Dingbats vs Panel Room
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.
Panel Room
Solve puzzles and uncover the rules of a mysterious room to escape. This game challenges advanced players to piece together clues and understand the environment to find a way out. Features hint cards and auto-save.
- Solve room rules to escape
- Uncover mysteries
- Challenging for advanced players
- Includes hint cards
- Auto-save functionality
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You are trapped in "SOMEWHERE". Solve all the mysteries and escape from here. This game is different from ordinary escape games in that you are trying to escape by solving the rules of the room. At first, you may not understand what is going on, but if you do certain things, the whole picture of the room will be revealed little by little. Aim to escape while understanding the rules of the room little by little. - A game in which you aim to escape while solving the rules of the room. - For advanced players - Includes hint cards - Auto-save feature
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Panel Room at none against Dingbats's 9. Panel Room also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 weeks) and review sentiment (94% vs 81%). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Panel Room asks for nothing beyond the download.
Panel Room holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.2K and 603 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 81% of Dingbats's written reviews are positive against 94% of Panel Room's.
Dingbats ships an update every 5 weeks, Panel Room every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dingbats | Panel Room |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.2K ratings) | 4.9 (603 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.3% of reviews | 94.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 603 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 161 MB | 322 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Romain Lebouc | Mani Morishita |
Customer experience
Dingbats
Panel Room
Bugs and requests
Dingbats
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Panel Room
Reported bugs
3 issues- Locked out of room after failed attempts
- Hints/answers not working properly
- Game crashing after watching ads
Requested features
2 requests- More levels or games in similar style
- Option to pay for no ads/hints
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
Panel Room
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Dingbats free?
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