Comparison

Maze Zen vs Dialwell

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

Head to head
About

Maze Zen

Guide a ball through circular mazes by tilting your device. This meditative game encourages focus, mindfulness, and finding inner peace. Unlock wisdom from great thinkers as you progress.

Highlights
  • Tilt-based gameplay
  • Meditative experience
  • Focus and balance training
  • Wisdom from thinkers
  • Mindfulness moments
  • Color mood customization
Features
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Maze Zen – Find Your Center, Find Yourself Tilt. Glide. Breathe. With every subtle shift of your device, your world slows down, and your focus sharpens. In Maze Zen, the journey is as essential as the destination—a tranquil dance between motion and stillness, where you guide a lone ball to the heart of a circular maze. Like meditation, Maze Zen invites you to silence the noise, draw inward, and awaken the present moment. Each level is a passage not just through the maze, but through your own inner landscape. The twist and turn of the labyrinth mirror the winding paths of life. The ball you guide? A reflection of your mind—restless, seeking, but destined to find its still center. “When the player finds their center, wisdom blooms.” - Autonomous Arriving at the goal, you’re greeted by words of insight from great minds—philosophers, zen masters, and sages—reminding you that truth lies in simplicity. These reflections gently guide you toward clarity and deeper understanding, encouraging you to carry that wisdom into your life beyond the game. The movements in Maze Zen are more than mechanics—they are moments of mindfulness. In the space between tilts, you reconnect with your breath. In the stillness of the center, you glimpse a spark of something profound—a quiet sense of belonging, a reminder that the answers are already within you. Why play Maze Zen? - Experience the calm of a meditative journey anytime, anywhere. - Train your mind to focus and find balance amid chaos. - Unlock profound reflections from the wisest thinkers, one maze at a time. - Evoke a sense of peace and purpose in your daily routine. In a world that rushes, Maze Zen offers pause. In a world full of distractions, it offers focus. And in a world of endless noise, it offers silence. Let go of haste. Embrace the journey. Download Maze Zen today and discover that the act of finding your center—both in the game and in life—may be the truest path toward peace. Your journey to understanding begins with a simple tilt. Will you find your way? ========================================== TIPS - TIP: On Apple Watch, Tinker with the Digital Crown to find your color mood. - TIP: On iPhone, Pinch the screen on iPhone to find your color mood. - TIP: On older Apple Watches, in Apple Watch Settings, enable Wake for 70s for best results and fiddle with the digital crown to keep playing.

About

Dialwell

Features
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Every block is a material, and materials do not sit still. Water washes soil away. Magma bakes clay into stone, then turns to obsidian the moment it meets water. Copper ignites vermilite. Ice dams a channel until magma melts it. Over forty materials, each with a trait that fires when a piece locks or you smash it down. ADVENTURE — 30 STAGES Descend from the Surface, through the Deep, to the Core. Every stage opens with terrain already in the well and asks for something specific. • Wash the soil, chip the stone, spark the vermilite, wither the moss • A vault at the end of each ten-stage arc • Progress saved stage by stage THE BENCH • One tool per run: pickaxe, hammer, shears, tongs, shovel • Every smash wears its durability and rolls its chance • Craft TNT from one to four cells, and flasks that paint the falling piece • Draw your own bar inside a 4x4 grid • Carry up to three relics — lantern, whistle, compass, satchel FOUR MORE WAYS TO PLAY • Shaft — the stack carries across stages. Leave, and resume at that depth • Well Clear — four layers at once, five times over • Crownwell — twenty layers, gravity climbing. Crown and wrist • Today's Well — the same stages and the same bag for everyone, once a day • This week's well — five shafts, no relics. Times go to Game Center THE GARDEN — AND THREE MORE PLACES Blocks you mine are spent here, raising a floating island under Home. Finish the garden — cabin, waterfall, birch — and the quarry opens, then the farm, then the hollow. • Building spends the blocks it asks for. What you used to hoard, you now put down • One place has to be finished before the next opens. Arrows by the title walk between them • Water runs, lava creeps, and the farm's windmill turns • Any block an island is built from can be repainted with another you have mined • Drag to turn it, let go, and it drifts APPLE WATCH, IF YOU WANT IT The board stays on iPhone and iPad. The Watch is a dial, not a second screen. • Turn the Digital Crown to move one cell • Tap to rotate, swipe down to drop, long-press or flick to smash • Lower your wrist and the game pauses • Wrist tilt is optional. Motion is read on the Watch and never reaches the phone The whole game plays by touch, with no Watch at all. ACCESSIBILITY AND SETTINGS High-contrast patterns for colour vision, invertible dial, adjustable move delay and repeat, separate music and effect volumes, VoiceOver labels throughout. 18 languages. NO DIALWELL ACCOUNT Nothing to sign up for and no Dialwell server. This week's well-clear time can go to Game Center if you are signed in with Apple; the rest of the game does not need it. Full-screen ads appear only on the way back to Home, from the second game onward, at most once every two minutes — never during play, never on results, never on the Watch. A single Remove Ads purchase turns them off for good, and Restore Purchases sits on the same screen. Questions or a bug: dive2ice@me.com

Screenshots

Maze Zen4 screens
Dialwell4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Maze Zen at none against Dialwell's shown. Maze Zen also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Maze Zen sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Dialwell sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Maze Zen versus Dialwell: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMaze ZenDialwell
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (79 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews15.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings79 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS9.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB56 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAutonomouskim seongjin

Bugs and requests

Maze Zen

Reported bugs

31 issues
  • Crashes on iOS 15.1
  • Abruptly shuts down and returns to Home Screen
  • Crashes every time the game is opened
  • Kicks user out of the game after completing a level
  • Ball disappears on iPhone due to sharp corners not being displayed
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  • App doesn't open after a few levels
  • Blacks out back to the iPhone home screen
  • Crashes mid-game or on open
  • Takes user to home screen and refuses to restart
  • Fails to load after the third round
  • Crashes on the second maze
  • App won't launch and returns to home screen
  • Crashes after five levels
  • App stops opening
  • Crashes every time after reaching level 4
  • Game aborted and refuses to run after a specific level
  • Watch app has a twisted gyroscope sensor
  • Watch app display turns off after a few seconds
  • Crashes after 3-4 rounds
  • Crashes after level 4
  • Crashes after the 3rd maze and never works again
  • Crashes after 2 levels
  • Crashes after 3 games and won't restart
  • Immediately crashes on iPhone XS Max
  • Crashes after completing the third level and never launches again
  • Blacks out and shuts down after 4 levels
  • Keeps closing as soon as it opens
  • Bombs after the first and second maze
  • Crashes after every first puzzle
  • Ads streaming at the bottom after purchase
  • Paid for an app with ads

Requested features

6 requests
  • Fix crashing issues
  • Add more time to read quotes
  • Allow game reset
  • Improve ball physics and responsiveness
  • Prevent watch display from turning off
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  • Make color changing easier

Dialwell

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Maze Zen

One-time1
  • Create and Play Community Mazes and Meditations$0.99
1 purchases

Dialwell

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Maze Zen free?
Maze Zen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Dialwell free?
Dialwell is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Maze Zen or Dialwell have ads?
Dialwell shows ads; Maze Zen does not.

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