Comparison

AsciiTapper vs Fill It! Arcade

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

Head to head
About

AsciiTapper

Features
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Serve up frosty mugs of root beer in a glowing green terminal. AsciiTapper is a love letter to 80s arcade serving games, rendered entirely in living phosphor text. Customers are walking up the bars and they're thirsty. Slide mugs down the bar to push them back, catch the empties before they crash, and read the room: rush the big spenders for early-serve bonuses, keep up with speedy customers, and never pour for the grumpy ones. Features: - An eight-stage career of 84 hand-authored shifts, each with its own twist and a Master contract - Clear, Clean, and Master ratings on every shift - Daily Challenge: one ranked attempt per day, the same seeded puzzle for everyone, unlimited practice afterward - Combo scoring that rewards sustained, error-free serve-and-catch play - Achievements tracked in-game, plus Game Center leaderboards - A pure retro terminal aesthetic: the whole game is ASCII art, with optional cosmetic CRT themes - Simple two-tap play: tap a lane to move, tap again to serve, and be there to catch - No ads. Ever. The tutorial, the first three career stages, and Daily Challenge are free. One optional Full Shift purchase unlocks stages 4 through 8 plus Endless mode. No subscriptions, and purchases never affect ranked play. The terminal is warmed up. The mugs are cold. Tap in. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Fill It! Arcade

Features
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Claim the grid. Dodge the swarm. Own the board. Fill It! Arcade is a love letter to the classic territory-capture arcade games. Doodle a route with your finger and your ship follows it, slicing through open space. Reconnect to safe ground and everything you enclosed becomes yours. Claim 80% of the board to clear the stage โ€” then do it again, faster, against more enemies. YOUR TRAIL IS YOUR LIFE While you're cutting, your trail is exposed. If an enemy touches it, you're done. Plan greedy cuts for huge bonuses โ€” or play it safe with small slices. The dotted route you sketch ahead is harmless; only the line you've already drawn can get you killed. FEATURES - Doodle-to-move: sketch a route, the ship flies it. Lift near an edge to auto-fly the rest. - Turn assist snaps you onto nearby lanes โ€” navigation stays smooth at speed. - 10 stages of escalating swarm pressure. - Game Center leaderboard: one global board, best score wins. - Local top-5 high scores with stage reached. - Buttery 60fps rendering over a faithful 30Hz arcade simulation. - Haptics tuned to the size of every claim. Big cut, big thump. - No ads. No tracking. No nonsense. Just the game. One more run. You know the corner you died in. Go take it back.

Screenshots

AsciiTapper4 screens
Fill It! Arcade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fill It! Arcade at none against AsciiTapper's 4. AsciiTapper's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. AsciiTapper sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Fill It! Arcade asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
AsciiTapper versus Fill It! Arcade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAsciiTapperFill It! Arcade
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyโ€”
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size2 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVertoliniGreat Time Apps

In-app purchases

4 purchases

AsciiTapper

One-time4
  • Faster Mugs$0.99
  • Mug Catcher$1.99
  • CRT Theme Pack$1.99
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  • Full Shift$3.99
None

Fill It! Arcade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AsciiTapper free?
AsciiTapper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fill It! Arcade free?
Fill It! Arcade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do AsciiTapper or Fill It! Arcade have ads?
Neither AsciiTapper nor Fill It! Arcade shows ads.

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