Comparison

Dots vs Threadbreaker

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

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About

Dots

Features
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Drag your finger between dots of the same colour and watch the board come apart in cascades. Easy to understand in ten seconds, hard to put down: Dots is a relaxed dot-connecting puzzle with one-minute games and a 10,000-level path for when you want something longer. HOW TO PLAY Drag between neighbouring dots of the same colour and let go to clear them. Close a square and EVERY dot of that colour disappears from the board — that's the move that wins games. Gaps refill from the top, so there is always one more move. 8 GAME MODES • Quick game: one minute, the highest score you can get. • Colour Fusion: mix colours to create new ones. • Energy Nodes: long chains that charge up the board. • Pure Geometry: only squares score here. • Diagonals: you can link diagonally too, and everything opens up. • Swap: switch two dots and match two or more in a row; the pieces fall through the black holes at the bottom. • Defense / Invasion: stop the corrupted dots before they spread. • Survival: no clock, but every mistake costs you. 10,000 LEVELS A path across the sky, between clouds, balloons and airships, with a different goal every few levels: reach the score, collect fruit and stars, close squares of one colour, break blocks, survive… Boards of every shape from 2×2 to 8×8, blocked cells, pieces falling from above and wildcards where you pick the colour you need. PLAY WITH ANYONE Share your friend code, save your rivals as favourites and invite them to a real-time game. There is also a public room against players from all over the world, a world ranking per mode and achievements. YOUR PROGRESS, IN YOUR ACCOUNT Sign in with Apple, Google or your email and your levels, stars and records follow you to any phone or tablet. Prefer not to register? You can play as a guest. MADE FOR PLAYING ANYWHERE • Works offline: single-player modes and the level path need no internet. • Light and dark mode. • Five relaxing music themes to choose from, or silence if you prefer. • Turbo mode for anyone who wants a faster pace. • In Spanish, English, German, French, Italian and Portuguese. • Free, with ads. A puzzle for a five-minute break… or for losing the whole afternoon. Download Dots and start connecting dots.

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Threadbreaker

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The Loom writes impossible patterns. You break them. Threadbreaker is a precision bullet-hell action roguelite built around a promise procedural games usually break: fresh challenges that stay readable, fair, and worth mastering. Play on iPhone Duo with an adaptive arena, controls, and menus. Changing displays pauses your run so you can adjust your grip and resume the same run. Every 42-room Revision chooses three shifting sectors from five before entering the Prime Line, drawing eight arena looks from a world of twelve. A deterministic Choreography Engine recombines curated attack phrases, enemy roles, arena shells, and guardian phases while preserving gold telegraphs, recovery beats, and real escape lanes. Every run changes. The rules do not. Read the warning. Find the opening. Step through danger. Graze enemy fire to charge Thread. Then Sever stitched bullets and cut your own path through the pattern. Choose one of twelve cosmic Breakers, each built around the same honest collision core. Combine four Frames and six Weapon Cores with thirty upgrade Knots. Discover named synergies. Push a build far enough to transform its Core into a run-defining capstone. Eight enemy archetypes move and attack differently. Six guardians change body, movement, and pattern language across three readable phases. An original reactive score rises with telegraphs, low Integrity, Sever readiness, and guardian transformations. And when the run ends, it becomes something you can study. Run History preserves the build, room scores, damage sources, grazes, biggest Sever, and cause of defeat. Loom Theater recreates the performance in Cinema mode or overlays honest, moment-by-moment Coaching—without changing the recorded result. ALSO INCLUDED • Daily Score with a shared deterministic seed • Guardian Archive rehearsals and Endless Margin • Earn-only Remnants for permanent gameplay breadth, cosmetics, and prestige • Optional one-time Ad-Free and Full Loom purchases; no subscription • Touch and extended-controller support • Story, Standard, Sharp, and Impossible difficulty • Wider lanes, extra Integrity, automatic Sever, reduced effects, high contrast, left-handed controls, and more • Offline-capable core play with graceful network-service fallbacks • A voiced live How to Play demonstration that teaches by showing Fresh should not mean arbitrary. Hard should not mean cheap. Learn the pattern. Find the thread. Break it.

Screenshots

Dots4 screens
Threadbreaker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Dots at none against Threadbreaker's 3. Dots also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Threadbreaker sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Dots asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Dots ships an update every 10 days, Threadbreaker monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Dots versus Threadbreaker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDotsThreadbreaker
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB105 MB
Age rating+1212+
DeveloperOliver Tacoronte MendozaRob Rightmyer

In-app purchases

None

Dots

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Threadbreaker

One-time3
  • Upgrade to Full Loom$2.99
  • Ad-Free Threadbreaker$3.99
  • Full Loom Unlock$6.99

Questions

Is Dots free?
Dots is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Threadbreaker free?
Threadbreaker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Dots or Threadbreaker have ads?
Both Dots and Threadbreaker show ads.
Which is updated more often, Dots or Threadbreaker?
Dots ships an update every 10 days, and Threadbreaker monthly. Most recently, Dots was updated on October 27, 2026 and Threadbreaker on October 29, 2026.

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