Comparison

Ballz vs Memory Castle

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

Head to head
About

Ballz

A casual game where you swipe to launch balls and break blocks. Aim to clear as many bricks as possible before they reach the bottom. Collect items to create powerful ball chains and achieve high scores.

Highlights
  • Swipe to launch balls
  • Break bricks
  • Collect items for ball chains
  • Endless gameplay
  • Challenge friends
Features
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Relax your brain with the champion of time killer! Swipe your finger to throw the balls and break the bricks. Try to break as many bricks as possible before they move down to the bottom.  Collect all the items to get additional balls and make an endless ball chain! The level of bricks will be increased after each round you throw the balls. Very easy to play but very hard to reach high scores. Don't forget the angle is the key point! Game Features: ◉ Free to play ◉ Endless gameplay ◉ Simple ball control ◉ Challenge your friends with the best highscore

About

Memory Castle

Features
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Memory Castle turns the oldest memory trick in the world into a game. Long before notebooks and phones, Greek and Roman speakers memorized whole speeches by imagining a building and placing each idea in a room. Memory champions still use it today. It's called the memory palace, or the method of loci, and it works because your brain is brilliant at remembering places. HOW IT WORKS • Step into a hand-painted room and study where each object sits. • Tap each one and picture it there. The more vivid and absurd, the better it sticks. • The room empties. Drag every object back to the exact spot where it belongs. • Get it perfect and the room grows by one more object. Master the room and climb on. 20 HAND-PAINTED ROOMS From a sleeping pod under star charts to a treehouse strung with lights, every room is its own little world, with objects you won't find anywhere else in the castle. THE GATEKEEPER Every three rooms, the Gatekeeper blocks the stairs. To pass, rebuild all three rooms from memory, back to back, with no hints. Pass and your climb is saved. Slip and you'll have to earn your way back up. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Story Mode: Climb the castle room by room. Miss once and you get one more try. Miss again and you head back to the start of that part of the castle. Pick up from any room you've reached on the castle map. • Timed Mode: Every room arrives fully set up, revealed object by object on a clock you set from 1 to 7 seconds. One slip ends the run. • Endless Mode: Rooms keep coming, and after each one you rebuild every room so far. The load keeps growing. How deep can you go? PLAY YOUR WAY • Easy, Medium or Hard: 4, 5 or 6 objects per room, chosen separately for each mode. • A calm original soundtrack. Pick your favorite song or let it play at random. • Made for iPhone and iPad, and for the foldable iPhone, folded or open, in any orientation. • Plays completely offline. No account and no sign-in. • Nine languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese, switchable any time. • A short walkthrough teaches each mode the first time you play it. TIPS FROM THE MEMORY PALACE • Make it strange. A thermometer dancing on the shelf is easier to recall than a thermometer sitting there. • Use your senses. Imagine the sound, the smell, the weight of each object. • Walk the room in order. Go left to right, the same way every time. • Rest, then review. The Gatekeeper rewards rooms you've revisited in your mind. FAIR AND SIMPLE Story rooms 1 to 3 are free to play. Unlock the rest with small one-time purchases: All Rooms, Endless Mode, Timed Mode, or All Access for everything. No subscriptions, no ads, no energy meters asking you to wait, and no personal data collected. WHO IT'S FOR • Students who want a better way to learn for exams. • Puzzle fans looking for a calm challenge that rewards focus, not speed. (Unless you pick Timed.) • Anyone who walks into a room and forgets why. Start here. • Families: no ads, no chat, nothing to sign up for. A SKILL THAT STAYS WITH YOU The memory palace isn't just for games. Once you've built a few rooms in Memory Castle, you'll have a technique you can use for shopping lists, names, speeches and study, long after you put your phone down. Twenty rooms. One Gatekeeper after another. How far can you go?

Screenshots

Ballz4 screens
Memory Castle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Memory Castle at none against Ballz's shown. Ballz's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 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. Ballz sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Memory Castle sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Ballz versus Memory Castle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBallzMemory Castle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (71K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews45.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings71K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB68 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKetchappALARIC CORBIN

Bugs and requests

Ballz

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Balls getting stuck or not behaving as expected
  • Inconsistent performance and frame rate drops
  • Continued ads appearing even after purchase

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add a confirmation prompt before restarting
  • Implement a 'skip to end' or 'fast forward' option
  • Introduce new game modes or challenges
  • Allow spending in-game currency on more useful items

Memory Castle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Ballz

One-time10
  • 200 Rings$0.99
  • 10 Extra Lives$0.99
  • 500 Rings$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Remove ads$2.99
  • 900 Rings$2.99
  • 30 Extra Lives$2.99
  • No Ads Basic$3.99
  • No Ads Premium Variation$4.99
  • 50 Extra Lives$4.99
  • No Ads Premium$5.99
5 purchases

Memory Castle

One-time5
  • Endless Mode$0.99
  • All Rooms$0.99
  • Timed Mode$0.99
Show 2 more
  • Complete the Castle$0.99
  • All Access$1.99

Questions

Is Ballz free?
Ballz is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Memory Castle free?
Memory Castle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ballz or Memory Castle have ads?
Ballz shows ads; Memory Castle does not.

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