Comparison

Marble Journey vs Missing Vowels

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

Head to head
About

Marble Journey

Engage in a creative match-3 marble shooting game featuring exquisite graphics. Clear marble chains by aiming and shooting, utilizing power-ups to overcome challenges and earn endless rewards. Embark on a classic bubble shooting adventure.

Highlights
  • Match-3 marble shooting gameplay
  • Creative gameplay mechanics
  • Exquisite graphic designs
  • Bubble shooting levels
  • Customized events
  • Power-ups for marble elimination
Features
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Marble Journey is an amazing match-3 marble shooting game with creativity and exquisite graphic designs. Come to experience the classic and creative gameplay with us. You will enjoy these bubble shooting levels and customized events for endless rewards. Download the new match-3 jewel puzzle game and become a master of marble adventure! How to play: Aim marbles on the path with a marble from the emitter to clear the chain, and keep the chain away from the hurricane hole! Use power-ups to help you eliminate more marbles! You can challenge and rank to the top in Marble Flash's journey. Start a marble shooting experience from now on!

About

Missing Vowels

Features
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A word game for the incurably curious. One category, eight clues, every vowel gone. Category: Capital Cities Clue: BJNG Answer: Beijing Read the consonants. Look at the category. You'll say Beijing before you mean to. That's the game. Shakespeare plays. Jazz standards. Periodic elements. The category narrows the field to a few dozen possibilities. From there, your memory is faster than any dictionary. Some clues fall in seconds. Others sit until you look again. The ones that won't come can be passed. There's no leaderboard, no streak chase, no penalty for missing a day — just eight clues, one category, and the small click of recognition when a word finally arrives. A new challenge appears every morning, Monday through Saturday. Long enough to wake your brain up, short enough to fit between a coffee and a meeting. Sundays are a tougher bonus puzzle for Garden Pass subscribers — one more challenge before the week begins again. TYPE OR SPEAK YOUR ANSWER Tap to type, or hold the microphone and say your guess out loud. Voice recognition is tuned to the way this game works — handling vowel ambiguity, compound words, and spoken spellings more reliably than a generic dictation engine. A YEAR, LAID OUT LIKE A GARDEN Every finished challenge becomes an eight-petal flower — one petal per clue, colored by what you got right, what you missed, and what you passed. Scroll back through your history and you find a slow drift of flowers and little traces you left behind. It isn't a streak counter. It's a record of showing up. SEEDS AND THE GARDEN Regular play earns Seeds. Spend them on markers and decorations, or to unlock a past day you'd like to play. Garden Pass — the app's optional subscription — opens the full back catalog (including every Sunday Bonus) so you can wander the archive without spending a thing. SHARE WHAT YOU FINISHED At the end of a challenge, share a small card with your score, the category, and a sample clue. Or share a snapshot of your garden across a week, a month, a year, or your whole run. WHAT IT ISN'T No accounts. Your history lives on your phone. No ads. Ever. No notification spam. If you turn them on, they come only when there's a new challenge. No spelling traps. Caps, dashes, accents, "is this one word or two" — if you know it, it counts. FEATURES • A free daily puzzle, Monday through Saturday • Eight clues per challenge, in a shared category • Voice or keyboard input, tuned to the game's specific patterns • Forgiving answer matching for punctuation, capitalization, spacing, and compound words • Eight-petal flowers as a permanent record of every solve • Seeds earned through play, sharing, streaks, and reminders • Seed-based archive unlocks and garden decorations • Optional Garden Pass subscription — Sunday Bonus challenges and full archive access • Shareable result cards and history-range share cards • Replay previously played challenges and compare your performance • Daily reminders you can turn off • First-run tutorial, replayable from Settings • No accounts, no ads Terms of Use (Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sharkriverstudios.com/vwlss/privacy

Screenshots

Marble Journey4 screens
Missing Vowels4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Marble Journey at weekly against Missing Vowels's every 3 weeks. Marble Journey also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.5). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Marble Journey sells 25 one-off in-app purchases and Missing Vowels sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Marble Journey ships an update weekly, Missing Vowels every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Marble Journey versus Missing Vowels: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMarble JourneyMissing Vowels
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (175 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings175 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.5
Further details — not scored
Size297 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperKiwi Network Technology LimitedShark River Studios LLC

In-app purchases

25 purchases

Marble Journey

One-time25
  • Gold$1.99
  • endlesstreasure1$1.99
  • Special Offer$1.99
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  • Revive Pack$2.99
  • Endless Treasure$2.99
  • Fortune Deal$2.99
  • Revive Gift$3.99
  • Endless Treasure$4.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
  • Remove Ads Pack$4.99
  • Treasure Hunt$4.99
  • endlesstreasure2$5.99
  • Endless Treasure$7.99
  • Gold$8.99
  • Treasure Pass$9.99
  • Blast Pack$9.99
  • endlesstreasure3$9.99
  • Endless Treasure$14.99
  • Endless Treasure$19.99
  • endlesstreasure4$19.99
  • Endless Treasure$29.99
  • Endless Treasure$49.99
  • endlesstreasure5$49.99
  • Endless Treasure$99.99
  • endlesstreasure6$99.99
1 purchases

Missing Vowels

Subscriptions1
  • Garden Pass14 Days trial$14.991 Year

Questions

Is Marble Journey free?
Marble Journey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Missing Vowels free?
Missing Vowels is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Marble Journey or Missing Vowels have ads?
Neither Marble Journey nor Missing Vowels shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Marble Journey or Missing Vowels?
Marble Journey ships an update weekly, and Missing Vowels every 3 weeks. Most recently, Marble Journey was updated on September 1, 2026 and Missing Vowels on September 11, 2026.

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