Zaparoo vs unseeing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zaparoo
Organize and launch your game library using NFC cards and your phone. Browse, manage, and control your games with custom layouts and on-screen remotes. Create custom scripts and manage game tags for a personalized gaming experience.
- Launch games with NFC cards
- Scan NFC, QR codes, and barcodes
- On-screen remote and keyboard
- Customizable game layouts
- Browse and search game library
- Create custom ZapScripts
- Manage NFC tags
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Save your games to NFC cards and launch them with a tap. Zaparoo App is the companion app for Zaparoo Core, the free software that launches games from NFC cards, QR codes, and barcodes on your MiSTer, PC, handheld, or media device. Use it to write cards, browse your library, launch games, and control what's playing. ZAP • Use your phone as a reader. Scan NFC tags, QR codes, and barcodes with your phone and launch them on your device (requires Pro) • See what's playing, with pause, stop, and playlist controls, and favorite, like, dislike, or save a game for later • Use the on-screen remote and keyboard to control your device • Rearrange the Zap page, hide what you don't use, add buttons that run any ZapScript, and add rows of games from a collection or deck. Each device keeps its own layout • On iPad, go full screen to leave the Zap page up as a display LIBRARY • Browse every system and folder on your device, or search across all of them • See artwork, descriptions, and release details. The system, year, developer, genre, and region each open a search for more like it • Favorites, Liked, Disliked, and Play later collections, plus Recently played and Top played • Build decks of games and cards, reorder them, play them as a playlist, or write them to a tag CREATE • Search your library and write a game to an NFC tag • Build custom ZapScript one step at a time, or edit it as text • Manage mappings for NFC toys and barcodes, and read, format, or erase tags with the NFC tools SETTINGS AND DEVICES • Find Zaparoo devices on your network, or add one by IP address, and switch between them in one sheet • Set playtime limits and a launch guard, and use profiles • Layouts made for both iPhone and iPad • Choose a light, dark, or system theme and adjust text size. VoiceOver and reduced motion are supported WHAT YOU NEED Zaparoo Core running on your device. Managing Core, browsing your library, and writing tags are always free. Using your phone as a reader (NFC, camera, barcodes, and shake to launch) is a one-time Pro purchase. Some features need a recent Core. Recently played and Top played need Core 2.12 or newer. Liked, Disliked, Play later, and decks need Core 2.18 or newer. Zaparoo is open source. Docs and support are at zaparoo.org.
unseeing
Engage in a daily challenge of perception with a new optical illusion each day. Test your understanding of visual science and discover how your brain interprets reality. Share illusions with friends and explore over 70 puzzles based on real perceptual phenomena.
- One optical illusion per day
- Commit to your perception
- Discover the truth behind illusions
- Challenge friends
- Explore over 70 illusions
- Learn about perceptual science
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Unseeing is not a gallery. It's a daily confrontation with your own perception. One optical illusion per day. You see it. You commit to what you think is true. Then the truth snaps into view. Sometimes you were wrong. Sometimes you weren't. Not every illusion is what it seems... and neither is this game. How It Works Once per day. One illusion. Same for everyone. Commit to what you see. Your answer is recorded. See the truth. Learn what your brain did. Challenge your friends. Share the unsolved illusion. What You'll Encounter Your brain constantly makes guesses about color, size, motion, and depth. Unseeing is where those guesses fail. Puzzles built on real perceptual science... brightness constancy, color assimilation, Gestalt grouping, size-distance scaling, and more. Over 70 illusions spanning the full landscape of human visual perception. Each one names the illusion, credits the scientist who discovered it, and explains exactly what your brain did wrong... or right. These aren't tricks. They're features of your visual system working exactly as designed... just not as you expected. Unseeing Pro Unlock the full illusion library to play any illusion, any time. Review your history. See which types of perception fool you most. $4.99 for lifetime access. No ads. No account. No data collection. No subscription. Just your brain vs. reality. Built by Ultra-Normal LLC. For heroes of daily life.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Zaparoo at 10 against unseeing's 1. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Zaparoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and unseeing sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Zaparoo against 5.0 for unseeing. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zaparoo has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Zaparoo ships an update every 2 months, unseeing every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zaparoo | unseeing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| 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 | 15.5 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Wizzo Pty Ltd | Justin Neuman |
In-app purchases
Zaparoo
- Zaparoo Launcher$6.99
unseeing
- unseeing PRO$4.99









