Comparison

Color Drain Hole vs Beaker Lab

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

Head to head
About

Color Drain Hole

Features
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Color Drain Hole is a colorful casual arcade game where quick reactions and smart choices keep you alive! Control a hungry hole and absorb cubes that match your current color. Every correct cube increases your score, builds your combo, and helps your hole collect more cubes. But beware, absorbing the wrong color increases your danger, shrinks your hole, and can quickly end your run. The color of your hole keeps changing, so you will need to stay alert, move swiftly, and choose the right cubes before time runs out. Grab shiny cubes, trigger Color Rush, build high combos, and chase your best score in a bright and satisfying challenge. Features: • Simple and satisfying mobile gameplay • Color-matching hole to cube arcade action • Fast rounds perfect for quick play sessions • Combos, score multipliers, and high-score chasing • Shiny cubes and Color Rush moments • Bright colorful visuals and smooth cube-draining effects • Exciting combo rewards to keep each run satisfying Can you drain the right colors, avoid the wrong ones, and beat your best score?

About

Beaker Lab

A relaxing puzzle game where you mix and sort glowing liquids in beakers. Plan your pours to create new colors and fill each beaker with a single hue before corking it. Compete with friends and join teams for weekly challenges.

Highlights
  • Color mixing and sorting puzzles
  • Team-based weekly goals
  • Real-feeling liquid physics
  • No timers on regular levels
  • Daily and weekly challenges
  • Unlockable color and food packs
  • Hints and undo options
Features
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Pour it, mix it, cork it. Beaker Lab is a relaxing color-sorting puzzle with a science twist. Pour glowing liquids between glass beakers until every beaker holds a single color, then cork it. MIX NEW COLORS Pour red into yellow and it turns orange. Yellow and blue make green. Red and blue make purple. Mixing is part of the puzzle, so plan your pours. PLAY WITH FRIENDS • Lab Teams: every puzzle you solve counts toward a shared weekly goal • See the top teams every week • Challenge a friend to beat your moves on any level • Invite friends and you both get a free color pack • Game Center leaderboards and achievements REAL-FEELING LIQUID Glossy, see-through liquid sloshes and settles the way real liquid does. Hear the fill, the clink of glass and the pop of the cork. PLAY AT YOUR PACE No timers on regular levels. Pick it up for one level or twenty. Every few levels, a bonus round pays extra Beaker Bucks: race the clock in Beaker Blitz, or cork as many beakers as you can in Cork Frenzy. FEATURES • Endless free levels that keep getting harder • Super Solve: stuck? Let the lab solve the level for you • A daily puzzle and a weekly challenge • A slide-puzzle toy that fills up as you win • Lab Events every few days with prizes • Hard levels that pay double, with boosters when you want them • Frozen and locked beakers to outsmart • Home-screen widget for your streak and today's puzzle • Hints and undo when you're stuck • Earn Beaker Bucks as you play and spend them on hints, undos, extra moves and more • 30+ color packs, each with its own matching app icon • Food packs that look real: Soda Fountain, Jelly Jar, Hot Sauce, Icing, Pie Filling, Beer Brews and Condiments • Holiday packs: Spooky Brews, Candy Cane, Sweetheart, Lucky Clover, Spring Eggs and Firecracker • Light and dark mode • Plays on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch, with progress synced through iCloud The Everything Pack is a one-time purchase that unlocks every color pack, removes the ads between levels, and gives daily hints, undos and perks, plus 2,500 Beaker Bucks. Remove Ads is also available on its own.

Screenshots

Color Drain Hole4 screens
Beaker Lab4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Beaker Lab at daily against Color Drain Hole's every 3 days. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Color Drain Hole sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Beaker Lab sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Color Drain Hole ships an update every 3 days, Beaker Lab daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Color Drain Hole versus Beaker Lab: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor Drain HoleBeaker Lab
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB71 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMari Shana TongcoGaetano Di Fabio

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Color Drain Hole

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
10 purchases

Beaker Lab

One-time10
  • Spark Pack$0.99
  • Prize Road step$1.99
  • Super Solve 3-Pack$1.99
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  • Lab Complete Bundle$2.99
  • Lab Pass Plus$4.99
  • Prize Road step$4.99
  • Best Value Bundle$4.99
  • Color Lab$4.99
  • Lab Pass Premium$9.99
  • Prize Road step$9.99

Questions

Is Color Drain Hole free?
Color Drain Hole is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Beaker Lab free?
Beaker Lab is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Color Drain Hole or Beaker Lab have ads?
Both Color Drain Hole and Beaker Lab show ads.
Which is updated more often, Color Drain Hole or Beaker Lab?
Color Drain Hole ships an update every 3 days, and Beaker Lab daily. Most recently, Color Drain Hole was updated on October 24, 2026 and Beaker Lab on October 24, 2026.

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