Comparison

Sorting Queen vs Loomstone

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

Head to head
About

Sorting Queen

Engage in a delightful sorting puzzle game where you help a charming protagonist organize chaotic shops. Solve addictive puzzles, transform businesses, and enjoy a heartwarming story with vibrant visuals. Become a sorting master and bring success to a whimsical town.

Highlights
  • Addictive sorting puzzles
  • Shop makeovers and transformations
  • Charming character story
  • Hundreds of varied puzzle levels
  • Card collection system
  • Vibrant and colorful graphics
Features
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Sorting Queen is a delightful Sort Puzzle game set in the vibrant HelloTown. Our heroine, Yuri, may not have big dreams, but her genius sorting skills work wonders. From chaotic convenience store shelves to bakery flour disasters and fruit shop banana snakes, Yuri’s witty banter and clever organization solve every problem, skyrocketing sales! Dive into colorful episodes in each chapter and let Yuri’s quirky charm guide you to transform HelloTown’s shops into sparkling successes! How to Play Tackle addictive puzzles to organize HelloTown’s shops and solve shop owners’ woes! - Sorting Puzzles: Move items from one box to another to make 3-match sets! - Magic Items: Use Yuri’s “Magic Items” to conquer tricky puzzles with flair. - Shop Makeovers: Yuri’s sorting brings a special touch. Create beautiful shops and earn hefty bonuses! Game Features - Yuri’s Charming Story: Enjoy laugh-filled episodes solving HelloTown’s unique problems and earn rewards. - Varied Puzzle Levels: From beginners to pros, hundreds of stages offer endless fun. - Stunning Shop Makeovers: Experience dramatic before-and-after transformations for ultimate satisfaction! Customize shops with gorgeous visuals. - Card Collection: Collect cards through various event rewards and become a card collection master! - Vibrant Graphics: Colorful designs delight the eyes and heart in this relaxing game. Sorting Queen is the perfect puzzle game to relieve stress and lift your mood. Join Yuri to lead HelloTown’s shops to success and become a sorting master! Play a chapter daily for relaxation or compete with friends. Download now and unleash your sorting magic! Keywords: Sorting Queen, Sort Puzzle, Sorting Game, HelloTown, Shop Organization, Puzzle Adventure, Hello Town, 3 Match Reach us at help@spcomes. com for any inquiries regarding the game.

About

Loomstone

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Loomstone is a puzzle about putting something broken back the way it was. Every board is an old carving that has come loose. All the stones are still there. They are just facing the wrong way. Turn them back, and the pattern closes and lights up. Tap a stone to turn it a quarter turn. Press and hold to turn it the other way. That is the whole of it. No lives, no energy bar, nothing asking you to come back in four hours. Most of the game is untimed, so a board takes exactly as long as you want to give it. FOUR WAYS TO RESTORE • Loop. Close every strand into a loop, no loose ends left anywhere. The harder carvings weave several loops at once, and some cross right through a shared stone. • Path. Anchor stones sit somewhere in the carving. Connect them with one unbroken line. The anchors turn like any other stone, which is easy to forget, and on the biggest boards the line can fork toward a third anchor. • Loom. Threads pass over and under one another on shared stones. Turn each crossing so that every thread keeps its own color from one end to the other. This one takes a while before you can really see it. • Ascent. The timed one, and the only one that is. Clear a board with time to spare and you rise to a larger one. Let the clock reach zero and the run is over. You choose where you begin and how fast it counts down. FOUR DEGREES OF DIFFICULTY Difficulty raises two things at once: how intricate the carving is, and how few turns you are given to restore it. • Novice is a simple pattern and generous moves, with room to wander. • Adept busies the carving up. • Artisan packs the board and leaves you barely enough turns to plan with. • Master gives you the most intricate pattern in the game and exactly as many moves as a perfect solution takes. Not one more. The harder tiers also carve stranger stones: some bolted in place, and some bound in pairs that turn together whether you like it or not. In Ascent, those same four names set the speed of the clock instead, from a roomy countdown to the fastest a person can reasonably keep up with. Restore a board well, and the work is graded. Elegant Restoration, Masterwork, or Flawless, which means you found the optimum. Master accepts nothing less. Boards run from a gentle 4x4 up to a 12x12 that fills the whole screen with stones. Pinch to bring the small ones close. WHAT ELSE IS IN HERE • Every board is built from a number. Share yours with a friend and they play the exact same carving. • When a pattern is whole, you can save a picture of it. • Statistics, if you want to know how you are doing. • A soundtrack you can browse, scrub, and mute, with a different album for each mode. • Hints, when a board has you stuck. HOW IT IS SOLD • Loomstone is free to play, and a fair amount of it stays free forever: the whole of Loop on Novice, and a good spread of Path, Loom, and the harder tiers besides. • One purchase, made once, unlocks every mode, every board size, and every difficulty for good. There are no ads. There are no subscriptions. There is no second purchase waiting behind the first. • There is also no account to make, no tracking, no analytics, and nothing sent anywhere. The app has no idea who you are and does not want to know. It works on a plane. MADE TO BE LOOKED AT • The stone is carved rather than drawn. Every tile face is cut from a photographed slab, so the light in the grooves stays put while the stone turns under it. Strands glow as they link, and a finished pattern lights up whole. • There is a high-contrast mode, a colorblind palette, reduced motion, adjustable glow, and separate volumes for music and effects. Pinch the board to bring the carving in close, for busy boards and tired eyes alike. It reads properly at larger text sizes. On iPad, a hardware keyboard works. Turn the stones. Mend the pattern. Take as long as you like.

Screenshots

Sorting Queen4 screens
Loomstone4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Loomstone at none against Sorting Queen's shown. On price, update cadence, 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. Sorting Queen sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Loomstone sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Sorting Queen versus Loomstone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSorting QueenLoomstone
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (11 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings11 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size383 MB171 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSpringcomes Co., Ltd.Ed Caspersen

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Sorting Queen

One-time12
  • Best deal$0.49
  • sortqueen_event_parade_1$1.99
  • sortqueen_event_rparade_1$1.99
Show 9 more
  • sortqueen_event_parade_2$2.99
  • sortqueen_event_rparade_2$2.99
  • sortqueen_event_rparade_3$2.99
  • Store goods default 1$3.99
  • sortqueen_event_specialoffer_1$4.99
  • Remove Ads Package$6.99
  • sortqueen_event_parade_3$6.99
  • sortqueen_event_pass_1$7.99
  • sortqueen_event_oneplussix$17.99
1 purchases

Loomstone

One-time1
  • English$2.99

Questions

Is Sorting Queen free?
Sorting Queen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loomstone free?
Loomstone is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sorting Queen or Loomstone have ads?
Sorting Queen shows ads; Loomstone does not.
Which is updated more often, Sorting Queen or Loomstone?
Sorting Queen ships an update weekly, and Loomstone weekly. Most recently, Sorting Queen was updated on October 3, 2026 and Loomstone on September 29, 2026.

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