Fewer vs Merge Maestro
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Fewer
Solve number puzzles by combining existing numbers with various mathematical operations. Strategize to reach the target number using the fewest possible moves. Get hints or upgrade for unlimited, randomly generated levels.
- Combine numbers with operations
- Solve puzzles with fewest moves
- In-app hints available
- Upgrade for infinite levels
- Randomly generated puzzles
- Adjustable difficulty
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This game has no ads, but it does have adds! -------------------------------------------- Can you solve these puzzles with the fewest number of moves? Fewer is an exciting math game where you try to make a number by combining existing numbers with different mathematical operations like Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, and Powers. Need help solving a level? The app can give you hints if you needs them, but be careful! You only get 10 free hints, but you can buy as many more as you'd like. Run out of levels to play? You can upgrade to infinite levels and play randomly generated puzzles to your hearts content! Infinite levels can be played at any difficulty that you choose.
Merge Maestro
Combine hundreds of unique emoji tokens in a puzzle-like, rogue-like experience. Discover creative combinations of tokens and powers to fuse unique strategies and overcome increasingly challenging levels. Enjoy a twist on puzzle, rogue-like, and arcade gameplay.
- Hundreds of unique emoji tokens
- Combo-driven gameplay
- Puzzle-like rogue-like mechanics
- Discover creative token combinations
- Fuse unique strategies
- Challenging levels
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Combine 100's of unique emoji based tokens in this combo-driven puzzle-like rogue-like! Find ever more creative combinations of Tokens and Powers to fuse unique strategies and beat this ever more challenging twist on rogue-likes, puzzlers and arcadey games!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Merge Maestro at every 9 days against Fewer's every 10 months. Merge Maestro also leads on ratings volume (144 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). Fewer's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 91%). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Fewer sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Merge Maestro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fewer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merge Maestro has 144 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Fewer's written reviews are positive against 91% of Merge Maestro's.
Fewer ships an update every 10 months, Merge Maestro every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Fewer | Merge Maestro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.8 (144 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 144 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | squishLogic | DAVID HS TING |
Customer experience
Fewer
Merge Maestro
Bugs and requests
Fewer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Merge Maestro
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on startup
- Medal tracking issues
Requested features
2 requests- Endless mode
- UI/text scale options
In-app purchases
Fewer
- 5 Hints$0.99
- Infinite Levels$1.99
- 12 Hints$1.99
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- 20 Hints$2.99
- 50 Hints$4.99
Merge Maestro
- Full Access$2.99
