Merge Maestro vs Ultrapool
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merge Maestro
Combine hundreds of unique emoji tokens in a puzzle-like, rogue-like experience. Discover creative combinations of tokens and powers to fuse unique strategies and overcome increasingly challenging levels. Enjoy a twist on puzzle, rogue-like, and arcade gameplay.
- Hundreds of unique emoji tokens
- Combo-driven gameplay
- Puzzle-like rogue-like mechanics
- Discover creative token combinations
- Fuse unique strategies
- Challenging levels
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Combine 100's of unique emoji based tokens in this combo-driven puzzle-like rogue-like! Find ever more creative combinations of Tokens and Powers to fuse unique strategies and beat this ever more challenging twist on rogue-likes, puzzlers and arcadey games!
Ultrapool
Experience a unique pool game with roguelite elements and wacky ball effects. Craft strategic builds and pull off incredible trickshots to impress the bartenders. Survive 10 rounds of arcade-style pool with a variety of unique ball abilities.
- Roguelite pool gameplay
- Wacky ball abilities
- Strategic build crafting
- Arcade-style trickshots
- 10-round survival mode
- Ball combination mechanics
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The pool bar is always open! Ultrapool is a colorful roguelike about playing pool with a bunch of wacky balls with crazy effects. Carefully craft a perfect build and get the craziest trickshots! Get comfy, choose a cocktail, and get ready for a very special game of pool. Assemble a triangle of balls with strange effects and get the sickest trickshots. The bartenders won't be easy to impress! Ultrapool is an arcade-y colorful roguelike that plays like a pool version of Balatro and Super Auto Pets. Pocketing balls gives you score, and extra score gives you money you can spend at the bar to buy and improve your set of balls. Try to survive 10 rounds! We got both! Easy to pick up pool mechanics: just get the balls in the holes! But as you discover the wacky abilities the balls have, you'll get new ideas of how to get your score ever higher. A ghost ball that reappears on the table? A chicken ball that lays spherical eggs? A bomb that explodes if you bump it too much? The Earth? Anything is possible (as long as it's round and it rolls nicely, no cubes allowed!) Once you think you know the game, the cocktail bar opens. Ask the bartender to mix any two balls and he will serve you something special! Some of these will feel like they should break the game wide open, but you'll need every edge you can get if you want to pull off an all nighter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Ultrapool at free against Merge Maestro's free with in-app purchases. Ultrapool also leads on chart position (#152 vs unranked). Merge Maestro's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Merge Maestro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ultrapool sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Merge Maestro holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 144 and 180 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Merge Maestro's written reviews are positive against 89% of Ultrapool's.
Merge Maestro ships an update every 9 days, Ultrapool every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Merge Maestro | Ultrapool |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (144 ratings) — better | 4.6 (180 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.4% of reviews — better | 88.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 144 | 180 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #152 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 408 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | DAVID HS TING | offbrand games |
Customer experience
Merge Maestro
Ultrapool
Bugs and requests
Merge Maestro
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on startup
- Medal tracking issues
Requested features
2 requests- Endless mode
- UI/text scale options
Ultrapool
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Merge Maestro
- Full Access$2.99
Ultrapool
- Unlock Full Game$5.99









