Comparison

baut. vs Ringdown

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

Head to head
About

baut.

A minimalist arcade game testing your reflexes and timing. Survive increasingly difficult rounds with one-tap controls and unlock new visual themes. Compete for high scores and challenge friends on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Precision one-tap gameplay
  • Increasing difficulty
  • Unlockable visual themes
  • Minimalist visuals
  • High-score focused
  • Hardcore mode
  • Game Center Leaderboards
Features
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Fast reflexes. Precise timing. baut. is a minimalist arcade challenge built for quick sessions and instant retries. As the difficulty increases, surviving even a few more rounds becomes increasingly challenging. How far can you go? Game features: - Precision-based one-tap gameplay. - Increasing difficulty and dynamic movement. - Stylish unlockable visual themes. - Smooth minimalist visuals and satisfying effects. - High-score focused arcade gameplay. - Hardcore mode for an additional challenge. - Challenge your friends through Game Center Leaderboards.

About

Ringdown

Features
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Ringdown is a premium, tactile, no-ads switchboard puzzle game where you race to connect calls using coloured cables before callers lose patience and hang up. You’re the operator. The calls won’t stop. Featured in PocketGamer, who said: “It's rare you get such an excellent combination of simple gameplay and an interesting theme as Ringdown: Switchboard Puzzler… It's a simple but challenging offering that's a pretty exciting new launch". Ringdown is a beautifully crafted switchboard puzzle game about speed, focus, and controlled chaos. A brass lamp lights up. It shows two things: a colour and a number. Grab the matching cable, drag it to the right jack, and make the connection before the shrinking patience ring turns red. Answer fast and you build a combo. Pick the wrong port or let a caller hang up, and the shift starts slipping away. The longer you last, the harder it gets. The board fills up. Priority calls expire fast but pay double. Held calls tie up a line until they clear. And on squeeze shifts, there are more callers than cables, forcing you to free old lines before the next lamp turns red. Compete every day. Take on the Daily Challenge: the same board for everyone, every day. Chase your best score, climb the leaderboard, and compete with friends and players worldwide. Built to feel like the real thing. Ringdown isn’t a grid of flat buttons. The boards are richly detailed, the cables have weight, and every plug lands with a click you feel in your fingers, backed by period sound and haptics. What you get: • The 1960s Campaign: timed shifts that climb from quiet evenings to controlled chaos. • The Blitz: a second campaign set during the London air raids of 1940, with blackouts, bomb blasts, and things scuttling across the switchboard. An atmospheric thriller of a campaign. • Endless: one shift that keeps ramping until you crack. • Daily Challenge: the same board for everyone, every day. • Game Center leaderboards. • A trophy cabinet of career milestones. More campaigns are coming soon. Only one in-app purchase is required to unlock the full Ringdown experience, including premium campaigns, daily challenges and special limited-time events. Pay once. It’s yours. No ads. One in-app purchase. Nothing locked behind more money.

Screenshots

baut.4 screens
Ringdown4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: baut. at 17.0 against Ringdown's 26.2. 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. baut. sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Ringdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

baut. ships an update every 10 days, Ringdown every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on August 24, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
baut. versus Ringdown: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterbaut.Ringdown
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size113 MB91 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperRoberto Frias NerioIronic Thought ltd

In-app purchases

2 purchases

baut.

One-time2
  • 5 tokens$0.99
  • 15 tokens$1.99
1 purchases

Ringdown

One-time1
  • Ringdown — Full Version$3.99

Questions

Is baut. free?
baut. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ringdown free?
Ringdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do baut. or Ringdown have ads?
Neither baut. nor Ringdown shows ads.
Which is updated more often, baut. or Ringdown?
baut. ships an update every 10 days, and Ringdown every 5 days. Most recently, baut. was updated on August 24, 2026 and Ringdown on September 19, 2026.

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