Comparison

Stack vs PixelFlip

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

Head to head
About

Stack

Features
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Stack is a block puzzle for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. Drop falling pieces, fill rows to clear them, and set off bomb blocks for bigger clears. Play today's Daily Challenge on either screen: the same pieces for everyone, once a day. ON IPHONE AND IPAD • Touch controls: swipe to move, tap to rotate, swipe down to drop softly, flick down to drop hard. • Ghost piece shows where each piece will land. • Line clears ripple across the board with a stepped haptic pattern. • Daily Challenge tile on the home screen shows today's seed code and your streak. • Game Center leaderboards, optional. • Siri and Shortcuts: play Stack, play today's challenge, ask for your best score. • Light and dark mode, and a short tutorial for the controls. • Your streak and best scores are kept on each device; the daily seed is the same on both. ON APPLE WATCH Fully playable on your wrist with the Digital Crown, no phone needed. Gameplay Highlights • Classic falling-block mechanics • Neon bomb power-ups for explosive clears • Daily Challenge: the same seeded puzzle for everyone, once a day • Real Game Center leaderboards and streak achievements • Digital Crown controls on Apple Watch, touch controls on iPhone and iPad • Quick, satisfying rounds for on-the-go play Daily Challenge Everyone gets the same falling-block sequence once a day, so it's a fair contest, not just a high score chase. Build a streak by playing every day, see your best score and a 7-day trend on Apple Watch, and ask Siri to check your streak without opening the app. Power-Up Fun Collect and activate bomb blocks to wipe rows in style with glowing effects and satisfying haptics. Compete & Conquer Sign in to Game Center (optional) to submit your scores to a live leaderboard and unlock streak achievements. Fully playable offline without it, your scores and streak are always saved on each device either way.

About

PixelFlip

Experience a unique arcade challenge where failing in one game drops you into another. Master Pinball, Breakout, and Hurdle in a descending sequence, with increasing difficulty and surprising twists. Save your progress and compete for high scores.

Highlights
  • Three stacked retro arcade games
  • Descending challenge mechanic
  • Random flipper swaps and traps
  • Progressive difficulty
  • Save and Quit functionality
  • High score tables and achievements
Features
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PixelFlip is three retro arcade games stacked on top of each other, and the only way out of one is down into the next. You start on a pinball table. Drain the ball and the game doesn't end. You fall into Breakout. Lose the ball there and you drop again, all the way down to Hurdle, where you run, jump and try not to crash. Make it through and you can climb back up to where you started. A single game can take you through all three, more than once. It starts out friendly. It doesn't stay that way. The longer you survive, the faster and tougher everything gets, so every run is a race to bank as many points as you can before it all catches up with you. Only a crash in Hurdle costs you a life, and you get three. PLAYS GREAT ON iPHONE DUO PixelFlip supports both screens on iPhone Duo. Play folded on the outer screen, or open it up and use the big inner screen for a wider view of the table. The table, the bricks and the controls are sized to fit either one, and you can pause, fold or unfold, and pick up right where you left off. PINBALL Flippers, bumpers, targets and a launcher, the way you remember them. Light up all three wall targets if you can. Rack up enough points and one bumper starts pulsing. Hit it and your flippers swap sides until you sort yourself out. It isn't the only trap on the table, either. And if your last ball arrives with a big enough score, you'll be offered a choice. Choose carefully. BREAKOUT A board of bricks in the shape of a sun, a crescent moon or a star, with gates behind it. Every shape is worth the same, so the board changes but the stakes don't. Some gates help you. Some really don't. Catch falling power-ups for a longer paddle or extra balls, and try to dodge the one that shrinks your paddle. Breakout remembers which bricks you've already broken, so coming back is never quite a fresh start. A short 3-2-1 countdown before every serve gives you a second to get your paddle in place. HURDLE A run along the bottom of everything. Jump the hurdles, grab gold rings for bonus points, and hang on as the pace keeps climbing. KEEP SCORE • A top-10 high score table with three-letter initials, just like the arcade. • A Game Center leaderboard to see how you stack up against friends and everyone else. • 16 achievements. Some are obvious. A few only make sense once you've earned them, and one stays out of sight until you do. • Save & Quit in Pinball before any launch, with two save slots so two people can each keep a run going. Each save can be used once. THERE'S MORE IN HERE PixelFlip has hidden games tucked away in it. We won't tell you where. The Game Map in Settings shows what you've found and puts a question mark on everything you haven't. It won't tell you how to find the rest. Poking around is half the fun. TRY IT FREE Play a full game before you spend anything. If you enjoy it, one small purchase unlocks everything for good: saving, every hidden game, and all future updates. No ads, no subscription, no account, and no tracking. PixelFlip is made by one independent developer. Thanks for giving it a try.

Screenshots

Stack4 screens
PixelFlip4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stack at none against PixelFlip's 1. Stack also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. PixelFlip sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stack asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack ships an update weekly, PixelFlip every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Stack versus PixelFlip: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStackPixelFlip
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.7 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHemal ModiRobert Laramee

In-app purchases

None

Stack

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

PixelFlip

One-time1
  • Full Unlock$0.99

Questions

Is Stack free?
Stack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PixelFlip free?
PixelFlip is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Stack or PixelFlip have ads?
Neither Stack nor PixelFlip shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack or PixelFlip?
Stack ships an update weekly, and PixelFlip every 2 weeks. Most recently, Stack was updated on October 30, 2026 and PixelFlip on November 10, 2026.

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