Samsquares vs Shape Box!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Samsquares
This game transforms a classic psychology test into an engaging puzzle experience for children. Players drag and rotate colored squares to recreate target images, developing spatial reasoning skills crucial for math and science. It offers a progressive challenge with multiple difficulty levels and star-based rewards.
- 145 puzzles across 7 levels
- Star-based puzzle completion
- Mirror image challenges
- Adjustable music, sound, and haptics
- Offline play
- Portrait and landscape modes
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Get your child excited about learning and solving puzzles! Samsquares turns a classic psychology test into a game children actually enjoy. Each puzzle shows a picture made of colored squares. Drag squares onto the grid to build the same picture, and tap the two-colored ones to turn them. It looks simple, but it trains spatial reasoning: seeing how shapes fit together, turn and mirror, a skill linked to success in math and science. • 145 puzzles in 7 levels, from Newbie to Expert, plus Alphabet and two Mirror levels • Up to three stars per puzzle: solve it, beat the clock, and use no extra moves • Mirror levels: build the picture as it would look in a mirror, a fun challenge for adults too • Hints on the first puzzles show how to drag and turn the squares • Music, sound effects and haptics, each adjustable • Plays on iPhone, iPad and iPhone Duo, in portrait or landscape Samsquares is designed for children aged 6 to 10 and builds on findings from educational neuroscience and psychology. It was inspired by the work of Samuel C. Kohs, the American psychologist who created the Kohs block design test. His work with children inspired a new approach to spatial reasoning and learning through puzzles. Made with kids in mind: no ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts and no data collection. The game works fully offline. We are a small team of an educator and a developer. Questions or ideas? Write to arieltkachenko@gmail.com.
Shape Box!
A logic and skill-based game where players remove shapes from a cube's surfaces and then fit new shapes into the empty spaces. It offers challenging levels with increasing complexity and diverse themes.
- Remove shapes from cube surfaces
- Place new shapes into empty spaces
- Logic and skill-based gameplay
- Challenging levels
- Different themes
- Increasingly complex puzzles
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This is Shape Box! A game that combines both logic and skill, where your mission is to unscrew shapes from the cube’s surfaces, clean them up, and put the pieces in place. Sounds easy? Think again! Rotate the cube, tap on the screws, and watch the shapes fall. Your goal is to remove all the shapes from each surface, clearing the cube. But that's not all! Once it’s cleared, you must fit new shapes into the empty spaces to complete the cube! Challenging levels in different themes: Every new level introduces new shapes and challenges. As you advance through the levels, face increasingly complex puzzles that will test your skills.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Samsquares at none against Shape Box!'s shown. Samsquares also leads on ratings volume (35 vs 1) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Shape Box!'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. 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 Samsquares against 5.0 for Shape Box!. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Samsquares has 35 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Samsquares ships an update every 5 months, Shape Box! every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Samsquares | Shape Box! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ariel Tkachenko | Iconic Games |
In-app purchases
Samsquares
No in-app purchases
Shape Box!
No in-app purchases
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