Comparison

Digging Defense vs Loops

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

Head to head
About

Digging Defense

Features
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Dig to better items, find unique weapons and defeat enemies!

About

Loops

Engage in a daily loop logic puzzle game that sharpens your mind. Enjoy a beautifully crafted, ad-free experience with multiple difficulty levels and offline play. Unlock all content with a single purchase.

Highlights
  • Daily new logic puzzles
  • Five difficulty tiers
  • Hints that teach techniques
  • Ad-free and distraction-free
  • Offline play, no account needed
  • One-time purchase for full unlock
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A new logic puzzle every day. Beautifully made. No ads, ever. Loops is a calm, premium puzzle game built around Slitherlink — the loop logic puzzle from Japan, beloved by puzzle fans for over thirty years and now reimagined for iPhone and iPad. The rules are simple. The grid hides one perfect loop. The numbers tell you how many of their four sides belong to it. Connect the dots, follow the clues, and find the only path that works. Every puzzle has exactly one solution. No guessing. No luck. Just clean, satisfying deduction — and that small, perfect "click" when the loop closes. TRAIN YOUR BRAIN, ONE LOOP AT A TIME Loops is a logic workout disguised as a beautiful little app. Solving it trains pattern recognition, working memory, spatial reasoning, and patience — the same mental muscles you flex with sudoku, crosswords, and chess puzzles. Ten quiet minutes a day is enough to feel sharper. WHAT MAKES LOOPS DIFFERENT • A new puzzle every day, free forever — hand-curated, never random. • Five difficulty tiers — from gentle five-minute warm-ups to Master puzzles that take a week. • Hints that teach — instead of revealing the answer, Loops explains the technique you missed. • Built like a real app — typography, haptics, sound, and motion crafted for focus. • Zero distractions — no ads, no pop-ups, no notifications begging you to come back. • Truly offline — play anywhere, no account required, no tracking. PERFECT IF YOU LOVE Sudoku Ā· Wordle Ā· daily logic puzzles Ā· nonograms (Picross) Ā· crosswords Ā· Knotwords Ā· Mahjong Ā· Mini Metro Ā· Monument Valley Ā· or simply ten focused minutes a day. Never tried a loop puzzle before? Loops is built to teach you. The three-minute onboarding has no walls of text and no tutorials to skip — you'll solve your first puzzle by the end of it, and your brain will thank you. FREE FOREVER • A new daily puzzle every day, with Easy and Medium difficulties fully unlocked. • Five generated puzzles per day to keep you sharp. • Pencil marks, unlimited undo, and a mistake checker — always free. • Streak tracking, full statistics, and iCloud sync across all your devices. • Beautiful dark mode and accessibility-grade contrast. UNLOCK EVERYTHING — ONCE A single one-time purchase unlocks: • Every difficulty: Hard, Expert, and Master. • Unlimited generated puzzles. Never run out. • The full daily archive — every puzzle since launch. • All themes, including the hand-drawn Czech Folk theme. • Unlimited hints and lifetime mastery stats. One payment. Yours forever. No subscriptions, no ads, no dark patterns. FROM THE NIKOLI TRADITION Slitherlink — also called Fences, Takegaki, or Loop the Loop — was created by the legendary Nikoli puzzle house in Japan in 1989. Loops carries that tradition forward with the craft of a modern iOS app. MADE WITH CARE BY ONE INDEPENDENT CZECH DEVELOPER No team. No ad networks. No data harvesting. Just one developer trying to make the puzzle app he always wanted to play. Buy once, own forever, like apps used to be.

Screenshots

Digging Defense4 screens
Loops4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Digging Defense at none against Loops's 2. Digging Defense also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Loops's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Loops sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Digging Defense asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 5 level
Digging Defense versus Loops: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDigging DefenseLoops
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Update frequency—Daily
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size280 MB38 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperOMICRON BILISIM HIZMETLERI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETIDAVID GREBEN

In-app purchases

None

Digging Defense

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Loops

One-time2
  • Loops Premium (intro)$5.99
  • Loops Premium$9.99

Questions

Is Digging Defense free?
Digging Defense is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Loops free?
Loops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Digging Defense or Loops have ads?
Digging Defense shows ads; Loops does not.

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