Dingbats vs Riddle Labs
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dingbats
This game challenges your wordplay and logic skills with various puzzle types. Solve visual riddles, decipher AI-generated idioms, guess family names, and unscramble letters. It's a fun way to expand your vocabulary and train your brain.
- Solve Dingbat puzzles
- Decipher AI-generated idioms
- Guess family names
- Unscramble anagrams
- Get clues and hints
- Learn new idioms
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Read between the lines is a game where you have to solve puzzles (Dingbats, Dangbits, Mr&Mrs and Anagram puzzles). ------------ Dingbats : One puzzle, one phrase : try to identity the meaning hidden behind each drawing. Play Read between the lines and train your brain by solving the puzzles. And if you have some difficulties, you can ask for clues or help from your friends to solve those wacky wordies. Have fun recognizing or learning new idioms through the levels of the game. ------------ Dangbits : How do AIs see the world? One picture, one idiom: can you guess the meaning hidden behind each image generated by an AI? Exercise your brain by recognising or discovering many expressions. ------------ Mr & Mrs : Mr & Mrs have children. Can you guess the name of their offspring ? Try to find the right first names and create funny full names. ------------ AnaQuiz : Rearrange the letters of the anagrams to create another word or phrase. ------------ New puzzles are regularly added to the game. If you have an idea in mind and would like it to be featured in a next release of the app, you can also send it.
Riddle Labs
Engage in mind-bending experiments and solve tricky puzzles to pass through test chambers. Challenge your intellect and see how many riddles you can overcome without hints.
- Mind-bending experiments
- Solve tricky puzzles
- Pass through test chambers
- Challenging riddles
- Hint system available
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This is the riddle labs, a place with mind-bending experiments. Get rid of each riddle in order to pass through the test chambers. How many tests you can overcome without using any hints? Uncover your superior mind with these tricky puzzles!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Dingbats at 81% against Riddle Labs's 9%. Dingbats also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Riddle Labs's advantage is update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Dingbats sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Riddle Labs sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Dingbats holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.2K and 2.7K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Dingbats's written reviews are positive against 9% of Riddle Labs's.
Dingbats ships an update every 5 weeks, Riddle Labs every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dingbats | Riddle Labs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.4 (2.7K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews — better | 9.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K | 2.7K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 157 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Romain Lebouc | Rollic Games |
Customer experience
Dingbats
Riddle Labs
Bugs and requests
Dingbats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Riddle Labs
Reported bugs
3 issues- Screen going black at final stage
- Players not getting eliminated at final stage
- Coins not being awarded correctly
Requested features
4 requests- Option to remove ads
- More challenging levels
- Genuine multiplayer mode
- Ability to progress past final stage
In-app purchases
Dingbats
- 200 hints$0.99
- 60 hints$0.99
- 450 hints$1.99
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- 150 hints$1.99
- No ads - option 1$2.49
- No ads - option 2$3.49
- 1000 hints$3.99
- 350 hints$3.99
- No ads - option 3$4.99
Riddle Labs
- No Ads$2.99
