Life vs Rytmos
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!
Rytmos
Solve maze puzzles to create evolving musical compositions. Explore planets, discover new sounds, and unlock musical toys. This relaxing game also offers insights into music history.
- Maze puzzle gameplay
- Music creation
- Planet exploration
- Unlockable musical toys
- Music history facts
- Expansion pack included
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Rytmos is a relaxing puzzle game, where you create music by solving maze puzzles. Travel from planet to planet and discover new music. Solve the puzzles on each side of the cubic planets and create small musical loops that slowly evolves into full music compositions. Unlock 20+ musical toys and jam on top of the planet music. Learn a bit of rare music history while playing the game. This version of the game now includes a large expansion pack.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Life at none against Rytmos's 1. Life also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.6). Rytmos's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 39 months) and ratings volume (62 vs 2). 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. Rytmos sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Life asks for nothing beyond the download.
Life holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rytmos has 62 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 33% of Life's written reviews are positive against 48% of Rytmos's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Life ships an update every 39 months, Rytmos every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Life | Rytmos |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better | 3.6 (62 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 47.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 62 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 39 months | Every 2 months — 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 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 730 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jo Albright | Floppy Club |
Customer experience
Life
Rytmos
Bugs and requests
Life
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Rytmos
Reported bugs
15 issues- App crashes on startup
- Black screen on launch
- Game freezes during purchase process
- Purchases not syncing across devices
- No sound issues
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- Levels not clickable after completion
- Graphical clipping issues
- Unintended solutions in puzzles
- Input latency in jam section
- Slider cube off-screen on certain devices/planets
- Words/text not displaying correctly
- Game not loading on older iPhones
- App closes unexpectedly
- Purchase verification issues
- Demo version not unlocking full game after purchase
Requested features
10 requests- Add multi-touch functionality for instruments
- Improve jam section responsiveness
- Allow viewing instrument history after unlock
- Port to VR
- Add more free levels or planets
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- Fix display issues with button text
- Improve clarity on how sounds overlap
- Make the game more accessible to non-musicians
- Add challenges to extend playtime
- Consider a full game with ads instead of a high upfront cost
In-app purchases
Life
No in-app purchases
Rytmos
- Unlock the galaxy$4.99
