Impossible Dial vs Color Drift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Impossible Dial
This game challenges your reflexes and cognitive skills by requiring you to tap when an arrow matches the color of its adjacent dial segment. It's designed to enhance focus, improve short-term memory, and boost attention span. Compete for high scores in this engaging brain training experience.
- Improves focus
- Enhances short-term memory
- Develops mental reflexes
- Helps with attention span
- Addictive gameplay
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Impossible Dial is an addictive game that tests your brain's reflexes and helps you improve your memory and focus. Simply tap when the arrow is the same color as the part of the dial it is next to! Match as many colours as you can and see if you can get a new high score! WARNING: Highly Addicting! Features: * Improves focus and short term memory * Helps your child pay attention and retain information better * Get better mental reflexes A fun and addictive mind trainer created by Ben Pasternak, Alex Pelletier, Remy Carr and Tamir Triguboff.
Color Drift
Test your reflexes and color perception in this fast-paced game. Tap circles matching the character's color before they disappear. It's a fun challenge designed with colorblindness in mind.
- Color-based gameplay
- Reflex testing
- Color perception challenge
- Colorblind-friendly design
- Fast-paced action
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Color Drift is a colorblind-friendly, color-based reaction game, in which the player taps circles that are the same color as the character in a test of reflexes and color perception. The goal is to tap circles of the same color before they fall below and leave your sight. *Top 100 in Games Category in May 2017* **Featured by Mashable on Snapchat Discover** Side Note: This game was inspired by my own lack of color perception! #redgreencolorblind Music and sound effects by Devin Bews Check out his music and performances at dbews.com!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Color Drift at 4.7 against Impossible Dial's 3.0. Color Drift also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (73% vs 50%). Impossible Dial's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.1 vs 16.3). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and device support 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. Impossible Dial sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Color Drift asks for nothing beyond the download.
Color Drift holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 60 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Impossible Dial's written reviews are positive against 73% of Color Drift's.
Impossible Dial ships an update fortnightly, Color Drift every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Impossible Dial | Color Drift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (60 ratings) | 4.7 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.3% of reviews | 73.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 60 — better | 23 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 16.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | App Holdings | Gilbert Anwar |
Customer experience
Impossible Dial
Color Drift
Bugs and requests
Impossible Dial
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes when opening
- Dial stops responding during gameplay
- Ads appear even with no internet connection
Requested features
3 requests- Option to disable ads for a fee
- Ability to pause game during ads
- Improved ad placement (e.g. between games instead of during)
Color Drift
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Impossible Dial
- Remove Ads$0.99
Color Drift
No in-app purchases
