Pop Lines vs Embergram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pop Lines
This casual puzzle game challenges players to match five colored pearls in a line to destroy them and earn points. Enjoy it online or offline, anytime, anywhere, with the ability to pause and resume at your convenience.
- Match-5 gameplay
- Online and offline play
- Pause and resume functionality
- Score sharing
- Leaderboard integration
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Pop Lines is THE BEST coolball game which you can play both online or offline anywhere anytime. No matter who you are, what you are, this game will give you the ultimate joy for sure. No any kind of restriction, this game suite every kind of person; every kind of place. You can play the game when you are sitting on a bus, waiting in a line or even in the toilet, the game will help you kill the time we want to pass. Remember this, you can pause the game anytime,save and resume it whenever you want, this game will bring a lot of fun to your every moment. Like other cool ball game, try to line up 5 of your pearls that have same colour so you can destory them all and get more point. Login with your Facebook, Wechat or other social accounts and share your score on the leaderboard with all the player around the world.
Embergram
Solve logic puzzles by burning matches to meet row and column constraints. Mark un-burnable sections by painting from the tail. Navigate increasingly complex, hand-crafted levels that require pure logic.
- Burn matches to satisfy constraints
- Paint to mark un-burnable sections
- Hand-crafted levels
- Pure logic, no guessing required
- Additional level packs available
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Burn matches from the head down to satisfy the row and column constraints. Paint from the tail to mark sections you want to remember as un-burnable. But when the matches start curving, don't let it tie your brain into a knot! - The first 144 levels are free to play and have been hand crafted by a human - no procedural generation! - All levels can be completed with pure logic and no guessing - Additional packs of levels are available as an in-app purchase
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Embergram at none against Pop Lines's shown. Pop Lines's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 76 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Pop Lines sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Embergram sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Pop Lines against 5.0 for Embergram. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Pop Lines ships an update every 3 weeks, Embergram every 76 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pop Lines | Embergram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 76 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| 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 | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Qingdao Ruanmei Network Technology Co., ltd. | Matthew Gillespie |
Customer experience
Pop Lines
Embergram
In-app purchases
Pop Lines
- Remove ads$0.99
Embergram
- Embergram$4.99
