Moonlight vs Nonogram Life
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moonlight
Solve logic puzzles to uncover a heartwarming story about a wolf and a girl. Explore beautiful scenery and enjoy a variety of puzzle sizes and difficulty levels with helpful tools.
- Hundreds of puzzles
- Story-driven gameplay
- Beautiful scenery
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Auto-save
- Hint function
- One-handed mode
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Once upon a time, beyond a valley there lived a wolf who was considered to be a monster. For a long time he lived, biding his time, all alone. One day a girl who lived in a village under the wolf’s mountain went up into the mountain to collect herbs. She went deep in the woods and by chance she encountered the wolf. What’s the story spun between the wolf, who was seen as a monster, and the girl? What future waits before them? Solve the puzzles and complete their story. Enjoy the beautiful scenery while solving the puzzles. *Special features* - Hundreds of puzzle games are available. - Great color dot design to match the map’s themes. - Detailed puzzle logic check. - Auto-save for puzzles in play. - Various level of difficulty (5x5, 10x10, 15x15, 20x20) - Convenient interface using touch & pad simultaneously. - Various plays available through single map and big map. - Hint function. - Provides a variety of functions for user convenience (auto answer check, Undo / Redo) - Zoom-in, zoom-out and move function using two fingers. - One-handed mode support for using in public/crowded places.
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 update cadence: Nonogram Life at fortnightly against Moonlight's every 5 months. Nonogram Life also leads on ratings volume (546 vs 16). Moonlight's advantage is review sentiment (90% vs 76%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Moonlight 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Moonlight against 4.8 for Nonogram Life. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nonogram Life has 546 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Moonlight's written reviews are positive against 76% of Nonogram Life's.
Moonlight ships an update every 5 months, Nonogram Life fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moonlight | Nonogram Life |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (16 ratings) — better | 4.8 (546 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews — better | 76.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 16 | 546 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 93 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KWANG YEOUL YOO | Nguyen Loc |
Customer experience
Moonlight
Nonogram Life
Bugs and requests
Moonlight
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
Moonlight
- Remove Ad$2.99
Nonogram Life
- Remove Ads2 variants$2.99









