Comparison

Stamps vs Four 4s

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

Head to head
About

Stamps

Arrange stamps on a grid to meet country, content, and cost objectives. Utilize country-specific stamp rules to your advantage or be hindered by them. Progress through increasingly challenging stages with random goals.

Highlights
  • Grid-based stamp arrangement
  • Country-specific stamp rules
  • Progressive stage difficulty
  • Randomly chosen goals
  • 10 unique stamp sets
  • Hand-crafted puzzles
  • Adjustable difficulty
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Stamps is a puzzle game where you arrange stamps in a grid to achieve goals related to their country, contents, and cost. All stamps from the same country follow the same rule when placed, influencing the board by moving, removing, or swapping with other stamps. Careful planning lets you turn those rules to your advantage, but neglect them, and they’ll disrupt your plans. Every game you are given 4 random country stamps and you must advance through 5 stages of randomly chosen goals. The number of goals you need to meet increases in later stages, making the game progressively harder. What's included in the demo? The demo includes 4 out of the 10 stamp sets that come with the game and can be played indefinitely What's in the full game? Access to all 10 stamp sets, hand crafted puzzles, adjustable difficulty, a daily mode and stats.

About

Four 4s

Features
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Four 4s: A Brain-Training Math Puzzle! Is your brain feeling a little rusty lately? Introducing "Four 4s," the historic math puzzle born in Great Britain in 1881, now available as an iPhone app! The rules are very simple. In "Four 4s," you just arrange four "4"s and operator panels like +, -, ×, and ÷ to create an equation. Your challenge is to make the answer equal every number from 0 to 100. It looks easy, but it's deceptively deep. Can you use your full insight and mathematical mind to complete all the numbers? It's as easy as moving the panels with your finger, like "44 × (4 - 4) = 0"! But... can you make a number like 73? Loosen up your rigid thinking and have fun training your calculation skills and creativity. By the time you clear all the puzzles, your math brain will be more powerful than ever! ・ Simple Controls: Just arrange the panels as if you were playing with blocks. It's that easy! ・ Endless Challenges: Once you've conquered the "Four Fours," take on new challenges with "Four 1s" or "Four 3s"! Achieve great results to unlock a mode where you can play with any numbers you like. ・ Completely Free: The game is supported by ads, so you can enjoy the entire experience for free. Turn your spare moments into the ultimate brain-training time. Download now!

Screenshots

Stamps4 screens
Four 4s4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Four 4s at none against Stamps's 1. Four 4s also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Stamps's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Stamps sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Four 4s asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stamps ships an update every 2 months, Four 4s every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Stamps versus Four 4s: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStampsFour 4s
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size149 MB121 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperHatem ShahbariTADASHI FUKUZAWA

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Stamps

One-time1
  • Full Game$2.99
None

Four 4s

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stamps free?
Stamps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Four 4s free?
Four 4s is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stamps or Four 4s have ads?
Four 4s shows ads; Stamps does not.
Which is updated more often, Stamps or Four 4s?
Stamps ships an update every 2 months, and Four 4s every 2 weeks. Most recently, Stamps was updated on October 15, 2026 and Four 4s on October 28, 2026.

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