Comparison

DIY Projects vs Toehold

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

Head to head
About

DIY Projects

Embark on a match-3 adventure to restore abandoned spaces and create art. Solve puzzles to design paintings, ceramics, sculptures, and more. Become a design legend by transforming the art world.

Highlights
  • Tricky match-3 levels
  • Restore abandoned spaces
  • Unique DIY mini games
  • Win epic rewards
  • Create your own masterpieces
Features
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Help Victor, an eccentric design genius, make the world more beautiful! Complete exciting match-3 levels and create your own unique paintings, ceramics, sculptures, bouquets and much more. Explore and restore abandoned sites like rooftop restaurants, romantic gazebos, and luxury yachts. Join Victor to transform the art world and become a design legend! Features of DIY Projects: • Carve a path to victory through tricky match-3 levels! • Use your creative genius to restore abandoned spaces! • Reveal your artistic talent in unique DIY mini games! • Win epic rewards in bonus and extra-hard levels! • Get inspired and create your own masterpieces in DIY Projects! Your incredible artistic adventure starts NOW!

About

Toehold

Features
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Every other sudoku app has a hint button. You get stuck, you tap it, it fills in a square, and you have learned nothing. Toehold does the opposite. A panel sits beside your board and keeps a live inventory of the techniques that are available right now — "Hidden single ×2 · Pointing pair ×1 · X-Wing ×1" — updating on every digit and every pencil mark. It tells you what to look for. It does not tell you where. Tap a technique and it shows you the cells that make it true, and one plain sentence explaining why: "The only spots for 6 in box 2 — r1c5 and r3c5 — share column 5, so 6 leaves r4c5 and r6c5." Placing the digit is then a separate, deliberate tap. The toehold is yours; the climb is still yours too. DIFFICULTY THAT MEANS SOMETHING • Most apps grade by counting clues, which tells you nothing about how hard a puzzle is • Toehold grades by the hardest technique a puzzle actually requires • Gentle needs only singles. Steady adds locked candidates. Tricky adds pairs and triples. Tough needs X-Wing, Swordfish, or Y-Wing • Every puzzle is checked before you see it: exactly one solution, and solvable by named logic from start to finish. You will never be asked to guess ELEVEN TECHNIQUES, ALL EXPLAINED Naked and hidden singles · pointing pairs · box/line reduction · naked and hidden pairs and triples · X-Wing · Y-Wing · Swordfish. Each one names itself when it appears, so you learn the vocabulary by meeting it on your own board. BUILT FOR THE GRID • Pencil marks in a fixed 3x3 lattice, so a digit is always in the same spot • Fill all candidates in one tap, or place them yourself • Every key shows how many of that digit are left • Full undo • Optional mistake checking, off by default ON iPAD The technique panel stays open beside the board in a real two-column layout — not a stretched phone screen. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE Puzzles are generated on your device. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no network access of any kind. Free. Toehold is for anyone who has finished a sudoku and still could not say how they did it.

Screenshots

DIY Projects4 screens
Toehold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Toehold at none against DIY Projects's 13. Toehold also leads on ads (none vs shown). DIY Projects's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price 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. DIY Projects sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Toehold asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
DIY Projects versus Toehold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDIY ProjectsToehold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (10K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings10K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size439 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPlaygendary LimitedJohn Doan

Bugs and requests

DIY Projects

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Game freezing and crashing
  • Levels not progressing as intended
  • Inability to access certain features
  • Inconsistent in-app purchase functionality

Requested features

4 requests
  • More variety in DIY mini-games
  • Ability to save and revisit custom designs
  • Difficulty adjustments for challenging levels
  • Improved performance and stability

Toehold

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

13 purchases

DIY Projects

One-time13
  • Starter Pack Special Offer$1.99
  • 1000 Coins$1.99
  • Solo offer$1.99
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  • Super Hard level offer$1.99
  • Piggy Bank$2.99
  • Cascade offer$3.99
  • Piggy Bank$3.99
  • Starter Pack$5.99
  • Solo offer$6.99
  • 5000 Coins$7.99
  • Apprentice Pack$9.99
  • Season Pass$11.99
  • Pro Pack$19.99
None

Toehold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DIY Projects free?
DIY Projects is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Toehold free?
Toehold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do DIY Projects or Toehold have ads?
DIY Projects shows ads; Toehold does not.

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