Paper Squadron vs Bloop
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Paper Squadron
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The pencil-and-paper plane game from your school days, now played against the whole world. Each player hides a 10-cell paper plane on a 12x12 grid. You take turns calling coordinates to hunt it down, and the first to destroy the enemy plane wins. But every plane has one hidden CRITICAL POINT: hit it and the whole plane goes down instantly. HOW IT PLAYS • Place your plane in 8 headings: 4 straight and 4 diagonal • Choose your own critical point and hide it where nobody looks • A body hit lets you shoot again, a miss ends your turn • Every turn lasts exactly 10 seconds ITEMS • Radar: reports the distance to the enemy plane, hot or cold • Bomb: a 5-cell cross blast • Armor: blocks exactly one shot • Maneuver: move your plane and wipe every clue the enemy gathered. The wounds stay with the airframe though, because manoeuvring hides you, it never heals you. ONLINE • Create a room with a message, or join one from the lobby • A versus screen counts 3-2-1 when your opponent arrives • Ranking with no sign-up: plus 1 point per win, minus 1 per loss • Top 10 leaderboards, global and per country, with a winners' podium FAIR PLAY When a match ends both boards are revealed: every hit and every manoeuvre is on display, so nobody can hide how they won. NO FRICTION • No account, no email • Offline play against three AI difficulty levels • 14 languages • Small download, runs on modest phones Hand-drawn on graph paper, learnable in 30 seconds, tense right down to the last shot.
Bloop
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Pour jellies from tube to tube and gather each color together. Fill a tube with four of the same color and it's done. That's the whole rule. ■ Some colors have to be made From level 21 a dashed tube appears. This one accepts colors that don't match. Put pink and lemon in, tap the tube, and you get orange. Put all three primaries in and you get white. Missing a color? Make it. ■ 120 levels, six worlds Every 20 levels the whole screen changes color: cream, sunset, ice, plum, ocean, electric. Past the last level there is an ending. This isn't a game that runs forever. ■ No need to hurry No timer. No lives, no hearts, no waiting. A wrong move is just an undo away, and when you're stuck there are hints and an extra tube. ■ Jelly collection Three faces for every color, opening one by one as you complete tubes of that color. Every ten levels you also receive a bottle. 48 slots in all: 36 jelly faces and 12 bottles. ■ Daily puzzle One a day. Everyone in the world solves the same one that day. ■ About this app - No sign-up, no login - Your progress stays on your device and is never sent anywhere - The game works without an internet connection - 한국어 · English · 日本語 · Español · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 · Français · Deutsch · Português · Italiano · Русский · Türkçe · Bahasa Indonesia · Tiếng Việt ■ No ads at all There's no advertising in this app. No banners, nothing that interrupts you. The first 30 levels are free. If you like it, a single "Unlock everything" purchase opens all 120. It's not a subscription.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Paper Squadron at none against Bloop's 1. Paper Squadron also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Bloop sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Paper Squadron asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Paper Squadron | Bloop |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | — | Daily |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tung Dao | JIhyoung Seol |
In-app purchases
Paper Squadron
No in-app purchases
Bloop
- Unlock everything$0.99









