Comparison

Ringdown vs Arrower

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

Head to head
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 and 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.

About

Arrower

Untangle a gridlock of arrows, each wanting to slide out to the edge. Solve puzzles by clearing the correct arrow first to reveal the path. Enjoy a calm, brain-bending logic experience with thousands of levels and daily challenges.

Highlights
  • 2,500 hand-tuned levels
  • Daily Challenge with streaks
  • Three-star scoring system
  • Holding tray and rule-bending twists
  • Four distinct themes
  • Offline play
  • No timers or lives
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Every arrow wants out. Only one path is clear. Arrower is a calm, brain-bending logic puzzle. Each arrow is a snake on the grid, pointing at the edge it wants to slide out through. But it can only leave if nothing is blocking its path. Clear the right arrow first and the board opens up. Clear the wrong one and you're stuck. Read the gridlock, find the order, set every arrow free. Simple to learn, deeply satisfying to solve. FEATURES • 10,000 hand-tuned levels across a campaign that grows with you • A fresh Daily Challenge every day, with streaks to keep • Weekly Gauntlet tournament - one shared procedurally-generated run, ranked by levels cleared • Zen mode - endless, no hearts, no stars, just flow • Three-star scoring - beat par moves and finish with hearts to spare • A holding tray and other twists that bend the rules as you climb • Booster suite and a streak shield to protect a hard-earned streak • Four hand-picked themes: Classic Parchment, Forest Calm, Midnight Ink, Golden Sand • Color-blind modes (deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia) and a reduce-motion option • Pinch to zoom and pan on larger boards • Satisfying sound and haptic feedback (toggle anytime) • Plays fully offline - no account, no sign-up NO PRESSURE No timers. No lives that lock you out. No nagging. Solve at your own pace, whenever you want a quiet mental reset. Free to play, with an optional one-time purchase to remove ads. Think you can clear all 10,000? Start untangling.

Screenshots

Ringdown4 screens
Arrower4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Arrower at none against Ringdown's 1. Arrower also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 6 weeks) and device support (3 vs 1). On price and ads 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. Ringdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Arrower asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ringdown ships an update every 6 weeks, Arrower every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Ringdown versus Arrower: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRingdownArrower
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.6 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—22 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.215.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB84 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperIronic Thought ltdHaileslassie Lilay Desalegn

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ringdown

One-time1
  • Ringdown — Full Version$3.99
None

Arrower

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ringdown free?
Ringdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arrower free?
Arrower is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ringdown or Arrower have ads?
Neither Ringdown nor Arrower shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ringdown or Arrower?
Ringdown ships an update every 6 weeks, and Arrower every 4 days. Most recently, Ringdown was updated on October 7, 2026 and Arrower on October 16, 2026.

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