Piece Out vs Contraptix
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Piece Out
Engage your mind with a unique puzzle game that involves flipping, sliding, and spinning blocks. Enjoy over 50 pages of puzzles with a new challenging one daily, all without time pressure. Hints are available if you get stuck.
- Flip, slide, and spin blocks
- Over 50 puzzle pages
- Daily extra-hard puzzles
- No time limit or pressure
- Hint system available
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Exercise a piece of your mind while you exercise your peace of mind as you flip, slide and spin. Introducing: Piece Out — a new innovative puzzle game from the creators of hit games DUET and Basket Fall. Simple Rules • Slide to move • Tap to rotate or flip! Packed with puzzles! • Over 50 pages of puzzles. • Plus, a new extra-hard puzzle every day! Just Relax and Solve • There's no time limit and zero pressure — just some blocks and your brain. • Stuck? Hints are available for every puzzle.
Contraptix
Engage in a physics-based puzzle game where you complete unfinished machines by adding missing parts. Solve over 300 levels with unique mechanics and compete in daily challenges.
- Chain reaction physics puzzles
- 300 levels across 75 stages
- Daily challenge with leaderboards
- Free mode for creative building
- Community-created maps
- Offline play
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Place ramps, gears, magnets, balloons and rockets, press Play and watch every piece set off the next one. Contraptix is a physics puzzle game where every level is an unfinished machine: you add the missing parts and real physics decides whether it works. 300 LEVELS ACROSS 75 STAGES Start with simple chain reactions and finish with huge machines full of belts, pulleys, pipes, switches and timers. Every stage introduces a new part. A THOUSAND WAYS TO SOLVE IT There's no single answer. There's always a spare part on purpose: choosing well is part of the puzzle. Use few parts and be quick to earn all three stars. PARTS WITH PERSONALITY Bouncing balls, gears passing on their spin, fans, scissors that cut ropes, boxing gloves, light bulbs, cannons, trampolines and a mouse running in its wheel. Plus lasers and mirrors, portals, springs, electromagnets, dynamite and upside-down gravity zones. DAILY CHALLENGE A new puzzle every day. Fewest parts wins; on a tie, the fastest. Compete on the world and country leaderboards. FREE MODE Build whatever you like with every part you've discovered. COMMUNITY Build your own maps in Free mode, remove some parts and publish them as a challenge. Play other players' maps, rate them and climb the community and creator leaderboards. ACHIEVEMENTS Unlock achievements and compete on the Game Center leaderboard. PLAY YOUR WAY No sign-up, plays offline. Link Google or Apple whenever you like and your progress follows you to any phone. Available in 9 languages. Contraptix is free, with ads and optional in-app purchases (coins for hints and removing ads).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Piece Out at 4.6 against Contraptix's 4.0. Piece Out also leads on ratings volume (1.3K vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). Contraptix's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Piece Out sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Contraptix sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Piece Out holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Piece Out has 1.3K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Piece Out ships an update every 5 weeks, Contraptix every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Piece Out | Contraptix |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.3K ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 69 MB | 69 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kumobius | Roberto Diaz |
Customer experience
Piece Out
Contraptix
Bugs and requests
Piece Out
Reported bugs
2 issues- Certain movement constraints not intuitive
- Game sometimes automatically downloads without user action
Requested features
4 requests- Minimum move counter
- Separate volume controls for music and sound effects
- Easy restart option for puzzles
- Ability to save and revisit daily puzzles
Contraptix
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Piece Out
- Premium$0.99
Contraptix
- Bag of coins$0.99
- Chest of coins$2.99
- Remove ads$2.99
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- Coin treasure$5.99
