Comparison

fade! vs Zen Match

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

Head to head
About

fade!

A relaxing yet challenging puzzle game where tapping rings clears fog and saves fish. It offers a Zen-like experience designed to engage both your eyes and brain.

Highlights
  • Simple tap-to-score gameplay
  • Clear fog
  • Save fishes
  • Relaxing puzzle
  • Challenging gameplay
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A relaxing puzzle from Ell Tee! The game play is so simple: Tap any ring to score! Let's push back the fog & save the fishes in this Zen Game! fade! is a puzzle for relaxing, while extremely challenging at the same time! (both eyes & brain) Thanks for playing fade!, Ell Tee

About

Zen Match

A classic match-3 puzzle game with unique time management and quick thinking mechanics. Combine fruits to create boosters, clear the board, and compete on a worldwide leaderboard. Enjoy endless replayability with a randomly generated map system.

Highlights
  • Randomly generated maps
  • Time management gameplay
  • Map-clearing boosters
  • Worldwide leaderboard
  • Quick thinking rewards
  • Spin button to refresh board
Features
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A classic match-3 game with unique mechanics. Experience endless fun with the randomly asserted generator which guarantees that you shall never see the same map twice in your life. Unique gameplay based on time management and quick thinking brings freshness to an everlasting classic gameplay. Combine fruits in order to get incredible map-clearing boosters and increase the time limit! Features: — New World-Wide Leaderboard — Fascinating booster animations — Rewards for quick thinking — Refresh the board using the Spin button Zen Match is absolutely free to play, however it requires the user to log in (with Facebook or SignIn with Apple) and have internet connection in order to participate in the leaderboard. The option to continue a game is also present if the user decides to watch a short advertisement after running out of time.

Screenshots

fade!3 screens
Zen Match3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zen Match at none against fade!'s 1. Zen Match also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, 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

Both are free to download. fade! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Zen Match asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
fade! versus Zen Match: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterfade!Zen Match
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (107 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings107 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS8.1 — better9.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB40 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTopeboxWild Pluto

Customer experience

fade!

All ratings107 ratings
Positive84.1%
Neutral5.6%
Negative10.3%
Written reviews41 reviews
Positive82.9%
Neutral4.9%
Negative12.2%

Zen Match

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

fade!

One-time1
  • Remove Ads!$1.99
None

Zen Match

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is fade! free?
fade! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zen Match free?
Zen Match is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do fade! or Zen Match have ads?
Neither fade! nor Zen Match shows ads.

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