Circle Run vs Stop the Balloons
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Circle Run
A relaxing one-tap game where you guide a sphere across floating tiles. Enjoy a calming experience with no timers or pressure, set to ambient music and beautiful visual themes. Relieve stress and find your rhythm.
- One-tap gameplay
- Stress relief mechanics
- Multiple wellness themes
- Ambient soundtrack
- No timers or enemies
- Score tracking
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A casual one-tap hopper for the moments you need a moment. Drift a soft simple sphere along floating iso tiles, settle into the rhythm of your own tap, and let the soft wellness skies do the rest. GAMEPLAY Tap to hop. Land on the next tile to keep flowing, miss it and gently start over. Combos, scores, and your best run are all there if you want them, but there's no timer pushing you forward. Your breath sets the pace. Relief stress. WELLNESS THEMES Pick the mood that fits the moment. Wake up with Morning Mist, unwind into Sunset Calm, drift through Cherry Blossom, lose yourself in Starlight Sky. Every theme repaints the entire world, sky, tile, sphere, dust motes, so the same chain of hops feels new each time. DESIGNED TO CHILL Soft pastel gradients. Slow drifting colour matching particles in the sky. An ambient soundtrack picked for breathing along to. No timers, no enemies, no fail screens shouting at you. Falling resets your score and slides you back to the start tile in one quiet breath. GO PRO Five themes are included free. Unlock the other five, Aurora Dream, Lavender Field, Starlight Sky, Bamboo Grove, and Desert Bloom, with a single in-app purchase that also removes ads. One tap, one purchase, every mood.
Stop the Balloons
A simple game where players tap to pop balloons before they escape the screen. Dragging balloons can cause them to bump into each other, and releasing them makes them pop. The game ends after three balloons get away.
- Tap to pop balloons
- Drag balloons to bump others
- Release balloons to pop them
- Prevent balloons from escaping
- Simple, relaxing gameplay
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It's a nice sunny day in the neighborhood. It's the weekend and you can finally relax and enjoy this day to the fullest. You watch how the kids are all cheerfully running around and playing with balloons. However, as you leisurely watch the kids, one of them lost hold of the balloon! Oh no! Suddenly, many more balloons are all flying away! What would happen if the balloons actually fly away? It's up to you to stop the balloons and make sure they don't fly out of sight! Stop the Balloons is a simple game in which you try to stop the balloons from escaping the screen. Pop the balloons by tapping on them. You can keep dragging them if you hold them to bump them into other balloons. Once you stop holding the balloons, they will pop. After three balloons escape, the game will end. How many balloons will you be able to stop?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Stop the Balloons at none against Circle Run's 1. Stop the Balloons also leads on update cadence (every 17 months vs every 137 months) and device support. Circle Run's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Circle Run sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Stop the Balloons asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Circle Run against 5.0 for Stop the Balloons. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Circle Run ships an update every 137 months, Stop the Balloons every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Circle Run | Stop the Balloons |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 137 months | Every 17 months — better |
| Ads | — | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | — | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | omytap | Vyrai |
Customer experience
Circle Run
Stop the Balloons
In-app purchases
Circle Run
- Remove Ads$0.99
Stop the Balloons
No in-app purchases
Questions
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