FiddleBrix vs Squamble
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.
Squamble
Unscramble words by sliding tiles and filling empty spaces. Enjoy daily puzzles, unlock bonus words, and share your progress with friends. A relaxing yet challenging word game for all skill levels.
- Unscramble words by sliding tiles
- Fill empty spaces with yellow tiles
- Daily free puzzles
- 150 puzzles in Puzzle Packs mode
- Discover hidden bonus words
- Share progress and victories
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Squamble is a word puzzle that is relaxing yet challenging; addictive yet satisfying. Each word has had its letters shuffled. Not only that, but each word is also missing a tile in a specific position. Slide tiles across each row and place yellow tiles into the empty spaces to unscramble the Squamble! PLAY EVERY DAY! A new daily puzzle is available each day for free! Increase your streak by completing the daily puzzle every day. You can also peek at the previous day's solution to check if you missed any extra tricky words. 150 PUZZLES FREE & READY TO PLAY! Is one Squamble a day just not enough? "Puzzle Packs" mode features 150 specially written puzzles spread across six different packs, all for free. With difficulty ranging from easy to expert, you can strengthen your skills and become a total word wizard. BONUS BONUS BONUS! In addition to the main solution, most puzzles contain elusive bonus words hidden in the mix. You'll have to keep your eyes peeled and brain engaged to catch them. While all of the main words should be perfectly familiar to most players, the bonus words can be curiously cryptic! SHARE YOUR SUCCESS! Share your progress on each puzzle with the share feature, so you can boast to your friends and family about your victories. You can share the amount of words you found, the number of moves it took, and how much time it took to solve. It's not a competition unless you make it one!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: FiddleBrix at none against Squamble's shown. FiddleBrix also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (44 vs 14). Squamble's advantage is iOS requirement (10.0 vs 15.6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FiddleBrix against 4.9 for Squamble. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
| Parameter | FiddleBrix | Squamble |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (44 ratings) — better | 4.9 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FiddleBrix LLC | Terrence DuBois |
Customer experience
FiddleBrix
Squamble
In-app purchases
FiddleBrix
No in-app purchases
Squamble
No in-app purchases









