FiddleBrix vs A
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FiddleBrix
Engage your mind with a daily word puzzle that blends elements of crosswords and Sudoku. Solve intricate puzzles with increasing difficulty, including daily challenges and an archive of past puzzles.
- Daily word puzzles
- Crossword and Sudoku inspiration
- 100 built-in levels
- Increasing daily difficulty
- Daily Brix Archive
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FiddleBrix is a colorful daily word puzzle inspired by crosswords, Sudoku, and our shared love of letters. CHALLENGE YOUR MIND FiddleBrix puzzles are elegant, intricate, and devilishly difficult. Cruciverbalists, members of the Spelling Bee Hive, and casual word gamers can all find common ground as they fiddle with brix to give their brains an anagrammatical workout. LEVELS Develop your fiddling prowess by solving 100 built-in levels of increasing difficulty. DAILY BRIX Hone your wits and stimulate your mind by solving the Daily Brix. Daily Brix difficulty increases throughout the week. ARCHIVE Enjoy unlimited access to the Daily Brix Archive.
A
A daily logic puzzle where you arrange pieces to form the current date. Earn in-game currency to unlock new sets and use special passes to solve past dates. Offers a premium version for extended date access.
- Daily date puzzle
- Earn dragon-coins and trophies
- Buy custom puzzle sets
- Use hint tickets
- Solve past dates with time machine passes
- Save solutions
- Multi-language support
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This is the official app by the inventors of the original A-Puzzle-A-Day, DragonFjord's internationally best-selling puzzle. Just place the 8 pieces into the calendar frame to make today's date. Every day is possible! This app is loaded with great features: • Win dragon-coins and trophies for your solutions • Use your coins to buy custom sets – 30 to choose from! • Need a hint? You've got hint tickets! • Miss a day? Use time machine passes to solve for yesterday! • Save your solutions in the solution bank! • Choose from 11 different languages on your calendar frame. • Light and dark modes • Earn bonuses for more challenging days • Smooth and intuitive piece movement • Premium version – solve for any date in the past 365 days! Warning: this puzzle is highly addictive!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FiddleBrix at none against A's 8. FiddleBrix also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). A's advantage is update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 24 months) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.6). On price, ads 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. A sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. FiddleBrix asks for nothing beyond the download.
FiddleBrix holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of FiddleBrix's written reviews are positive against 67% of A's.
FiddleBrix ships an update every 24 months, A every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FiddleBrix | A |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (44 ratings) — better | 4.6 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 162 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FiddleBrix LLC | Matematikkbolgen AS |
Customer experience
FiddleBrix
A
In-app purchases
FiddleBrix
No in-app purchases
A
- 3x Time machine passes$0.99
- 100 coins$1.99
- 300 coins$2.99
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- 10 Time machine passes$2.99
- 1000 coins$3.99
- Booster Pack$4.99
- Premium$5.99
- Puzzle Bundle$19.99
