Comparison

Shape And Hue vs Nonogram Life

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

Head to head
About

Shape And Hue

A relaxing puzzle game where you swap tiles to match hues and reveal shapes. Offers over 100 levels and an endless mode for continuous play. Challenge yourself with larger boards.

Highlights
  • Tile swapping gameplay
  • Hue matching puzzles
  • Shape revelation
  • Over 100 levels
  • Endless mode
  • Large board challenges
Features
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Simple, relaxing puzzle game. Swap tiles, match hues or lines, reveal shapes. If 100 levels are not enough, you can play endless mode. If you are looking for challenge, try solving largest boards.

About

Nonogram Life

Engage your mind with logic puzzles that reveal hidden pixel art. Solve by filling cells according to number clues, offering a relaxing and mindful experience with handcrafted designs and soothing music. Save your progress and enjoy various topics.

Highlights
  • Hand-crafted pixel art puzzles
  • Diverse topics and themes
  • Hint system for assistance
  • Intuitive drag or d-pad controls
  • Relaxing music and mindfulness
  • Automatic save/resume functionality
  • Marking (X) feature for easier solving
Features
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Nonograms, also known as Paint by Numbers, Picross, Griddlers, Pic-a-Pix, Hanjie, and various other names, are picture Logic puzzle in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden picture. *** Rule *** In this puzzle type, the numbers are a form of discrete tomography that measures how many unbroken lines of filled-in squares there are in any given row or column. For example, a clue of "4 8 3" would mean there are sets of four, eight, and three filled squares, in that order, with at least one blank square between successive sets. *** Features *** ● Hand crafted beautiful pixel arts ● There are various topics to have fun with ● Using hint can help you in difficult time ● Easy controls, either using drag or d-pad ● Mindfulness, relaxing music ● Playing session is saved/resumed automatically ● Don’t forget to using Mark (X) to solve the puzzle easier *** Strategy *** Simpler puzzles can usually be solved by a reasoning on a single row only (or a single column) at each given time, to determine as many boxes and spaces on that row as possible. Then trying another row (or column), until there are no rows that contain undetermined cells. Some more difficult puzzles may also require several types of "what if?" reasoning that include more than one row (or column). This works on searching for contradictions: When a cell cannot be a box, because some other cell would produce an error, it will definitely be a space. And vice versa. Advanced solvers are sometimes able to search even deeper than into the first "what if?" reasoning. It takes, however, a lot of time to get some progress.

Screenshots

Shape And Hue4 screens
Nonogram Life4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Shape And Hue at none against Nonogram Life's 2. Shape And Hue also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (86% vs 76%). Nonogram Life's advantage is ratings volume (598 vs 157). On price, rating and device support 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. Nonogram Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Shape And Hue 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 Shape And Hue against 4.8 for Nonogram Life. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 157 and 598 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Shape And Hue's written reviews are positive against 76% of Nonogram Life's.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Shape And Hue versus Nonogram Life: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShape And HueNonogram Life
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (157 ratings) — better4.8 (598 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better76.4% of reviews
Number of ratings157598 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size101 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichal GornyNguyen Loc

Customer experience

Shape And Hue

All ratings157 ratings
Positive98.7%
Neutral1.3%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral14.3%
Negative0.0%

Nonogram Life

All ratings546 ratings
Positive97.1%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews89 reviews
Positive76.4%
Neutral13.5%
Negative10.1%

Bugs and requests

Shape And Hue

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Nonogram Life

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Black screen on certain levels
  • Incorrect puzzle solutions
  • Progress reset/loss of progress
  • Crashes and freezes

Requested features

4 requests
  • More levels and categories
  • Ability to disable lives/hints
  • Support for Apple Pencil
  • Improved performance optimization

In-app purchases

None

Shape And Hue

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Nonogram Life

One-time1
  • Remove Ads2 variants$2.99

Questions

Is Shape And Hue free?
Shape And Hue is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nonogram Life free?
Nonogram Life is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shape And Hue or Nonogram Life?
Shape And Hue is rated higher. Shape And Hue averages 4.9 out of 5 from 157 ratings, while Nonogram Life averages 4.8 from 598 ratings.
Do Shape And Hue or Nonogram Life have ads?
Nonogram Life shows ads; Shape And Hue does not.

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