hocus. vs btw
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
hocus.
Engage with a collection of mind-bending puzzles featuring impossible shapes. Create and share your own levels, or get assistance from AI when you're stuck. Explore both handcrafted challenges and an endless mode.
- 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
- Create and share custom levels
- Load levels from pictures
- Endless mode
- AI-assisted gameplay
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hocus. is celebrating 10th year; Let artificial intelligence design new levels for you. You can even get help from her if you get stuck. Best Games on iPhone; Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Middle East New, polished, mind-bending, impossible shapes. Features: • 120 mind-bending hand-craft levels • Create/share your own levels • Load / take picture of levels cards • Endless mode • Shortest path algorithm
btw
Navigate a minimalist maze by collecting circles. You must strategically switch light colors to reveal paths and collect all objectives before exiting the level. Offers a relaxing yet challenging puzzle experience with numerous unique stages.
- Collect all circles
- Switch light colors
- Exit the field
- 88 unique levels
- Simple and user-friendly design
- Relaxing sound and music
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Engaing, innovative, minimal puzzle game with dozens of levels. The aim is simple: you need to move through the field and pickup all the circles. The problem is they are visible only on one of two colors – that's why you should use toggles to switch the light. *** How to play *** The design is simple and there are different levels. A color line will enter in the field made of squares. The user needs to drag the line to collect the circles appear in that field. After collecting all the circles you need to exit from the field. After that, you will be on next level. You can also shift the line backward side. Gather all the circles and pass on next level. *** Features *** • 88 unique levels • Easy to play to refresh mind • No target based labyrinth game • Simple & user-friendly design • You can mute sound & music in the setting option • Labyrinth game with lots of different levels • Relaxing sound and music Play btw and become great witness in the route game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: btw at free against hocus.'s paid. btw also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (900 vs 234). hocus.'s advantage is chart position (#55 vs unranked) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
hocus. costs $1.99 and btw $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
btw holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 234 and 900 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of hocus.'s written reviews are positive against 86% of btw's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, btw every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | hocus. | btw |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (234 ratings) | 4.6 (900 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 85.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 234 | 900 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #55 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI | Oleksandr Kozlov |
Customer experience
hocus.
btw
Bugs and requests
hocus.
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
btw
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incompatibility with certain devices
- Inability to complete certain levels
Requested features
3 requests- Hint system or level solutions
- Landscape mode support
- Progress sync across devices
In-app purchases
hocus.
No in-app purchases
btw
No in-app purchases
