Comparison

Patience Balls vs Isoline

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

Head to head
About

Patience Balls

Engage in a minimalist physics puzzle game designed for a calming and meditative experience. Solve intricate labyrinths and mazes using precision, patience, and logic. This game offers a serene escape while sharpening your reflexes and problem-solving skills.

Highlights
  • Relaxing Zen-like Gameplay
  • Mind-Teasing Labyrinths and Mazes
  • Physics-Based Challenges
  • Precision and Logic Puzzles
  • Beautiful Minimal Graphics
  • Unlockable Achievements
  • Global Leaderboards
Features
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Master your focus and conquer precision tilt controls in Patience Balls—the ultimate physics-based marble maze puzzle game! Whether you are navigating smooth logic labyrinths or tackling high-precision spatial challenges, test your steady hands, master fine balance, and guide every ball safely to its goal. Patience Balls combines realistic motion physics with clean, minimalist board design. Every movement requires complete spatial control, visual focus, and timing—offering a deeply satisfying physics experience where precision leads to victory. Key Features: • Precision Physics & Gyro Control: Calibrated tilt mechanics tuned for exact spatial accuracy. Every subtle wrist movement directly influences board gravity. • Challenging Marble Mazes: Navigate 3D labyrinths, narrow paths, moving obstacles, and gravity holes designed to test your hand-eye coordination. • Test Your Focus & Patience: Progress through 200+ handcrafted levels ranging from satisfying rolling puzzles to high-precision skill challenges. • Satisfying ASMR & Minimalist Design: Clean visuals paired with tactile rolling physics and crisp audio for an engaging, anti-stress atmosphere. • Seamless Offline Play: No Wi-Fi required. Enjoy zero-friction tilt puzzle gameplay anytime, anywhere. • Track Your Mastery: Unlock unique marble skins, achieve level milestones, and see how your precision balance stacks up on global leaderboards. Steady your hands, master the tilt, and download Patience Balls today!

About

Isoline

Features
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Isoline is a block puzzle with a sense of place. Drag pieces onto an 8×8 grid and clear full rows and columns — you know how this works. But every game in Isoline is played over the topographic contours of a real location somewhere on Earth. As you clear lines, the place gives itself away: first its coordinates, digit by digit, then its name. Mt. Fuji. The Grand Canyon. A fjord in Norway you've never heard of. Keep playing and your Places collection fills in, one landscape at a time. No timers. No lives. No ads — ever. Just a quiet grid, soft earth-tone palettes, gentle haptics, and the slow satisfaction of figuring out where in the world you are. THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Discovery — the endless mode. Chase a high score while uncovering new places; choose which location you want to reveal next. • Daily Challenge — everyone in the world gets the same pieces today. One run, one score, one leaderboard. Keep your streak alive. • Puzzle — a pre-filled board and a fixed set of pieces with a guaranteed solution. Fill the board to solve it. A WORLD TO COLLECT 100 real places across 11 themed packs — Iconic Peaks, Ring of Fire, Carved & Canyon, Islands & Coastlines, Sacred & Meditative, Craters & Calderas, Karst & Spires, Deserts & Dunes, Fjords & Coasts, Waterfalls & Gorges, and the Pacific Northwest. Each place is drawn from its actual elevation contours. Start with Mt. Rainier, Mt. St. Helens, and Mt. Hood for free, and unlock more packs whenever you like. Any place you've discovered can become the backdrop for your menus. MADE TO FEEL GOOD Isoline is built natively for iPhone and iPad: springy piece handling, line-clear particles that follow the terrain, Core Haptics feedback, and synthesized sound that respects your silent switch. Earth-tone palettes in light and dark. Reduce Motion honored throughout. FAIR BY DESIGN The game is free and complete. Optional purchases unlock additional place packs (or everything at once) and a one-time Continue after game over. There are no ads, no energy systems, and no subscriptions. Where will your next line take you?

Screenshots

Patience Balls4 screens
Isoline4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Isoline at none against Patience Balls's shown. Patience Balls's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, 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. Patience Balls sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Isoline sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Patience Balls ships an update every 3 weeks, Isoline every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 25, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Patience Balls versus Isoline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPatience BallsIsoline
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (522 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews68.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings522 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size274 MB33 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRicardo Mendoncaciretose

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Patience Balls

One-time7
  • 250 Gems$0.99
  • Patience Balls Premium$1.99
  • 400 Gems$1.99
Show 4 more
  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$2.99
  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$3.99
  • Remove ads and get 1000 gems$4.99
  • Remove ads and 2500 Gems$7.99
10 purchases

Isoline

One-time10
  • Iconic Peaks$0.99
  • Carved & Canyon$0.99
  • Ring of Fire$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Islands & Coastlines$0.99
  • Sacred & Meditative$0.99
  • Karst & Spires$0.99
  • Craters & Calderas$0.99
  • Deserts & Dunes$0.99
  • Fjords & Coasts$0.99
  • Waterfalls & Gorges$0.99

Questions

Is Patience Balls free?
Patience Balls is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Isoline free?
Isoline is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Patience Balls or Isoline have ads?
Patience Balls shows ads; Isoline does not.
Which is updated more often, Patience Balls or Isoline?
Patience Balls ships an update every 3 weeks, and Isoline every 2 months. Most recently, Patience Balls was updated on October 25, 2026 and Isoline on October 25, 2026.

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