Pen Stacks vs Hole It Up!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pen Stacks
Match same-colored pencils and stack them to guide them to the sharpener. Navigate through levels filled with blockers. A colorful and engaging puzzle experience awaits.
- Match same-colored pencils
- Stack pencils
- Guide pencils to sharpener
- Overcome blockers
- Colorful puzzle gameplay
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Your mission is simple: match the same-colored pencils, stack them, and lead them to the sharpener! Watch out for blockers!
Hole It Up!
Guide colorful characters tied together through challenging paths. Match each group to its colored hole and launch them onto the correct jump pad. Plan your moves carefully to solve logic puzzles with increasing difficulty, frozen blocks, and clever obstacles.
- Rope-tied character movement
- Color matching puzzles
- Strategic pathfinding
- Increasingly difficult levels
- Obstacle avoidance
- Jump pad mechanics
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Guide groups of characters tied together with ropes as they slither like snakes through twisting paths. Your goal is to move each team into the hole that matches its color and launch them onto the correct jump pad. Every move counts—one wrong match ends the run. With escalating levels, frozen blocks to break, and clever obstacles to outsmart, each stage delivers a fresh logic challenge that rewards planning and quick thinking.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Pen Stacks at 4.9 against Hole It Up!'s 3.5. Pen Stacks also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Pen Stacks holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pen Stacks has 21 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Pen Stacks | Hole It Up! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (21 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 2 |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 156 MB | 191 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kaliba Games & Technologies Inc. | Ali Said Yuksel |
Customer experience
Pen Stacks
Hole It Up!
In-app purchases
Pen Stacks
No in-app purchases
Hole It Up!
No in-app purchases
