Comparison

Zaparoo vs Roll Solver

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

Roll Solver

A fast-paced word-dice game where you connect letter dice to form a crossword. Race against the clock or an opponent to fill your board with valid words.

Highlights
  • Roll twelve letter dice
  • Build connected crossword grids
  • Every row and column is a real word
  • Timed challenges
  • Race against an opponent
Features
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Roll Solver is a fast word-dice game. Roll twelve letter dice, then build them into one connected crossword where every row and column is a real word. Fill your board before the clock runs out, or race an opponent to the best grid.

Screenshots

Zaparoo4 screens
Roll Solver4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Roll Solver at none against Zaparoo's 1. Roll Solver also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 86%). Zaparoo's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Zaparoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Roll Solver asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Zaparoo against 5.0 for Roll Solver. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Zaparoo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Roll Solver's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Zaparoo versus Roll Solver: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZaparooRoll Solver
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings10 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.5 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size55 MB41 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperWizzo Pty LtdPeter Brandt

Customer experience

Zaparoo

All ratings10 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Roll Solver

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Zaparoo

One-time1
  • Zaparoo Launcher$6.99
None

Roll Solver

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zaparoo free?
Zaparoo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Roll Solver free?
Roll Solver is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Zaparoo or Roll Solver?
Zaparoo and Roll Solver are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 10 and 5 ratings respectively.
Do Zaparoo or Roll Solver have ads?
Neither Zaparoo nor Roll Solver shows ads.

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