Comparison

Merge Stack vs Bubble Swing

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

Head to head
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Merge Stack

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Slide. Merge. Pop! Merge Stack: Color Block is the satisfying color puzzle that's easy to learn and hard to put down. Swipe to slide the blocks across the board, line up matching colors, and stack five of the same color to make them burst. One clean rule, endless clever moves. Every swipe shifts the whole board, so the fun is in planning ahead. Set up chains, clear crowded columns, and keep your grid open for the next move. Simple to pick up, tricky to master.

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Bubble Swing

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Bubble Swing: Extreme is a fun physics puzzle game for all ages - a bubble shooter where timing, not aiming, decides everything. You don't aim. You let go. A bubble hangs from a crane on a swinging chain. It is moving before you touch the screen and it will keep moving after. Swipe to cut, and everything that happens next was decided in the instant you chose - the speed it had, the angle it was travelling, the wall it will glance off on the way down. Cut a moment early and it falls short. A moment late and it sails past. There is no aiming line, no dotted arc, no second chance. There is a pendulum and there is your timing, and the whole game lives in the gap between them. THE PILE GROWS THE WRONG WAY Forget everything a bubble shooter taught you. Here the bubbles stack up from the floor, and they hang off it - cut a group's last link to the ground and the whole cluster tears away and falls out of the level. Learn to read the pile from underneath and you can drop half a board with one bubble. AND IT IS COMING FOR YOU A crane is winching the whole platform upward, one row at a time, toward a line you must not cross. You get a warning: a few seconds of the pile shuddering before it lifts. A few seconds to find a shot, or to spend something. SIX THINGS TO SPEND A bomb that clears everything it touches. A saw that shears straight through the pile and keeps falling. Electricity that leaps between neighbours whatever their colour. A teleport that hunts every bubble sharing a colour with what it lands against. A one-ton weight that slams the platform back down a row. And a sniper scope that masks the screen to a single hole you walk across the board by tilting the phone. HUNDREDS OF BOARDS, AND THEY ARE NOT RANDOM They were drawn. Flags, fruit, faces, mosaics, geometry, and one board with a hungry mouth left open, waiting to be fed. Every one of them is a picture before it is a puzzle, and every one can be taken apart if you find the right thread to pull. Reach the end and the game does not stop. It folds back and keeps counting, and the number on your screen keeps climbing. ALSO INSIDE - Game Center leaderboard and achievements, several of them genuinely hard - Tilt controls for the scope and the parachute - Picks up exactly where you left off, even if the app was closed mid-swing - Universal - iPhone and iPad Bubble Swing: Extreme - a fun, fast puzzle game built on physics, timing, and a pile that will not wait. Easy to pick up, hard to put down.

Screenshots

Merge Stack4 screens
Bubble Swing4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Merge Stack at none against Bubble Swing's 4. Bubble Swing's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price 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. Bubble Swing sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Merge Stack asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Merge Stack versus Bubble Swing: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMerge StackBubble Swing
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsโ€”
AdsYesNo โ€” better
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size238 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKite GamesElad Ben Refael

In-app purchases

None

Merge Stack

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Bubble Swing

One-time4
  • Mini Pack$0.99
  • Ultra Pack$1.99
  • Extreme Pack$3.99
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  • WOW Pack$9.99

Questions

Is Merge Stack free?
Merge Stack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bubble Swing free?
Bubble Swing is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Merge Stack or Bubble Swing have ads?
Merge Stack shows ads; Bubble Swing does not.

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