Comparison

GEM Matching Game vs Gem Falls

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

Head to head
About

GEM Matching Game

Features
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GEM Match is a bright, satisfying match-3 puzzle. Swap adjacent gems to line up three or more of the same color, clear them, and watch the cascades chain into big combos. Easy to pick up, endlessly replayable — now with coins and power-ups. HOW TO PLAY • Swap two adjacent gems to make a row or column of 3 or more. • Matched gems clear and new ones cascade in — chain combos for bonus points. • Endless: play as long as you can make matches. • Limited: a fixed number of moves — go for your best score. COINS & POWER-UPS • Earn coins by triggering cascades. • Spend them on power-ups: Hint, Shuffle, +3 Moves, Hammer, Bomb, and Color Zap. • Your coins sync across your Apple devices with iCloud — restore them anytime from Settings. WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT • Smooth, tactile swapping with chunky, colorful gems. • Combo cascades that keep the points rolling. • Two modes: relaxed Endless or challenge-focused Limited. • Power-ups to break tricky boards and push your high score. • Quick to start, perfect for one more round. • No account or sign-up required. Swap, match, and chase your high score!

About

Gem Falls

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Match three or more, watch the cascade take the rest, and keep going. Gemfall is an endless match-3 built for picking up and putting down. Every level asks for something different. Clear a colour, break through the ice, bring the cargo home. And when you close the app mid-run, the board, the score and your powerups are waiting exactly as you left them. No timer running against your day, no lives to wait for, no move you have to make right now. FOURTEEN WORLDS Every level is set somewhere, and where never changes: level two is a Maya temple in the jungle, level four is a dead valley under an erupting volcano, and they will be next time too. A wreck on the sea floor. A sweet factory. A frozen kingdom, a haunted mansion, a marble gate in the clouds, a garden at sunset, a gorge full of waterfalls, a toy box at the end of the afternoon, a fjord under the northern lights. Each world has its own six pieces, its own board, and its own weather in the air above it. CLASSIC Endless levels, each with its own objective. Chain your matches to build heat, and every gem on the board is worth more while it lasts. Clear the level, fall through the warp, and the next one asks a little more of you. TIME ATTACK Sixty seconds. Every match buys you a few more. See how far you can stretch the clock. POWER GEMS Four in a row makes a gem that clears a whole line. An L or a T makes one that blows a hole in the board. Five in a row makes the star. The rarest piece in the game and worth waiting for. Put two power gems together and the board comes apart. ICE, STONE AND CARGO Later levels do not just hand you the board. Ice freezes gems in place until you break the shell. Stone blocks take repeated knocks. Cargo has to be walked all the way to the bottom before it counts. FAIR BY DESIGN Ā· Free. No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no ads. Nothing is locked behind a paywall, because there is no paywall. Ā· Fully playable offline. Ā· Nothing is collected. No analytics, no tracking, no account, no sign-up. Your run lives on your phone and nowhere else. Ā· The six gems differ in shape as well as in colour, so they stay apart if you do not see colour the way most people do. GAME CENTER Sign in to Game Center and your best Classic and Time Attack scores go on Apple's global leaderboards. Skip it and the game plays exactly the same, minus a rank. Gemfall is built from scratch in Swift for iPhone, rebuilt from the browser game of the same name. iPhone, portrait, iOS 18 or later.

Screenshots

GEM Matching Game4 screens
Gem Falls4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Gem Falls at none against GEM Matching Game's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GEM Matching Game ships an update every 4 days, Gem Falls weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
GEM Matching Game versus Gem Falls: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGEM Matching GameGem Falls
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB51 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJoshua GibsonSandrino Kelders

In-app purchases

None

GEM Matching Game

No in-app purchases

None

Gem Falls

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GEM Matching Game free?
GEM Matching Game is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gem Falls free?
Gem Falls is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do GEM Matching Game or Gem Falls have ads?
GEM Matching Game shows ads; Gem Falls does not.
Which is updated more often, GEM Matching Game or Gem Falls?
GEM Matching Game ships an update every 4 days, and Gem Falls weekly. Most recently, GEM Matching Game was updated on October 24, 2026 and Gem Falls on October 8, 2026.

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