Comparison

Radiant Grid vs Serialogic

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

Head to head
About

Radiant Grid

A calming puzzle game featuring 99 handcrafted levels with increasing difficulty. Players tap squares to light a path across a grid, following number clues to solve each challenge. Enjoy a soothing soundtrack and a beautiful, minimalist design.

Highlights
  • 99 challenging handcrafted levels
  • Mindful and relaxing gameplay
  • Ambient soundtrack
  • Simple tap controls
  • Increasing difficulty curve
Features
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A mindful, relaxing puzzle game with 99 increasingly challenging, handcrafted levels. Simple to play but not so simple to complete! Immerse yourself in the soothing ambient soundtrack and focus on solving the grid. “Quite simply one of the most beautiful puzzle games I have ever played. The design is simple, yet aesthetically pleasing, and the soundtrack is a wonderful sonic wash that perfectly compliments the gameplay. The puzzles themselves are well pitched. The introductory rounds are small enough to lend themselves to both a studied approach or random tapping. They gradually ramp up the difficulty level, and with so many to work through, there is great value for money to be had." - an App Store customer from the UK. How to play: Start at the origin and tap the squares to light a path across the grid. There’s just one rule! The numbers scattered across the grid tell you how many squares you must light up around each one to solve the puzzle… and that’s where the skill comes in!

About

Serialogic

This logic puzzle game challenges players to optimize their moves to solve color-sorting levels. It provides the minimum number of moves required, turning each level into an optimization problem. Enjoy a vast collection of levels with no ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Minimum move solutions provided
  • Optimization-based gameplay
  • 350 levels across 7 tiers
  • No ads or subscriptions
  • Offline play
  • Accessibility features
  • Progress sync via iCloud
Features
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The perfect move exists. It is shown. Serialogic prints the smallest number of moves that solves the level at the top of the screen, while you play. An exact solver found that number before the level shipped. You are no longer looking for a solution. You are looking for the solution. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT In an ordinary sorting game every solution is worth the same, so tapping until it works out is enough. Here the minimum is known and announced, which turns each level into an optimisation problem. The board also shows, before you commit, how many tokens each destination would take — information the genre simply does not give you. This is golf, not fumbling. THE RULES, IN FOUR LINES Coloured tokens sit mixed across vertical threads. Move the token at the end of a thread onto an empty thread, or onto a token of the same colour. A run of identical adjacent tokens moves as one move, up to the space available. You win when every colour is gathered in full on a single thread. WHAT YOU GET 350 levels across 7 tiers, from three colours on five threads to eight colours on ten. Difficulty climbs inside each tier as much as from one tier to the next. The first three tiers — 150 of the 350 levels — are proven free of dead ends. Every reachable position was enumerated, not sampled. Beyond that a dead end is possible, and a safety net checks after each move that a win is still within reach, telling you the moment it is not. A single undo always brings you back. Undo is free, unlimited, and costs no star. Only the moves of your final solution count. There is no timer anywhere in the app: a clock beside a move count would push you to hurry on a dimension that measures nothing. Nine themes in light and dark, six typefaces, forty-four languages. Progress syncs through iCloud. Game Center achievements and leaderboards. WHAT IS NOT IN IT No advertising, and there never will be. No subscription. No account. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDK of any kind. No network request is ever made: all 350 levels ship inside the app and play in airplane mode, from the first level to the last. The first 150 levels are complete and cost nothing. They sit entirely inside the proven-safe range, so a player who has not paid cannot get stuck. The remaining 200 unlock with a single purchase, once. Nothing recurring. BUILT TO BE READ Six typefaces including OpenDyslexic and Andika, applied to the whole interface. VoiceOver on every thread, announcing each token's colour and fill. Dynamic Type. Reduced motion. Token fill — disc or ring — already tells half the colours apart without relying on colour at all, and a colour-blind mode replaces green with violet. iPhone and iPad on iOS 17 or later, Mac on macOS 14 or later. One purchase covers all three. Serialogic is the fourth in a family of Bauhaus logic games, after KubiLogic, LineaLogic and Tektologic. Privacy policy: https://www.michaeldardol.com/serialogic/en/privacy/ Questions and bug reports: michael@caliapps.fr

Screenshots

Radiant Grid4 screens
Serialogic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Serialogic at Free against Radiant Grid's $1.99. Serialogic also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 months). Radiant Grid's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

Serialogic is free to download; Radiant Grid costs $1.99 up front. Serialogic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Radiant Grid asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Serialogic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Radiant Grid has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Radiant Grid ships an update every 6 months, Serialogic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Radiant Grid versus Serialogic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRadiant GridSerialogic
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (15 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOpen Planet Softwaremichael dardol

Customer experience

Radiant Grid

All ratings15 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive85.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.0%

Serialogic

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Radiant Grid

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Serialogic

One-time1
  • Same-Color Series$4.99

Questions

Is Radiant Grid free?
Radiant Grid costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Serialogic free?
Serialogic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Radiant Grid or Serialogic?
Serialogic is rated higher. Radiant Grid averages 4.2 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Serialogic averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Radiant Grid or Serialogic have ads?
Neither Radiant Grid nor Serialogic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Radiant Grid or Serialogic?
Radiant Grid ships an update every 6 months, and Serialogic every 2 weeks. Most recently, Radiant Grid was updated on October 24, 2026 and Serialogic on October 29, 2026.

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