FiddleBrix vs Merge Maestro
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.
Merge Maestro
Combine hundreds of unique emoji tokens in a puzzle-like, rogue-like experience. Discover creative combinations of tokens and powers to fuse unique strategies and overcome increasingly challenging levels. Enjoy a twist on puzzle, rogue-like, and arcade gameplay.
- Hundreds of unique emoji tokens
- Combo-driven gameplay
- Puzzle-like rogue-like mechanics
- Discover creative token combinations
- Fuse unique strategies
- Challenging levels
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Combine 100's of unique emoji based tokens in this combo-driven puzzle-like rogue-like! Find ever more creative combinations of Tokens and Powers to fuse unique strategies and beat this ever more challenging twist on rogue-likes, puzzlers and arcadey games!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FiddleBrix at none against Merge Maestro's 1. FiddleBrix also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 91%). Merge Maestro's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (138 vs 44). 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. Merge Maestro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FiddleBrix asks for nothing beyond the download.
FiddleBrix holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 138 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of FiddleBrix's written reviews are positive against 91% of Merge Maestro's.
FiddleBrix ships an update every 24 months, Merge Maestro every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FiddleBrix | Merge Maestro |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (44 ratings) — better | 4.8 (138 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 | 138 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 9 days — 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 | 94 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | FiddleBrix LLC | DAVID HS TING |
Customer experience
FiddleBrix
Merge Maestro
Bugs and requests
FiddleBrix
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Merge Maestro
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on startup
- Medal tracking issues
Requested features
2 requests- Endless mode
- UI/text scale options
In-app purchases
FiddleBrix
No in-app purchases
Merge Maestro
- Full Access$2.99
