Comparison

Neon Simon vs Ad

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

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Neon Simon

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The classic memory game has been dramatically evolved with a sleek neon design and a variety of new features! “Neon Simon” is a simple yet highly addictive brain-training game where you memorize sequences of sounds and lights and reproduce them accurately. [Game Features] ■ Sleek Neon Visuals: Vibrant neon colors stand out against a pitch-black background. The intuitive and beautiful user interface will push your concentration to the limit. ■ Fully Customizable Difficulty: Features customization options so everyone from beginners to memory masters can enjoy the game. ・Number of Buttons: Adjustable from 4 to a maximum of 16. ・Time Limit: Take your time or test your split-second decision-making—it’s up to you. ・Speed: Set the playback speed to match your own pace. ■ Diverse Game Modes to Stimulate Your Brain For those who find simple memorization insufficient, we’ve prepared a variety of strategic modes. ・Reverse Mode: Enter the memorized sequence “backwards.” Put your brain to the test. ・Shuffle Mode: Button layout changes with each round. Your true ability to memorize “colors and sounds” rather than locations is put to the test. ・Speed Up: The speed increases with every correct answer. Can you handle the extreme speed? ・Blind Mode: Play using only “sound” or “light” cues. Sharpen your senses. ■ Comprehensive Support Features ・Lives: You can continue playing as long as you have lives left, even after making a mistake. This helps you aim for a high score. ・Revive Feature: You can revive once after a close call by watching a video. [Recommended for] ・Those who want to train their memory and concentration in a fun way ・Fans of brain training, puzzle games, and casual games ・Those looking for a quick game to play during spare moments ・Fans of Simon It’s simple, which is exactly why you can’t stop playing. How many moves ahead can your memory go? Download now and challenge yourself to achieve your highest score ever!

About

Ad

This app offers a curated collection of fun games designed for children, completely free of ads, tracking, and internet requirements. It features a variety of engaging titles, including a city-swallowing hole game and an arcade pack with coloring, space shooting, and snake games. Parents appreciate the ad-free, private, and offline experience.

Highlights
  • No ads or tracking
  • Offline play
  • Multiple game modes
  • Coloring and drawing pad
  • Space shooter with power-ups
  • Snake game with leaderboards
  • One-time purchase for arcade pack
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Ad-Free Games is an ever expanding library of games in one app, made for kids with absolutely NO ads, NO tracking, and NO internet required. Pick a tile on the main menu: HOLE (free) — You are a hole. Swallow a living 3D world — a night city, a forest full of animals, or a snowfield — and gulp down rival holes. Four modes, including Infinite. ARCADE PACK (one-time purchase, shared with your family) • TOWER STACK (NEW) — tap to drop the sliding block and build as high as you can. Overhangs get sliced off; land it dead centre for a Perfect. Chill and Normal modes. • POCKET PET — adopt a pixel-art pal: a puppy, kitten, bunny, turtle, dragon or fox. Feed it, give it a bubble bath, play Bounce and Peekaboo for coins, and spend them on toys, homes and garden decor. Your pal naps while you're away and is happy to see you when you come back. • GEM SWAP — a match-3 with a hundred levels. Swap gems to line up three; four makes a blaster, five a rainbow gem, an L a bomb. Score targets, colours to collect and ice to melt, three stars each, plus a Zen mode with no moves and no clock. • ROAD HOP — tap to hop, swipe to dodge. Cross roads, railways and rivers in a bright 3D world, and spend the coins you pick up on thirteen characters, from a frog to a penguin. Chill mode for little ones, Normal for the brave. • BLOCK BURST — drag pieces onto the board and fill rows or columns to burst them. Classic mode is endless and autosaves; Levels mode has a hundred boards of gem blocks to clear, three stars each. • MANCALA — the classic stone-sowing game with glowing glass gems. Land your last stone in your store for another turn, capture across the board, and outsmart the computer on Easy, Normal or Hard, or pass the phone to a friend. • STACK SMASH — a carnival knock-down. Fire the cannon and topple every tower of cans before your balls run out. Earn coins for boosters as you climb. Nothing to buy with money, ever. • TINY TOWN — your own pocket farm. Sweep a sickle across ripe fields, drag seeds to sow whole rows, bake bread, milk the cow and deliver orders to level up. Crops keep growing while you're away. • FRUIT MERGE — Drop glowing fruit into the well and match two of a kind to grow the next one. Merge all the way up to the melon to win. Three difficulties. • COLORING — A coloring book and drawing pad: 55 pages in 9 themes, crayons, markers, a paint bucket, stickers, and your own photos turned into coloring pages. • SPACE SHOOTER — Drag to fly, fire automatically, grab power-ups, and unlock new ships in the hangar with the coins you earn. • SNAKE — Slither around a bright arena, eat orbs to grow, slice smaller snakes, and climb the leaderboard. Three difficulties, eight colors. • CONNECT 4 — drop glowing discs and line up four against a computer that plans ahead, or two players on one device. • TIC TAC TOE — three in a row on a neon board. Easy, Normal or Hard, or pass the phone in 2 player mode! • NEW GAMES — any new games we add to the library will automatically be included if you already purchased the Arcade Pack. WHY PARENTS LOVE IT • No ads. No pop-ups. No "watch a video to continue." Ever! • No tracking, no analytics, no accounts, no sign-ups. • Works fully offline and private. • One optional purchase through Apple, with Ask to Buy for kids' accounts. No subscriptions, no coins. • One sound switch for the whole app, for quiet time. Made by a parent who was tired of their kid getting blasted with ads. TEN calm, fun, ad-free games. That's it.

Screenshots

Neon Simon4 screens
Ad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ad at none against Neon Simon's 2. Neon Simon's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Neon Simon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Ad asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Neon Simon ships an update every 2 days, Ad every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Neon Simon versus Ad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNeon SimonAd
PriceFreeFree
Rating—3.8 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings—8 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterEvery 3 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB64 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTaiga YanaiOne Light Media LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Neon Simon

One-time1
  • Remove Ads (Permanent)2 variants$1.99
None

Ad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Neon Simon free?
Neon Simon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ad free?
Ad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Neon Simon or Ad have ads?
Neither Neon Simon nor Ad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Neon Simon or Ad?
Neon Simon ships an update every 2 days, and Ad every 3 days. Most recently, Neon Simon was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ad on October 25, 2026.

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