Comparison

Foldbox vs Polychoron Explorer

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

Head to head
About

Foldbox

Engage in a geometric puzzle game where you fold cube surfaces to create perfect cubes. Find hidden keys to unlock surfaces and progress through challenging levels. Enjoy a relaxing yet stimulating experience focused on spatial reasoning and puzzle-solving.

Highlights
  • Cube surface folding mechanics
  • Key collection for unlocking surfaces
  • Intricate geometric puzzles
  • Relaxing gameplay
  • Satisfying cube conversion
Features
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Discover the thrill of transforming cube expansions into perfect cubes by tactically folding surfaces. Your task is to locate hidden keys that unlock the surfaces, enabling the conversion process. With intricate puzzles to solve, immerse yourself in a relaxing yet stimulating geometric challenge. Win each section by collecting all the converted cubes, enjoying a satisfying journey of geometric mastery!

About

Polychoron Explorer

Features
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Introducing Magic Manycell - a puzzle game inspired by Magic Cube but in 4D. Rotate 4D slices of a Tesseract or 16-Cell to match colors. Comprehend and feel 4D space by watching 4D objects projected into 3D by brand new 4D projection-based rendering engine. Magic Manycell puzzle can be played on 3 different 4D figures -- Tesseract with its Cells divided into 8 cubes 2*2*2, tesseract with cells divided into 3*3*3=27 smaller cubes each, and a 16-cell, which is a regular polychoron with 16 tetrahedral cells, where you have to match colors in 4 cells aligned together. If Magic Manycell puzzle seems too hard at first, you can adjust difficulty by selecting amount of moves (called shuffles) that game creates from the state with all colors perfectly aligned. So as you master elementary 1, 2 and 3 shuffles, you can move on to more challenging puzzles. In addition to starting with less shuffles, with Tesseract based figures players can select to utilize rotations that affects less cells that actual rotation would which makes this puzzle playable to even most casual players (this is the default mode - for only "realistic" rotations select "IRON AN" mode). In addition to Magic Manycell, this game contains Explorer mode without game goal where you can take your time to explore all 6 regular 4D polytopes (called polychorons). You can also customize how polychoron looks by selecting colors for each Cell of it. In Premium version, you can even create your own polychorons by scanning and splitting existing ones into 2 parts. Even though right now there're only 2 modes, more fun games on the same engine are planned to be added in the future into this same app. Game uses Freemium model where free (Demo) functionality is limited. Full functionality is unlockable with one-time purchases, only one for each mode. Demo mode is indicated by watermark so you know that there are some limitations to be expected. However in each mode there is a fully unlocked free functionality - for Magic Manycell, this is 2*2*2 tesseract board, for Explorer it's the 5-cell and Tesseract.

Screenshots

Foldbox4 screens
Polychoron Explorer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Foldbox at none against Polychoron Explorer's 3. Foldbox also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Polychoron Explorer's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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

Both are free to download. Polychoron Explorer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Foldbox asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Foldbox ships an update daily, Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Foldbox versus Polychoron Explorer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFoldboxPolychoron Explorer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size91 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFEELCRAFTERS OYUN YAZILIM LIMITED SIRKETIOLEG LESHCHEV

In-app purchases

None

Foldbox

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Polychoron Explorer

One-time3
  • Unlock Explorer$4.99
  • Unlock Magic Manycell$4.99
  • Full Lifetime Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is Foldbox free?
Foldbox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Polychoron Explorer free?
Polychoron Explorer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Foldbox or Polychoron Explorer have ads?
Foldbox shows ads; Polychoron Explorer does not.
Which is updated more often, Foldbox or Polychoron Explorer?
Foldbox ships an update daily, and Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Foldbox was updated on October 18, 2026 and Polychoron Explorer on October 22, 2026.

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