Comparison

Taploom vs Tilewright

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

Tilewright

Features
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Every seam agrees. Tilewright is a calm, cozy tile puzzle. Rebuild beautiful hand-drawn boards — winding rivers, blooming meadows, old railways, buzzing circuit boards — one tile at a time. Two tiles may sit side by side only when their touching edges match: that single rule is the whole game. NINE WORLDS TO RESTORE From the gentle Zen Garden to the dense traces of Circuit City — 216 levels across nine hand-drawn worlds, each with its own art and mood. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY • Restore — place every tile so all seams agree • Pathways — fill the board and connect the banners by road • Untangle — rotate tiles until the picture flows • Masterpiece Dominoes — rebuild famous paintings pair by pair • Warden — mend the fences and keep every creature safely enclosed A DAILY RITUAL One shared puzzle for every player, every day, with streaks to keep. Come back tomorrow. MADE TO RELAX No ads, no accounts, no pressure. A kids-friendly Sprout tier keeps little puzzlers happy, and reduced-motion settings are respected throughout. Works completely offline; optional anonymous backup keeps your stars safe. Every puzzle is generated from a fully solved board, so a solution always exists. If you enjoy sudoku, you'll feel at home: every placement is a deduction, and the board always has an answer.

Screenshots

Taploom4 screens
Tilewright4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tilewright at 12.0 against Taploom's 16.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 8, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Taploom versus Tilewright: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaploomTilewright
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB47 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCylandea Systems LLCPimsoft Idea Team

In-app purchases

None

Taploom

No in-app purchases

None

Tilewright

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Taploom free?
Taploom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tilewright free?
Tilewright is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Taploom or Tilewright have ads?
Neither Taploom nor Tilewright shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Taploom or Tilewright?
Taploom ships an update every 3 weeks, and Tilewright every 3 weeks. Most recently, Taploom was updated on July 8, 2026 and Tilewright on September 15, 2026.

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