POOLS™ vs Spin and Draw!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
POOLS™
This app offers a slow, reflective, and immersive experience focused on exploration and atmosphere. It evokes feelings of unease and curiosity through its unique environments, inspired by liminal spaces and internet phenomena. Discover changing worlds and subtle narratives without traditional gameplay mechanics.
- Slow, reflective exploration
- Atmospheric and immersive environments
- Inspired by liminal spaces
- Unfolding narrative through exploration
- Six distinct chapters
- Unique sound design
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Explore, admire and listen. That’s it. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. POOLS isn’t a traditional game. it’s slow, reflective, and intentionally uneventful, perhaps a bit like virtual museum. So take your time. Breathe. POOLS unfolds slowly, rewarding patience and quiet attention. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen. Yet it can feel oppressive at times by invoking quiet fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and the strange beauty of liminal space architecture. There's no typical story. But as you explore and advance further, you start to notice that the game's world changes around you, deeper you go… Rooms look and feel… different. Base game features six chapters, each lasting 10-30 minutes. Inspired by the internet phenomena Liminal spaces, Found footage and The Backrooms, especially the Poolrooms concept. One of the original artists behind the Poolrooms concept is Jared Pike.
Spin and Draw!
Create unique geometric patterns by manipulating points and their rotation speeds. Watch mesmerizing visual designs unfold with each press of a button. Explore endless artistic possibilities through dynamic pattern generation.
- Watch geometric patterns being drawn
- Generate unique patterns
- Combine point rotation and speed
- Create custom designs
- Observe patterns sequentially
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This app allows you to watch geometric patterns being drawn. By pressing the "Next" button, you can observe various geometric patterns appearing one after another. In this app, geometric patterns are created by combining the rotation of points. By changing the positions of the points and their rotation speeds, you can create your own unique geometric patterns.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spin and Draw! at 5.0 against POOLS™'s 4.5. Spin and Draw! also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). POOLS™'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 5). On price, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spin and Draw! asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spin and Draw! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POOLS™ has 1.6K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of POOLS™'s written reviews are positive against 75% of Spin and Draw!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
POOLS™ ships an update every 2 months, Spin and Draw! every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | POOLS™ | Spin and Draw! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.6K ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 79.4% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.9 GB | 117 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tensori | Kairi Toudou |
Customer experience
POOLS™
Spin and Draw!
Bugs and requests
POOLS™
Reported bugs
2 issues- Unable to move on iPad Pro
- Glitches reported
Requested features
3 requests- Expand to different Backrooms-inspired themes
- Add a multiplayer mode
- Introduce more interactive elements (e.g., monsters, items to discover)
Spin and Draw!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99
Spin and Draw!
No in-app purchases
