Color Drain Hole vs Beaker Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Drain Hole
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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?
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
Color Drain Hole ships an update every 3 days, Beaker Lab daily. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Color Drain Hole | Beaker Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 146 MB | 71 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mari Shana Tongco | Gaetano Di Fabio |
In-app purchases
Color Drain Hole
- Remove Ads$2.99
Beaker Lab
- 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
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