Brain Toot vs PuzzleManiak
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain Toot
This app offers a fun and simple way to challenge your brain with 32 different games. It aims to stimulate cognitive functions like memory, math, visual processing, and thinking skills, providing a daily mental exercise.
- 32 brain training games
- Tests memory skills
- Tests math skills
- Tests visual skills
- Tests thinking skills
- Daily brain exercise
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Exercise helps keep the body healthy and fit, and your brain works in a similar manner. As you get older, you lose muscle mass, and your brain function begins to decrease as well. "Brain Toot" is a brain game that will give you a simple and fun way to help challenge and stimulate your brain. "Brain Toot" includes 32 brain training games to give you a mental exercise to test your memory, math, visual and thinking skills. In just a few minutes, you can have a daily brain age exercise. To enable an extra option, please visit www.braintootgame.com/extras
PuzzleManiak
Engage your mind with a vast collection of 24 unique logic puzzles, each generated on-the-fly for endless replayability. Compete with players worldwide through daily challenges and online leagues, with adjustable difficulty levels and detailed statistics to track your progress.
- 24 unique logic puzzle games
- On-the-fly puzzle generation
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Detailed statistics tracking
- Daily challenges
- Online leagues and rankings
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PuzzleManiak is a collection of 24 puzzle games: Sudoku, Pattern (Picross like), Bridges, Dominosa, Filling, Galaxies, Loopy, LightUp, Mines, Net, Rectangles, Slant, Tents, Unequal, Untangle, Blackbox, SameGame, Pegs, Mastermind, Map, Magnets, Singles, Range and Netslide. All games are generated on-the-fly with a unique solution, thus you’ll never play the same puzzle twice. All games offer multiple levels from easy to hard. Statistics are maintained for each game, and each level of difficulty. For each game, a daily challenge is available: in this mode, everyday, all players play the same puzzle and compare their scores with other players. Another online mode is available: the Online League. After any (local) game, you can submit it to the website, so that every other players can play it and thus you can compare your scores to other ones. An overall ranking is available, and ranking are also available for each game. All online features are now available with Auto-renewable subscriptions only: • You can choose between 3 subscriptions: - 1 month subscription: $1.49 - 6 months subscription: $7.49 - 1 year subscription: $12.99 • There is a trial period of 2 weeks for all types of subscriptions. • Your subscription will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase and will automatically renew (at the duration selected) unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. • Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period, and identify the cost of the renewal • Current subscription may not be cancelled during the active subscription period; however, you can manage your subscription and/or turn off auto-renewal by visiting your iTunes Account Settings after purchase. • Terms of use: http://puzzlemaniak.com/termsofuse.html • Privacy Policy: http://puzzlemaniak.com/policy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Brain Toot at Free against PuzzleManiak's $0.99. Brain Toot also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 66%). PuzzleManiak's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 months) and rating (3.1 vs 2.7). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Brain Toot is free to download; PuzzleManiak costs $0.99 up front. Brain Toot sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and PuzzleManiak sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PuzzleManiak holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: PuzzleManiak has 23 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Brain Toot's written reviews are positive against 66% of PuzzleManiak's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Brain Toot ships an update every 2 months, PuzzleManiak every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brain Toot | PuzzleManiak |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 2.7 (3 ratings) | 3.1 (23 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 81.7% of reviews — better | 66.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 23 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Craft Edge | Alexandre Minard |
Customer experience
Brain Toot
PuzzleManiak
User reviews
Brain Toot
From 3 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 💰 Great value for price
- 🧠 Excellent brain training
- 👍 Fun and addictive
- 💡 Variety of games
- 🚀 Improves mental skills
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and freezes
- 🧭 Difficult navigation
- 🔢 Currency issues for non-US users
- 🐌 Slow response in some games
- 🤔 Some games too fast
PuzzleManiak
From 23 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎮 Excellent variety with 24 different puzzle games
- 💰 Outstanding value for money
- 🔄 Infinite replayability with procedurally generated puzzles
- 📊 Multiple difficulty levels for each puzzle
- 🌐 Online competitive features and daily challenges
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and stability issues
- 📐 Screen sizing problems on various devices
- 🎨 UI/UX design changes poorly received
- 🖱️ Unresponsive touch controls and precision issues
- 🔌 Server connectivity and online functionality failures
Bugs and requests
Brain Toot
Reported bugs
9 issues- Extra options orange button doesn't work
- Failed to update local data error
- Freezes when playing time challenge
- Touch screen in game sucks
- Number 10 counted wrong in lowest number game
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- Currency calculation test is difficult for non-Americans
- Buggy and conflicted
- App is half baked
- Programming needs help
Requested features
17 requests- Add score history/statistics
- Option to remove ads
- Select different currency
- Memory game with words/phrases
- Harder math problems
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- Online leaderboards
- 1 on 1 mode
- Tap to continue in memory games
- More stats for time per question type
- Challenge friends online
- Improve menus and show Top 10 scores
- Keep track of accumulative stats
- Fix number 10 bug in lowest number game
- UK version for currency games
- More memorization of patterns
- Refine the game further
- Update the app
PuzzleManiak
Reported bugs
17 issues- Tangled game sizing issue on iPhone 14 Pro Max
- MasterMind guesses misaligned with background grid
- Pattern game elements remain small after update
- Tents game off-center positioning
- Untangle nodes have limited range of motion
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- Sudoku numbers too small to read
- Control buttons positioned under system UI bars
- Game crashes when tabbing out of app
- Online game crashes and network errors
- Scores and statistics not saving
- Mines sometimes generate off-screen
- Minesweeper high scores only showing 1 entry
- Map game color distinction issues
- BlackBox game functionality broken
- Pattern numbers misaligned with boxes
- Puzzle boards and icons much smaller than before
- Touch precision issues requiring multiple attempts
Requested features
13 requests- Screen zoom functionality
- Dark mode or customizable color themes
- Sound effects and audio feedback
- Better game instructions and tutorials
- iPad native resolution support
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- Undo button for all puzzle types
- Auto screen lock disable for long games
- Chess game addition
- Kakuro puzzle type
- Better color contrast for colorblind players
- Save game state when switching apps
- Wiki with solving hints
- Improved touch target sizes for small puzzles
In-app purchases
Brain Toot
- Game Pack$0.99
PuzzleManiak
- One Month Subscription14 Days trial$3.991 Month
- 6 Month Subscription14 Days trial$17.996 Months
- One Year Subscription14 Days trial$24.991 Year









