Shapecraft vs Stelline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Connect puzzle pieces
- Craft new shapes
- Light up all dots
- Calm and peaceful gameplay
- Atmospheric music
- Colorful backgrounds
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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
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.
- Unlimited, unique logic puzzle boards
- On-device board generation
- Verified single solutions
- Deduction-based hint system
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Customizable color palettes
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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, 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. UNLIMITED BOARDS, EACH ONE PROVEN - Built on your device: no pack to run out of, nothing to download. - 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; 2-star boards from 9×9 to 11×11. - Compete: Today's board for everyone, daily leaderboards, a numbered archive of past boards. 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 right tap scores and moves on. A wrong one costs a life and shows the answer with the idea behind it, named and explained. - Three minutes, three lives, a fresh run every time, and your own record to beat. DIFFICULTY GRADED BY DEDUCTION - A deduction engine with seventeen techniques solves each board the way a person would, from finished rows and neighbour dots to line locks, exclusion, counting arguments, X-wings, squeezes and fish. - Easy, Medium and Hard boards need direct deductions only, in both modes. - Expert is labelled honestly: it needs what-if reasoning; a few 2-star boards go beyond what the hints can explain. HINTS THAT TEACH - Hint first shows two counters, misplaced queens and misplaced dots, without saying where they are. Zero and zero means your reasoning holds so far. - 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 with a one-line explanation, applied only when you tap Do it. - Hints are unlimited, with no cooldown. Solve with no hints and no conflicts to earn the Flawless badge. 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. CONTROLS BUILT FOR CLEAN SOLVING - Tap a cell to cycle it: empty, dot, queen or star. - Drag across cells to dot them; start on a dot you placed to erase instead. - A placed queen or star dots its eight neighbours; completed rows, columns and regions can dot themselves too. Both optional. - Auto-check stripes queens or stars that touch or exceed a row, column or region. Turn it off for a purist solve. - Undo, redo and clear. Your game saves itself after every move: leave, come back, tap Continue. - A timer you can hide. No streaks, no pressure: only Tactics has a clock that counts. MADE FOR EVERY PLAYER - An original pastel palette, or the Classic black-and-white look with heavy region borders for players who learned on paper. - Colour-blind mode: high-contrast colours, a distinct fill pattern for every region and thicker borders. - Light, dark or system appearance. Your piece: a crown, a star, a donut, a cat, an elf or a teddy bear; your mark: a dot or an X. - 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. The only online feature is the optional Game Center leaderboard, run by Apple and off by default. FROM ONE DEVELOPER Stelline (little stars) is written from scratch in Swift for iPhone, including its own generator, solver and deduction engine: a small app that tries to do one thing carefully, give you a fair puzzle, every time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Shapecraft at Free against Stelline's $1.99. Shapecraft also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). Stelline's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 20 months). On rating, ads, in-app purchases 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
Shapecraft is free to download; Stelline costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Shapecraft against 5.0 for Stelline. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shapecraft has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Shapecraft ships an update every 20 months, Stelline every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shapecraft | Stelline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 20 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 247 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kamil Kucma | ANDELIS STUDIO LLC |
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Shapecraft
Stelline
In-app purchases
Shapecraft
No in-app purchases
Stelline
No in-app purchases









