Comparison

Loop Tiles vs Brilliant Loop

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

Head to head
About

Loop Tiles

A minimalist tile-based puzzle game that challenges your logic and strategic thinking. Flip tiles to turn them all dark blue, with each flip affecting adjacent tiles. Offers two engaging game modes for endless fun.

Highlights
  • Minimalist black-and-white design
  • Classic Mode with increasing difficulty
  • Infinity Mode with score multiplier
  • Randomly generated puzzles
  • Accessible and challenging gameplay
Features
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- Loop Tiles: Your Daily Puzzle Ritual - A quiet moment of focus, beautifully designed. Loop Tiles is a refined logic puzzle created for a few thoughtful minutes each day. Swap tiles, bring matching patterns together, and piece together pictures of places around the world. Each week unfolds through a new destination, with an elegant collection of puzzles, city maps, landmarks, and stories to discover at your own pace. No visual noise. No frantic gameplay. Just considered design, satisfying logic, and a ritual worth returning to. A Simple Idea, Thoughtfully Evolved Swap tiles into place within the available moves. Bring matching tiles together and restore landmark pictures as you travel through each week’s destination. The rules are easy to understand, but each puzzle invites you to look closely, plan your swaps, and find a satisfying solution. Your Daily Ritual Return each day to: • Solve a calm, focused puzzle • Continue your journey through the week’s destination • Explore beautifully presented city maps • Discover new facts and landmarks • Earn trophies and use hints when you need guidance • Complete the weekly collection at your own pace Designed With Restraint Loop Tiles brings together tactile interactions, subtle animation, atmospheric destinations, and a carefully composed visual style. Every detail is designed to feel calm, polished, and intentional. Whether you have a few quiet minutes or want to lose yourself in a more demanding challenge, Loop Tiles offers a private space to pause, think, and reset. Make Loop Tiles part of your day. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://goldfinchgaming.com/privacy-policy

About

Brilliant Loop

A relaxing puzzle game where players sort colored gems to reveal beautiful diamond art. The intuitive tap-to-sort mechanic makes it easy to learn, while progressively challenging levels offer strategic depth. Enjoy a calming and satisfying experience anytime.

Highlights
  • Tap-to-sort puzzle mechanic
  • Satisfying diamond art completion
  • Progressive difficulty
  • Calming gameplay
  • Strategic mastery
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Brilliant Sort is a satisfying puzzle game where you sort scattered color gems back into their rightful place and watch a stunning piece of diamond art come to life. Tap to lift connected color groups off the board, route them through your conveyor, and place each gem exactly where it belongs. The more you sort, the clearer the picture becomes. Clean, complete, satisfying. Game Features: Unique tap-to-sort puzzle mechanic Satisfying diamond art completion with every level Simple to learn, increasingly strategic to master Progressive difficulty with smart obstacle design Calming yet focused gameplay, you can pick up anytime Can you sort every gem into place and complete the picture?

Screenshots

Loop Tiles4 screens
Brilliant Loop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Loop Tiles at 100% against Brilliant Loop's 33%. Loop Tiles also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.7). Brilliant Loop's advantage is monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Loop Tiles sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Brilliant Loop sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Loop Tiles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Loop Tiles's written reviews are positive against 33% of Brilliant Loop's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loop Tiles ships an update weekly, Brilliant Loop every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 20, 2026 and July 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Loop Tiles versus Brilliant Loop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoop TilesBrilliant Loop
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better2.7 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better3
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.515.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB198 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGoldfinch Gaming LLCBatuhan UCA

Customer experience

Loop Tiles

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Brilliant Loop

Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Loop Tiles

Subscriptions4
  • Loop Tiles Premium Weekly3 Days trial$1.997 Days
  • Loop Tiles Premium$4.991 Month
  • Loop Tiles Premium Quarterly$9.993 Months
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  • Loop Tiles Premium Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time7
  • Tiles Pack 1$0.99
  • Tiles Pack 2$1.99
  • Tiles Pack 3$3.99
Show 4 more
  • Tiles Pack 4$6.99
  • noAds$8.99
  • Tiles Pack 5$14.99
  • Tiles Pack 6$29.99
6 purchases

Brilliant Loop

One-time6
  • Gold Pack 1$1.99
  • Gold Pack 2$7.99
  • Gold Pack 3$14.99
Show 3 more
  • Gold Pack 4$29.99
  • Gold Pack 5$54.99
  • Gold Pack 6$99.99

Questions

Is Loop Tiles free?
Loop Tiles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Brilliant Loop free?
Brilliant Loop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Loop Tiles or Brilliant Loop?
Loop Tiles is rated higher. Loop Tiles averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Brilliant Loop averages 2.7 from 3 ratings.
Do Loop Tiles or Brilliant Loop have ads?
Both Loop Tiles and Brilliant Loop show ads.
Which is updated more often, Loop Tiles or Brilliant Loop?
Loop Tiles ships an update weekly, and Brilliant Loop every 2 weeks. Most recently, Loop Tiles was updated on September 20, 2026 and Brilliant Loop on July 1, 2026.

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