FiddleBrix vs Bandicoot
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.
Bandicoot
A word search game where tapping letters to form words clears tiles, causing those above to fall. Earn multipliers for longer words and explore various game modes. Learn new words with the built-in dictionary and customize your game experience.
- Gravity-based tile dropping
- Word multipliers
- Daily puzzles
- Endless zen mode
- Timed challenge modes
- Built-in dictionary
- Customizable themes
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Bandicoot is word search with gravity. Tap letters to spell a word, the tiles clear, and tiles above drop into the gap. Earn valuable multipliers for longer words. Every board has at least one solution. How high can you score? Can you clear the entire board? FIVE MODES FOR EVERY MOOD • Daily Dig — A new puzzle, free to play every day. Chase a perfect board. Start a streak. • Flow — Endless, untimed, unlimited assists. The zen mode. Free to play. Buy BANDICOOT GOLD to unlock the rest: • Blitz — Two minutes to spell as many words and score as high as you can. Tiles refill. • Focus — Can you clear the board in two minutes? No refills. • Root — Clear all 36 tiles. Track your best score. Perfect practice for the Daily Dig. BUILT FOR WORD LOVERS • Learn new words with our built-in dictionary • Game Center leaderboards • Accessible out of the box, AAA contrast • Choose your tile palette, board background, and font • Sign in with Apple, or play anonymously — your call NO ADS. EVER. Bandicoot is free to play. One optional $2.99 unlock opens every mode — that's the whole shop. We don't sell your attention. We just make a game we'd want to play.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FiddleBrix at none against Bandicoot's 1. FiddleBrix also leads on ratings volume (44 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). Bandicoot's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 24 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Bandicoot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FiddleBrix asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FiddleBrix against 5.0 for Bandicoot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FiddleBrix has 44 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
FiddleBrix ships an update every 24 months, Bandicoot every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FiddleBrix | Bandicoot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FiddleBrix LLC | Magic Factory, LLC |
Customer experience
FiddleBrix
Bandicoot
In-app purchases
FiddleBrix
No in-app purchases
Bandicoot
- Bandicoot Gold$2.99
