Comparison

Figure Rush vs Bubble Words

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

Head to head
About

Figure Rush

Features
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A sunlit toy room. Pale wooden shelving, jars of loose pieces, pastel blocks nobody put away. In the middle of it, on a mint and cream turntable, stands your collectible, waiting for you to decide what it looks like today. Start with the face This is the drawer people lose time in. Dozens of expressions, almost none of them neutral. Gritted teeth. A flat, unimpressed stare. Watery eyes on the verge of crying. A scrunched grin with every tooth showing. Hearts instead of pupils. Pick one and the whole toy changes character before you have chosen anything else. A furious little face on a soft pastel body is funnier than it has any right to be, and it is where most sessions start. The boards in between Away from the stand, there are boards to untangle. Each one is a knot of coloured arrows laid out as looping paths, red doubling back on itself, green cutting across the middle, cyan sliding underneath, every one of them already pointing at where it wants to end up. The work is deciding the order. Send one off while something is still sitting in its way and the two of them tangle instead. Trace a path backwards, find the arrow that has to leave first, and a corner you had written off opens up in three quick moves. Three hearts a level leaves room to be wrong twice and still finish, and three helpers wait underneath: a hint, a hammer and a wand, each with its own small count. They are pleasant enough on their own. They are also how the drawers fill up, which is the reason you finish them. Back at the stand Body colour comes next: smooth vinyl reds, deep purple, sky blue, teal, lime, several yellows, and quieter skin tones if you want something closer to human. After that, the outfit and whatever goes on its head. Headwear runs from a plain ball cap through a striped stovepipe, antlers, headphones, and a thing that is unmistakably a plunger. Full builds arrive complete: a jester in green and gold under a belled crown, a bee with antennae, a penguin, an astronaut, a horned viking in silver, a purple bunny-eared ninja, a hazmat suit with three red eyes. Four drawers, mixed freely. Nothing has to go together, and the best results come from the ones that do not. Try it before you decide Every locked piece has a small eye in its corner. Tap it and the piece lands straight on your collectible so you can look properly, with nothing spent and nothing committed. Half the enjoyment is in that browsing, putting the jester crown on the penguin just to see, then saving whichever version made you laugh. Dressing it badly on purpose is a legitimate way to play. Your room, your light The room has two states and you flip between them whenever you like. Daylight is bright and warm with sun across the shelves. The other is dim and low-lit, everything soft at the edges, which is the one you will want at midnight when the rest of the phone is too bright. How it leaves you There is something steadying about a small toy standing on a turntable, waiting, with nothing urgent about it. You untangle a board, you earn a hat, you go back and try it on, you change your mind, you change the face too. Most sessions end with your collectible looking slightly more ridiculous than it did before, which is its own kind of accomplishment. It stays quiet throughout. Nothing shouts, nothing spikes. Most people put the phone down calmer than they picked it up, and come back the next evening mainly to see what the plunger looks like on the viking. One hand, portrait, taps only. It works with the sound off, and a session fits a queue or the last ten minutes before sleep.

About

Bubble Words

Connect themed words within bubbles to clear the board. Solve puzzles with increasing complexity, featuring frozen bubbles and split words. Offers over 6,000 themes and 150 levels, with endless play and daily rewards.

Highlights
  • Themed word association
  • Bubble merging gameplay
  • Challenging level mechanics
  • Over 6,000 themes
  • Endless play mode
  • Daily rewards and achievements
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Every bubble on the board holds a word. Berry, Waltz, Saturn, Screwdriver. Drag one bubble onto another: if the words share a theme, they merge. Four words and the theme is complete — its name lights up on the bubble and it floats away. Simple, until five themes share one board. Is Guitar music or timber? Is Mars a planet or a god of war? A wrong guess costs no life, only a move — and five right merges in a row give a move back. WHAT'S INSIDE • 6,000+ themes and 13,000 words — from food and sports to myths, movies and science • 150 levels, then endless play • A board that fights back: bubbles freeze over, words arrive sliced in two, and a finished theme can become a single word inside a bigger one • Three boosters: Extra Bubble drops new words, Hint highlights a matching pair, Magnet completes a theme outright • Daily rewards, a lucky wheel and 65 achievements • Mastery ranks: every win brings the next one closer • English and Russian, each with its own hand-built word base — not a translation • No move timer — think as long as you like HOW TO PLAY Drag a bubble onto a bubble. Words from the same theme merge; mismatched ones don't, and the attempt still costs a move. Four words of one theme make a finished bubble: the theme's name appears on it and it flies up into the progress bar. A level is done when every theme is collected. Your moves are shown in the circle at the top. Run out, and you can add more and continue from the same board. A frozen bubble carries a number that drops with every theme you collect; at zero it thaws and reveals its word. Great for vocabulary, focus and spotting links where you least expect them. Five minutes in a queue or a whole evening — you can always pick up a level right where you left off.

Screenshots

Figure Rush4 screens
Bubble Words4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Bubble Words at none against Figure Rush's shown. Bubble Words also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, in-app purchases, 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. Figure Rush sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Bubble Words sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Figure Rush ships an update every 2 weeks, Bubble Words every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Figure Rush versus Bubble Words: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFigure RushBubble Words
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews10.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size422 MB113 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperVicApp GameMaksim Kenin

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Figure Rush

One-time9
  • Gold Pack 1$0.99
  • Special Gift$2.99
  • Gold Pack 2$4.99
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  • Supreme Gift$6.99
  • Gold Pack 3$9.99
  • Remove Ads Pack$14.99
  • Gold Pack 4$14.99
  • Gold Pack 5$19.99
  • Super VIP$24.99
10 purchases

Bubble Words

One-time10
  • 1000 coins$0.99
  • Rescue bundle$1.99
  • 5000 coins$3.99
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  • Basic bundle$5.29
  • 10000 coins$7.59
  • Deluxe bundle$9.99
  • Elite bundle$14.49
  • 25000 coins$14.49
  • 50000 coins$30.49
  • 100000 coins$49.99

Questions

Is Figure Rush free?
Figure Rush is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Bubble Words free?
Bubble Words is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Figure Rush or Bubble Words have ads?
Figure Rush shows ads; Bubble Words does not.
Which is updated more often, Figure Rush or Bubble Words?
Figure Rush ships an update every 2 weeks, and Bubble Words every 2 days. Most recently, Figure Rush was updated on November 12, 2026 and Bubble Words on November 10, 2026.

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