Comparison

Pixel Pop! vs TANGENT

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

Head to head
About

Pixel Pop!

Navigate cubes through a challenging grid, guiding them to a blade while avoiding obstacles. Strategize your moves to clear all cubes in this engaging puzzle game.

Highlights
  • Navigate cubes in a grid
  • Guide cubes to a blade
  • Avoid other cubes and blades
  • Challenging puzzle mechanics
  • Strategic gameplay
Features
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In this thrilling game, you'll navigate Poppers in a complex grid and guide them to the target. But beware, other Poppers will present you with a challenging puzzle. Strategize wisely and pop all the cubes!

About

TANGENT

This logic puzzle game challenges you to land every dot in its socket using a single, exact rule. With no timers or luck involved, it offers a satisfyingly precise and mentally stimulating experience. Explore various difficulty levels and unique mechanics across multiple orbits.

Highlights
  • One exact rule for gameplay
  • No timers or luck involved
  • Endless, procedurally generated boards
  • Six distinct difficulty orbits
  • Daily brain teasers
  • Supports VoiceOver and Dynamic Type
Features
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Rings turn one notch per tap. A dot can hop to the next ring only at the exact moment two rings kiss. Land every dot in its socket in the fewest moves. A logic puzzle with one exact rule, no timer and no luck. NEW IN 2.0: ENDLESS A fresh board every time, made on your phone and proved by the solver before you see it. Six difficulties, drawn at random after an easy start, from gentler than Orbit 1 to as tough as Orbit 6. Solve at par to grow your chain. No timer, no lives, no end. ONE RULE, EXACT Tap anywhere and every ring clicks round by its own spin: +1, −1, +2, or not at all. Tap a dot while it sits at a kiss and it arcs across to the touching ring. That is the whole game. Nothing is random inside a level and nothing is timed, so every board is a small piece of clockwork you can read before you touch it. THE CLICK OF GEARS MESHING The feeling you chase is the socket swinging into the kiss as the dot arrives. Every tick, hop and dock has its own sound, haptic and light: the notch marks blink in sequence, the hop leaves a luminous trail, the socket blooms, and a solved level ends on one calm chord. 120 LEVELS IN SIX ORBITS Every level was generated and proved by a solver, so par is the true minimum and a level is never unsolvable, only over par. Every orbit is free to reach: earn 40 stars in one and the next opens. Each adds one twist: • Kiss – two rings, one dot, one socket. Learn the hop. • Wall – a stop bar rides the ring and refuses a landing. • Flip – a marked notch sends its ring the other way. • Three – a third dot, and three colors to route at once. • Still – rings that do not turn, and mixed spins. • Tangent – everything, on twelve-notch rings. Three stars means par. Undo is free and unlimited, restart is free, and one hint per level shows the solver’s next move. ONE DAILY, ONE STREAK A new brain teaser every day, built on your phone from the date, the same for everyone. Par is shown before you start. Solve it and your streak grows; share the result as text, not a screenshot. Reminders are optional, up to three a day, and stop once the day’s puzzle is solved. MADE TO BE READ Every dot and socket carries a shape as well as a color, so no rule depends on color alone. Reduce Motion turns every pulse and burst into a fade. VoiceOver and Dynamic Type are supported throughout. Sessions are two to five minutes, one-handed, and every move is saved, so you can put the phone down mid-level and pick up exactly where you were. WHAT’S INCLUDED • Game Center: leaderboards for total stars and best streak, seven achievements. • iCloud: your progress follows you to a new phone. • No account, no in-app currency, no lives, no timers. FREE TO PLAY, ONE UNLOCK TANGENT is free to play, with ads: a banner on the menu screens, never on the board, and now and then a short ad between puzzles. TANGENT Full Game ($4.99, once, no subscription) removes every ad, opens all six orbits at once, and adds the daily archive of the past 30 days and Skip board in Endless. Without it, you can watch an ad to skip an Endless board. Restore Purchases and offer-code redemption are on the Unlock screen and in Settings. Privacy Policy: https://tangent.devera.app/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Pixel Pop!4 screens
TANGENT4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: TANGENT at 5.0 against Pixel Pop!'s 4.5. Pixel Pop!'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (58 vs 1). On price and ads 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. TANGENT sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pixel Pop! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

TANGENT holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Pop! has 58 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Pop! ships an update every 2 weeks, TANGENT every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pixel Pop! versus TANGENT: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel Pop!TANGENT
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (58 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings58 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size463 MB24 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKaliba Games & Technologies Inc.Farzin Tavakoli

Customer experience

Pixel Pop!

All ratings58 ratings
Positive86.2%
Neutral6.9%
Negative6.9%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

TANGENT

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Pixel Pop!

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

TANGENT

One-time1
  • TANGENT Full Game$4.99

Questions

Is Pixel Pop! free?
Pixel Pop! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TANGENT free?
TANGENT is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Pixel Pop! or TANGENT?
TANGENT is rated higher. Pixel Pop! averages 4.5 out of 5 from 58 ratings, while TANGENT averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Pixel Pop! or TANGENT have ads?
Both Pixel Pop! and TANGENT show ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Pop! or TANGENT?
Pixel Pop! ships an update every 2 weeks, and TANGENT every 3 weeks. Most recently, Pixel Pop! was updated on October 30, 2026 and TANGENT on October 29, 2026.

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