Comparison

Chainfall vs Typing Tail

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

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About

Chainfall

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Tap one gem. Watch the whole board fall. Chainfall is a daily chain reaction puzzle. Every gem holds a number of lives. Tap it and it loses one. Take its last life and it detonates, firing in all four directions, and each shot travels until it reaches the next gem still standing and takes a life from that one. Sometimes nothing happens. Sometimes one tap takes half the board with it. Working out which is the game. ONE BOARD A DAY, THE SAME ONE FOR EVERYONE A new chain lands every day, identical for every player on earth, generated offline and baked into the app. Three rungs off the same seed: Easy, Standard and Hard. Play one rung or all three. PAR IS COMPUTED, NOT GUESSED Par is the fewest taps that can clear the board. A solver reads the board, plays it out to the end and returns the true minimum. The same solver proves the board can be cleared at all, then hands you a move to spare on top of par. A board that fails either check does not ship. Gold for matching par, silver at par plus one, bronze for clearing it. A MISSED DAY SLOWS YOU DOWN. IT NEVER ERASES YOU. Chain Days is a lifetime count of the days you have played, and nothing in this game can decrease it. Not a miss, not a purchase, not an ad, not a reinstall. The streak sits on top as a bonus, and a Chain Guard absorbs one missed day. Guards are earned by playing, at every ten-day streak, and a Streak Restore is there if you would rather not wait for the next one. EVERY PAST DAY IS STILL THERE, AND STILL FREE Miss a week and the week is waiting for you. Every previous daily is playable, forever, at no cost and behind no gate. SHARE THE SHAPE OF YOUR CHAIN Finish a day and Chainfall draws your cascade as a grid of blocks, shaded by which tap set each gem off. It reads in any language, and it shows something a word grid cannot: one tap, fourteen detonations. THE ARCHIVE, SORTED BY REAL DIFFICULTY Behind the daily sits the Archive: 500 boards, every one solver-verified, ordered by a measured difficulty index and cut into chapters of twenty with a gold target on each. Any board you have finished stays open for a better medal. UNDO IS FREE AND IT IS UNLIMITED Step back as many times as you like. No cost, no ad, no currency, no daily allowance. Undo turns a chain reaction from something you gamble on into something you test. STUCK IS NOT A DEAD END Three hints a day, free, computed from the board in front of you rather than read out of a stored answer. Need more than three, or want the whole board played out for you? The solver will clear it in the fewest taps that work, and Sparks pay for both. WHAT IS FREE STAYS FREE Unlimited undo. Restart any board, any time, at no cost. Three hints every day, and every past daily forever. Nothing you need in order to clear a board is behind a price. No fullscreen ad ever interrupts a board, and the daily home screen carries no ad at all. PLAYS OFFLINE, AND MEANS IT Airplane mode, underground, no signal, no data plan. Today's board is already on your device. Chainfall never calls a server to run a board. ONE CURRENCY, AND NOTHING THAT REVERSES A LOSS Sparks are the only currency, and they buy three things: extra hints, solver walkthroughs, and a repair for a broken streak. Watch a video to earn them or buy them outright. There is no subscription. A separate one-time unlock removes the banner from the Archive and cannot be revoked. There is no revive, no skip and no extra moves. Undo is unlimited and restart is one tap, so anything sold to undo a mistake would be competing with a button you already have. Tap one gem. See how far it goes.

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Typing Tail

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Typing Tail: The Educational Snake Game That Makes Typing Fun! Improve your typing skills while having fun with Typing Tail, an innovative twist on the classic snake game. Instead of simple directional controls, guide your snake by typing words that appear on screen! Key Features: โ€ข Progressive Difficulty: Challenge yourself with increasingly complex words as you improve โ€ข Unlock Customizations: unlock colorful snake skins and visual upgrades โ€ข Track Your Progress: Monitor your improvement with statistics โ€ข Achievement System: Earn awards for completing special challenges โ€ข No Ads: Enjoy an uninterrupted gaming experience Typing Tail combines education and entertainment in a perfect balance. As you type each letter correctly, your snake grows longer and your score increases. Make a typing mistake, and face the consequences! Challenge yourself, track your progress, and watch as your typing skills improve with each game. Can you become the ultimate Typing Tail master? Download now and start your typing adventure! Credit to Leah Scholtz for development of the app.

Screenshots

Chainfall4 screens
Typing Tail3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Typing Tail at none against Chainfall's 5. Typing Tail also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Chainfall sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Typing Tail asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Chainfall versus Typing Tail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChainfallTyping Tail
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS14.1 โ€” better15.1
Further details โ€” not scored
Size62 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBohdan ArtemenkoReinhardt Scholtz

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Chainfall

One-time5
  • 250 Sparks$0.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • 1400 Sparks$4.99
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  • 3200 Sparks$9.99
  • 7500 Sparks$19.99
None

Typing Tail

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Chainfall free?
Chainfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Typing Tail free?
Typing Tail is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Chainfall or Typing Tail have ads?
Chainfall shows ads; Typing Tail does not.

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