Little Alchemy vs Blocks Sort!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Little Alchemy
Combine basic elements to discover new items, from mythical creatures to advanced technology. This game offers a vast collection of discoverable elements and a relaxing, puzzle-solving experience.
- 580 discoverable elements
- Element combination puzzles
- One-handed gameplay
- Cross-device progress sync
- Night Mode
- Achievements
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Explore what you can create by mixing simple elements. Start with four basic items and use them to find dinosaurs, unicorns and spaceships! FEATURES • 580 elements. • One-handed gameplay. • Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, German, French, Polish, Dutch, Swedish and Norwegian. • Mix elements to create interesting, fun and surprising items. • Play at your own pace. • Every combination is a little puzzle to solve. • Night Mode. • Achievements. In this update we introduced many improvements such as new simple design, better performance, many bug fixes, vertical mode for one handed play. And the best of all: you can now sync your progress between devices! The game is free. And when we say free we mean it! • No ads. • No in-app payments.
Blocks Sort!
Engage your mind with a relaxing puzzle game where you sort colorful blocks. Drag and drop blocks into their correct positions to solve increasingly challenging levels. This game offers a satisfying way to exercise your brain.
- Sort colorful blocks
- Drag and drop mechanics
- Brain exercise puzzle
- Relaxing gameplay
- Challenging levels
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Solve the puzzle by sorting colorful blocks. It's a challenging and relaxing sort puzzle game to exercise your brain! Drag and drop to move the main block to the right place!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Little Alchemy at none against Blocks Sort!'s 13. Little Alchemy also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (80% vs 65%). Blocks Sort!'s advantage is ratings volume (19K vs 2.6K). On price, rating, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Blocks Sort! sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Little Alchemy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Blocks Sort! holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blocks Sort! has 19K ratings behind it against 2.6K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of Little Alchemy's written reviews are positive against 65% of Blocks Sort!'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Little Alchemy ships an update every 6 weeks, Blocks Sort! every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | Little Alchemy | Blocks Sort! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2.6K ratings) | 4.7 (19K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.2% of reviews — better | 65.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.6K | 19K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 334 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Jakub Koziol | App Swim LLC |
Customer experience
Little Alchemy
Blocks Sort!
User reviews
Little Alchemy
From 2.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive game
- 🧠 Educational and creative
- 🎨 Unique and imaginative combinations
- 📱 Works well on mobile devices
- 🔍 Helpful hints and guides
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- 🔄 Repetitive gameplay after a while
- 🔍 Difficulty finding the last few elements
- 💻 Lack of a search function for elements
Blocks Sort!
From 19K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Amazing
- 🚀 Different and challenging
- 🚀 Blocks sort
- 👍 Super satisfying
- 👍 Fun
Room to improve
- 🐛 Glitches/Bugs
- 🔋 Too many ads
- 🔋 Levels repeat too often
- 🔋 Some levels are too easy
Bugs and requests
Little Alchemy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Certain combinations not working as expected
- Randomly losing progress or created elements
- Crashes or freezes when opening the app
Requested features
4 requests- Add more elements and combinations
- Implement a dark mode option
- Introduce a progress tracking system
- Add the ability to reset progress without losing data
Blocks Sort!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Level 53 is impossible
- Blocks get stuck/stacked
- Certain levels are glitched and can't be completed
Requested features
3 requests- Repeatable boss levels
- More difficult levels
- Daily bonus notifications
In-app purchases
Little Alchemy
No in-app purchases
Blocks Sort!
- Coins Pack 1$0.99
- Coins Pack 2$1.99
- Coins Pack 1$1.99
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- Ad Free$2.99
- Starter Pack$3.99
- Coins Pack 3$4.99
- Booster Pack$5.99
- Coins Pack 2$7.99
- Remove Ads Pack$11.99
- Coins Pack 3$14.99
- Coins Pack 4$24.99
- Coins Pack 5$54.99
- Coins Pack 6$99.99
Questions
Is Little Alchemy free?
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