Pencil Puzzles vs One
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pencil Puzzles
Engage your mind with challenging logic puzzles. Trace intricate images without retracing lines or lifting your finger. Test your problem-solving skills with this addictive brain-teaser.
- Trace images without lifting finger
- No retracing lines
- Challenging brain-teasers
- Logic puzzles
- Addictive gameplay
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Pencil Puzzles is an extremely fun app designed for those who enjoy brain-teasers. The goal of the game is to trace each image without going over any lines twice and without lifting your finger from the screen. Think you got what it takes? Download now for wacky pencil fun!
One
Challenge your mind with a unique drawing puzzle. Connect all points with a single, unbroken line. Improve your logic and visual reasoning skills across 150 engaging levels.
- Draw with a single line
- 150 challenging levels
- Improve logic skills
- Enhance reasoning
- Visual agility training
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Draw each figure with a single line without lifting your finger from the screen. Train and improve your visual agility, logic and reasoning skills. There are 150 levels, can you solve them all?
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Verdict
Pencil Puzzles and One are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Pencil Puzzles sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and One sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Pencil Puzzles against 4.7 for One. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 261 and 401 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Pencil Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 89% of One's.
Pencil Puzzles ships an update every 13 months, One every 26 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pencil Puzzles | One |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (261 ratings) | 4.7 (401 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.9% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 261 | 401 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months — better | Every 26 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.2 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Calvin Nutter | Alejandro Castagnolo Martinez |
Customer experience
Pencil Puzzles
One
Bugs and requests
Pencil Puzzles
Reported bugs
7 issues- Line detection too strict - rejects valid traces
- False positives for line overlap detection
- Inconsistent error messages about line proximity
- App stuck on permission/ad preference screen
- Finger wavering causes unintended restarts
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- Specific level bugs (e.g., Level 89 detection issue)
- Inconsistent validation of completed puzzles
Requested features
6 requests- More puzzle levels (most frequent request)
- Line snapping or guided tracing to reduce sensitivity issues
- Option to remove ads with one-time payment
- Increased difficulty progression
- Finger guidance or stabilization feature
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- More complex puzzles for advanced players
One
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pencil Puzzles
- Unlock All Puzzles$0.99
One
- Ads removal$1.99
