rare GOLDEN Plopple — merge it for instant bonus coins • 16 achievements to earn, from your first smoosh to the double Plopplemax • See your world rank with Game Center — how high can you climb? COLLECT THE WHOLE PILE • 7 monster packs: Classic, Halloween, Frostlings, Star Sprouts, Dino Pals, Reef Buddies, and Sugarlumps • Every pack has its own Codex collection — find all 13 to earn a coin bounty • Unlock matching worlds — Spooky Night, Cozy Winter, Alien Garden, Dino Valley, Coral Cove, Candy Clouds — plus Bubble Bath, Cosmic Drift, Mad Science, and Birthday Bash COME BACK TOMORROW • A daily gift that grows every day you return — miss a day and you only step back one, never to zero • Free coin gifts, silly voice packs, and cozy music to merge along to FRIENDLY BY DESIGN • Everything is cosmetic — no pay-to-win, ever • Relaxing pace, no timers forcing you to rush • A "reduce flashing" option and gentle, wholesome art • Small download, plays offline, no account or sign-up • Share your best runs as a cute score card PloppleDrop is free to play. A few optional extras — a coin gift, a second chance, or a quick power-up — can be unlocked by watching an optional rewarded ad, but everything you need is yours from the very first drop. Pull a Plopple out, take aim, and merge the weird ones.

Screenshots

Snowball Spin4 screens
PloppleDrop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PloppleDrop at none against Snowball Spin's 2. PloppleDrop also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 37 months). Snowball Spin's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Snowball Spin sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. PloppleDrop asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Snowball Spin ships an update every 37 months, PloppleDrop every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Snowball Spin versus PloppleDrop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnowball SpinPloppleDrop
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 37 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Ad-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB44 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOANA RINALDIAdam Drummond

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Snowball Spin

Subscriptions2
  • Snowball Plus Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Snowball Plus Yearly$14.991 Year
None

PloppleDrop

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Snowball Spin free?
Snowball Spin is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PloppleDrop free?
PloppleDrop is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Snowball Spin or PloppleDrop have ads?
PloppleDrop shows ads; Snowball Spin does not.
Which is updated more often, Snowball Spin or PloppleDrop?
Snowball Spin ships an update every 37 months, and PloppleDrop every 2 days. Most recently, Snowball Spin was updated on October 30, 2026 and PloppleDrop on October 31, 2026.

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