Creative Puzzles vs Arrow Bloom
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Creative Puzzles
Engage in a relaxing and artistic jigsaw puzzle experience. Connect pieces to reveal beautiful, story-driven images. Utilize helpful hints to guide your progress and complete each unique artwork.
- Unique jigsaw puzzles
- Story-driven pictures
- Relaxing gameplay
- Piece matching
- Hint system
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Fun and relaxing unique jigsaw puzzle game. Join the pieces together to complete the picture. Each puzzle is a story. Every detail is art. Relax your mind while putting tiles together. Move pieces into the blank fields until the complete picture is revealed. Use hints to match next piece or see the image.
Arrow Bloom
This logic puzzle game challenges you to strategically tap arrows to clear a board. Each tap leaves flowers that block subsequent arrows, requiring careful planning to solve over 120 unique levels. Enjoy multiple game modes, including daily challenges and endless play.
- One-tap arrow clearing
- Flower growth mechanic
- 120 hand-verified levels
- Daily puzzle challenge
- Zen and Bloom Run modes
- Garden growth progression
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Tap an arrow and it flies off the board. Simple. But it leaves flowers growing exactly where it went, and those flowers block every arrow after it. That one rule turns a board of arrows into a real puzzle. Clear them in the wrong order and you wall yourself in. Find the right order and the whole board opens up like a garden. A ONE-TAP GAME WITH REAL DEPTH No timers. No move limits. No lives to wait for. Just you, a board, and the question of what to clear first. 120 HAND-VERIFIED LEVELS Every level in Arrow Bloom is checked by a solver before it ships, so you always know a solution exists. Difficulty is measured, not guessed: later boards contain more moves that look fine and quietly lose the level. THE DAILY BLOOM One puzzle a day, the same board for every player in the world. Build a streak, and share how you did without spoiling the solution. FIVE CHAPTERS First Light, Wild Garden, Deep Thicket, Night Bloom and Golden Hour. Partway through, the rule itself deepens - arrows begin leaving two flowers instead of one. ZEN MODE Endless, unhurried boards that never dead-end. For when you want the feel of the game without the thinking. BLOOM RUN Endless boards where your score carries from one to the next and the grid keeps filling up. One dead end ends the run. Beat your own best. GROW A GARDEN Every level you clear plants a flower. Match the best line the solver proved was there, and it blooms perfect. PLAYS THE WAY YOU DO - Undos and hints are yours, not the board's - spend them when they matter - Hints are solver-backed, so they are always genuinely safe - Out of charges? Watch a short ad for more of them, or to start a board over - Full VoiceOver support - every square is readable and playable - Reduce Motion, Dynamic Type and a colourblind-friendly board where colour never carries meaning - Designed for both light and dark FREE, WITH ADS Arrow Bloom is free to play, supported by ads shown between boards - never during a puzzle, and never before you have finished your first one. One optional payment removes every ad for good. It is not a subscription, and every level and mode is unlocked either way. No account. No sign-in. Your progress, scores and streaks stay on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Arrow Bloom at daily against Creative Puzzles's monthly. Arrow Bloom also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Creative Puzzles's advantage is ratings volume (506 vs 1) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Creative Puzzles sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Arrow Bloom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Arrow Bloom holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Creative Puzzles has 506 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Creative Puzzles ships an update monthly, Arrow Bloom daily. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Creative Puzzles | Arrow Bloom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (506 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 506 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 173 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Robert Siladji | Ritambhra Ritambhra |
Customer experience
Creative Puzzles
Arrow Bloom
Bugs and requests
Creative Puzzles
Reported bugs
2 issues- App freezes every other puzzle
- App freezes every time you don't want to double something
Requested features
3 requests- Puzzles of endangered animal and plant species
- Puzzles of endangered people/languages/cultures/habitats
- Creative puzzles 3
Arrow Bloom
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Creative Puzzles
- Ocean Life Pack$0.99
- Ancient Egypt Pack$0.99
- Spins x5$0.99
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- 150 Coins$0.99
- 510 Coins$2.99
- Remove Ads$4.99
- Halloween Pack$4.99
- Christmas Pack$4.99
- Fantasy Pack$4.99
- 950 Coins$4.99
- 2100 Coins$9.99
Arrow Bloom
- Bloom Forever$29.99
Questions
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