Shockwave Games vs Glow Catch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shockwave Games
Engage your mind with a variety of daily brain games and puzzles. Choose from over 30 titles across genres like jigsaws and word games to keep your streak going and challenge yourself.
- Daily brain challenges
- Over 30 game titles
- Jigsaw puzzles
- Word games
- Classic brain games
- Streak tracking
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Delivering a daily dose of fun to everyone, everywhere that keeps bringing you back. Our collection of daily games will challenge and exercise your brain in all kinds of ways! With over 30 different titles to choose from, and genres ranging from jigsaw puzzles, word games, and classic brain games, we're sure you'll find something to come back to day in and day out. Don't let that streak drop! https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Glow Catch
Tap the glowing pods before they burn out, but avoid the forbidden color. This reflex-based game challenges your speed, color recognition, and pattern adaptation across hundreds of unique levels and changing board shapes.
- Tap glowing pods
- Avoid forbidden colors
- Dynamic board shapes
- Multiple level types
- Hundreds of levels
- Endless mode
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Ten pods light up. Tap the lit ones before they burn out — and never touch the one this chapter has forbidden. That is the whole rule, and it stops being easy around level nine. WHAT MAKES IT HARD Speed is the easy part. The hard part is stopping your thumb on the light you were not asked for. • Level 4 — purple arrives, and touching it costs you the run • Level 6 — two lit at once, and your eye has to split • Level 9 — colours flip mid-life, so muscle memory starts lying to you • Level 15 — rule levels: one colour is safe, every other one is a trap • Level 18 — fever bursts, where pods arrive twice as fast THE FORBIDDEN COLOUR MOVES Purple is the trap for sixty levels — long enough to stop being a rule and start being a reflex. Then the next act takes it away at the door, says so, and names another: red, then blue, then amber, then green. The last chapter of each act forbids two colours at once. Nothing marks them. The colour is the warning, and reading it is the game. If you cannot separate two of the six, one switch in settings puts a cross back on every trap. THE BOARD CHANGES SHAPE Not a grid that speeds up. Rectangle, diamond, triangle, hexagon, star, heart, ring, plus — eighteen formations, and the pod count moves with the shape, so each level is a different thing to read rather than the same one running faster. Every shape is drawn in code. The heart is an equation, not a picture. NINE KINDS OF LEVEL Catch a quota. Survive a clock. Beat one. Last with a single life. Read colour instead of reacting. Scan a full board instead of chasing one light. Play with no fuse ring at all and feel the timing instead of reading it. 300 levels in fifteen chapters and five acts, hand-tuned for the first stretch and generated after that, so the ladder does not run out. 900 stars to collect, and an endless mode that outlasts any of them. Free to play. Energy refills on its own, gold is earned by playing, and the ads you watch are ones you chose to watch. A single purchase removes the full-screen ones for good. Made by one person in Türkiye.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Glow Catch at 5.0 against Shockwave Games's 3.0. Glow Catch also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Shockwave Games sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Glow Catch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Glow Catch holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Shockwave Games ships an update every 3 weeks, Glow Catch every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shockwave Games | Glow Catch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 11 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 185 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | LittleBigSnake, Inc | Nurcin EHLIMANOGLU |
Customer experience
Shockwave Games
Glow Catch
In-app purchases
Shockwave Games
- SWU Monthly$9.991 Month
- SWU Annual$59.991 Year
Glow Catch
No in-app purchases
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