Comparison

Visual Recall Challenge vs Zanzou

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Visual Recall Challenge

Test your visual memory with this addictive puzzle game. Memorize patterns and match images through increasingly difficult levels. Improve your concentration and visual retention skills while having fun.

Highlights
  • Visual memory testing
  • Pattern memorization
  • Image matching
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Concentration training
  • Visual retention improvement
Features
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How good is your visual memory? Visual Recall Challenge is a simple game with a surprisingly difficult challenge: memorize the highlighted tiles, then recreate the pattern from memory. It starts easy. But every successful round pushes your memory further with bigger grids and more tiles to remember. TEST YOUR VISUAL MEMORY Watch the pattern carefully. When it disappears, tap the tiles you remember. Make too many mistakes and your run is over. TAKE ON SEQUENCE CHALLENGES Remembering the right tiles isn't always enough. In Sequence Challenges, tiles appear one at a time and you must repeat them in the correct order. HOW FAR CAN YOU GO? • Progress through increasingly difficult grids • Memorize larger and more challenging patterns • Test your sequence memory • Beat your personal best • Compete on the leaderboard • Challenge your focus and concentration • Play quick games anytime Every run is another chance to beat your record. Can you remember one more tile than last time?

About

Zanzou

Features
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Zanzou is a minimal brain trainer for working memory. Colored shapes, characters, and digits flash briefly, then vanish. Four choices test what you saw. As levels climb, stimuli multiply, distractors appear, and questions sharpen. You fight with the residue. 〔Modes〕 • Levels 1–100 — graduated difficulty. Question types unlock by phase. • Daily Challenge — five seeded questions per day, with a weekday twist. • Endless — runs until three mistakes. Difficulty adapts. • Position — track which of 9 cells held each stimulus. 〔v2 additions〕 • Six modifiers — Blurred, Mute, Delayed, Silent, Strobe, and Reverse reshape later rounds. All are free. • Combo system — chain correct answers from WARM through FOCUSED to ZONE. Up to 2× score. • Adaptive difficulty — Endless and Position respond to your form. • Daily Twist — different constraints Monday through Saturday. Tomorrow's twist previewed today. • Streak flame — quiet count of consecutive days played. • Result share image — score and stimulus row, ready for social. • Immediate-correct highlight — the right answer outlines green the moment you tap. • In-review stimulus replay — each question's stimulus row in the recap. 〔20 question types〕 Nth stimulus / Nth color / Nth position / Was present / First or last / Reverse order / Color-shape separation / Count / Same or different / Stroop conflict / Missing item / Adjacency / Position / Combined / Digit sum / Most frequent / Excluded / Reversal / False memory trap / Attribute count. 〔Memory Age〕 Computed from accuracy and speed. Practice trims years. 〔ZANZOU+ ($4.99)〕 Master+ course (Lv.101+) and ad removal. One-time. 〔Remove Ads ($2.99)〕 Hides banner and interstitial. One-time. 〔31 languages〕 Japanese, English, Arabic, German, Spanish, French, Korean, Chinese (Simplified & Traditional), Hindi, Russian, and more. Works offline. No account needed. Privacy Policy: https://kazusa703.github.io/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://kazusa703.github.io/terms.html Support: https://kazusa703.github.io/support.html

Screenshots

Visual Recall Challenge4 screens
Zanzou4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Visual Recall Challenge at none against Zanzou's shown. Visual Recall Challenge also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Visual Recall Challenge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Zanzou sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Visual Recall Challenge ships an update every 2 months, Zanzou every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Visual Recall Challenge versus Zanzou: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisual Recall ChallengeZanzou
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size36 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMagicDevs LLCatsuko imai

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Visual Recall Challenge

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$3.99
1 purchases

Zanzou

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Visual Recall Challenge free?
Visual Recall Challenge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zanzou free?
Zanzou is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Visual Recall Challenge or Zanzou have ads?
Zanzou shows ads; Visual Recall Challenge does not.
Which is updated more often, Visual Recall Challenge or Zanzou?
Visual Recall Challenge ships an update every 2 months, and Zanzou every 5 weeks. Most recently, Visual Recall Challenge was updated on October 16, 2026 and Zanzou on October 8, 2026.

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