Comparison

SpellOut! vs Kolba

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

Head to head
About

SpellOut!

Features
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One good word can change the board. SpellOut! is a colorful word puzzle where spelling meets strategy. Drag through neighboring letters, including diagonals, to form English words. Collect tiles of your target color and reach the goal before your moves run out. CONNECT AND COLLECT Link letters of any color. Find words that collect the tiles you need, then watch the board fall into place for your next move. MAKE EVERY WORD COUNT Explore 200 levels. Each accepted word uses one move, so choose your path carefully. Invalid words do not cost a move. FIND YOUR RHYTHM Enjoy warm colors, satisfying tile effects, and simple touch controls. A guided first move helps you get started, and your level progress saves automatically. DISCOVER WORDS See a definition after playing a word and find new possibilities in familiar letters. How many good words can you find?

About

Kolba

Features
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Kolba is a calm ball sort puzzle. One new puzzle every day, the same one for everyone, and a journey of chapters to play at your own pace. Move balls between glass tubes until every colour sits in a tube of its own. A group of the same colour on top moves together. Some puzzles add a jar: it holds one group at a time, locks to the first colour you put in it, and has to be empty when you finish. That one rule changes how you plan. A journey from an atom to the universe: behind your tubes, each run of 30 chapters is one step up in scale. You start inside an atom, pass molecules, cells, a leaf, a meadow and a forest, rise above the clouds, circle the Earth and the Moon, and sort your way out to the stars, a galaxy and the whole universe. Tilt your phone and the world slides gently behind the board. • 450 numbered chapters: finish one and the next is a tap away. Tubes, fog that hides what lies underneath, tubes of different heights, and a Challenge every tenth chapter that you can skip for now and come back to • Soft music, off in Settings • A new daily puzzle at midnight, the same for everyone, easiest on Monday • Past days: every puzzle you missed waits in the archive, with no penalty • A short tutorial that teaches by playing, not by reading • Hints that nudge before they tell, and undo as far back as you like • A score from your moves against par, with no timer on the daily • A quiet month view of the days you played, with no streak to lose • Ball styles (clay, glass or jelly), ball palettes and backgrounds to suit your eyes • Colour-assist symbols, high contrast, reduced motion and VoiceOver support • Optional Game Center leaderboards and achievements • Optional iCloud sync of your lessons and finished days • A widget, a Control Center control and a Siri shortcut for today's puzzle • In English, Turkish, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Hindi, Russian and Indonesian No ads. No purchases. No account. No tracking. Kolba works fully offline. Nothing goes to us: iCloud sync goes to your own iCloud, Game Center only if you turn it on.

Screenshots

SpellOut!4 screens
Kolba4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Kolba at none against SpellOut!'s shown. SpellOut!'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
SpellOut! versus Kolba: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpellOut!Kolba
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size184 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRodrigo LaizTarkan Cicek

In-app purchases

None

SpellOut!

No in-app purchases

None

Kolba

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SpellOut! free?
SpellOut! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kolba free?
Kolba is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SpellOut! or Kolba have ads?
SpellOut! shows ads; Kolba does not.

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