Comparison

Taploom vs Kitty on the Run

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

Kitty on the Run

Features
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Kitty on the Run is a fast-paced Apple Watch platform adventure starring an energetic orange tabby. Tap for a short jump, or press and hold to leap higher and farther. Turn the Digital Crown for a regular jump. Race across cat towers and rooftops, explore basements, choose upper and lower paths, and avoid lakes, dogs, rolling yarn balls, and other surprises. The adventure changes as your score grows. Climb foggy mountains with spring shoes, race downhill, cross gaps on jumping fish, and carefully time your jumps through a sky route filled with flying fish. Features: • Made for Apple Watch • Short-tap and long-press jump controls • Digital Crown jump control • Randomized platforms and obstacles • Rooftops, basements, lakes, mountains, clouds, and multiple routes • Sunrise, morning, afternoon, sunset, and night backgrounds • Local top-three scoreboard • No ads, accounts, tracking, or in-app purchases How far can your orange tabby run?

Screenshots

Taploom4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Kitty on the Run at every 9 days against Taploom's every 3 weeks. Kitty on the Run also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Taploom ships an update every 3 weeks, Kitty on the Run every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Taploom versus Kitty on the Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTaploomKitty on the Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB3 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperCylandea Systems LLCChieh-Hao Yang

In-app purchases

None

Taploom

No in-app purchases

None

Kitty on the Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Taploom free?
Taploom is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kitty on the Run free?
Kitty on the Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Taploom or Kitty on the Run have ads?
Neither Taploom nor Kitty on the Run shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Taploom or Kitty on the Run?
Taploom ships an update every 3 weeks, and Kitty on the Run every 9 days. Most recently, Taploom was updated on October 16, 2026 and Kitty on the Run on October 29, 2026.

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