Comparison

Overpaint vs Patience Balls

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

Head to head
About

Overpaint

This game challenges you to match colored squares with circles by dragging and dropping. Create new colors by overlapping squares. It offers a relaxing yet engaging puzzle experience with unique levels and interesting color facts.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop color matching
  • Color mixing by overlapping squares
  • 225 unique moving puzzles
  • 100 color facts
  • Simple and clean design
  • Challenging gameplay
Features
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Overpaint is all about color in motion. The goal is simple: drag-and-drop the squares over the matching circles to clear them. To make new colors just overlap the 3 squares. Seems easy, right? You have all the time yet each move counts… Observe the colorful moving patterns and sharpen your skills. Join the color fun! • Free to play • 225 unique moving puzzles • 100 curious color facts • Simple and clean design: less is beautiful! • Easy to play but tricky to master • Drag the squares by their corners and cover the circles • Play at your own pace: think twice, slide once • Challenge your friends and beat their scores • Purchasable lives and moves (optional) Enjoy mixing colors with Overpaint! "Overpaint app is addictive in a colorful way" – Examiner "...an edutaining, artistic puzzler all about color and how it amazingly meshes" - AppAdvice "Overpaint takes 3 colors and makes a tremendous puzzle game" - AppAttack "All the fun and none of the mess" - IdTapThat Featured in the AppStore worldwide - "Best New Games" Find out more: www.landka.com Send your feedback: hello@landka.com

About

Patience Balls

Engage in a minimalist physics puzzle game designed for a calming and meditative experience. Solve intricate labyrinths and mazes using precision, patience, and logic. This game offers a serene escape while sharpening your reflexes and problem-solving skills.

Highlights
  • Relaxing Zen-like Gameplay
  • Mind-Teasing Labyrinths and Mazes
  • Physics-Based Challenges
  • Precision and Logic Puzzles
  • Beautiful Minimal Graphics
  • Unlockable Achievements
  • Global Leaderboards
Features
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Master your focus and conquer precision tilt controls in Patience Balls—the ultimate physics-based marble maze puzzle game! Whether you are navigating smooth logic labyrinths or tackling high-precision spatial challenges, test your steady hands, master fine balance, and guide every ball safely to its goal. Patience Balls combines realistic motion physics with clean, minimalist board design. Every movement requires complete spatial control, visual focus, and timing—offering a deeply satisfying physics experience where precision leads to victory. Key Features: • Precision Physics & Gyro Control: Calibrated tilt mechanics tuned for exact spatial accuracy. Every subtle wrist movement directly influences board gravity. • Challenging Marble Mazes: Navigate 3D labyrinths, narrow paths, moving obstacles, and gravity holes designed to test your hand-eye coordination. • Test Your Focus & Patience: Progress through 200+ handcrafted levels ranging from satisfying rolling puzzles to high-precision skill challenges. • Satisfying ASMR & Minimalist Design: Clean visuals paired with tactile rolling physics and crisp audio for an engaging, anti-stress atmosphere. • Seamless Offline Play: No Wi-Fi required. Enjoy zero-friction tilt puzzle gameplay anytime, anywhere. • Track Your Mastery: Unlock unique marble skins, achieve level milestones, and see how your precision balance stacks up on global leaderboards. Steady your hands, master the tilt, and download Patience Balls today!

Screenshots

Overpaint4 screens
Patience Balls4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Patience Balls at 4.7 against Overpaint's 3.8. Patience Balls also leads on ratings volume (557 vs 133). Overpaint's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Overpaint sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Patience Balls sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Patience Balls holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 133 and 557 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Overpaint's written reviews are positive against 68% of Patience Balls's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Overpaint ships an update every 5 weeks, Patience Balls every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Overpaint versus Patience Balls: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOverpaintPatience Balls
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (133 ratings)4.7 (557 ratings) — better
Positive reviews61.9% of reviews68.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings133557 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB274 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLandkaRicardo Mendonca

Customer experience

Overpaint

All ratings133 ratings
Positive68.4%
Neutral9.0%
Negative22.6%
Written reviews118 reviews
Positive61.9%
Neutral12.7%
Negative25.4%

Patience Balls

All ratings478 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive68.2%
Neutral18.2%
Negative13.6%

Bugs and requests

Overpaint

Reported bugs

12 issues
  • App crashes immediately after pressing play button
  • App crashes when closing mid-level and reopening
  • App crashes after running out of hearts/lives
  • Level 45 yellow bar doesn't reach far enough
  • Level 66 yellow cannot cover bottom circle
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  • Level 69 yellow doesn't extend sufficiently
  • Level 103 yellow screen blocks dot resolution
  • Level 167 impossible to complete on iPhone 6 due to screen proportions
  • Dragging colors from top triggers notification shade instead
  • Game progress resets despite Game Center sync
  • Color dragging drops without proper placement
  • Incorrect color mixing information in tutorials

Requested features

8 requests
  • More levels beyond current maximum
  • Undo move functionality
  • Ability to earn lives through gameplay
  • Larger interaction area away from notification shade
  • Seamless level transitions
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  • Continuous background music loop
  • No life requirement for replaying completed levels
  • Faster app transitions and loading

Patience Balls

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Overpaint

One-time5
  • Refill lives$0.99
  • Unlock gate$0.99
  • +3 moves$0.99
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  • Remove ads$0.99
  • Lives forever$2.99
7 purchases

Patience Balls

One-time7
  • 250 Gems$0.99
  • Patience Balls Premium$1.99
  • 400 Gems$1.99
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  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$2.99
  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$3.99
  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$4.99
  • Remove ads and 2500 Gems$7.99

Questions

Is Overpaint free?
Overpaint is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Patience Balls free?
Patience Balls is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Overpaint or Patience Balls?
Patience Balls is rated higher. Overpaint averages 3.8 out of 5 from 133 ratings, while Patience Balls averages 4.7 from 557 ratings.
Do Overpaint or Patience Balls have ads?
Patience Balls shows ads; Overpaint does not.
Which is updated more often, Overpaint or Patience Balls?
Overpaint ships an update every 5 weeks, and Patience Balls every 3 weeks. Most recently, Overpaint was updated on November 1, 2026 and Patience Balls on November 3, 2026.

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