Comparison

Paintlet vs Tugloon

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

Head to head
About

Paintlet

Engage in a relaxing color sorting puzzle game where you match paint colors and bring order to tubes. With thousands of levels and helpful boosters, it offers a calm yet challenging brain-training experience.

Highlights
  • Relaxing color sorting gameplay
  • 2,000 handcrafted levels
  • Undo, Shuffle, and Extra Tube boosters
  • Daily and welcome rewards
  • Lives system for short sessions
  • Premium themed worlds
  • Multi-language support
Features
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Sort colorful paint tubes in Paintlet, a relaxing color sorting puzzle that blends satisfying moves with light logic and brain training. Match each color, plan every pour, and bring order to every tube. Explore 2,000 handcrafted free levels across the main journey. When a puzzle gets tricky, use Undo, Shuffle, or Extra Tube to keep your solution moving. FEATURES • Relaxing paint and color sorting gameplay • 2,000 handcrafted free tube puzzles • Undo, Shuffle, and Extra Tube boosters • Daily rewards and welcome rewards • Lives system designed for short, satisfying sessions • Premium Museums, Cities, and Countries worlds • Colorful visual effects and hidden, covered, and mixed paint challenges • Play in English, Turkish, Spanish, or Japanese Whether you want a quick logic puzzle or a longer brain-training session, Paintlet offers a calm and colorful challenge. Start sorting the paint and perfect every tube.

About

Tugloon

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You don't steer the balloon — you hold the end of its string. Tugloon is a one-thumb reflex game with a twist you feel in your fingers. Press and drag anywhere, and the balloon follows the string with a soft, swinging delay. Learning that delay is the whole game. Slip through the gaps in drifting cloud bars. Hit a gap dead-center for a Perfect and stack your combo multiplier. Miss the wall by a hair, ride the swing, and keep climbing. The higher you go, the more the sky changes — morning, golden hour, twilight, night under the stars, and the rare shimmering aurora. Each one paints the whole screen. FEATURES • Pendulum control: press, drag, swing — easy to try, hard to master • Perfect passes and combo multipliers reward precision • 5 living skies as you climb higher • 16 badges to earn and 5 balloons to unlock • Daily Run: the same course for everyone, every day • English and Turkish • Plays offline — no account needed Take hold of the string and see how high you can climb.

Screenshots

Paintlet4 screens
Tugloon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tugloon at none against Paintlet's 9. Tugloon also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads and device support 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. Paintlet sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Tugloon asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Paintlet ships an update fortnightly, Tugloon every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Paintlet versus Tugloon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPaintletTugloon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB7 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperDENIZ ECE KARAAL ISILOGLUTaha CIMEN

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Paintlet

One-time9
  • Small Coin Pack$1.99
  • Premium Museums$2.99
  • Medium Coin Pack$3.99
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  • Premium Cities$3.99
  • Premium Countries$4.99
  • Large Coin Pack$7.99
  • Limitless Boosters$9.99
  • XL Coin Pack$14.99
  • Combo Coin Pack$19.99
None

Tugloon

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Paintlet free?
Paintlet is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tugloon free?
Tugloon is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Paintlet or Tugloon have ads?
Both Paintlet and Tugloon show ads.
Which is updated more often, Paintlet or Tugloon?
Paintlet ships an update fortnightly, and Tugloon every 4 days. Most recently, Paintlet was updated on October 3, 2026 and Tugloon on October 2, 2026.

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