Comparison

Shift The Disks vs Atomicom

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

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About

Shift The Disks

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Shift the Disks is a beautifully simple yet brain-teasing puzzle game inspired by the classic Towers of Hanoi. Your goal is to move all the disks from the leftmost tower to another, one move at a time, following a few clever rules. * Move only one disk at a time. Only the top disk of any tower can be moved. Larger disks can't go on top of smaller ones. * Tap a tower to select its top disk. Tap another tower to place the selected disk. Win the game by stacking all the disks on a different tower. Shift the Disks is fully compatible with VoiceOver and designed from the ground up to be accessible for blind and low-vision players. Every move, tower, and disk is clearly announced, making the experience intuitive and enjoyable for everyone. Whether you're a puzzle veteran or just looking for a relaxing brain workout, Shift the Disks delivers a timeless challenge you'll want to solve again and again. We would like to thank Ahmad Albahar for his help in testing the game.

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Atomicom

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Space is young, dark and scattered. Atoms drift alone, touching nothing, and in all that emptiness not one thing has ever been built. No water. No stone. No star with a planet worth the name. That is what you are here to change. Atomicom is a puzzle game about binding matter together. Atoms come to you one at a time. Place them on the board, let their loose electrons find a partner, and when every electron in a connected group has one, the molecule is finished: it holds, it leaves the board, and the universe keeps a piece of itself that did not exist a moment ago. HOW IT PLAYS • An atom arrives in the glass cylinder below the board. Take it and drop it on any free square. • Atoms bond with the neighbours above, below, left and right of them. Never diagonally. • A green atom has one electron to give, yellow has two, orange three, red four. Blue atoms give nothing at all: they only take up room you were going to need. • Satisfy every electron in a connected group and the molecule forms and goes. • Run out of squares, or let the cylinder overflow, and the mission ends there. 300 MISSIONS The board starts wide and gets smaller: twelve squares across, then ten, then eight, then a six by six where there is nowhere left to be careless. Every mission asks more than the one before it — more molecules, more obstacles in the way, heavier atoms that need more neighbours before they are satisfied — and every time the board shrinks you begin again at something gentle and climb back up. MADE TO BE PLAYED BY EVERYONE Atomicom is made by Tyflos Accessible Software. Accessibility here is not a switch in the settings, it is how the game is built. • Fully playable with VoiceOver, from the first tap to the last molecule. Nothing has to be seen. • Every square tells you its coordinate, what is on it and how many electrons are still free: "A2, red, 3 free bonds". • The sound tells you where. An atom bonding on the left is heard on the left, and the top of the board sounds higher than the bottom, so the board has a shape you can hear. • Everything that happens without you touching it is spoken: an atom arriving, a molecule finished, a move the rules will not allow and why not. • Vibration answers every move, soft for an atom placed and hard for a molecule completed. • Drag if you like, or tap the atom and then the square. Both always work. • Dynamic Type throughout, and Reduce Motion and Reduce Transparency are obeyed. • Choose your own background, square borders and cylinder colour, and the game tells you when a colour you picked is too faint to make out. ALSO • Play in seventeen languages. • Made for iPhone and iPad. • Your game saves itself: leave in the middle of a mission and pick it up later. • A table of your best games, kept on your device. FREE, AND WHAT COSTS MONEY • The first ten missions are free, with advertising. • "All levels" is a one-off purchase that opens the three hundred. The advertising stays. • "No ads" is a second one-off purchase that removes the banner. It needs "All levels" first. The universe is not going to assemble itself. Start with two atoms.

Screenshots

Shift The Disks4 screens
Atomicom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Atomicom at Free against Shift The Disks's $2.99. Atomicom also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 4 days). Shift The Disks's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Atomicom is free to download; Shift The Disks costs $2.99 up front. Atomicom sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Shift The Disks asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shift The Disks ships an update every 4 days, Atomicom daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences Ā· 1 level
Shift The Disks versus Atomicom: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShift The DisksAtomicom
Price$2.99Free — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMOHAMMED ALOUFIJonathan Chacon Barbero

In-app purchases

None

Shift The Disks

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Atomicom

One-time2
  • All levels$1.00
  • No ads$1.00

Questions

Is Shift The Disks free?
Shift The Disks costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Atomicom free?
Atomicom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Shift The Disks or Atomicom have ads?
Atomicom shows ads; Shift The Disks does not.
Which is updated more often, Shift The Disks or Atomicom?
Shift The Disks ships an update every 4 days, and Atomicom daily. Most recently, Shift The Disks was updated on October 25, 2026 and Atomicom on October 17, 2026.

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