Comparison

Tile Mania vs Terra

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

Head to head
About

Tile Mania

Engage in a strategic puzzle adventure with unique challenges and special tiles. Test your tactical skills on varying grid sizes with specially crafted objectives. Compete globally and earn achievements.

Highlights
  • Unique puzzle challenges
  • Strategic gameplay elements
  • Special tiles
  • Global leaderboards
  • Achievement badges
  • Cross-device progress sync
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Immerse yourself in ‘Tile Mania’ where puzzle-solving meets strategic depth. Full of unique challenges and endless excitement, this game will test your tactical skills and keep you engaged. Each challenge in 'Tile Mania' will present you with a whole new thrilling type of puzzle where special tiles and strategic gameplay elements call for sharp puzzle-solving skills. "Tile Mania" is perfect for anyone who loves to dive deep into puzzles and uncover new ways to play. Challenges are designed to push your limits with specially crafted objectives, unique tiles, and varying grid sizes that require your highest attention and strategy. Play Anywhere, Compete Everywhere: ‘Tile Mania’ is available on iOS, iPadOS, and tvOS, with Game Center compatibility and progress sync across your devices. Compete against players from all over the world on our global leaderboard and earn achievement badges as you progress in the game and establish yourself as a strategy puzzles master. Download Tile Mania today and prepare to go on a puzzle adventure you won't be able to put down!

About

Terra

Test your knowledge of country flags, locations, and capitals with interactive quizzes. Earn collectible patches as you master geography, with spaced repetition to reinforce learning. Enjoy a comprehensive learning experience across multiple Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Flag recognition quizzes
  • Map-based country location
  • Capital city recall
  • Spaced repetition learning
  • Collectible country patches
  • Cross-device syncing
  • Apple Watch integration
Features
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Most flag quizzes ask one thing: do you recognise this flag? You get good at recognising flags. You still could not point at the country on a map. Terra asks for three things, and only hands over the patch when all three hold. The flag. Where the country sits in the world. Its capital. Each of them twice, on different days, so it is knowledge and not a lucky guess. WHAT YOU DO You start a collecting round. Terra picks the countries and asks each one exactly the skill it is still missing: the flag for one, the position on the map for the next, the capital for the third. When the third one holds, a needle sews the patch into your album. 195 countries. 195 places waiting. A round mixes deliberately: four countries close to finished, two you have started, two you have never seen. So something is completed almost every round, and something new arrives too. WHAT TERRA REMEMBERS FOR YOU What wobbles comes back sooner. What holds, you see less often. You never decide what to revise. Terra schedules it, per country and per skill separately, so you are not asked about a flag you already know just because the capital is shaky. EIGHT DIRECTIONS, PRACTISED SEPARATELY Flag to country, country to flag. Map to country, country to map. Country to capital, capital to country. Typing the country name from its flag. And the continent, when you want it easy. Filter by continent when you want to work through Africa, or leave it open and take the world as it comes. THE MAP IS A REAL MAP Satellite imagery with borders drawn over it, and no place names, because otherwise the answer would be written on the screen. For a landlocked country the borders of its neighbours are the only clue, which is exactly the skill. HARDCORE For when four answers are too kind: six, with look-alike flags among them every time, and a clock on every question. Six seconds, nine for a map, fifteen to type. Running out counts as wrong. Patches count the same. ON EVERY SCREEN iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Apple TV, with the same collection. Your progress moves between them through iCloud, and the sides are merged rather than overwritten, so playing on one never costs you a patch on another. On iPhone Duo Terra fills both displays, turns when opened, and held like a book puts the question on one page and the answers on the other. ON THE WRIST Five questions, flags and capitals, short enough to finish while you wait for something else. A complication on the watch face says whether today's round is still open. The watch does not ask you to place a country on a map, and that is on purpose: picking one off a world map at that size tests your finger, not your knowledge. So a round on the wrist can finish a patch whose position you learned somewhere with more room, and can never produce one on its own. It adds to the album instead of going around it. WIDGETS The flag of the day, kept nameless until you have collected that country. The album filling up. Your streak, with a nudge when today is still open. DUEL A FRIEND Or a tournament of up to eight. Random questions, the same ones for everyone, and everybody answers in their own time: nobody has to be online at the same minute. You can also challenge anyone by code or link, through any messenger. Invite now, play later, find every duel in one list, and hear when the other side has played. Afterwards you go through the round question by question and see what each of you got right. Kept apart from your album on purpose, because those questions were not chosen for you. GAME CENTER Leaderboards for patches, streak and best round. Achievements for every continent completed, and one for all 195. And a friends list, showing what the people you know have collected. NO ACCOUNT, NO TRACKING Terra has no sign-up, no advertising and no analytics. The dataset and all 195 flags are inside the app.

Screenshots

Tile Mania4 screens
Terra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Terra at none against Tile Mania's shown. Terra also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, update cadence, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tile Mania ships an update every 2 months, Terra every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tile Mania versus Terra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTile ManiaTerra
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple TViPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSalah SelimLabyMedia GmbH

Customer experience

Tile Mania

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Terra

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Tile Mania

No in-app purchases

None

Terra

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tile Mania free?
Tile Mania is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Terra free?
Terra is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tile Mania or Terra have ads?
Tile Mania shows ads; Terra does not.
Which is updated more often, Tile Mania or Terra?
Tile Mania ships an update every 2 months, and Terra every 4 weeks. Most recently, Tile Mania was updated on November 4, 2026 and Terra on November 6, 2026.

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