Swim or Sink
Dive, dodge and climb leagues
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Meet your new swimming partner and climb six Pearl Leagues. Swipe to choose your character, invite friends and make every League run count.
Tap to swim through the reef, dodge sharks, jellyfish and pufferfish, and collect pearls as you chase your next high score.
Choose your swimmer
Swipe the character left or right on the main menu to choose the mermaid or merman. Both are the same size and play exactly the same way.
Play at your own pace
Choose Easy, Medium or Hard in regular play. Each difficulty has its own high-score leaderboard.
Climb the Pearl Leagues
Compete each week in White, Silver, Gold, Pink, Diamond and Black Leagues. Each colour brings a harder challenge. Points from every completed League game count towards your weekly total, so keep playing to climb the standings.
Each group has 50 places. The top 10 move up, places 11 to 40 stay, and the bottom 10 move down. You cannot drop below White or move above Black. Computer-controlled swimmers fill empty places and are replaced as players join. A new week starts at midnight at the end of Sunday, Sydney time.
Invite your friends
Send friends an invitation link so they can join you in Leagues. They can start playing straight away. We will try to place you together when you are in the same Pearl League and there is room.
Get straight into the game
No email, password or sign-up is needed. Keep your assigned player name or choose your own.
Swim or Sink is free to play with ads. A one-time purchase removes banner and interstitial ads. You can still choose to watch a rewarded ad to continue a run.
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Swim or Sink 2.0 is here!
Compete in weekly Pearl Leagues, from White to Black. Keep playing to climb the standings, earn promotion and avoid demotion.
Invite friends with a link and join the same group when your Pearl League and available space allow.
Meet the new merman with a blue tail. Swipe the character left or right on the main menu to switch swimmers. Both characters play exactly the same way.
Enjoy updated swimmer and shark animations, faster loading when you first play, and a cleaner leaderboard.
The daily login bonus has been removed from regular leaderboards. We have also improved the leaderboard layout and made it clearer when your online player data has been deleted.
The developer, Pelican Drop Studios, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Contacts
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Pelican Drop Studios
- Size
- 18.5 MB
- Category
- Action
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Contests
Contains
Advertising
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Remove Ads $3.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Pelican Drop Studios
