Comparison

Dingbats vs Charactorium

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Solve Dingbat puzzles
  • Decipher AI-generated idioms
  • Guess family names
  • Unscramble anagrams
  • Get clues and hints
  • Learn new idioms
Features
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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.

About

Charactorium

Features
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History isn't a list of dates. It's a crowd of faces, voices and deeds, and most of them fade away. Charactorium is a game of memory and discovery. A historical figure stands before you and speaks in their own voice. Answer well, and you revive them: they join your Pantheon, grow brighter, and their story opens to you. ▸ OVER 3,600 FIGURES Names everyone knows, and hundreds of others unfairly forgotten. Scientists, artists, rulers, explorers, rebels, from antiquity to the present day, across every continent. ▸ SEVEN WAYS TO PLAY Encounters, where the figure speaks to you in the first person. The Correspondences, matching the fragments that belong together. The Lost Name, where a name fades letter by letter. The Memory Machine, one free spin every day. Timeline, Bingo, The Veiled Memory and duels against other players. ▸ THREE PLACES TO EXPLORE The Sky of Memory: every figure is a star, and the sky rights itself as you play. The Museum of Memory: walk the halls of your own history. The Pantheon: your collection: those you saved from oblivion. ▸ PROGRESSION THAT MEANS SOMETHING Forty tiers, from Novices to the Choir. Relics to equip, aids of memory to spend at the right moment, and mastery that climbs figure by figure, bronze, silver, gold. ▸ PLAY RIGHT AWAY No account needed to start. Create one whenever you want your progress to follow you to another device. Available in English, French, Vietnamese and Thai.

Screenshots

Dingbats4 screens
Charactorium4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Charactorium at none against Dingbats's 9. Charactorium also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Dingbats sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Charactorium asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dingbats versus Charactorium: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDingbatsCharactorium
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (1.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings1.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB8 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperRomain LeboucClément jacquet

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Dingbats

One-time9
  • 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
None

Charactorium

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dingbats free?
Dingbats is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Charactorium free?
Charactorium is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Dingbats or Charactorium have ads?
Dingbats shows ads; Charactorium does not.

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