Slide Tap vs The Daily Baffle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Slide Tap
This game combines crossword clues with slide puzzle mechanics. Rearrange letters to solve clues and progress through levels. It's a unique challenge for your vocabulary and spatial reasoning skills.
- Crossword clue integration
- Slide puzzle mechanics
- Vocabulary challenges
- Spatial skill development
- Offline play
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Slide Tap takes brain-teasing to the next level by fusing crossword clues with the addictive movement of a slide puzzle. Rearrange letters, solve clues, and shift your thinking—literally! - Challenge your vocabulary and spatial skills - Slide to align answers and unlock levels - Play offline, anytime, anywhere If a crossword and a sliding tile puzzle had a brainy baby, this would be it. Download Slide Tap now and puzzle like never before!
The Daily Baffle
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Play a variety of challenging word and logic puzzles from The Daily Baffle, including: - MORPHOLOGY: A clued word ladder written on weekdays by a variety of constructors, many of whom have been published in the New York Times, Washington Post, and others. - PATHWORD: A spatial word puzzle where a path of letters must be laid out to spell 4 words. - PATHWORD 5X5: A more challenging version of the Pathword. - RUBIGRAM: A spatial word puzzle where grids must be rotated and flipped until every row and column spells a word. - TRIWORD: A word iteration puzzle where the solver must find the word fragment that completes 3 other fragments to form full words. - ARITHMEGLYPHS: A math-logic puzzle involving completing sequences of numbers based on logical inference. - TRUTHSORTING: A logic puzzle where statements must be ordered in a specific way that makes some true and others false.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Slide Tap at 4.6 against The Daily Baffle's 4.0. Slide Tap also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). The Daily Baffle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Slide Tap sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. The Daily Baffle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Slide Tap holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Slide Tap has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Slide Tap ships an update fortnightly, The Daily Baffle every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Slide Tap | The Daily Baffle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (10 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 78 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Kevin Marshall | Julian Eden |
In-app purchases
Slide Tap
- Booster Pack One$1.99
- Booster Pack Three$1.99
- Booster Pack Two$1.99
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- All Puzzles Pack$3.99
The Daily Baffle
No in-app purchases









