Comparison

Puzzle Champ vs Puzzly

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

Head to head
About

Puzzle Champ

Create custom jigsaw puzzles from your own photos or downloaded images. Adjust difficulty with piece count and placement accuracy. Enjoy an ad-free, offline experience with unlimited puzzle creations.

Highlights
  • Create puzzles from any picture
  • Unlimited puzzle pictures
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Offline play
  • No ads or in-app purchases
  • Simple user interface
Features
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Turn any photo into a beautiful jigsaw puzzle — designed from the ground up for little hands and curious minds! Puzzle Champ has been completely rebuilt with a modern, colorful design that makes it even easier for kids to dive in and start puzzling. Pick a picture, choose your difficulty, and watch it come to life piece by piece. **Pick Your Picture** • Use photos from your device's photo library or snap one with the camera • Browse thousands of kid-friendly images — animals, nature, space, food, vehicles, and castles — safely searched and downloaded right inside the app • Build a personal puzzle library and replay your favorites anytime **Real Jigsaw Pieces** • Authentic tab-and-blank interlocking pieces with satisfying snap-into-place feedback • Particle burst celebration when a piece clicks home • Pieces glow as you drag them — easy to see exactly where you're placing them **Five Difficulty Levels** • First Puzzle — 4 pieces, perfect for the very youngest • Easy — 9 pieces, great for beginners • Just Right — 16 pieces, the balanced sweet spot • Tricky — 25 pieces for a real challenge • Expert — 36 pieces for maximum challenge **Made for Kids, Trusted by Parents** • Parental gate protects photo library and image search access • Safe search enforced — only age-appropriate images • No puzzle-time interruptions — ads appear only on image search screens, never during gameplay • No in-app purchases. Ever. **Customize the Experience** • Five placement accuracy levels — from Forgiving to Expert • Peek at the reference picture whenever you need a hint • Choose from beautiful color themes • Sound effects with a single tap to toggle off Works great on both iPhone and iPad. App Web Site - http://gmobapp.net/puzzle-champ Credits: Resources from the following sites are integrated in the application: + Sounds – Sound Jay + Puzzle Pictures – https://pixabay.com and www.pexels.com + FreePNGimg.com – PNG Images, Pictures, Icons and Clip arts

About

Puzzly

Transform beautiful photos into engaging puzzles for solo play or friendly competition. Share custom puzzles with friends through messaging apps and challenge them to solve your creations.

Highlights
  • Thousands of beautiful photo puzzles
  • Puzzles up to 10x10 size
  • Random puzzle generation
  • iMessage app integration
  • Create puzzles from your own photos
  • Share puzzles via messaging apps
Features
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Puzzly has beed featured by Apple as on one of the best iMessage apps in the US, UK and 100+ other countries. ***** Puzzly is now available on an iPad! Finally you an have everything you had on an iPhone and even more! Thousands of beautiful photos turned into puzzles just for you, now be as big as 10x10! Each puzzle is unique and looks gorgeous on a large display. You can even feel the breeze of the ocean or hear the music from a wild party in the picture. Or just take a moment to appreciate the sunset. Whichever is right for you - Puzzly got you covered! ***** Solve hundreds of RANDOM PUZZLES assembled just for you from photos of gorgeous sunsets, wild parties, amazing travel destinations or anything else. ***** Puzzly is an iMessage app as well! Create puzzles from your photos right from any iMessage chat, see results without going anywhere else. Ain't that cool? This is private photo sharing taken to a whole new level! Nothing beats seeing your friends assembling a 25-piece puzzle for 5 long minutes! 1. Take a photo. 2. Create a puzzle with a single tap. 3. Send it to your friends via Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram or many other services. See how fast your friends solve your puzzles, so that you can make fun of them later!

Screenshots

Puzzle Champ4 screens
Puzzly4 screens

Verdict

The call

Puzzle Champ and Puzzly both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Puzzle Champ's written reviews are positive against 41% of Puzzly's. Puzzle Champ also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1). Puzzly's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 31 months) and ratings volume (566 vs 6). On price, rating, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Puzzly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Puzzle Champ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Puzzle Champ against 4.4 for Puzzly. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Puzzly has 566 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Puzzle Champ's written reviews are positive against 41% of Puzzly's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Puzzle Champ ships an update every 31 months, Puzzly every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Puzzle Champ versus Puzzly: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuzzle ChampPuzzly
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (6 ratings) — better4.4 (566 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better41.4% of reviews
Number of ratings6566 — better
Update frequencyEvery 31 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Vision Pro — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYan FutermanTwice

Customer experience

Puzzle Champ

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Puzzly

All ratings561 ratings
Positive82.9%
Neutral7.0%
Negative10.2%
Written reviews70 reviews
Positive41.4%
Neutral4.3%
Negative54.3%

Bugs and requests

Puzzle Champ

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Puzzly

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes and freezes
  • Issues with uploading/processing photos
  • Compatibility problems on older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to create larger puzzles
  • More customization options
  • Web interface for sharing
  • Compatibility improvements

In-app purchases

None

Puzzle Champ

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Puzzly

One-time1
  • Unlimited random puzzles$0.99

Questions

Is Puzzle Champ free?
Puzzle Champ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Puzzly free?
Puzzly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Puzzle Champ or Puzzly?
Puzzle Champ is rated higher. Puzzle Champ averages 4.5 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Puzzly averages 4.4 from 566 ratings.
Do Puzzle Champ or Puzzly have ads?
Neither Puzzle Champ nor Puzzly shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Puzzle Champ or Puzzly?
Puzzle Champ ships an update every 31 months, and Puzzly every 10 days. Most recently, Puzzle Champ was updated on November 1, 2026 and Puzzly on October 23, 2026.

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