Cartoonacy vs Brain Test
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cartoonacy
This game challenges players to decipher humorous cartoons that represent common words or phrases. Gather friends and family to solve visual puns and enjoy guaranteed laughter. Hints and letter reveals are available to assist players.
- Humorous cartoons
- Challenging puzzles
- Verbal hints
- Remove unused letters
- Reveal first letter
- Game Center Leaderboard
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The creators of Chain of Thought have teamed up with world renowned cartoonist Mike Clelland to bring you "Cartoonacy - the Game of Visual Puns." Each cartoon humorously depicts a common word or phrase. Gather your friends and family and see if you can solve all the puzzles. We guarantee you'll laugh yourselves silly trying! FEATURES: *Humorous cartoons *Challenging puzzles *Game Center Leaderboard *Need a little help? Then... *Get a verbal hint *Remove unused letters *Reveal the first letter of the answer Best wishes, Jay & Julia Bacal
Brain Test
This game challenges your vocabulary and recognition skills by presenting picture puzzles. Guess the word based on the image, offering a unique and tricky word game experience. It's a fun way to exercise your brain and improve your puzzle-solving abilities.
- Picture puzzles
- Word guessing
- Tricky challenges
- Hint system
- Offline play
- Family-friendly puzzles
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If you are bored with too easy and simple word games, try Brain Test – Tricky Words for a real challenge. In this game, each level shows a picture puzzle and you must guess the word just by looking at the picture. This is the real dingbat experience. Brain Test – Tricky Words takes the dingbat genre to a whole new level with beautiful visuals and more tricky puzzles. You will be forced to use all of your vocabulary power to guess the words. After each level, you will gain new puzzle skills and improve your recognition skills. If you like rebus, red herring or dingbat puzzles, you will love this game. Brain Test – Tricky Words combines the tricky and funny side of Brain Test with a picture puzzle word game. This combination creates a completely new and unique game experience for tricky puzzle and word game lovers. Game Features ● Tricky puzzle pictures ● Great brain & word exercise ● Hint and Help systems to help along the way ● Unique word puzzles ● Relaxing gameplay ● Brain teaser levels ● The highly successful Brain Test formula ● Can be played with one hand ● Can be played offline ● Completely free, no hidden costs or fees ● Clean and safe puzzles suitable for family play Download Brain Test: Tricky Words now and get into a whole new experience of dingbat puzzles! For more information, please visit https://support.apple.com/HT207865 for more information If there is questions contact us unico@unicogames.co Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Privacy Policy: https://unicostudio.co/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://unicostudio.co/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Brain Test at 4.7 against Cartoonacy's 3.9. Brain Test also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 15 months) and ratings volume (6.5K vs 14). Cartoonacy's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (68% vs 42%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Cartoonacy sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Brain Test sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Brain Test holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Test has 6.5K ratings behind it against 14, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Cartoonacy's written reviews are positive against 42% of Brain Test's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cartoonacy ships an update every 15 months, Brain Test monthly. Both last shipped on November 11, 2026.
| Parameter | Cartoonacy | Brain Test |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (14 ratings) | 4.7 (6.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.4% of reviews — better | 42.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 | 6.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 91 MB | 195 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jay Bacal | UNICO STUDIO |
Customer experience
Cartoonacy
Brain Test
Bugs and requests
Cartoonacy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Brain Test
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels restarting after ads
- Hints not working as expected
- Keyboard lag issues
Requested features
3 requests- Reduce ad frequency
- Option to pay for ad-free version
- Improve puzzle clues and logic
In-app purchases
Cartoonacy
- Puzzle Pack 2$0.99
- Puzzle Pack 3$0.99
- Puzzle Pack 4$0.99
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- Purchase 1000 Hint Coins$0.99
- Unlock All Puzzle Packs$1.99
Brain Test
- VIP3 Days trial$2.997 Days
- 250 Lamps$1.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- 500 Lamps$2.99
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- 1000 Lamps$4.99
- 2500 Lamps$9.99
- 5000 Lamps Discount$11.99
- 5000 Lamps$14.99
