Comparison

Taploom vs In Two Lights

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

In Two Lights

Features
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A sculpture hangs in the corner of a dark room. Two lights. Two walls. Two shadows that refuse to agree. Turn it until both shadows land on their targets at once. Fix one and you break the other — the answer is the single position where both are true. No timers. No lives. No tutorial text. The room teaches you, and it hums as you close in. • 247 rooms across thirteen chapters • Endless mode — rooms generated on your device, running as deep as you want to go • Sculptures that look like nothing, until scattered fragments resolve into a duck, a cat, a moth • A daily room — the same puzzle for everyone, every day • The Workshop: stop finding the answer and start building it • Stars for precision, never for speed Play it slowly. It rewards that.

Screenshots

Taploom4 screens
In Two Lights4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Taploom at none against In Two Lights's 1. In Two Lights's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). 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. In Two Lights sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Taploom asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Taploom versus In Two Lights: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaploomIn Two Lights
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCylandea Systems LLCJheremiah Figueroa

In-app purchases

None

Taploom

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

In Two Lights

One-time1
  • All Chapters$2.99

Questions

Is Taploom free?
Taploom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is In Two Lights free?
In Two Lights is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Taploom or In Two Lights have ads?
Neither Taploom nor In Two Lights shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Taploom or In Two Lights?
Taploom ships an update every 3 weeks, and In Two Lights every 3 weeks. Most recently, Taploom was updated on October 16, 2026 and In Two Lights on October 12, 2026.

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