Rows Garden vs Bilateral!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rows Garden
This app offers a unique crossword puzzle variant with interlocking row and bloom clues. Solve puzzles with adjustable difficulty levels, suitable for both beginners and experienced players. It includes pre-made puzzles and links to external constructors.
- Unique row and bloom clue system
- Fully-packed triangular grid
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Includes pre-made puzzles
- Links to puzzle constructors
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Rows Garden is a crossword puzzle variant invented by Patrick Berry. Instead of the across and down clues and black and white squares of a traditional crossword grid, a Rows Garden puzzle consists of interlocking row and bloom clues whose answers are filled into a fully-packed grid of triangular spaces. Each row consists of one or more clues, with answers entered across the rows of the garden from left to right. Bloom clues are grouped by shade -- light, medium, and dark -- and have six-letter answers that are each entered in a hexagonal bloom within the garden, with the starting point and direction left for you to determine. You can adjust the difficulty level of the solving experience within the app, providing a suitable challenge for both beginning and experienced solvers. The app comes with a number of puzzles and bundles (30 puzzles in all) created by leading Rows Garden constructors to whet your appetite, and includes links to their Web sites for downloading and subscribing to puzzles that you can import into the app. If you like crossword puzzles and are looking for a new challenge, or are seeking an interesting twist on the familiar crossword format, give Rows Garden a try!
Bilateral!
Engage in a quick daily word puzzle with a new challenge each day. Share your progress and results easily with friends and family. This game is completely free, with no ads, accounts, or logins required.
- Daily new word puzzle
- Quick gameplay
- Shareable results
- No ads
- No accounts or logins
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Quick daily word game! New puzzle every day. Easily share results with friends and family. Free—without ads, accounts, logins, or passwords.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Bilateral! at Free against Rows Garden's $3.99. Bilateral! also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Rows Garden's advantage is chart position (#150 vs unranked) and device support (4 vs 1). On 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
Bilateral! is free to download; Rows Garden costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Bilateral! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 16 and 23 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Rows Garden's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bilateral!'s.
Rows Garden ships an update every 2 months, Bilateral! daily. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rows Garden | Bilateral! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #150 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Bosch | Alec Rogers |
Customer experience
Rows Garden
Bilateral!
In-app purchases
Rows Garden
No in-app purchases
Bilateral!
No in-app purchases
