Drift vs PULSE1
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Drift
Tap left or right to guide a falling ball through an endless, ever-changing tunnel. Instant retries and a unique daily challenge await. Compete for the deepest fall and unlock new visual worlds as you descend.
- One-touch controls
- Endless falling gameplay
- Instant retries
- Personal best line
- Daily challenge mode
- Procedurally generated tunnels
- Leaderboards and achievements
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Drift is falling — and the only way down is deeper. Tap left. Tap right. Thread the gap. That's the whole game. No tutorial, no upgrades, no waiting. Just you, an amber ball, and a tunnel that never ends. Every death is your fault — and every retry is instant. One tap and you're falling again before the sting wears off. YOUR BEST LINE Your record isn't a number on a menu. It's a glowing line drawn inside the tunnel at your deepest depth. Cross it and the whole screen turns gold. DAILY DRIFT One tunnel, one attempt, the same for every player on Earth. Miss a day, lose your streak. A NEW WORLD EVERY 1,000 METERS Cool blue gives way to violet, ember, then white-hot. The deeper you fall, the faster it gets — and past 800m, the walls start moving. GAME CENTER Two leaderboards: deepest drift ever, and today's Daily. Five milestone achievements from 500m to 10,000m. Drift is free, supported by ads. One small purchase removes them forever — and you keep the ad-free continues. How deep can you go?
PULSE1
This one-thumb arcade game challenges you to tap a sweeping pulse as it crosses a shrinking zone. Achieve higher tiers of heat with perfect timing, but one miss ends your run. Compete on global leaderboards and experience satisfying haptic feedback.
- One-finger control
- Short, engaging runs
- Infinitely climbing difficulty
- Mutators for varied gameplay
- Combo multiplier system
- Global leaderboards
- Haptic feedback
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PULSE1 is the one-thumb arcade game you'll open "just for one run" and look up twenty minutes later. A pulse sweeps around a ring. Tap when it crosses the zone. That's it — and that's the trap. Every hit shrinks the zone, reverses the sweep, and pushes your heat higher. Every ten hits the ring SHATTERS and you climb to the next tier — Ember, Kindling, Flicker, Flame, Blaze, Wildfire, Firestorm, Inferno, Meltdown... all the way up to Supernova, and tiers nobody has named yet. One miss ends the run. But PULSE1 always tells you exactly how close you were. 2° away. 3 from your record. You know you had it. You know the next run is the one. FEATURES • One-finger play — playable with your phone flat on a table • Runs of 1–3 minutes — perfect for a queue, an elevator, an excuse • Infinite heat — the difficulty never stops climbing • Mutators — twin pulses, phantom zones, flashpoints and reversals • Solar flares — rare golden zones worth 5x sparks • Combo system — perfect taps stack multipliers up to 5x • Top 100 leaderboards — see how hot the world burned • Haptic feedback on every hit, break, and heartbreak • Free forever — no purchases, no subscriptions, no paywall. Ever.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PULSE1 at none against Drift's 1. Drift's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, rating, ratings volume 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
Both are free to download. Drift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PULSE1 asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Drift against 5.0 for PULSE1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Drift ships an update daily, PULSE1 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 31, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Drift | PULSE1 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Wright | Eran Gilad |
Customer experience
Drift
PULSE1
In-app purchases
Drift
- Remove Ads$2.99
PULSE1
No in-app purchases





