Cat Climbing vs Impulse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cat Climbing
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One tap. One leap. How high can you climb? Guide a determined little cat toward the summit in Cat Climbing, a challenging 2D climbing action game. Tap where you want to go, judge your distance and leap from one foothold to the next. Simple controls leave all the challenge to your aim and timing. READ THE WALLS Your cat can cling to walls as well as land on platforms. Watch the angle: overhangs cannot be gripped. Plan your route around narrow ledges, rotating platforms and spikes, and make every jump count. KEEP CLIMBING A missed landing can send you tumbling. Reach checkpoints, learn from each attempt and tackle the next stretch with a better plan. Every hard-earned bit of height feels like progress. COLLECT AND CUSTOMIZE Earn coins at checkpoints and use them to buy cat skins. When a rewarded video is available, you can choose to watch it for a larger coin reward. CHASE YOUR BEST TIME Reach the top, improve your clear time and compare your results on the online rankings. Choose a display name and let your climbing do the talking. FEATURES • Tap-to-jump controls built for a portrait screen • Wall-clinging and carefully timed platforming • Checkpoints, coins and cat skins • Challenging obstacles and online time rankings • English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean Contains advertising. Internet access is required for online rankings and ads. Support: support@gamehell.net Privacy policy: https://gamehell.net/policy/
Impulse
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Twelve games, twelve ways to surprise you. Raw speed, precision, inhibition, anticipation, attention: each game measures something different. Tap Zero for raw reaction time. The Gauge for millisecond precision. Red Light for holding back a movement. Stroop for resisting what you read. And eight more. TODAY'S TRIAL Three games, three constraints, one score. The same three legs for everyone, everywhere, drawn from the date itself. Turbo, reversed instructions, sudden death, fog, eclipse: the constraint changes the rules, not just the difficulty. One attempt a day. Being decent everywhere beats being brilliant at one thing. WARE MODE All twelve games back to back, faster and faster, until your five lives are gone. One round, one game, no pause. Or pass the phone around with up to eight players — last one standing wins. TIERS TO CLIMB Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond on every game. Every game is scored on the same 0–100 scale, which finally makes a precision, a reaction time and a streak length comparable. A tier once earned is never lost. YOUR PROGRESS, IN NUMBERS Your best reaction time, your curve run after run, your streak of consecutive days. Everything stays on your iPhone: no account, no sign-up, no server. IT WORKS OFFLINE On the subway, on a plane, at the cabin. Only Game Center leaderboards need a connection. BUILT TO BE FAIR Every game is calibrated to the millisecond and measured on a continuous clock: your score depends on neither your iPhone model nor its refresh rate. iOS Reduce Motion is respected, and sound and haptics turn off separately. Impulse is free. A one-time purchase removes the ads. — Studios Raxoon inc. Support: https://apps.raxoon.com/impulse/support Privacy: https://apps.raxoon.com/impulse/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cat Climbing at none against Impulse's 3. Cat Climbing also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 4 weeks) and device support (3 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
Both are free to download. Impulse sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Cat Climbing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cat Climbing ships an update weekly, Impulse every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cat Climbing | Impulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 598 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nobuki Okauchi | STUDIOS RAXOON INC |
In-app purchases
Cat Climbing
No in-app purchases
Impulse
- Impulse - Monthly support$1.991 Month
- Yearly support$12.991 Year
- No ads$2.99
Questions
Is Cat Climbing free?
Is Impulse free?
Do Cat Climbing or Impulse have ads?
Which is updated more often, Cat Climbing or Impulse?
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