Comparison

Bubbles vs Swarm Dodge

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

Head to head
About

Bubbles

Features
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Increase your reflexes by blowing up Bubbles! Beware, it goes faster and faster! You must keep rythm ever increasing. Stay alert! The best score and the last score are recorded. The Magic Bubble can sometimes save you by blowing up all Bubbles in one touch. Share your score online and try to stay in the world ranking. So, you can compete with players around the World! Have Fun! ••• Game Features ••• • Optimized for iPhone5 • Graphics are very fun • Develop your reflexes • The difficulty ever increases • Upload your Score and enter in the World Ranking

About

Swarm Dodge

A minimalist survival game where players must evade swarming enemies and environmental hazards. Survive for as long as possible, master movement, and adapt to changing rules with unique modifiers. Features 100 levels, daily challenges, and customizable skins.

Highlights
  • Evasion-based survival gameplay
  • Dynamic rule-changing modifiers
  • 100 challenging levels
  • Daily challenges with leaderboards
  • Collectible and customizable skins
  • Global Game Center leaderboards
Features
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YOU ARE THE PREY. THE ARENA IS YOUR WEAPON. Swarm Dodge is a minimalist survival game where homing enemies hunt you down — and the only way to fight back is to make them chase you somewhere they should not go. Drag your finger to move. That is the whole control scheme. Simple to learn, nearly impossible to master. THE ARENA IS ON YOUR SIDE Spinning blades, electric fields, crushing walls, bounce bumpers and bottomless pits fill the arena. None of them can touch you. Every one of them will destroy anything that follows you in. Lure the swarm through a blade and you score. Chain kills together and the multiplier climbs to 5x. Hiding in a corner will keep you alive for a while. Hunting will win. THE RULES KEEP CHANGING Every 20 seconds the game stops and offers you three cards. Some are gifts — a shield that eats one hit, a shockwave that throws the swarm off you, a slow that brings them to a crawl. Some make life harder — fog, a swarm that clumps, blades that widen their reach. You have to take one. 100 LEVELS A hundred hand-tuned levels, each with its own layout of hazards and its own enemy count. Every level rates you out of three stars: clear it, hit the kill target, do it without a second chance. Blocked by a level you cannot beat? Stars you have already earned will open the way past it. You are never stuck for good. ENDLESS No levels. No timer. No end. Waves build, hazards multiply, and the run only stops when you do. Scored in points, so the best runs actually rank. DAILY CHALLENGE One arena, the same for every player on earth, changing every day at midnight UTC. Compete on the daily leaderboard, then come back tomorrow for a new one. LEADERBOARDS Prove you are the last one standing. COLLECT AND CUSTOMISE Eleven skins, each with its own trail and its own death. The rabbit kicks up dust. The fish blows bubbles. The bee sparks yellow. Buy them with coins you earn by playing, unlock them by reaching milestone levels — or earn the last two through pure skill: a 50-kill chain, and thirty stars. FAIR BY DESIGN No subscriptions. No energy meters. Swarm Dodge is free to play with ads. One single purchase removes them forever.

Screenshots

Bubbles4 screens
Swarm Dodge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bubbles at none against Swarm Dodge's 1. Bubbles also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Swarm Dodge's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 15 months). 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. Swarm Dodge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Bubbles asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bubbles ships an update every 15 months, Swarm Dodge every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Bubbles versus Swarm Dodge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBubblesSwarm Dodge
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—4 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDream-UpKridaLLC

In-app purchases

None

Bubbles

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Swarm Dodge

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Bubbles free?
Bubbles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Swarm Dodge free?
Swarm Dodge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bubbles or Swarm Dodge have ads?
Both Bubbles and Swarm Dodge show ads.
Which is updated more often, Bubbles or Swarm Dodge?
Bubbles ships an update every 15 months, and Swarm Dodge every 3 weeks. Most recently, Bubbles was updated on October 16, 2026 and Swarm Dodge on October 3, 2026.

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