ao vs sugar (game)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ao
Engage in a puzzle game with expanding and contracting circles. Solve over 200 levels with unique challenges and surprises. Compete for medals and leaderboards, or skip tricky levels.
- Expanding and contracting circles
- 200 levels with unique challenges
- Leaderboard and medals
- Level skipping and unlocking
- Replay passed levels
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ao - 6th in "focus" (aa, uu, ff, au, rr, ao, rl, sp, th, ki, ci, sn, lo, ba, ov, sh, fi, do, ru & ti) Expanding and contracting circle. Different radiuses. Just like other apps in our series, the more you get into each level, the more it changes. There are theoretically infinite ways you can complete each, it makes for great fun. You can also top the leaderboard and earn medals! (bronze, silver and gold). There's 200 levels to solve right now, intertwined with all sorts of tweaks and surprises. You can also go back and replay any level you've already passed, at any time (Choose Level). If you're stuck on a really tricky level, skip it! (Tap Skip on the Fail Screen) If you can't wait, unlock all 200 levels and replay at your own pace! (Choose Level > Unlock All Levels) Thanks for all your support, I hope you're enjoying the "focus" series thus far. Handmade in Australia, General Adaptive Terms: generaladaptive.com/terms-privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
sugar (game)
Draw lines on your screen to guide falling sugar into cups. Enjoy a calming puzzle experience with visually satisfying sugar particles. This game offers a fresh, free puzzle challenge.
- Draw to direct sugar
- Soothing particle physics
- Relaxing puzzle gameplay
- Free puzzle experience
- Creator of color puzzle series
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Draw on the screen to direct sugar into the cups. Experience the soothing puzzling with sugar particles trickling across the screen. A relaxing puzzle game from the creator of the color puzzle series and the "sugar, sugar" games. It was time for a brand new free sugar puzzle experience so I hope you'll enjoy this! @BartBonte
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: sugar (game) at 4.3 against ao's 3.3. sugar (game) also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 47%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. ao sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and sugar (game) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
sugar (game) holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 153 and 410 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 47% of ao's written reviews are positive against 82% of sugar (game)'s.
ao ships an update every 2 months, sugar (game) monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ao | sugar (game) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (153 ratings) | 4.3 (410 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 47.3% of reviews | 81.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 153 | 410 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 134 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | General Adaptive Apps Pty Ltd | Bart BONTE |
Customer experience
ao
sugar (game)
User reviews
ao
From 153 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤩 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 👍 Simple yet challenging
- 🎶 Good background music
- ✨ Minimalist design
- 💯 Highly recommended
Room to improve
- ❓ Confusing gameplay
- 😩 Frustrating difficulty
- 👎 Repetitive gameplay
- 💸 Unfair monetization
- 😵 Overwhelming ads
sugar (game)
From 410 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Challenging but not frustrating
- 🚀 Satisfying and well thought out
- 🚀 Addictive and fun
- 🚀 Simple yet clever
- 🚀 Nostalgic and classic
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional glitches or bugs
- 🔍 Difficult levels without ability to skip
- 📺 Frequent unskippable ads
- 🎨 Lack of colorblind accessibility
- 🎨 Unsatisfying visuals or art style
Bugs and requests
ao
Reported bugs
7 issues- Game doesn't work
- App freezes
- Level 1 fails
- Dots don't rotate
- Automatic fail
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- Glitching
- Coding error
Requested features
5 requests- Clearer instructions on how to play
- Make levels less impossible
- Fix the huge dot problem
- Add numbers on the balls
- More original game concepts
sugar (game)
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels not progressing after completion
- Sugar disappearing or not registering correctly
- Restart button accidentally pressed instead of gravity switch
Requested features
6 requests- Undo/reset option per level
- Ability to skip difficult levels
- Colorblind mode or options
- More levels and content updates
- Landscape mode support on tablets
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- Customization options
In-app purchases
ao
- Skip Level$0.99
- Remove All Ads$1.99
- Unlock All Levels$3.99
sugar (game)
- premium unlock$2.99
