POOLS™ vs In Between
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
POOLS™
Explore, admire, and listen in this slow, reflective experience. It's an intentionally uneventful journey through uncanny and eerie environments, rewarding patience and quiet attention. Discover a world that subtly changes as you advance, inspired by internet phenomena like liminal spaces and The Backrooms.
- Exploration-focused gameplay
- Relaxing and reflective atmosphere
- Eerie and uncanny environments
- Slow-paced, uneventful experience
- World changes as you advance
- Six chapters, 10-30 minutes each
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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.
In Between
Experience a psychological horror loop where a single room repeats daily. Identify anomalies, take medicine, and survive for 10 days to escape. Your decisions lead to multiple endings and uncover hidden secrets.
- Psychological horror gameplay
- Daily repeating room mechanic
- Anomaly discovery
- Multiple endings
- Survival elements
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A psychological horror loop game where the same room repeats every day. Find the anomalies, take the medicine, and survive for 10 days to escape. Your choices shape different endings. Discover every hidden anomaly and secret fate.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: In Between at none against POOLS™'s 1. In Between also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and update cadence (daily vs every 4 weeks). POOLS™'s advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (1.8K vs 1). On price 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. In Between asks for nothing beyond the download.
In Between holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: POOLS™ has 1.8K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of POOLS™'s written reviews are positive against 100% of In Between's.
POOLS™ ships an update every 4 weeks, In Between daily. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | POOLS™ | In Between |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (1.8K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.8K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Daily — 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 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1.9 GB | 324 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tensori | Heechang Kim |
Customer experience
POOLS™
In Between
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)
In Between
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
POOLS™
- POOLS: Full Game$9.99
In Between
No in-app purchases
