Comparison

Nonogram puzzle vs Hexlands

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

Head to head
About

Nonogram puzzle

Build a magical fairy tale island by merging items and solving nonogram puzzles. Discover hidden pixel art, collect elves, and design your dream world. Enjoy a blend of logic puzzles and creative building.

Highlights
  • Merge items to build and design
  • Solve nonogram puzzles
  • Discover hidden pixel art
  • Collect elves and characters
  • Sandbox garden for customization
  • Multiple difficulty levels
Features
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Welcome to magical island and meet elves. The beautiful mystery Elf Island is full of treasure gift box with materials in it and merge them to build your fun fairy tale world! Open gifts to drag and match items like small branchs, stones and seeds to contracture and design the beautiful fairy tale island and reveal stories-princess, prince and dwarves. Find 3 mergreable pieces and combine them together will unlock the next level object and you only need five items to discover two new things. By keep mergeing, you will have houses, flower trees, roses, castles, palaces, etc. Elves will show up after 3 eggs were collected and matched~wide-open game board brings a huge potential of design and creativity to build a whole new magical wrold. Complete nonogram puzzle and keep Merging to find and discover the magic! Gift boxes which could help to build your fantasy, mystery and dream elf island simulator could receive by complete Nonogram puzzles. Nonogram is a type of classic sudoku game which combine math logic with pixel art. Match blank cells and blocks and numbers at the side of the grid to reveal the hidden pixel picture, as known as Hanjie, Picross, Griddlers, Japanese Crosswords, Paint by Numbers, Pic-a-Pix. Use strategy to figure out whether the square should be color or filled with X base on the words on the grids or could just filling by filling out all bricks. When the puzzle was resolved, you could reveal hidden images on the puzzle. Numbers are clues to show how many squares to fill. The numbers above the column are read from top-to-bottom. Numbers to the left of the rows are read from left-to-right. Nonogram is also a pleasant game to train and exercise your brain, also keep your mind active with the basic rules and logic behind the picture cross puzzle. ●Massive Themed puzzle packs in the game ●Friendly novice tutorials in the game, combine various difficulty level from Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard or Very hard that best for you and become the expert! ●There are many auxiliary functions in the game, such as return to the previous step, get hints, and reset the game ●Autosave every puzzle, if you stuck you can try another puzzle and come back later ●First game that you can play nonogram and merge at the same time ●Merge to summon and collect characters ●Sandbox garden to let your makeover with various building

About

Hexlands

Features
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Hexlands is a tile-laying strategy game where every match paints a new world. Draw hex tiles one by one, fit them into a growing map of forests, rivers, villages, and cities — then deploy your meeples to score the features you complete. Features: *Fast-paced multiplayer: play with friends in real time *Single-player mode against the game's logic engine *50+ unique hex tiles with rich hand-drawn terrain *Strategic meeple placement: roads, cities, chapels, and fields *Special overlay tiles that destroy tiles or remove meeples — shift the balance late game* *Clean SwiftUI + SpriteKit rendering, built natively for iOS and iPad *Tap to Voice Chat How to play: Place a tile so its edges match neighbors. Optionally place a meeple on a road, city, or chapel. Complete features to score points and return meeples to your hand. Simple rules. Deep choices. A new map every time. Terms of Use: https://hexlandsgame.com/terms.html

Screenshots

Nonogram puzzle4 screens
Hexlands3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Hexlands at every 11 days against Nonogram puzzle's every 5 weeks. Nonogram puzzle's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nonogram puzzle sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hexlands sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nonogram puzzle ships an update every 5 weeks, Hexlands every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Nonogram puzzle versus Hexlands: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNonogram puzzleHexlands
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews53.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size146 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYunbuDavid Lai

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Nonogram puzzle

One-time10
  • 10 Gifts$0.99
  • 150 Gems$1.99
  • 1000 Coins$1.99
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  • Coin Gifts$1.99
  • Special Gift$3.99
  • Unlock Princess$3.99
  • 2800 coins$4.99
  • 600 Gems$4.99
  • 1000 Gems$9.99
  • 6800 coins$9.99
1 purchases

Hexlands

Subscriptions1
  • Hexlands Creator7 Days trial$1.991 Month

Questions

Is Nonogram puzzle free?
Nonogram puzzle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hexlands free?
Hexlands is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Nonogram puzzle or Hexlands have ads?
Both Nonogram puzzle and Hexlands show ads.
Which is updated more often, Nonogram puzzle or Hexlands?
Nonogram puzzle ships an update every 5 weeks, and Hexlands every 11 days. Most recently, Nonogram puzzle was updated on November 4, 2026 and Hexlands on November 9, 2026.

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