Primrows+ vs Color Wheel Smash
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Primrows+
A logic puzzle game where you grow and prune flowers in a whimsical garden. It combines sudoku-like rules with elements of chance and pattern recognition. Enjoy weekly challenges, seasonal artwork, and an ambient soundscape.
- Sudoku-inspired logic puzzles
- Whimsical garden theme
- Weekly challenges with special mechanics
- Ambient nature soundscape
- Seasonal artwork
- Quick Play and Journal Play modes
- Color blindness and low vision accessibility
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A challenging game of logic, luck, and pattern recognition that adds a twist of chance to sudoku mechanics. Tend to a whimsical garden with organic sounds and visuals while you unearth new weekly challenges that introduce special mechanics. Test your skills in a game of logic, luck, and pattern recognition. After flowers grow at random, prune them away to ensure there are no two of the same flower in any row, column, or quadrant. Harvest at the end of each round to collect points and grow your high score. Master new challenges presented in each round as you watch your gardens flourish! Harvest as many points as you can in Quick Play or enjoy the more advanced Journal Play that rewards you for meeting certain criteria. Can’t get enough? Anticipate each Weekly Challenge that introduces special flowers and tiles that change the gameplay. Celebrate holidays and other milestones with themed challenges and festive artwork to get you in the spirit of the season. Primrows combines elements from sudoku and board games into an approachable and novel puzzle challenge that invites you to play at your own pace. With a high skill ceiling and plenty of depth, gameplay offers a challenging and versatile experience. Immerse yourself in ambient music and hand-painted backgrounds that change with each season. Primrows features award-winning visuals that invite you to settle in and strategize. Features: • Scratch that puzzle itch with Quick Play or enjoy deep strategy with Journal Play • Weekly challenges to expand your gardening expertise • Balance strategy, chance, and pattern recognition with no time pressure • Immersive ambient soundscape inspired by nature • Cheerful artwork that changes with the seasons • Infinitely replayable with a high skill ceiling • Digestible for players of all skill levels • Accessibility for color blindness and low vision -------AWARDS------- • Indie Game Dev Best Visuals Award at Cleveland Gaming Classic 2025 • Featured in Moonlite Madness Showcase 2025 • Featured in Rainbow Tech Fest 2025 • Featured in the Queer Games Bundle 2025 on Itch Rated 3+ by the Indonesia Game Rating System (IGRS)
Color Wheel Smash
A fast-paced reflex game where players must match falling block colors to rotating wheel segments. Master timing and precision to achieve perfect streaks and climb the leaderboards.
- Tap to spin wheel
- Swipe to slam blocks
- Perfect streak multipliers
- Increasing difficulty
- Endless, Daily, and Casual modes
- Game Center leaderboards
- Customizable backgrounds and sounds
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Color Wheel Smash is a one-thumb reflex game about color, timing and nerve. A wheel of colored wedges sits at the bottom of the screen. Blocks fall toward it. When a block reaches the wheel, the wedge under the notch has to match its color. Get it wrong and the run is over. Two moves, and that's the whole game: • TAP anywhere to turn the wheel one wedge clockwise. • SWIPE DOWN to slam the lowest block straight onto the wheel. A slam pays three times what a block you let land pays, but it has no grace window: the wrong color ends the run on the spot. PERFECT STREAKS The wheel only turns one way, so every block has a right number of taps. Turn exactly that far and the catch is perfect. Ten perfect catches in a row double your score, twenty triple it, all the way up to ×5. Spin past the color, or turn off a color you were already on, and the streak breaks. You keep playing, but the multiplier starts over. IT KEEPS TIGHTENING Blocks fall faster with every catch. A fourth color joins the wheel at a chain of 20 and a fifth at 45. Reach 65 and you're in endless: the pace keeps climbing, and every catch pays one multiplier step more. MODES • PLAY: an endless run, and the one with the leaderboard. • DAILY RUN: the same wheel and the same blocks for everyone, every day. Your best run of the day is the one that counts, and you can share it. • CASUAL: an endless run at a slower pace, with no leaderboards. It keeps its own best. The main menu shows your best in each mode side by side, with your day streak. All of it stays on your device. FREE TO PLAY, ONE PURCHASE TO UNLOCK You get ten free runs a day to spend in any mode, and the practice round that teaches the wheel is always free. A single one-time purchase unlocks unlimited runs in every mode, plus the Fractal background. It works with Family Sharing. No subscriptions, and nothing to buy after that. ALSO IN HERE • Game Center leaderboards for endless and daily runs, plus achievements. Game Center is optional, and the whole game works without it. • Every color has its own shape too (circle, triangle, square, diamond, cross), on the wheel and on the blocks, always. Nothing in the game depends on telling colors apart. High contrast and reduced motion are in Settings. • Four backgrounds to choose from (Fluid, Gradient and Black, plus Fractal with the unlock), with dials for movement, contrast and spread. • Every sound is synthesized as you play, with haptics built to match. Both can be switched off. • No ads, no accounts, no tracking. Nothing is collected.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Color Wheel Smash at daily against Primrows+'s every 2 months. Color Wheel Smash also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Primrows+'s advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 4) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Primrows+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Color Wheel Smash sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Color Wheel Smash holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 4 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Primrows+ ships an update every 2 months, Color Wheel Smash daily. Both last shipped on October 20, 2026.
| Parameter | Primrows+ | Color Wheel Smash |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (18 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 394 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tursiops Truncatus Studios | Freddicus Game Studios |
Customer experience
Primrows+
Color Wheel Smash
In-app purchases
Primrows+
- Premium$4.99
Color Wheel Smash
- Unlock Full Game$1.99









