Comparison

Taploom vs ECHO

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

Head to head
About

Taploom

A minimalist puzzle game where you tap tiles to create color ripples that drain the board. Plan your moves to chain reactions and solve each level efficiently. Features hand-crafted levels, a daily puzzle, and an endless mode.

Highlights
  • Minimalist ripple puzzle gameplay
  • 55 hand-crafted levels
  • Daily and endless puzzle modes
  • Built-in level editor
  • Three-star scoring system
  • One-handed play
Features
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Tap a tile. Watch the color ripple outward. Drain every tile on the board. ColorDrain is a minimalist puzzle game built around one simple idea: every tap sends a wave through the grid. Plan your taps, chain the reactions, and clear each board in as few moves as possible. HOW IT PLAYS You have a board of empty tiles. Each tap fills the tapped tile and ripples outward through its neighbors. Tiles, walls, mirrors, and other obstacles shape where the color can go. Your goal is to fill the entire board, and your score depends on how cleanly you do it. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT Most puzzle games ask you to match. ColorDrain asks you to plan. The same board can be solved in five taps or twenty, and finding the elegant solution feels like solving a tiny machine. FEATURES • 55 hand-crafted levels across 11 themed rows • A fresh daily puzzle, the same seed for every player worldwide • Endless mode with seeded levels you can replay • A built-in level editor for designing and saving your own puzzles • Three-star scoring rewards efficient solutions • Built one-handed for iPhone, fully portrait, no ads, no IAP A GROWING TOOLBOX Each row of levels introduces a new tile that changes how the ripple flows: • Amplifiers boost a tap into a long beam • Mirrors bend rays around corners • Bombs detonate when filled, taking neighbors with them • Teleporters warp the ripple to their partners on the same heading • Frozen barriers thaw under bomb blasts • Canals carry rays across long distances • Prisms burst light in all four directions • Locked tiles open only when surrounded • Infection tiles spread on their own once seeded • Heart tiles are the final puzzle: protect them, route around them, or finish them last BUILT FOR THE DEVICE Every action has a haptic. Every fill has a sound. Tap placement is precise enough to play with one thumb on the bus, and slow enough to think through on the couch. No accounts. No tracking. No internet required.

About

ECHO

Features
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Every digit you place echoes across the board. ECHO GRID is a fresh kind of logic puzzle about reading the ripples. Place digits 1-3 on a 5x5 board. Each digit sends an echo up, down, left and right, traveling as far as its own value and adding that value to every cell it passes through. Match the target sum of every row and column to clear the stage! SIMPLE TO LEARN, DEEP TO MASTER - One rule: place digits. You'll get it in a minute - A single digit affects several rows and columns at once - plan ahead - Every puzzle has exactly one solution. Pure logic, no guessing SPECIAL CELLS CHANGE EVERYTHING - Walls block echoes - Mirrors bend them 90 degrees - Amplifiers add +1 to passing echoes The same 5x5 board feels completely different with each combination. PLENTY TO PLAY - 100 stages, stepping up from basics to walls, mirrors, amplifiers and beyond - No locks - jump straight to any stage you like - A Daily Challenge shared by players worldwide, with streaks and lifetime stats THINK AT YOUR OWN PACE - Long-press any cell to see exactly which echoes reach it and from where - Stuck? A hint corrects just one cell - Calm neon visuals and soft, soothing sound PERFECT FOR - Fans of sudoku-style and logic puzzles - Short brain workouts on your commute - Quiet, focused play before bed - works offline Available in English and Japanese. Listen to the echoes. One digit changes the whole board.

Screenshots

Taploom4 screens
ECHO4 screens

Verdict

The call

Taploom and ECHO are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Taploom versus ECHO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaploomECHO
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB101 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCylandea Systems LLCwapon Inc.

In-app purchases

None

Taploom

No in-app purchases

None

ECHO

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Taploom free?
Taploom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ECHO free?
ECHO is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Taploom or ECHO have ads?
Neither Taploom nor ECHO shows ads.

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