# Slidewinder: Sliding Puzzle — Turn your photos into puzzles

> Turn your photos into puzzles (iPhone/iPad app by Michael Bunby.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/slidewinder-sliding-puzzle/id6448073733 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Michael Bunby](https://appshunter.io/developer/1683418366)
- Category: Games, Entertainment, Casual, Puzzle
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 60 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-08
- Data updated: 2026-11-12

## What is Slidewinder?

Turn any photo into a sliding puzzle, then solve it to bring it back to color.

Slidewinder cuts your picture into a 4×4 grid of tiles and shuffles them. Slide the tiles back into place to rebuild the photo. Every picture in your gallery stays black and white until you solve it, so your collection fills with color one puzzle at a time.

• YOUR PHOTOS, YOUR PUZZLES
Pick any photo from your library — pets, trips, family — and play it straight away.

• A NEW PUZZLE EVERY DAY
A fresh photo to solve each day, from wildlife to world landmarks. Missed a day? Scroll back and catch up whenever you like.

• PLAY YOUR WAY
Easy shows you the finished picture first and hints as tiles fall into line. Normal tells you when a tile is in place. Hard gives you no hints at all.

• PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Puzzles are cut and solved on your device. Your photos never leave it. No ads, no accounts, no data collected.

• MADE FOR EVERYONE
Full VoiceOver and Voice Control support, larger text, and a Reduce Motion option.

A calm, satisfying brain break — slide tiles, reveal photos.

Questions or ideas? Email us from the Settings screen.

## Is Slidewinder safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Slidewinder.

## Is Slidewinder legit?

Slidewinder: Sliding Puzzle has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Slidewinder is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.3.0 — 2026-11-08

Lights down, colors up: Slidewinder now has dark mode.

• DARK MODE
Easy on the eyes after sunset. Slidewinder follows your iPhone's light or dark setting automatically, or you can choose Light or Dark in Settings. Every screen has been tuned for the dark, so even the moodiest night-sky puzzles stand out.

• SLIDE A WHOLE ROW AT ONCE
Tap or drag any tile in line with the gap, and every tile between them slides together. Fewer moves, faster solves.

• SMOOTHER MOVES
Tapped tiles now glide into place instead of jumping.

• BIGGER TEXT, BETTER FIT
Headers, the day picker and buttons now make room for the largest text sizes. At accessibility sizes, press and hold a floating button to see its name up close.

• FIXES
- Solved photos no longer stay black and white in your gallery.
- Your puzzle progress is kept safe when you update the app.
- A smoother hop between your gallery and a puzzle.

### 1.2.0 — 2026-10-25

Everyone gets to play!

This update is all about making the puzzle work for more people, however you use your iPhone or iPad:

VoiceOver: every tile, button and puzzle status is now read aloud, so you can solve the whole board without looking.
Voice Control: move tiles and get around the app just by speaking.
Larger Text: menus and dialogs now grow with your text size, and nothing gets cut off.
Reduce Motion: if you've turned it on, the animations calm right down.

We'd love to hear from you! If something feels clunky, or there's a feature you'd like, tap Email in the Feedback section of Settings and tell us. 

Thanks for playing!

### 1.1.0 — 2026-10-16

Three difficulty levels. Choose Easy, Medium or Hard to match how much help you want. The first time you play, a short welcome screen helps you pick one. You can change the difficulty at any time from the settings screen.

### 1.0.0 — 2026-10-08

No release notes.

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