Comparison

Pixel Island vs Limnering

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

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About

Pixel Island

Solve logic puzzles to reveal pixel art and explore a beautiful island. Decorate your own island with various items and interact with talking animals. Enjoy a relaxing experience with brain-stimulating challenges.

Highlights
  • Solve Nonogram pixel art puzzles
  • Explore and decorate a beautiful island
  • Collect and place plants, houses, and characters
  • Interact with talking animals
  • Listen to healing and relaxing music
  • Uncover unique island pixel art
Features
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Pixel Island: Nonogram Picross Embark on an adventure across a stunning island while solving logic puzzles! Welcome to "Pixel Island: Nonogram Picross"! Here, while solving Nonogram puzzles, you can explore the beautiful Island and decorate your own island. [Features of Pixel Island] - Complete pixel art with the characteristics of each region in the island while solving Nonogram puzzles. - Decorate your own island with various plants, houses, characters, and more. - Interact with talking cats while listening to healing and relaxing music. By solving Picture Cross puzzles(Pictogram), you'll unveil pixel art that captures the uniqueness of the island. As you venture further into the island, you'll encounter more challenging and intricate puzzles. With casual yet brain-stimulating logic puzzles and an intuitive user interface, both beginners and experts can enjoy the game. Use the resources you earn from solving picture puzzles to decorate your own island. You can utilize various plants, houses, and characters. Talk with animals, including cats, and raise them on your island. If you have any inconvenience or feedback during gameplay, please email us at happy.memory.factory@gmail.com. Thank you.

About

Limnering

Features
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Paint one page a day. By Christmas, you will have a whole illuminated year. Limnering is a quiet, parchment styled daily puzzle that puts you in the seat of a medieval manuscript painter. Each morning a fresh hand designed page appears in your studio: a saint's portrait, a giant decorative initial, a bestiary creature, a margin drollery, a biblical scene, or a Lindisfarne style carpet page. Tap a region to fill it with the pigment of your choice. Save the page to your year long codex. Come back tomorrow for another. Twelve historical pigments wait in the tray: Lapis lazuli ultramarine, the most expensive medieval pigment, reserved for the Virgin's robe. Vermillion, ground from cinnabar, the bright red of blood and royalty. Gold leaf, beaten foil burnished onto the page for haloes and the figure of Christ. Verdigris, copper acetate, beautiful and corrosive. Malachite, the safe and stable green from copper ore. Indigo, fermented from Indigofera leaves, cheaper than ultramarine. Woad, the European blue, even cheaper. Saffron, hand picked crocus stigmas, used for yellow highlights. Lead white, toxic but bright opaque, the medieval flesh ground. Bone black, charred bones, the scribe's ink and outline color. Madder lake, a cool plant red layered over warmer reds for royal robes. Orpiment, brilliant arsenic yellow, fatal to grind without ventilation. Forty hand designed patterns ship at launch, grouped into six sections: Eight saint portraits with halo, robe, attribute, and flesh. Six decorative initial letters with knotwork interior and marginal vine. Eight marginalia pages: knight and snail, dancing rabbits, monkey trumpet, owl scribe, ape doctor, fox preaching, hare hunting hound, cockerel joust. Four biblical scenes in silhouette: Nativity, Annunciation, Last Supper, Crucifixion. Six bestiary creatures: unicorn, manticore, basilisk, gryphon, leviathan, pelican. Eight geometric Insular carpet pages: four corners, cross of the scribe, rosette, checker field, vesica weave, eight fold knot, star of the north, spiral quadrants. A monastic accuracy score quietly rewards you for following the iconographic conventions a medieval illuminator was taught: gold for haloes, ultramarine for Mary, malachite for foliage, lead white for flesh, vermillion for martyr's robes. The Scriptorium inside the app explains every rule, every pigment, and the source it would have come from. Your scoring history is saved in the codex. There is no time pressure. There is no fail state. There is no system to chase. There is just paint, and parchment, and the soft pluck of a lute when you set down a color. The soundtrack is generated procedurally on device. Three voices model a contemplative monastic chamber piece: an organ drone in the Hypodorian mode, a soft lute pluck for each pigment you apply, and a recorder counterpoint that briefly wells up whenever you satisfy an iconographic rule. No audio files are bundled with the app. Limnering ships with twenty achievements, a yearly codex grid for every UTC day, a sandbox mode that unlocks every pattern from the first launch, accessibility options for reduced motion, dyslexic friendly font, and high contrast outlines, and local SwiftData persistence for the codex. No subscriptions. No in app purchases. No expansion packs. No tracking. No analytics. No accounts. No third party SDKs. Thank you for reading.

Screenshots

Pixel Island4 screens
Limnering4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pixel Island at Free against Limnering's $2.99. Pixel Island also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Limnering's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6). On update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pixel Island is free to download; Limnering costs $2.99 up front. Pixel Island sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Limnering asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pixel Island ships an update every 4 days, Limnering every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Pixel Island versus Limnering: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPixel IslandLimnering
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.8 (113 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews62.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings113 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size806 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHAYOUNG KOHRobert Corbin

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Pixel Island

One-time6
  • 100 Stones$0.99
  • 40 Oranges$0.99
  • 300 Stones$1.99
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  • 1000 Stones$2.99
  • 200 Oranges$2.99
  • 2000 Stones$3.99
None

Limnering

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pixel Island free?
Pixel Island is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Limnering free?
Limnering costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pixel Island or Limnering have ads?
Neither Pixel Island nor Limnering shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pixel Island or Limnering?
Pixel Island ships an update every 4 days, and Limnering every 5 days. Most recently, Pixel Island was updated on October 24, 2026 and Limnering on October 24, 2026.

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