Swatch This vs Nonogram Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Swatch This
A multiplayer game where players invent creative names for real paint swatches. Compete with friends or strangers to guess the official color names and earn points. Offers various game modes for different playstyles.
- Invent creative color names
- Guess real paint swatch names
- Online turn-based multiplayer
- Private matches with friends
- Pass & Play mode
- Pen & Paper mode
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Swatch This is a color naming game for 2-8 players, featuring real, outrageous paint swatches. Real-life paint colors aren’t just called yellow or pink or blue, they’re much more evocative and fun. So a yellow-gold might be “Sunny Side Up,” a bright pink “Sweet Sixteen,” or a blue “Fountain.” In Swatch This you’ll create your own color names, as serious or silly as you want. The other players in the match are making up names too, so at the end everyone will try to pick out the real name from the made-up ones. Guess the right name and you'll get points — fool another player and you’ll get more! Swatch This features multiple game modes. - Online turn-based multiplayer: play a Quick Match with a random opponent, or a private match with 1-7 friends - Pass & Play: play on a single device by taking turns - Pen & Paper: play on a single device by writing color names on paper, like a board game There are no consumable in-app purchases. Play unlimited matches in all game modes for free. If you enjoy the game, please consider buying the Palette Pack to permanently unlock many more color swatches.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Nonogram Life at 4.8 against Swatch This's 4.1. Nonogram Life also leads on review sentiment (76% vs 54%) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months). Swatch This's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Swatch This sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Nonogram Life sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Nonogram Life holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nonogram Life has 598 ratings behind it against 68, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 54% of Swatch This's written reviews are positive against 76% of Nonogram Life's.
Swatch This ships an update every 2 months, Nonogram Life fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Swatch This | Nonogram Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (68 ratings) | 4.8 (598 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | 76.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 68 | 598 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.5 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 27 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Radio Silence | Nguyen Loc |
Customer experience
Swatch This
Nonogram Life
Bugs and requests
Swatch This
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
Swatch This
- Palette Pack$1.99
Nonogram Life
- Remove Ads2 variants$2.99
Questions
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