Comparison

Sky High vs Drop Balance

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

Head to head
About

Sky High

Features
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Drop blocks from a swinging crane and build the tallest tower in the world โ€” from the dusk city skyline, past the clouds, all the way to space. HOW HIGH CAN YOU GO? โ€ข One tap to drop โ€” land dead-center for PERFECT combos โ€ข 5 perfect drops in a row ignites FEVER โ€” triple points until you miss โ€ข Real physics: every block tilts, slides and wobbles FOUR WAYS TO PLAY โ€ข EASY โ€” straight drops, pure aim โ€ข NORMAL โ€” blocks keep the crane's momentum (ร—1.5 score) โ€ข HARD โ€” momentum plus wind gusts (ร—2 score) โ€ข DAILY โ€” one fixed challenge per day, the same wind for every player on Earth A LIVING SKY Eagles glide past your tower, jets cross the sunset, and near the edge of space a curious UFO comes to inspect your work. The sky fades from dusk to stars as you climb. COMPETE GLOBALLY Pick a nickname and race for the top of the worldwide leaderboard in every mode โ€” plus a fresh daily board. MAKE IT YOURS Unlock block skins (Neon, Midnight, Gold), new cranes (UFO tractor beam, hot-air balloon) and skies (Night, Snow). SECOND CHANCES Revive your tower, re-drop a block you misplaced, straighten a leaning stack or slow the crane down when it really matters. Free to play. One thumb. Infinitely tall.

About

Drop Balance

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Drop Balance is a physics puzzle about weight. A beam rests on a pivot. You are handed a few shapes โ€” a block of wood, a bar of iron, a pane of glass, a bag of sand โ€” and one question: where does each one go, so that the beam still holds level when the last piece lands? Nothing here is on rails. Every drop is simulated. Things roll, slide, shatter, tip and settle, and a piece that ends up somewhere you did not intend is a piece you dropped from the wrong place. Learn what a material does and a level that looked impossible becomes obvious. WHAT'S INSIDE โ€ข 300 campaign levels across seven worlds, from a first gentle drop to genuinely hard โ€ข 11 themed packs of 30 levels each โ€” three of them free โ€ข A new Daily Drop every day, with streaks โ€ข Endless: stack as high as you dare โ€ข Zen: no timer, no fail, just the beam SEVENTEEN MATERIALS, EACH WITH ITS OWN RULE Iron weighs six times what wood does for the same size. Foam fills space and weighs almost nothing โ€” bulk is not ballast. Glass shatters on a hard landing. Ice slides off anything that is not level. A balloon is weight that pulls upward. Sand keeps its shape if you set it down and collapses into low ballast if you slam it โ€” and both of those are answers. A magnet leans the beam toward itself. A bomb clears what is beside it, once. Hold any piece in the tray and the game tells you what it is, what it weighs, and what it will do. SKILL, NOT LUCK A centre-of-mass guide shows which way the beam will lean before you commit. A drop preview shows where the piece will actually land โ€” on top of the stack, not through it. Three stars for a solve that is clean, steady and quick, and the win screen keeps a picture of the arrangement that worked, so you can see what you did. STANDINGS Join the daily board and see where today's solve lands against everyone else's. Or don't โ€” the puzzles are identical either way, and you can leave at any time. PREMIUM Drop Balance is free to play, with ads. One purchase removes the ads and opens all eight paid packs โ€” the ones released and the ones still to come. No subscription. No energy timers. Nothing to wait for.

Screenshots

Sky High3 screens
Drop Balance4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sky High at none against Drop Balance's 1. Sky High also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Drop Balance sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sky High asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Sky High versus Drop Balance: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSky HighDrop Balance
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeeklyโ€”
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size25 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJamel KhalifaMJK APPS SRL

In-app purchases

None

Sky High

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Drop Balance

One-time1
  • Premium$6.99

Questions

Is Sky High free?
Sky High is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Drop Balance free?
Drop Balance is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sky High or Drop Balance have ads?
Both Sky High and Drop Balance show ads.

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