PULSE1 vs Sweet Stack
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Sweet Stack
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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/
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Sweet Stack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. PULSE1 asks for nothing beyond the download.
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.
| Parameter | PULSE1 | Sweet Stack |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Eran Gilad | SEUNGHO SHIN |
In-app purchases
PULSE1
No in-app purchases
Sweet Stack
- Remove Ads$2.99









