Comparison

brainplus vs NAGARE

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

Head to head
About

brainplus

A relaxing puzzle game where you tap to rotate lines and connect them to form complete circuits. It offers unlimited levels and aims to stimulate your brain with calming music and effects.

Highlights
  • Tap to rotate lines
  • Connect continuous lines
  • Unlimited puzzle levels
  • Relaxing music and effects
  • Brain stimulation
Features
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・Just tap the lines to rotate and create connected lines. ・Relax music and effect. Rotate the pieces and connect lines without interruption to complete the puzzle. By challenging this puzzle, your brain will become more and more active. Brain+ Unlimited puzzle levels. Refresh your mind.

About

NAGARE

Features
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NAGARE is a Japanese word for flow, and it describes what happens on the screen: a grid of tiles, each carrying one piece of a line, with a single task ahead of it — connect every line into a closed loop, with no end left open. Tapping a tile turns it ninety degrees. That is the whole rule. When a loop closes, it lights up in gold leaf and a single note from a pentatonic scale sounds. Once the whole board is closed, every note you heard along the way plays back as a short melody — each level quietly composes its own music as you solve it. There is no timer and no way to lose. A puzzle waits for as long as you need, and stays open until it is solved. That is not a side effect — it is the whole point. NAGARE is built to unwind you, not to test you against a clock. The boards are generated, not hand made, and there is no end to them. Level one is a two tile introduction to the rule. From there the grid grows slowly, tile by tile, until it reaches large boards with junctions and crossings to plan around. Every level has a fixed number, and that number always builds the same board, on any device. Once a day, a grove of its own opens: one fixed puzzle, identical for everyone on earth, that turns over at midnight UTC. Solve it daily and a streak builds behind you. Solved levels earn coins. They unlock looks, never advantages: five colour palettes, from Sumi's ink black and gold leaf to Aizome's indigo, Beni's red, Matcha's green and Suishō's crystal white, three instrument tones for the melody, and four line styles for the tiles themselves. Every one of them can be reached by playing alone. The look stays quiet on purpose: very dark ink black, thin lines, gold leaf for what is solved, a fine paper grain underneath it all. The sound is never a recording — it is synthesised fresh each time you play, so no two sessions ring quite the same. NAGARE is fully playable without spending anything. It is funded by an occasional full screen ad after every fifth solved level, and by optional rewarded videos for a hint or doubled coins. There are no banners while you play, and the ads can be removed for good.

Screenshots

brainplus4 screens
NAGARE4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: brainplus at none against NAGARE's shown. brainplus also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. brainplus sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and NAGARE sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
brainplus versus NAGARE: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterbrainplusNAGARE
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMasakazu SakataCan Ahmet Yuzer

In-app purchases

3 purchases

brainplus

One-time3
  • Coffee$1.99
  • Hamburger$3.99
  • Sushi$11.99
5 purchases

NAGARE

One-time5
  • 100 Coins$0.99
  • All Palettes$2.99
  • Ad Free$3.99
Show 2 more
  • 550 Coins$3.99
  • 1500 Coins$8.99

Questions

Is brainplus free?
brainplus is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is NAGARE free?
NAGARE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do brainplus or NAGARE have ads?
NAGARE shows ads; brainplus does not.

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