Comparison

Drift vs PULSE1

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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?

About

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.

Highlights
  • One-finger control
  • Short, engaging runs
  • Infinitely climbing difficulty
  • Mutators for varied gameplay
  • Combo multiplier system
  • Global leaderboards
  • Haptic feedback
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Drift4 screens
PULSE14 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Drift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PULSE1 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Drift ships an update daily, PULSE1 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on July 31, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Drift versus PULSE1: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDriftPULSE1
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBrandon WrightEran Gilad

Customer experience

Drift

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

PULSE1

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Drift

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
None

PULSE1

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Drift free?
Drift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is PULSE1 free?
PULSE1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Drift or PULSE1?
Drift and PULSE1 are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Drift or PULSE1 have ads?
Both Drift and PULSE1 show ads.
Which is updated more often, Drift or PULSE1?
Drift ships an update daily, and PULSE1 every 2 weeks. Most recently, Drift was updated on July 31, 2026 and PULSE1 on September 18, 2026.

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