Comparison

Shapecraft vs Stelline

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

Head to head
About

Shapecraft

A relaxing puzzle game where you connect pieces to reveal new shapes. Light up all the dots by placing blocks in the correct positions. Enjoy a calm experience with atmospheric music and beautiful visuals.

Highlights
  • Connect puzzle pieces
  • Craft new shapes
  • Light up all dots
  • Calm and peaceful gameplay
  • Atmospheric music
  • Colorful backgrounds
Features
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Shapecraft is a game about finding the final form. Join the pieces together and craft new shapes in this calm and beautiful puzzler. Your goal is simple - put the blocks into the right places. Join the slices to reveal a new shape, but remember to light up all the little dots! Putting pieces together is one thing, but finding the right combination is a challenge. This calm and peaceful puzzle game will help you relax and focus. The atmospheric music and colorful backgrounds will let you clear your head. You need your mind in shape to find the solution. No need to hurry - you have all the time in the world. Enjoy! --- Thank you so much for playing and supporting our games! Want to share feedback, suggest a new feature or found a bug? Send an ​email at contact@gamezaur.com --- Like us on Facebook to receive news about new games and updates! https://www.facebook.com/gamezaur/ --- www.gamezaur.com

About

Stelline

This logic puzzle game challenges players to place queens and stars on a grid according to specific rules. It offers unlimited, unique boards generated on your device, with a hint system designed to teach deduction techniques. Enjoy a calm, ad-free experience with no account required.

Highlights
  • Unlimited, unique logic puzzle boards
  • On-device board generation
  • Verified single solutions
  • Deduction-based hint system
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Customizable color palettes
Features
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Stelline is a calm Star Battle-style logic game for people who solve by reasoning, not by trial and error. Every board is generated on your iPhone or iPad, verified to have exactly one solution, and graded by the same deduction engine that powers its hints. No ads, no account, and nothing ever leaves your phone. THE RULES Place one queen in every row, every column and every coloured region, and never let two queens touch, not even at a corner. When that feels easy, switch to 2-star mode: two stars in every row, column and region on boards up to 11×11, still never touching. BOARDS WITHOUT END, EACH ONE PROVEN - Built on your device: nothing to download, no pack to run out of. - Every board is checked by an exact solver before you see it: exactly one solution, always. - 1-queen boards from 6×6 to 11×11, up to 12×12 on iPad; 2-star boards from 9×9 to 11×11. - Compete: Today's board for everyone, Daily Rush, daily leaderboards, an archive of past boards. FREE TO START, ONE PURCHASE TO OPEN EVERYTHING - Free for good: Today's board in both modes, Daily Rush, Learn, a Starter set of 24 boards and two new generated boards a day. - Stelline Unlimited, the one purchase: the generator without limit, every size, mode and difficulty, plus Stats and history. - No subscription, no ads, Family Sharing. Bought Stelline before it went free? Everything stays yours. TACTICS: THREE MINUTES, ONE TAP PER BOARD - Every position is a board part-way through a solve. Tap the cell where a queen can be proven right now. - A wrong tap costs a life and shows the answer with the idea behind it, named and explained. DIFFICULTY GRADED BY DEDUCTION - A deduction engine with seventeen techniques solves each board the way a person would, from neighbour dots and line locks to counting arguments, X-wings and fish. - Easy, Medium and Hard boards need direct deductions only, in both modes. - Expert is labelled honestly: it needs what-if reasoning. HINTS THAT TEACH - Hint first counts misplaced queens and dots without saying where they are: zero and zero means your reasoning holds. - Show me where walks you through one logical step at a time: the row, column or region behind the next deduction, then the cells, then the technique explained in a line, applied only when you tap Do it. LEARN BY PLAYING - First steps teaches the rules and the controls on a real board, with you making every move. A second lesson introduces 2-star mode. - Techniques and Advanced: one lesson per idea of the solver, from last cells to X-wings, squeezes, fish and the what-if step, explained on a real position, then practised on fresh positions keyed on that idea. CONTROLS BUILT FOR CLEAN SOLVING - Tap a cell to cycle it: empty, dot, queen or star. - Auto-check stripes queens or stars that touch or exceed a row, column or region. Turn it off for a purist solve. - What-if marks: open a branch, try a queen, follow the dots it forces; keep what held or drop every tentative mark in one tap. - Undo, redo and clear. Your game saves itself after every move: leave, come back, tap Continue. MADE FOR EVERY PLAYER - An original pastel palette, or the Classic black-and-white look with heavy region borders. - Colour-blind mode: high-contrast colours, a distinct fill pattern for every region and thicker borders. - On iPad: the board beside its controls in landscape, keyboard and pointer support, Apple Pencil hover. - Full VoiceOver support, with hints read aloud; Dynamic Type and Reduce Motion respected throughout. Haptics you can switch off. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Stelline has no account, no ads and no analytics. Your boards, settings and progress stay on your phone; nothing is collected. Purchases go through the App Store; the only online feature is the optional Game Center leaderboard, run by Apple and off by default. Stelline (little stars) is written from scratch in Swift, with its own generator, solver and deduction engine: a small app that does one thing carefully, a fair puzzle, every time.

Screenshots

Shapecraft4 screens
Stelline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shapecraft at none against Stelline's 1. Shapecraft also leads on ratings volume (22 vs 3) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). Stelline's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 20 months). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Stelline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shapecraft asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Shapecraft against 5.0 for Stelline. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shapecraft has 22 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shapecraft ships an update every 20 months, Stelline every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Shapecraft versus Stelline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShapecraftStelline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (22 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings22 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 20 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size247 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKamil KucmaANDELIS STUDIO LLC

Customer experience

Shapecraft

All ratings22 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Stelline

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Shapecraft

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Stelline

One-time1
  • Stelline Unlimited$1.99

Questions

Is Shapecraft free?
Shapecraft is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Stelline free?
Stelline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shapecraft or Stelline?
Stelline is rated higher. Shapecraft averages 4.9 out of 5 from 22 ratings, while Stelline averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Shapecraft or Stelline have ads?
Neither Shapecraft nor Stelline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shapecraft or Stelline?
Shapecraft ships an update every 20 months, and Stelline every 4 days. Most recently, Shapecraft was updated on November 13, 2026 and Stelline on November 13, 2026.

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