Loop Tiles vs Lanterns
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Minimalist black-and-white design
- Classic Mode with increasing difficulty
- Infinity Mode with score multiplier
- Randomly generated puzzles
- Accessible and challenging gameplay
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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
Lanterns
A logic puzzle game where you place lanterns to illuminate every tile on the board. Solve over 10,000 unique puzzles with a daily challenge and a cozy, ad-free experience.
- Logic deduction puzzles
- Over 10,000 unique rooms
- Daily timed challenges
- No countdown in campaign mode
- Optional in-app purchases
- Ad-free experience
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Light every tile and bring a hidden world back to life. Lanterns is Akari, also called Light Up: a puzzle of pure deduction. Place lanterns so every open tile glows. Numbered walls tell you how many lanterns must touch them. Light stops at walls, and no two lanterns may shine on each other. Meet Pip, your lantern-moth companion, and explore over 10,000 puzzle rooms across 834 floors. Restore chapter landmarks as you progress, and take a break with Firefly Flight at chapter restorations. Campaign puzzles have no countdown. Take your time, mark your plans, use free Undo, and follow Why explanations on the board. Your unfinished campaign puzzle stays ready when you return. The Daily challenge brings one timed puzzle each local date: ninety seconds, one attempt, no hints or revives. Keep your daily streak going and look back on your results. See a score out of 100 after each campaign win, celebrate your personal best, and choose lantern styles as you make the world brighter. If you enjoy Nonogram, Picross, Sudoku, Hashi or Nurikabe, try a different kind of logic puzzle. Each board is generated and checked for a unique solution. Lanterns is free to download, with optional in-app purchases. Campaign entry tickets recover over time. Between-level ads may appear after the introductory levels; a one-time purchase removes forced ads permanently. Rewarded videos remain optional. No sign-in is required to play. Akari (Light Up) is Nikoli's puzzle form.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Lanterns at daily against Loop Tiles's weekly. Lanterns also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 80%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ratings volume, 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. Loop Tiles sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Lanterns sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Lanterns holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Loop Tiles's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lanterns's.
Loop Tiles ships an update weekly, Lanterns daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loop Tiles | Lanterns |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 9 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.5 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 143 MB | 151 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Goldfinch Gaming LLC | 10X Ventures LLC |
Customer experience
Loop Tiles
Lanterns
In-app purchases
Loop Tiles
- Loop Tiles Premium Weekly$1.997 Days
- Loop Tiles Premium$4.991 Month
- Loop Tiles Premium Quarterly3 Days trial$9.993 Months
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- Loop Tiles Premium Yearly3 Days trial$24.991 Year
- Tiles Pack 1$0.99
- Tiles Pack 2$1.99
- Tiles Pack 3$3.99
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- Tiles Pack 4$6.99
- noAds$8.99
- Tiles Pack 5$14.99
- Tiles Pack 6$29.99
Lanterns
- Pouch of Embers$1.99
- The Gilded Lantern$2.99
- Satchel of Embers$4.99
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- Chest of Embers$9.99









