Comparison

Timelie vs Leaving home

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

Head to head
About

Timelie

Control time like a media player in this stealth puzzle adventure. Perceive future events to plan your escape, solve intricate puzzles, and sneak past enemies. Play as a girl and her cat with unique abilities to overcome challenges in a surreal world.

Highlights
  • Time control like a media player
  • Dual character gameplay (girl and cat)
  • Stealth and puzzle-solving mechanics
  • Perceive future events
  • Unique abilities for each character
  • Surreal world exploration
Features
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*TRY BEFORE YOU BUY - NO ADS!* Timelie is a stealth puzzle adventure where you control time like a media player. This stealth puzzle adventure offers unique challenges that will test your problem-solving skills. Experience the thrill of puzzle-solving and the excitement of stealth gameplay as you perceive future events to plan your escape strategy in this captivating adventure. Sneak past enemies, solve intricate puzzles, and manipulate time through a unique adventure with a mysterious cat and a little girl with precognitive powers. Features: - Play Act 1 for free and get a taste of the thrilling stealth puzzle adventure. - Control time like a media player: pause, rewind, and fast-forward to overcome challenges. - Play as both the girl and the cat, each with unique abilities that complement each other. - Experience a vibrant and surreal world filled with challenging puzzles and exciting escapes. - Enjoy the cat's hilarious antics—sometimes it's helpful, sometimes it's just being a cat! Every second matters in Timelie. Perceive future events to plan your escape strategy from the past, solve challenging puzzles, sneak around enemies, and manipulate time throughout this thrilling adventure of companionship and stealth. The Timeline ability gives players the power to control time just like a media player. Drag the Timeline left to rewind time and undo your past mistakes. Drag it right to see the future unfold, giving you valuable information to change the past. This unique ability adds a new layer to the puzzle and stealth elements, making every moment of the adventure strategic and exciting. Control both the girl and the cat simultaneously, solving puzzles and using their abilities to complement each other in this stealth adventure. Time their movements perfectly to escape detection, distract enemies, and ultimately complete your mission. This cooperative element brings a new twist to stealth puzzle adventure games, offering a cooperative play experience for a single player like never before. Lose yourself in a vibrant world filled with colorful abstractions and surreal visuals. Explore strange realms filled with danger, excitement, and puzzle challenges, but also opportunities for discovery. Embrace the stealth, solve intricate puzzles, and immerse yourself in an adventure full of surprises and strategic challenges. Timelie is not just about escaping—it's about how you plan, adapt, and solve each puzzle while using stealth to avoid detection. It's an adventure that will keep you on your toes, test your strategic thinking, and immerse you in a unique story of companionship and survival.

About

Leaving home

A handcrafted point-and-click adventure game featuring quirky challenges and surreal surprises. Solve original puzzles across eight interconnected rooms, each with its own soundtrack, to escape.

Highlights
  • Point-and-click adventure gameplay
  • Handcrafted puzzles
  • Eight interconnected rooms
  • Unique soundtrack per room
  • Surreal surprises
  • Quirky challenges
Features
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It’s 7:00 AM, the alarm rings. Some mornings feel heavier than others... From puzzle maestro Bart Bonte comes a point-and-click adventure filled with quirky challenges, surreal surprises and moody tunes. Undo the knots in your mind, one click at a time... Leaving Home is a completely handcrafted point-and-click adventure that takes you through eight interconnected rooms, each with its own soundtrack, full of original puzzles that you must solve to make your way out.

Screenshots

Timelie4 screens
Leaving home3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Timelie at none against Leaving home's shown. Timelie also leads on ratings volume (2.3K vs 437). Leaving home's advantage is review sentiment (94% vs 72%) and update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Timelie sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Leaving home sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Timelie against 4.8 for Leaving home. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Timelie has 2.3K ratings behind it against 437, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 72% of Timelie's written reviews are positive against 94% of Leaving home's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Timelie ships an update every 3 months, Leaving home every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Timelie versus Leaving home: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTimelieLeaving home
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.3K ratings)4.8 (437 ratings) — better
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews93.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.3K — better437
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size557 MB31 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperSnapbreak Games ABBart BONTE

Customer experience

Timelie

All ratings2,135 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral3.7%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews114 reviews
Positive71.9%
Neutral12.3%
Negative15.8%

Leaving home

All ratings394 ratings
Positive94.7%
Neutral1.3%
Negative4.1%
Written reviews238 reviews
Positive93.7%
Neutral0.8%
Negative5.5%

Bugs and requests

Timelie

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Leaving home

Requested features

2 requests
  • More games like this
  • Longer game duration

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Timelie

One-time1
  • Unlock full game$3.99
1 purchases

Leaving home

One-time1
  • no ads$2.99

Questions

Is Timelie free?
Timelie is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Leaving home free?
Leaving home is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Timelie or Leaving home?
Leaving home is rated higher. Timelie averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.3K ratings, while Leaving home averages 4.8 from 437 ratings.
Do Timelie or Leaving home have ads?
Leaving home shows ads; Timelie does not.
Which is updated more often, Timelie or Leaving home?
Timelie ships an update every 3 months, and Leaving home every 6 weeks. Most recently, Timelie was updated on November 4, 2026 and Leaving home on November 5, 2026.

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