Bilateral! vs Halloway
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bilateral!
Engage in a quick daily word puzzle with a new challenge each day. Share your progress and results easily with friends and family. This game is completely free, with no ads, accounts, or logins required.
- Daily new word puzzle
- Quick gameplay
- Shareable results
- No ads
- No accounts or logins
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Quick daily word game! New puzzle every day. Easily share results with friends and family. Free—without ads, accounts, logins, or passwords.
Halloway
Explore a house of riddles played in the dark, focusing on solving clues to unlock doors. Progress is saved on your device, with optional cross-device sync. No account is needed to begin your mysterious journey.
- Three hand-built cipher wings
- Played phone-first in the dark
- No maps or busywork
- Solve rooms to turn keys
- Progress saved on device
- Optional cross-device sync
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Halloway is a house of riddles - three hand-built cipher wings (The Veil, The Athanor, and The Threshold) played phone-first in the dark. No maps, no busywork: just you, a clue, and the next door. Solve a room to turn its key; the house remembers them all. No account is required. Progress stays on your device unless you sign in for cross-device sync; anonymous aggregate usage counts can be turned off in Settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bilateral! at none against Halloway's 6. Bilateral! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs fortnightly). Halloway's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.2). On price, rating and review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Halloway sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Bilateral! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Bilateral! against 5.0 for Halloway. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bilateral! has 24 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Bilateral! ships an update daily, Halloway fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bilateral! | Halloway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (24 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Alec Rogers | No Evil Star LLC |
Customer experience
Bilateral!
Halloway
In-app purchases
Bilateral!
No in-app purchases
Halloway
- Whole House Upgrade$1.00
- Halloway - The Veil$1.99
- Halloway - The Threshold$1.99
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- Halloway - The Athanor$1.99
- Whole House Upgrade$3.00
- Halloway - All Access$4.99
