Comparison

Orbit Sort vs Tumble Tubes

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

Head to head
About

Orbit Sort

Features
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Rotate the rings. Sort every color home. Tap a ring to turn it and the colored balls ride along. Where two rings cross, a ball belongs to both, so one turn sets up the next. 5,000 levels, from a single ring to five overlapping rings. HOW IT WORKS • Tap a ring to rotate it. • Balls on a crossing point move with either ring. Use that to pass colors from one ring to another. • Fill every home socket with its matching color before you run out of moves. THINK AT YOUR OWN PACE • No timers. Take as long as you need. • Undo any move. Restart any level. • Out of moves? Retry, or watch an optional ad for +20 moves. • Stuck on one? Watch an optional ad to skip it. 5,000 LEVELS Start with one ring and learn in seconds. Add a second ring and things get interesting. By five rings, every move counts. 9 BALL SKINS TO COLLECT Common, rare and epic skins. Unlock them by reaching level milestones or by watching an ad. CALM BY DESIGN A dark, minimal look with nothing in the way of the puzzle. A short tutorial, then it's all you. Free to play, with a banner ad and optional rewarded ads. No in-app purchases.

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Tumble Tubes

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Two glass tubes arc up either side of the board. A funnel sits at the top. And a winding track runs back down toward four stacks of holders that are never quite the color you need. Every level opens with a board of loaded cartridges. Most carry nine marbles. Some carry far more. Tap one and its marbles rush up through the side tube, over the arc, and spill out of the funnel onto the track below. From there they tumble down, lane by lane, toward the holders. A marble that reaches a holder in its own color clicks into place. Fill that holder and it pops away, and whatever color was buried under it rises up to take its turn. Marbles with no holder to go to keep riding. They queue up behind one another, and the track has an end. Pack it with marbles that have nowhere to click in and the run is finished. You'll see it coming a few moves out. Getting out of it is the hard part. And not every cartridge is ready to fire. Some sit frozen. Some are buried under stone. Some are bolted into a frame and won't move until you clear what's around them. Which one you open, and when, is the whole game. HOW TO PLAY - Tap a cartridge to send its marbles up the tube and through the funnel - Marbles pour onto the track and tumble down toward the holders - A marble clears when it clicks into a holder of its own color - Fill a holder and the next color in that stack rises up behind it - Marbles with no matching holder stay on the track and take up room - Fill the track with marbles that can't clear and the level ends - Empty the board and finish every stack to move on ON THE BOARD - Cartridges from three marbles up to a couple of hundred - Frozen cartridges that need a few clears before they open - Stone tiles hiding what sits underneath - Boosters for when the track is packed and you need a way out NO TIMER Open a cartridge when you're ready. Sit and read the board for a minute if you want. Nothing on screen is counting down.

Screenshots

Orbit Sort4 screens
Tumble Tubes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Orbit Sort at 2 against Tumble Tubes's —. Tumble Tubes's advantage is iOS requirement (14.5 vs 17.0). On price and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Orbit Sort versus Tumble Tubes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbit SortTumble Tubes
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsYes—
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — better—
Requires iOS17.014.5 — better
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB184 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIQGames LLCDIGITAL EDUCATION LAB PTY LTD

In-app purchases

None

Orbit Sort

No in-app purchases

None

Tumble Tubes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orbit Sort free?
Orbit Sort is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tumble Tubes free?
Tumble Tubes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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