Comparison

FlickaPuck vs Cell Zoo

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

Head to head
About

FlickaPuck

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Flick your puck. Watch it shatter. The crisp crack of collision, fragments bouncing off walls, haptic feedback on every hit - FlickaPuck is built around one of the most satisfying mechanics on mobile. Aim, flick, and smash your way through an ever-escalating challenge. Linked pucks that must break in a single strike. Bomb pucks that detonate on impact. Reverse pucks that fight back. Simple to start, hard to master. Six themes unlock as you progress - crystal, ice, flame, underwater, fireworks, meadow. The further you go, the better it looks. Stack multipliers, beat your score, keep going.

About

Cell Zoo

Explore mesmerizing cellular automata simulations with alien organisms that evolve in real-time. Interact with living art, place it in your environment with AR, and fine-tune dozens of parameters to create unique patterns. Experience stunning visuals and emergent ecosystems.

Highlights
  • Real-time organism evolution
  • Interactive touch controls
  • Augmented Reality (AR) mode
  • Multiple living systems (Physarum, Lenia, Gray-Scott, Particle Life)
  • Extensive parameter tuning
  • GPU-accelerated simulations
Features
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The most beautiful cellular automata simulator on iOS. Watch alien organisms evolve in real time. Touch them, breed them, teach them to sing. Place them on your desk in AR. Cell Zoo is a pocket terrarium for mathematical life. ELEVEN LIVING WORLDS Slime molds that solve mazes. Continuous creatures that swim, split, and breathe. Chemistry that paints leopard spots and coral. Electromagnetic waves, self-assembling DNA, even your own words dissolving into life. New in 2.2: Chimera, where four rival physics share one map and fight over the borders. Every world runs real math at up to 120 frames per second, and none of them behaves the way you expect. IT GROWS INTO YOUR PHOTOS Hand the colony a picture and watch it grow into the bright shapes — your face, your handwriting, your dog. A living sketch, not a copy. IT LISTENS. IT SINGS. Turn on Hearing and the colony moves to your music: bass makes it surge, treble makes it shimmer. Turn on Voice and the simulation sings back — a generative soundtrack drawn from the colony's own rhythms, never the same twice. A NEW CREATURE EVERY DAY Hatch the Daily Specimen each morning. Creatures you keep sync across your devices with iCloud. SHARE WHAT YOU GROW Send any creature by link. It hatches on your friend's device exactly as you made it — same genes, same colors, same behavior. BREED THEM (Premium) Cross two creatures and hatch the offspring. Mutate genomes. Pit colonies against each other in the arena and carry the winner's line forward. 30+ RENDER MODES (Premium) Photoreal protoplasm, holographic diffraction, infrared, liquid metal, bioluminescent deep-sea glow, aurora, soap film. Every mode is a handcrafted Metal shader. AR MODE (Premium) Grow a colony on your table, floor, or wall. In 3D, a living structure floats in your room — walk around it. Walk through it. TUNE EVERYTHING Sensor angles, diffusion rates, decay, species counts — every slider changes behavior live, and all of them are free. Capture the results in photo mode with pro exposure and cinematic filters. Built native with Metal: 120Hz ProMotion, HDR bloom, MetalFX upscaling. No accounts, no ads, no analytics. Premium is a single one-time purchase. Terms: https://cellzoo.app/#terms

Screenshots

FlickaPuck4 screens
Cell Zoo4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Cell Zoo at none against FlickaPuck's shown. FlickaPuck's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. FlickaPuck sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Cell Zoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

FlickaPuck ships an update every 4 days, Cell Zoo every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
FlickaPuck versus Cell Zoo: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlickaPuckCell Zoo
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.7 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size206 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAndrejs FomcenkoAleksander Allen

In-app purchases

1 purchases

FlickaPuck

One-time1
  • Full Version$2.99
1 purchases

Cell Zoo

One-time1
  • Lifetime Premium$3.99

Questions

Is FlickaPuck free?
FlickaPuck is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cell Zoo free?
Cell Zoo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FlickaPuck or Cell Zoo have ads?
FlickaPuck shows ads; Cell Zoo does not.
Which is updated more often, FlickaPuck or Cell Zoo?
FlickaPuck ships an update every 4 days, and Cell Zoo every 2 weeks. Most recently, FlickaPuck was updated on October 25, 2026 and Cell Zoo on October 31, 2026.

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