ZenDots vs Tacocat!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ZenDots
Engage in a playful arcade experience combining pinball mechanics with brick breaker challenges. Use flippers to launch a white dot and clear colored dots from the screen without losing your primary ball.
- Pinball-style gameplay
- Brick breaker mechanics
- Clear colored dots
- Avoid losing white dot
- Level-based progression
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ZenDots is a delightfully playful mashup of old school pinball, and classic brick breakers! Take a few minutes to drop some dots! Use the flippers to whack the white dot into the color dots. Let the color dots fall off the screen, without losing your white dot. When all the color dots are gone, the level is cleared!
Tacocat!
A simple arcade game where players guide a bucket with their finger to catch falling characters. The goal is to prevent any from being missed to achieve a high score. It's an easy-to-learn, engaging experience for quick play sessions.
- Finger-controlled bucket movement
- Catch falling characters
- Avoid missing characters
- High score tracking
- Simple arcade gameplay
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Move the bucket with your finger to catch all the Tacocats without missing!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tacocat! at none against ZenDots's 4. ZenDots's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. ZenDots sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Tacocat! asks for nothing beyond the download.
ZenDots holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ZenDots has 179 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 93% of ZenDots's written reviews are positive against 100% of Tacocat!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
ZenDots ships an update fortnightly, Tacocat! every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ZenDots | Tacocat! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (179 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.4% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 179 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Little White Bear Studios, LLC | Marian Nicasio |
Customer experience
ZenDots
Tacocat!
Bugs and requests
ZenDots
Reported bugs
5 issues- No videos available for free dots
- App crashes after iOS9 update
- White ball physics feel off/controlled
- Occasional minor glitches
- Addicting but glitchy
Requested features
6 requests- Option for rows or shapes of dots
- Landscape mode
- Option to go back to a certain level
- Add strategy or time-crucial components for more challenge
- Feature to see all collected colored balls
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- Larger white dot
Tacocat!
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ZenDots
- 10 dots$0.99
- 100 dots$2.99
- 500 dots$5.99
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- 1,000 dots$8.99
Tacocat!
No in-app purchases
