Comparison

SILT vs Dial Tone

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

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About

SILT

Embark on a surreal underwater puzzle-adventure. Explore a mysterious ocean abyss, possess unique sea creatures to solve environmental puzzles, and uncover ancient secrets. Survive encounters with giant creatures and experience a visually striking, monochrome world.

Highlights
  • Explore ocean abyss
  • Possess sea creatures
  • Solve environmental puzzles
  • Discover ancient mysteries
  • Survive giant creature encounters
  • Unique monochrome art style
Features
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*Try SILT for free and unlock the full game to continue your journey!* Dive into a surreal ocean abyss in an atmospheric puzzle-adventure. Explore dangerous waters, possess sea creatures and solve environmental puzzles to discover what lies deep below the surface… SILT is a surreal underwater puzzle-adventure game. Alone in an underwater abyss, you are a diver searching the deep to uncover long-forgotten mysteries.  Possess the creatures around you to solve puzzles and travel further into the darkness… Nature has evolved into bizarre forms. Discover strange organisms, unexplored ruins and ancient machinery hidden beneath the water’s surface. Survive encounters with giant deep-sea goliaths. Harness their power to awaken a long-dormant force at the centre of the abyss. Experience art brought to life.  SILT’s unsettling, monochrome world is constructed from the sketches and dark imagination of artist Mr Mead. A harrowing journey awaits you… EPILEPSY WARNING Please read before playing this game or allowing your children to play it: Some people are susceptible to epileptic seizures or loss of consciousness when exposed to certain flashing lights and moving patterns in everyday life. Such people may have a seizure while watching television images or playing certain video games. This may happen even if the person has no medical history of epilepsy or has never had any epileptic seizures. If you or anyone in your family has ever had symptoms related to epilepsy (seizures or loss of consciousness) when exposed to flashing lights or moving patterns, consult your doctor prior to playing this game. If you or your family experience any symptoms of seizure while playing this game, such as dizziness, nausea, or loss of consciousness, stop playing immediately and seek medical attention.

About

Dial Tone

A unique rhythm game where you create music by rotating concentric rings to clear blocks. The tempo increases with each cleared ring, leading to increasingly complex and personalized compositions. It offers a tactile and meditative gameplay experience that becomes frantic as the speed rises.

Highlights
  • Unique music generation through gameplay
  • Rotating ring mechanic
  • Tempo-based score progression
  • Tactile and fluid interaction
  • Offline play
  • Ad-free and no in-app purchases
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Dial Tone is a rhythm game where you make the music. Three concentric rings glow on a dark screen, divided into quarter notes, eighth notes, and sixteenth notes. Lasers fire in from the corners, placing colored blocks onto the rings. A beat hand sweeps like a clock, and every block it passes plays a note. Your job: rotate the rings and fill one completely to clear it. But here‘s the catch. As outer rings fill up, they become obstacles. A laser that collides with the wrong ring ends the game. The fuller the rings get, the more you‘re juggling, and the more complex the music becomes. There are no points. Your score is the tempo. You start slow, and every time you clear a ring, the BPM ticks up. How fast can you go? The music is yours. No two sessions sound the same. Every block you place adds notes to a chord. The result is a polyrhythmic, ever-changing composition that you‘re building as you play. A song that no one has heard before and no one will hear again. WHAT MAKES DIAL TONE DIFFERENT Unlike traditional rhythm games, you don‘t follow a pre-made song. The music emerges from your gameplay. Every session produces a unique piece shaped by your decisions, your reflexes, and the rising tempo. The interaction is pure and tactile: spin the rings with your finger like a rotary dial. No tapping to a beat. No memorizing patterns. Just a fluid, physical mechanic that starts meditative and becomes frantic. DESIGNED WITH CARE • Dial Tone honors iOS Accessibility settings for color filtering, reduced motion, and sensitivity to flashing lights. • Tiny download. Everything — visuals, music, and gameplay — is generated in code. • No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. No tracking. No internet connection required. Just you and the game.

Screenshots

SILT4 screens
Dial Tone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dial Tone at none against SILT's 1. SILT's advantage is ratings volume (4.2K vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ads 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. SILT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Dial Tone asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dial Tone holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SILT has 4.2K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SILT versus Dial Tone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSILTDial Tone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (4.2K ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4.2K — better2
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size1002 MB9 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperSnapbreak Games ABFidget Winner

Customer experience

SILT

All ratings3,606 ratings
Positive95.7%
Neutral2.3%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews183 reviews
Positive77.0%
Neutral6.6%
Negative16.4%

Dial Tone

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SILT

One-time1
  • Unlock SILT Full Game$5.99
None

Dial Tone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SILT free?
SILT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dial Tone free?
Dial Tone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, SILT or Dial Tone?
Dial Tone is rated higher. SILT averages 4.8 out of 5 from 4.2K ratings, while Dial Tone averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do SILT or Dial Tone have ads?
Neither SILT nor Dial Tone shows ads.

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