Comparison

Balloon Out Sort vs Chroma Gate

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

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About

Balloon Out Sort

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Get ready for a satisfying and strategic color-sorting puzzle! In this fast-paced brain teaser, your goal is to release balloons and guide them to their matching boxes. Every tap mattersโ€”plan carefully, or your balloons might get stuck! How to Play: - Tap to Release โ€“ Tap boxes to send balloons flying upward - Match Colors โ€“ Guide balloons into the correct matching boxes - Avoid the Net โ€“ Balloons get trapped if no matching box is available - Think Ahead โ€“ Manage space and timing to keep the flow going Game Features: - Challenging Levels โ€“ Increasing difficulty keeps you engaged - Satisfying Visuals โ€“ Smooth balloon physics and clean design - Quick Gameplay โ€“ Short, addictive levels perfect anytime - Simple Controls โ€“ Easy to learn, hard to master Can you release, match, and clear them all without getting trapped?

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Chroma Gate

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Chroma Gate is a sliding puzzle where the board itself is a drawing. Every level past the tutorial is built on its own silhouette. An apple. A key. A zipper. An arch. The bricks fill that shape and nothing else, so each board arrives as a picture before it becomes a problem. There are 250 of them and no two repeat. HOW IT PLAYS Push a brick and it slides until something stops it. Line it up with the gate that matches its colour and it leaves the board. Clear them all, free the hero, open the gate. The difficulty is the order, not the speed. Clear the wrong brick first and the one behind it has nowhere to go. WHY THESE BOARDS ARE DIFFERENT Chroma Gate's levels are not generated at random and they are not hand-placed by eye. Each one is built by injecting bricks backwards along the exact path they will later take to escape, which is what makes the silhouette and the solution possible at the same time. Every board is then proved solvable three separate times โ€” once while being built, once as a shipped file, and once by a solver that plays it through the real game engine with simulated touches. A level that looks impossible never is. Each level also carries its own time budget, calculated by actually solving the board and measuring how much searching it demands โ€” not by counting bricks. Tight boards get more time. Loose ones get less. FIVE MECHANICS THAT SHARE ONE BOARD - Ice: a frozen brick waits for an entire colour to leave before it moves. The colour it is waiting for is drawn on its frame, so it is always readable. - Split: a brick lying across a gate gets bitten in half. One problem becomes two. - Chains: two bricks tied together, usually different colours. Free one end and the other slides. - Portals: step on the pad, come out somewhere else. - Walls: the cell that will not move. The first nine levels teach all five, one at a time, with a finger showing the exact move. After that they blend, and the boards get tighter rather than bigger. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU - No lives, no energy bar, no wait timers. - Fully offline. All 250 levels ship inside the app. - Progress is saved on your device, not on a server. No account, ever. - Colour-blind mode puts a distinct symbol on every brick and every gate, so matching never depends on hue. - Stars come from the clock: finish with half your time left for three. Free, with ads between levels and an optional ad for extra time. The tutorial is never interrupted.

Screenshots

Balloon Out Sort4 screens
Chroma Gate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Balloon Out Sort at 13.0 against Chroma Gate's 15.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Balloon Out Sort versus Chroma Gate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBalloon Out SortChroma Gate
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyDailyโ€”
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size126 MB106 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRedLine GamesUnique Game Studio Bilisim hizmetleri sanayi ve ticaret limited sirketi

In-app purchases

None

Balloon Out Sort

No in-app purchases

None

Chroma Gate

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Balloon Out Sort free?
Balloon Out Sort is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chroma Gate free?
Chroma Gate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Balloon Out Sort or Chroma Gate have ads?
Both Balloon Out Sort and Chroma Gate show ads.

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