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9Cat Ripple Snap

9Cat Ripple Snap

tap. ripple. bring everyone home.

9Cat Ripple Snap is a free mobile puzzle game for Android and iOS, made by 9Cat Studio. 9CAT’s star friends have drifted all over the sky again… tap the water to send out a gentle ripple, and let the waves carry each one back to its glowing home. No timers, no pressure: 1200 levels of soft, squishy physics, with something new every few. Too lazy to lift a finger? There’s a whole shelf of quiet music, and just listening counts.

Free, with ads. Every style in the shop can be bought with drops you earn just by playing; if you can’t wait, you can buy drops. Want the ads gone? That’s for sale too. No subscriptions.

What makes it lovely

One-finger play

Tap behind a piece and the ripple pushes it for you. Easy to pick up… though pushing it beautifully takes a little thinking.

1200 levels, paced slowly

Something new every few levels at first, then every twenty, then every forty. One trick at a time, with plenty of room to get good at it.

Five ways to play

Bring everyone home. Feed a 9CAT who’s somehow always hungry. Pass a light along. Send friends home in order. Keep every lamp glowing at once.

Water that has ideas

Whirlpools, spinning wind, slippery ice, shallows that eat your speed, star tides… and a few rooms that change shape right in front of you.

30 friends to meet

Every one hand-drawn by our artist in the 9CAT universe style. Who shows up? That’s a secret. Not telling.

Dress them up

Cosy Winter coats, Bell Chimes, Summer Days, a Cloud Nap set… plus paw prints, skies and ripples to choose from. Try anything on before you buy, and one style a day is 30% off. 9CAT insists its Classic look is still the best. It isn’t.

Forty-three achievements

Collect them from First Ripple all the way to The Last Star, each one worth stars. And the boards quietly keep track of your stars, how far you’ve got, and how many days in a row you’ve played.

Relax mode, earned not bought

Relax mode, where ripples and hearts never run out, used to cost money. Now? Three-star a level and you can replay it in Relax. Free!

A little every day

A new puzzle every day, streaks that won’t nag you, and hearts that wander back on their own while you rest.

Calm by design

Water-drop ASMR, music you pick yourself, and a slowly drifting starry sky. Every new thing gets explained first, never just dropped on you. Available in 12 languages.

A look inside

9Cat Ripple Snap gameplay: friends drifting toward their dashed home outlines 9Cat Ripple Snap level map, with hearts, drops and the drop jar 9Cat Ripple Snap HUNGRY CAT mode: ripple 9CAT onto the fish 9Cat Ripple Snap LIGHT UP mode: passing a glow from friend to friend 9Cat Ripple Snap ONE BY ONE mode: friends numbered in the order they go home 9Cat Ripple Snap NIGHT WATCH mode: keeping every lamp lit at once 9Cat Ripple Snap level played inside a narrow tunnel room 9Cat Ripple Snap STYLES wardrobe: every friend in Classic, Cosy Winter, Bell Chimes and Summer Days 9Cat Ripple Snap level dressed in Summer Days, on the Seashell Dream sky 9Cat Ripple Snap achievements: 43 of them, from First Ripple to The Last Star 9Cat Ripple Snap music shelf: ten quiet tracks to rest to, bought with drops