Comparison

Cryptograms vs Loomora

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

Head to head
About

Cryptograms

Engage in challenging cryptogram puzzles that test your code-breaking and vocabulary skills. Decode encoded messages, from famous quotes to witty phrases, by spotting patterns and unraveling hidden language. Offers progressive difficulty and a helpful hint system for an engaging experience.

Highlights
  • Classic cryptogram puzzles
  • Modern, intuitive interface
  • Progressive difficulty levels
  • Helpful hint system
  • Logical thinking exercises
  • Vocabulary enhancement
Features
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Ready for the ultimate brain workout? Master our addictive cryptogram puzzles that challenge your code-breaking skills and vocabulary in exciting new ways.
 Unlike ordinary word games or letter puzzles, our cryptograms transform famous quotes and witty phrases into cleverly encoded messages. Decode each substitution cipher by spotting patterns and unraveling the hidden language behind the symbols.
 Key Features: - Classic cryptoquote puzzles with a modern, intuitive interface - Progressive difficulty levels from beginner to cryptography expert - Hint system that helps without spoiling the satisfaction of solving Exercise your logical thinking, pattern recognition, and vocabulary simultaneously. Perfect for word puzzle enthusiasts, mystery lovers, or anyone who enjoys the thrill of cracking secret codes. Download today and start your journey into the fascinating world of cryptogram solving!

About

Loomora

Features
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Loomora is a nonogram — picross, griddler, hanjie — reimagined as cross stitch. The board is a piece of linen. The numbers along each row and column tell you how the stitches are grouped: "3 1" means three in a row, a gap, then one. Read the clues, work out where the thread goes, and a small hand-made scene appears under your needle: a heart, a cat, a mushroom, a cup of tea. NO GUESSING. EVER. Every pattern is generated from a seed and then handed to a solver, and it is only kept if the solver can reconstruct it by pure line logic. That means the solution is unique and reachable by deduction — never by a coin flip. If you are stuck, there is something left to work out. DELIBERATELY KIND • A wrong square costs a star. It never ends the game • Marking empty squares with an X is free and never penalised • Undo goes back as far as you like, and a hint fills in a real square • No lives, no energy, no countdown, nothing nagging you to come back THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Campaign — boards grow from 5x5 to 12x12 as you do, with pinch to zoom on the big ones • Daily Challenge — one pattern a day, the same one for every player in the world, with times to compare and a streak to keep • Collections — four themed chapters of hand-picked patterns, some of them in colour, with a reward for finishing a chapter THE ALBUM Finished embroideries go into an album; the ones you have not stitched yet wait as an empty hoop. Any piece can be shared as a framed poster. FOURTEEN QUIET ACHIEVEMENTS First stitch, collector, a week's streak, a month's streak, level 25. Soft goals, no pressure. MADE TO BE READABLE VoiceOver reads every square and every clue. Colour-blind assistance gives each thread its own shape as well as its own colour, so a colour pattern is never a guessing game about hue. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT The whole game is free and complete. Coins are earned by playing and pay for hints; you can buy them in packs if you would rather not wait — each pack says exactly how many coins it gives — or watch an ad to earn a hint without spending any. There are no loot boxes, no random rewards and no subscription: the only other thing you can buy is the themes, all of them at once and for good, and a theme changes the linen, the thread and the accent colour, never the puzzle. A hint fills in a square you could have deduced yourself; no purchase skips the logic, or a board. Ads pay for the rest, and one purchase removes them for good. PLAYS OFFLINE Everything except the daily leaderboard works with no connection at all. There is no account, no sign-up and no name: your progress lives on your phone. Privacy Policy: https://www.oscargarrucho.com/loomora/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.oscargarrucho.com/loomora/terms/

Screenshots

Cryptograms3 screens
Loomora4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cryptograms at 15.1 against Loomora's 18.0. On price, ads, 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. Cryptograms sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Loomora sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cryptograms versus Loomora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCryptogramsLoomora
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (72 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews73.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings72 — better—
Update frequencyDaily—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFrostbyte Entertainment LLCOscar Rodriguez

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Cryptograms

One-time3
  • 20 Hints + 20 Magnets$1.99
  • 50 Hints + 50 Magnets$3.99
  • Ad Free$4.99
5 purchases

Loomora

One-time5
  • 500 Coins$0.99
  • 1,500 Coins$2.99
  • All Themes$3.99
Show 2 more
  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • 5,000 Coins$6.99

Questions

Is Cryptograms free?
Cryptograms is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loomora free?
Loomora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cryptograms or Loomora have ads?
Both Cryptograms and Loomora show ads.

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