Life vs black (game)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Life
Create and explore Conway's Game of Life simulations. Save and reuse your custom patterns, with the ability to pause, play, and clear the simulation board. Future updates will bring even more features.
- Conway's Game of Life simulation
- Create reusable patterns
- Pause and play simulations
- Clear simulation board
- Persistent patterns
- User feedback for features
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Explore and create Game of Life simulations. This app follows the laws of Conway's Game of Life, while allowing you to create reusable patterns, pause and play, clear the board, and more coming soon. Patterns are persistent even if you remove the app from background, to keep you from having to re-input them. Please send me feedback for features!
black (game)
Solve 50 unique puzzle levels by making the entire screen black. Each level presents a distinct logical challenge. Hints are available to guide you through the game.
- 50 unique puzzle levels
- Each level has its own logic
- Hint system available
- Ad-free hint option via in-app purchase
- Part of a color puzzle game series
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The sequel to my 'yellow' and 'red' games is here! Can you make the screen black in 50 levels? Each level has its own logic. Do you need help? Use the light bulb button that will appear after a while in the top right of each level to get a hint. There are multiple hints for each level. With the in-app purchase you will not get ads before the hints. This is the third game in my color puzzle series. There are already 7 color games each with 50 new levels. Enjoy! @BartBonte
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: black (game) at 95% against Life's 33%. black (game) also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 39 months). Life's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. black (game) sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Life asks for nothing beyond the download.
black (game) holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: black (game) has 549 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Life's written reviews are positive against 95% of black (game)'s.
Life ships an update every 39 months, black (game) every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Life | black (game) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.8 (549 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 95.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 549 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jo Albright | Bart BONTE |
Customer experience
Life
black (game)
Bugs and requests
Life
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
black (game)
Reported bugs
2 issues- Level 46 glitching
- Inability to update consent settings
Requested features
3 requests- More color-themed games (e.g. orange, purple, white)
- Option to skip levels
- Ability to reset game progress
In-app purchases
Life
No in-app purchases
black (game)
- premium unlock$2.49
