Push the Circles vs Balls Shoot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Push the Circles
A tactical puzzle game where players stack rings of the same color to achieve high scores. Unlock new levels by reaching point milestones and strategically use special rings to maximize your score.
- Tactical ring stacking gameplay
- Three unlockable difficulty levels
- Score-based level progression
- Increasing ring values with superposition
- Special silver and joker rings
- Dynamic field filling with new rings
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Push the Circles is a tactical high score game with 3 different levels. Activation as follows: - Level „Easy“ is activated immediately. - Level „Medium“ will be unlocked upon scoring 10,000 points in Level „Easy“. - Level „Complex" will be unlocked upon scoring of 100,000 points in the level „Medium“. Rules: Rings of the same color have to be vertically or horizontally placed on each other. While no rings of a different color can be skipped, only empty fields can be skipped. The value of a ring increases with the number of superposed rings. The start value of a ring is 1. When superimposing the values of the start and end ring are added, the value of the starting ring is doubled. The value of a ring can increase to max. 10,000 points. After each move, the field is filled with rings again: Ring value 0 - 6: no new ring Ring value 7- 15: 1 new ring Ring value 16-31: 2 new rings Ring value 32-63: 3 new rings Ring Value 64: 100 - 5 new rings Ring value > 100: No new ring Where the field is filled from left to right and from bottom to top with rings random color. With higher score and more tactical options also free combinable silver and joker rings will appear.
Balls Shoot
Engage in a colorful bubble-popping adventure where you match three or more same-colored balls to clear them from the field. Strategically shoot balls to eliminate the entire chain before it reaches the end.
- Bubble popping gameplay
- Match 3 or more colored balls
- Chain elimination mechanic
- Goal-oriented progression
- Colorful ball chains
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The Ball Shoot Pro is a nice bubble popper game. We shoot some balls with the help of our sorcerer on the colorful chain of balls to match 3 same colored balls. Thus will be removed from the field than. Our goal is to remove the whole chain before it reaches the end.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Balls Shoot at every 2 weeks against Push the Circles's every 7 months. Balls Shoot also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 67%) and ratings volume (31 vs 1). Push the Circles's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Push the Circles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Balls Shoot has 31 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Push the Circles's written reviews are positive against 91% of Balls Shoot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Push the Circles ships an update every 7 months, Balls Shoot every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Push the Circles | Balls Shoot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.7 (31 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 31 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dirk Schulz-Judith | 远腾 李 |
Customer experience
Push the Circles
Balls Shoot
In-app purchases
Push the Circles
No in-app purchases
Balls Shoot
No in-app purchases
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