Comparison

Ringdown vs InkTower

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

InkTower

Engage in a unique idle tower defense game where you draw defenses and weapons in a hand-sketched notebook. Upgrade your arsenal and research new abilities to fend off doodle monsters and progress through different pages.

Highlights
  • Draw walls and cross out enemies
  • 8 unique doodled weapons
  • Skill tree with live previews
  • Page-based progression with events
  • Customizable towers with earned drawings
  • Monthly leaderboards and leagues
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Someone is drawing monsters in the margins. You drew a tower. InkTower is an idle tower defense sketched entirely in ballpoint pen in a school notebook. Every enemy, every explosion, every upgrade — hand-drawn doodles, redrawn live on every frame. DRAW TO FIGHT Sketch a wall with your finger to block the horde. Cross out a monster to hit it. Circle a spot to leave sticky ink. The tower shoots on its own — the page is where you help. BUILD YOUR ARSENAL Rockets, chain lightning, a circling saw blade, a harpoon, a flame ring, a spotlight, a death ray, a railgun — 8 weapons doodled around one stubborn tower, each with its own research branch. A SKILL TREE, NOT A LIST The lab is a tree with a live preview on every node. Overdrives, weapons bolted on from wave one, transformations that change how a weapon behaves. Research ticks in real time, even while the notebook is closed. THE MARGINS FIGHT BACK Blots, paper planes, a coffee stain that keeps growing, a UFO beaming down little blobs, a skull with a propeller that flies over your walls. Named page bosses: the Mother Blot, the Drummer Octopus, the Compass Spider, the Phoenix that gets back up once. TURN THE PAGE Survive deep enough and the notebook flips to a new page — tougher monsters, page events, and margin notes that tell the story of one very long school year. THE ALBUM AND PAGE GRADES Earn a sheet by playing, trace the dotted stencil with your finger, and the tower goes into battle wearing your drawing: hull, barrel, saw blades, rockets, 17 parts in all. The teacher stamps it ACCEPTED. Looks only, never a point of damage. The teacher also marks every page: PASSED, B, A, A+. Each mark pays gems and adds +0.5% damage and health for good, and every one of them goes on your REPORT CARD. MONTHLY LEADERBOARD Sign your notebook, and every run that reaches wave 15 goes on the board by itself. One table for the whole season: climb the top of all players and win gems. NO NONSENSE Ads are optional and never forced. No pay-to-win: gems buy research time, never damage. Coins and ink are never for sale.

Screenshots

Ringdown4 screens
InkTower4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ringdown at none against InkTower's shown. InkTower's advantage is iOS requirement (15.4 vs 26.2). On price, update cadence, 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. Ringdown sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and InkTower sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ringdown ships an update every 8 days, InkTower every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Ringdown versus InkTower: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRingdownInkTower
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.215.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size99 MB28 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperIronic Thought ltdAliaksandr Yanukovich

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ringdown

One-time1
  • Ringdown — Full Version$3.99
7 purchases

InkTower

One-time7
  • 60 Gems$1.99
  • Starter Pack$2.99
  • No Videos$4.99
Show 4 more
  • 180 Gems — Good Deal$4.99
  • Second Desk in the Lab$4.99
  • Speed x3 Forever$5.99
  • 450 Gems$9.99

Questions

Is Ringdown free?
Ringdown is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is InkTower free?
InkTower is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ringdown or InkTower have ads?
InkTower shows ads; Ringdown does not.
Which is updated more often, Ringdown or InkTower?
Ringdown ships an update every 8 days, and InkTower every 2 weeks. Most recently, Ringdown was updated on October 24, 2026 and InkTower on November 6, 2026.

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