Comparison

POOLS™ vs Copie le pattern !

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Slow, reflective exploration
  • Atmospheric and immersive environments
  • Inspired by liminal spaces
  • Unfolding narrative through exploration
  • Six distinct chapters
  • Unique sound design
Features
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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.

About

Copie le pattern !

Features
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Copie le pattern is a music composition game for the classroom and for home: build a 4-bar rhythmic pattern (32 eighth notes) for three tracks — piano, bass and drums — following the chord grid, and earn as many points as you can. Switch on the cells of each track to lay down your notes: hi-hat, snare, kick, bass line and piano chords. Follow the grid, listen to your pattern looping, fix the gaps and the misplacements before you confirm. No silent track, a real balance between the three instruments: that is what earns points. At the end, your composition is turned into a mark. FOR TEACHERS — CLASSROOM MODE Copie le pattern is designed for music teachers. Create a free class session at lusique.fr: share a code with your students and find the scores and marks of the whole class automatically grouped together. Ideal for working on how a groove is built, the role of each instrument and rhythmic placement, then following everyone's progress. No student sign-up, no personal data. 100% FREE: no in-app purchases, no advertising; the whole game and the classroom mode are freely available. The class code only groups scores together; it unlocks no paid content. Part of the Lusique family of music games. Ideal for learning music theory and aural training, at conservatoire as well as at music school.

Screenshots

POOLS™4 screens
Copie le pattern !2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Copie le pattern ! at none against POOLS™'s 1. Copie le pattern ! also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). POOLS™'s advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. POOLS™ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Copie le pattern ! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

POOLS™ ships an update monthly, Copie le pattern ! every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
POOLS™ versus Copie le pattern !: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPOOLS™Copie le pattern !
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (1.8K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews79.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.8K — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1.9 GB17 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperTensoriFrancois Fouqueau

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)

Copie le pattern !

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

POOLS™

One-time1
  • POOLS: Full Game$9.99
None

Copie le pattern !

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is POOLS™ free?
POOLS™ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Copie le pattern ! free?
Copie le pattern ! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do POOLS™ or Copie le pattern ! have ads?
Neither POOLS™ nor Copie le pattern ! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, POOLS™ or Copie le pattern !?
POOLS™ ships an update monthly, and Copie le pattern ! every 6 days. Most recently, POOLS™ was updated on October 31, 2026 and Copie le pattern ! on October 28, 2026.

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