Comparison

Dingbats vs Baluff

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

Baluff

Features
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Baluff is the party game where your best weapon is a well-told lie. A question comes up. Nobody knows the answer — so everyone invents one, as believable as they can make it. All the fake answers are shuffled in with the real one, and you have to work out which is genuine. Except your friends have been lying too. HOW IT WORKS 1. One player creates a room and reads the code out loud. Everyone else types it in, or scans the QR code on the screen. 2. The question appears. Each of you writes a fake answer, on your own phone. 3. Every answer shows up together, the truth hidden among them. Time to vote. 4. The reveal, the points, and then the accusations. SCORING +2 for finding the real answer. +1 for every player your bluff fooled. So lying pays as well as guessing right. Too outlandish and nobody bites; too cautious and nobody notices. The whole game lives in that gap. WHAT YOU GET • 2 to 12 players, each on their own phone • Games of 3, 5, 7 or 10 rounds — five minutes or all evening • Hundreds of questions across a range of categories • English, French and Arabic, switchable whenever you like • No account, no email, no sign-up: pick a nickname and play • Free GOOD FOR Long family dinners. Nights in with friends. Waiting rooms. Baluff needs no board, no cards and no host — just people around a table and a little bad faith. YOUR PRIVACY Nothing to create, nothing to hand over. Your nickname and avatar stay on your device, the room is deleted the moment the last player leaves, and we keep no history of your games. Privacy policy: https://baluff-party-site.web.app/privacy

Screenshots

Dingbats4 screens
Baluff4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Baluff at none against Dingbats's 9. Baluff 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. Baluff asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Dingbats versus Baluff: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDingbatsBaluff
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, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size158 MB56 MB
Age rating9+9+
DeveloperRomain LeboucMohamed Ben Halima

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

Baluff

No in-app purchases

Questions

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

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