Comparison

PULSE1 vs Sweet Stack

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

Head to head
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.

About

Sweet Stack

Features
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Tap cute tiles, collect three of a kind, and clear the whole stack! Sweet Stack is a cozy tile-matching puzzle with a mahjong-solitaire twist, full of strawberries, cupcakes, bunnies and pandas. • Tap a free tile to move it to your 7-slot tray — three of the same picture pop • Tiles covered from above, or blocked on both sides, have to wait: plan your moves • Match quickly in a row for combos • Earn up to 3 stars: clear it, don't use Continue, beat the goal time • Undo, Shuffle and Set-aside tools for tricky moments • 600 levels — every single one checked to be solvable without tools • Clear level 500 to unlock a second tile theme, Squishy Friends, and gold tile rims • A gentle start, then more layers and more pictures, with a Tricky level every 10 (every 5 from level 150) • Plays 100% offline — on planes, trains and anywhere without Wi-Fi Kind ads: no ads while you play, no ad right after a fail, and never an ad every level. One small purchase removes all ads for good. Privacy policy: https://appshin.app/sweet-stack/privacy/

Screenshots

PULSE14 screens
Sweet Stack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PULSE1 at none against Sweet Stack's 1. Sweet Stack's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sweet Stack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PULSE1 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PULSE1 ships an update every 2 weeks, Sweet Stack every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
PULSE1 versus Sweet Stack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPULSE1Sweet Stack
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEran GiladSEUNGHO SHIN

In-app purchases

None

PULSE1

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Sweet Stack

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is PULSE1 free?
PULSE1 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sweet Stack free?
Sweet Stack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do PULSE1 or Sweet Stack have ads?
Both PULSE1 and Sweet Stack show ads.
Which is updated more often, PULSE1 or Sweet Stack?
PULSE1 ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sweet Stack every 4 days. Most recently, PULSE1 was updated on October 31, 2026 and Sweet Stack on November 6, 2026.

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