Life vs Oxytone
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!
Oxytone
Embark on a unique puzzle adventure designed for relaxation and mental exploration. Master strategic tile placement to create long paths and impressive combinations, with 99 challenges and unlockable themes for a deep, engaging experience.
- Unique puzzle adventure
- Tranquil escape
- 99 challenges
- Unlockable colorful themes
- 12 meticulously designed maps
- Strategic tile placement
- Immersive sound design
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Are you ready for a unique adventure like no other? Oxytone invites you to explore the depths of your mind while offering a tranquil escape from the hustle and bustle of everyday life for those seeking relaxation. For more determined players, there are 99 challenges, colorful themes to unlock, and 12 meticulously designed maps. Oxytone is the ultimate puzzle game, equally easy to learn and challenging to master. Strive for the highest scores by creating the longest paths and achieving impressive combinations. Every move matters, and success depends on strategy and planning. You can discard tiles that don't fit your plan, but this reduces your pool of available tiles. To refresh it, you must fill tiles by guiding paths through them six times, deepening the mechanics further. Sound is an integral part of Oxytone, so I recommend playing with headphones. This will immerse you even deeper into the game. The sound design has been crafted with great care to create a unique and relaxing atmosphere, yet it can also deliver powerful moments when needed.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Oxytone at 75% against Life's 33%. Oxytone also leads on rating (4.5 vs 4.0) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 39 months). Life's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On price, ads 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. Oxytone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Life asks for nothing beyond the download.
Oxytone holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Oxytone has 99 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 75% of Oxytone's.
Life ships an update every 39 months, Oxytone every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Life | Oxytone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 4.5 (99 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 75.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 99 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jo Albright | OxGames Kamil Wdowczyk |
Customer experience
Life
Oxytone
Bugs and requests
Life
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Oxytone
Reported bugs
7 issues- Game crashes and refuses to reopen
- Progress lost when leaving app mid-game
- Achievement unlock not triggering (Quick Mode)
- Trophy not awarded for completed challenges
- Freezing on iPad Pro, especially with Apple Pencil
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- Camera reset toggle not functioning
- Save feature unreliable
Requested features
12 requests- Tutorial or instructional videos explaining gameplay
- Ability to save mid-game progress
- Quick replay/restart button without menu navigation
- Zoom out feature to see more of the board
- Replay functionality to review completed puzzles
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- Community connection feature for sharing hints
- Preview colors before unlocking
- Select which unlocked colors appear in rotation
- More levels and challenges
- Relax/free-play mode without move limits
- Faster load times between games
- Cross-device purchase synchronization
In-app purchases
Life
No in-app purchases
Oxytone
- Full version$5.99
