Take It Easy vs Encore! Digital Edition
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Take It Easy
This is a strategic tile-placement puzzle game where players aim to form continuous rows of the same color. With multiple game modes, including classic, puzzle, and progressive challenges, it offers endless hours of addictive fun. Compete with friends locally or globally through Game Center integration.
- Strategic tile placement
- Continuous row scoring
- Classic, Puzzle, and Progressive modes
- Local multiplayer for up to 4 players
- Game Center integration
- Over 40 achievements
- High-resolution graphics
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It’s a puzzle, it’s a brain teaser and it’s a game! It’s all three and much more! It is bingo with strategy! Place your pieces one at a time on the board. To score points, try to form continuous rows of the same color from edge to edge. But one wrong tile and the whole row is worthless. It gets harder as the number of empty spaces on your board, and your possible choices, diminish. Because once a tile is placed, it can’t be moved! Take It Easy is a simple, yet surprisingly addictive and thought-provoking game that will give you endless hours of fun. Features: • Three entertaining and visually beautiful game modes: - Classic Mode: introduces you to the game that started it all. - Puzzle Mode: test your puzzle solving skills with 140 fun and well-designed puzzles. This exciting new twist to the game will have you swapping pieces in your sleep. - Progressive Mode: Offers 30 stages of different challenges. Conquer all stages before time runs out! • Local multiplayer: Play head-to-head against a friend. Or up to four players on a single device! • Game Center integration lets you compare high scores with your friends and players around the world. Will you be Number 1 on the leaderboard? • Over 40 different achievements: Earn points to get that #1 rank! • Stunning high-resolution graphics! • Already over two million fans are enjoying the award winning board game! 148apps.com 4/5 – „Addictive puzzle mechanics and infectiously fun challenges make Take It Easy an unexpected runaway success.” Appadvice.com „If you are looking for a great puzzle game to pick up this week, then I highly recommend giving Take It Easy a try. You won’t be disappointed.” Boardgamegeek.com 4/5 – „A fun puzzle game” Touchgen.net 4/5 – „Take It Easy is a fun board puzzle game with a lot of content, and great
Encore! Digital Edition
Experience a popular dice game digitally. Strategically mark connected boxes to earn points and bonuses. Compete solo or with a friend on a single device, aiming to complete columns before your opponents for higher scores.
- Digital dice game
- Mark connected boxes
- Score points and bonuses
- Solo and two-player modes
- Digital scorepad and dice
- Local leaderboard
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Noch mal! is the digital version of the popular dice game. Players earn points by being the first to check off all boxes in a column, and all boxes of the same color. They must do so by only checking boxes which are connected to other boxes. Make sure to complete columns before other players do! The first to complete a column earns more points than those that complete them later. In addition to points for completed columns a player can receive a bonus if they checked all the boxes of the same color. • Official license • Easy start into the game • Game mode "Solo" for single players • Game mode "Duo" for two players on one device • Auto-Select Dice and Auto-Complete Turn • Using the app as a digital score pad or digital dice • Local leaderboard for solo mode • Supporting Game Center with leaderboard and achievements
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Take It Easy at none against Encore! Digital Edition's 1. Take It Easy also leads on review sentiment (93% vs 70%) and ratings volume (1.6K vs 22). Encore! Digital Edition's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 12 months) and chart position (#74 vs unranked). On rating, ads, 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
Take It Easy costs $2.99 and Encore! Digital Edition $3.99 up front. Encore! Digital Edition sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Take It Easy asks for nothing beyond the download.
Take It Easy holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Take It Easy has 1.6K ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Take It Easy's written reviews are positive against 70% of Encore! Digital Edition's.
Take It Easy ships an update every 12 months, Encore! Digital Edition every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Take It Easy | Encore! Digital Edition |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.6K ratings) — better | 4.4 (22 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.2% of reviews — better | 69.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.6K — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 12 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #74 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 182 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ravensburger Verlag GmbH | Outline Development |
Customer experience
Take It Easy
Encore! Digital Edition
Bugs and requests
Take It Easy
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes and freezes
- Tile movement issues
- Unsolvable puzzle levels
- Multiplayer mode connectivity problems
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and puzzles
- Ability to undo moves
- Option to customize the game board
- Difficulty settings (easy, medium, hard)
- Syncing progress across devices
Encore! Digital Edition
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Take It Easy
No in-app purchases
Encore! Digital Edition
- Extension Pad IV, V and VI$0.99
Questions
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