QuickDodger vs PULSE1
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
QuickDodger
A fast-paced arcade survival game where players swipe to move and dodge falling obstacles. Survive for as long as possible as the game's speed and intensity increase. Utilize power-ups to aid your survival.
- Swipe controls for movement
- Increasing game difficulty
- Invisibility power-up
- Screen-clearing explosions
- High score tracking
- Optional rewarded ads to continue
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QuickDodger is a fast-paced arcade survival game that tests your reflexes and focus. Swipe anywhere on the screen to move your character and dodge falling obstacles for as long as possible. The longer you survive, the faster and more intense the game becomes. FEATURES: • Simple swipe controls • Increasing difficulty over time • Power-ups including invisibility and screen-clearing explosions • High score tracking • Optional rewarded ads to continue a run QuickDodger is easy to learn but challenging to master. How long can you survive?
PULSE1
This one-thumb arcade game challenges you to tap a sweeping pulse as it crosses a shrinking zone. Achieve higher tiers of heat with perfect timing, but one miss ends your run. Compete on global leaderboards and experience satisfying haptic feedback.
- One-finger control
- Short, engaging runs
- Infinitely climbing difficulty
- Mutators for varied gameplay
- Combo multiplier system
- Global leaderboards
- Haptic feedback
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PULSE1 is the one-thumb arcade game you'll open "just for one run" and look up twenty minutes later. A pulse sweeps around a ring. Tap when it crosses the zone. That's it — and that's the trap. Every hit shrinks the zone, reverses the sweep, and pushes your heat higher. Every ten hits the ring SHATTERS and you climb to the next tier — Ember, Kindling, Flicker, Flame, Blaze, Wildfire, Firestorm, Inferno, Meltdown... all the way up to Supernova, and tiers nobody has named yet. One miss ends the run. But PULSE1 always tells you exactly how close you were. 2° away. 3 from your record. You know you had it. You know the next run is the one. FEATURES • One-finger play — playable with your phone flat on a table • Runs of 1–3 minutes — perfect for a queue, an elevator, an excuse • Infinite heat — the difficulty never stops climbing • Mutators — twin pulses, phantom zones, flashpoints and reversals • Solar flares — rare golden zones worth 5x sparks • Combo system — perfect taps stack multipliers up to 5x • Top 100 leaderboards — see how hot the world burned • Haptic feedback on every hit, break, and heartbreak • Free forever — no purchases, no subscriptions, no paywall. Ever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: PULSE1 at every 2 weeks against QuickDodger's every 2 months. QuickDodger's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for QuickDodger against 5.0 for PULSE1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
QuickDodger ships an update every 2 months, PULSE1 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | QuickDodger | PULSE1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jaylin Murry | Eran Gilad |
Customer experience
QuickDodger
PULSE1
In-app purchases
QuickDodger
No in-app purchases
PULSE1
No in-app purchases









