Comparison

Sambo vs Hexercise

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

Head to head
About

Sambo

This brain-training puzzle game challenges you to balance circles and diamonds in rows and columns. It offers unlimited offline play with a clean design, perfect for focused, meditative moments. Compete with others and master hundreds of handcrafted logic challenges.

Highlights
  • Brain training challenges
  • Offline play
  • Unlimited gameplay
  • Minimalist design
  • Leaderboards
  • Hundreds of handcrafted puzzles
Features
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Sambo – The Puzzle That Plays With Your Brain! Can you crack the code of circles and diamonds? In Sambo, every row and column must be perfectly balanced – no three in a row, and no symbol out of place. It sounds easy… until it's not. • Train your brain • Play offline – no Wi-Fi needed • Unlimited play – no lives, no waiting • Clean, minimalist design for maximum focus • Perfect for a calm, meditative moment Play, think, and sambo with your neurons! Download now and see if you can solve them all. Love Binairo, Takuzu, Binoxxo or any binary logic puzzle? Then Sambo is your next obsession. Train your brain with hundreds of handcrafted challenges, rise through the leaderboards, and prove you're the ultimate Sambo master. By downloading or using this app, you agree to our End User License Agreement. You can review the full terms here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Hexercise

Features
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Can you train your eye to remember an exact colour? Hexercise challenges you to memorise a target hue, then recreate it as accurately as possible. No multiple choice. No hints. Just your memory and a set of sliders. --- HOW IT WORKS --- A colour appears on screen for 3 seconds. It disappears. You reconstruct it from memory using hue, saturation, and lightness controls. Your score (0-100) reflects how close you got. Simple to learn, genuinely difficult to master. --- THREE WAYS TO PLAY --- SOLO PLAY Endless rounds to sharpen your colour perception. Every score is saved so you can track your progress over time. Great for a quick daily warm-up. DAILY CHALLENGE One set of colours, the same for every player, every day. Submit your score to the global leaderboard and see where your colour memory ranks worldwide. A new challenge arrives each day. VERSUS MODE Go head-to-head against a real opponent or a ghost player. Best of 4 rounds - both players see the same colour, best accuracy wins. If scores are level after 4 rounds, a sudden-death 5th round decides it. --- DESIGNED FOR PEOPLE WHO CARE ABOUT COLOUR --- Whether you're a designer, artist, developer, or just someone who's always been oddly confident about knowing a colour - Hexercise will humble and improve you in equal measure. - Genuinely tests visual memory, not luck - Clean neobrutalist design - nothing in the way - No account or sign-up required - Free with no ads - Global daily leaderboard

Screenshots

Sambo4 screens
Hexercise4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hexercise at none against Sambo's 9. Hexercise also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Sambo sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Hexercise asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sambo ships an update every 10 days, Hexercise daily. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sambo versus Hexercise: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSamboHexercise
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (53 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews32.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings53 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTwo4TeaMaarten Claessen

Bugs and requests

Sambo

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Level 191 bug
  • Level 186 unplayable
  • Level 119 impossible
  • Level 125 impossible
  • Level 155 impossible

Requested features

1 request
  • More levels

Hexercise

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Sambo

One-time9
  • 100 coins$0.99
  • Special Offer$1.99
  • Premium$2.99
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  • Special Offer 2$4.99
  • 550 coins$4.99
  • Special Offer 3$9.99
  • 1200 coins$9.99
  • 3200 coins$24.99
  • 13000 coins$99.99
None

Hexercise

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sambo free?
Sambo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hexercise free?
Hexercise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sambo or Hexercise have ads?
Sambo shows ads; Hexercise does not.
Which is updated more often, Sambo or Hexercise?
Sambo ships an update every 10 days, and Hexercise daily. Most recently, Sambo was updated on October 17, 2026 and Hexercise on September 29, 2026.

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