The essentials
What is Swipes?
Swipes is a quick reflex game for iPhone and iPad. Each turn asks you to swipe in a direction, double tap, or skip by doing nothing. React before the timer runs out and keep building your score.
What actions are in the game?
There are six: swipe up, swipe down, swipe left, swipe right, double tap, and skip. When Skip appears, do not touch the screen.
How does scoring work?
Every correct action earns one point. One mistake ends the round. The timer adapts to your reactions, so the pressure increases as you get faster.
Can I play offline?
Yes. Swipes works offline. Internet is only needed for App Store updates and Game Center syncing.
Difficulty
What difficulty levels are available?
- Easy shows text, icons, background arrows, and the countdown timer.
- Medium keeps some visual guidance while removing other cues.
- Hard reverses directional controls: up becomes down and left becomes right. Double tap and skip stay the same.
- Extreme removes visual assistance and leaves only the timer.
- Custom lets you choose the visual cues, timer, background arrows, and reversed controls yourself.
Easy, Medium, Hard, and Extreme each have a dedicated Game Center leaderboard. Custom scores stay on your device.
Can I change the colours?
Yes. Choose a colour theme in Settings. Themes change the colours used for directions, actions, and game states.
Can I turn off sound or haptics?
Yes. Audio and haptic feedback can be switched independently under Settings → Sensory.
Game Center
What is tracked?
Swipes has separate score leaderboards for Easy, Medium, Hard, and Extreme, plus a Longest Play leaderboard for session duration.
There are eight score achievements, beginning with your first point and ending at 1,000 points.
My score has not appeared yet
Check that you are signed into Game Center and connected to the internet. Scores earned offline sync automatically the next time you connect.
Rounds and hearts
How many rounds do I get?
You receive five rounds each day. Each game uses one round, and your rounds reset at midnight based on your device clock.
Can I get more rounds?
You can earn up to two bonus rounds per day by sharing qualifying scores. Optional one-time purchases can also add heart packs or unlock unlimited rounds for the rest of the day.
Swipes has no subscriptions.
Privacy and access
Do I need an account?
No. Scores, hearts, themes, and difficulty settings are stored on your device. Swipes uses optional anonymous analytics to understand product usage, and you can opt out in Settings.
What permissions are required?
None for normal play. Notification access is only requested if you choose to enable a daily reminder.
Does Swipes support accessibility settings?
Swipes respects Reduce Motion and automatically simplifies effects in Low Power Mode or when the device is under thermal pressure. Sound and vibrations can also be disabled independently.
Still need help?
Use the contact form to report a problem, suggest a feature, or send feedback. You can also do this from Settings → Help inside Swipes.