hyper vs Tile Swap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
hyper
A simple arcade game where players tap to stop a spinning light at the top of a loop. Success speeds up the game, while failure ends it. Challenge yourself to beat the long-standing high score.
- Simple tap-to-stop gameplay
- Increasing difficulty
- High score tracking
- Retro arcade challenge
- Offline play
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There's not much to it. Tap to stop the spinning light when it's at the top of the loop. Do it 10 times in a row and the game speeds up. Miss and it's game over. The all-time high score is currently 65 and it was set years ago. Can anyone beat it???
Tile Swap
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Challenge your reflexes as well as your friends in Tile Swap, the color matching tile-tapper for iPhone and iPad. Tile Swap packs in three game modes: ―――― Time, where you must race against the clock to score as high as possible in 20 seconds. Survive, get as high a score as possible without losing three lives. A life is lost for not hitting a tile in time or tapping the wrong tile color. Zen, an endless tapping experience. Pass the time by simply tapping the corresponding colored tiles without any time limits or lives. ―――― Tile Swap also includes Game Center leaderboards functionality, allowing you to compete against your friends to get the highest score on the leaderboards. ―――― Please Note: Tile Swap is ad supported but includes a microtransaction to remove ads permanently.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: hyper at none against Tile Swap's 1. hyper also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Tile Swap sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. hyper asks for nothing beyond the download.
hyper ships an update monthly, Tile Swap every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | hyper | Tile Swap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Curt Stein | Anthony Raudino |
In-app purchases
hyper
No in-app purchases
Tile Swap
- Remove All Ads$0.99
