Comparison

Outage vs Mnemonics!

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

Head to head
About

Outage

Embark on a puzzle-solving adventure to re-power a deactivated grid and rescue a stranded family. Navigate challenging levels by memorizing and repeating paths, encountering new mechanics like teleportation and disappearing grids. Enjoy unlimited playtime and a story-rich experience with plenty of achievements.

Highlights
  • Memory path-finding puzzles
  • Unlimited playtime and lives
  • Story-driven adventure
  • 12 unique game mechanics
  • 360 challenging levels
  • Ad-free experience
  • Achievements
Features
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Journey into the world of the Megawatt family, an electrically themed group of energy beings. After leaving Zap behind to search out new sources of power, an energy disaster strands the other Megawatts in the now deactivated Grid. With the help of a sarcastic robot, Zap must re-power the Grid and rescue his family. Send a probe to reveal a valid path through each level. Repeat this path with few mistakes and be rewarded. As you progress, you will face new and interesting challenges including multiple paths on the same level, teleportation, disappearing grids, draining energy and more! Features - Unlimited playtime and lives. Outage - Memory Games is a game where failure is not to be feared! Play at your own pace, gradually learn each level and succeed. - Improve your memory. Get as far as you can, retry the level and watch as your memory improves. You will surprise yourself and realize what an amazing device your brain is! - Now play ad-free! You can still watch rewarded ads for powerups, but the forced ads have been removed. - 12 different areas each with their own featured game mechanic. As you master each mechanic, the game evolves and forces you to reorient. - 360 levels with varying difficulties keep you entertained and challenged for hours. - Levels are batched so you can choose easy, medium, or hard levels without getting stuck. Challenge yourself or relax, your choice. - Engage with a charming, informative story filled with humor and 8 different characters in a unique and original universe. Or skip the story and just play through the puzzles, it’s up to you. - Plenty of achievements to feed the completionist spirit that dwells inside you. - Informative and interactive tutorial system teaches you how to play, or reference the quick Help section. - Support the developers by purchasing powerups, gear and items to help you excel in the game. - Planned updates with more content and features are underway! We are always looking to improve, please contact us with any feedback or just to say hello. Coming Soon: - More levels and story - Music Chooser - Cutscene improvements

About

Mnemonics!

This timed object matching game is designed to enhance your memory and focus. It presents increasingly challenging patterns and colors to improve your hippocampus function and peripheral vision, leading to better memorization skills.

Highlights
  • Timed object matching gameplay
  • Improves memory and focus
  • Enhances peripheral vision
  • Challenging patterns and colors
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
Features
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Welcome to Prohor's world of Mnemonics ! Are you a forgetful person? Whether it’s silly, like forgetting to do your homework, or something serious like missing a doctor’s appointment, a neglectful mindset can lead to serious damage. Well, no need to stress, this can be improved easily, while having fun. Mnemonic's intentions are to improve your hippocampus, the part of the brain storing information for memory. Therefore, forgetfulness hopefully won’t be a trouble for you anymore. Mnemonics is a timed object matching game, which challenges you with difficult patterns and colors as it goes. This is a simple game, but deceptively useful in practice. Playing this occasionally will sharpen your focus and attention. You will also be able to analyze more indirect information with an improved peripheral vision. Overall, you'll gain better memorization skills, and not just for those silly objects shown in the games. Harder levels come with brain-sweating materials. So start with the easy ones, and only when you are comfortable to move on put more stress on your brain with the harder levels. This app is developed by me, Prohor Nishat. I am only 10 years old and had to use my dad's account to publish Mnemonics for you. Hope you enjoy the playful and colorful world of Mnemonics.

Screenshots

Outage4 screens
Mnemonics!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mnemonics! at none against Outage's 10. Outage's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (32 vs 5). On price, rating, review sentiment 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Outage sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Mnemonics! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Outage against 5.0 for Mnemonics!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Outage has 32 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Outage ships an update weekly, Mnemonics! every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Outage versus Mnemonics!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOutageMnemonics!
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (32 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings32 — better5
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size336 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGray Light Games LLCNishat Majid

Customer experience

Outage

All ratings32 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mnemonics!

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Outage

One-time10
  • Reprobe Pack x 1$1.99
  • Supercharge Pack x 2$1.99
  • Gate Key Pack x 2$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Reprobe Pack x 1$2.99
  • Supercharge Pack x 3$2.99
  • Reprobe Pack x 4$3.99
  • Supercharge Pack x 4$3.99
  • Area Skip x 5$4.99
  • Reprobe Pack x 5$4.99
  • Supercharge Pack x 5$4.99
None

Mnemonics!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Outage free?
Outage is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mnemonics! free?
Mnemonics! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Outage or Mnemonics!?
Outage and Mnemonics! are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 32 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Outage or Mnemonics! have ads?
Neither Outage nor Mnemonics! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Outage or Mnemonics!?
Outage ships an update weekly, and Mnemonics! every 3 weeks. Most recently, Outage was updated on November 2, 2026 and Mnemonics! on November 4, 2026.

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