Color Shades 3D vs Sorting Stacks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Shades 3D
Organize scattered colored blocks into their matching columns before time runs out. A fast-paced puzzle game that challenges your sorting skills and quick thinking.
- Color block sorting
- Timed challenges
- Column organization
- Fast-paced gameplay
- Puzzle mechanics
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All the colors are in a mess! We need you to sort out this chaos. Gather all blocks that have the same color to the same column. Do not waste time, you need to complete before countdown ends.
Sorting Stacks
A fast-paced color-matching puzzle game where players launch colored characters to smash matching blocks. Strategize your launches to clear the grid before the timer runs out and avoid filling the board.
- Color-coded character launching
- Matching block-smashing
- Timed gameplay
- Strategy-based challenges
- Fast-paced action
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Clear the blocks. Master the chaos. Welcome to Sorting Stacks!, a fast-paced color-matching puzzle where reflexes and strategy collide. Your mission is simple—yet addictively challenging: Load & Launch Vibrant character lines wait at the bottom. Tap and hold to send each color-coded character onto the moving conveyor. Time your release so they shoot through the correct launcher and smash matching blocks above. Shatter Every Block The top grid is packed with multicolored cubes. Match colors perfectly to blast them away before the timer runs out. One wrong move and the board fills up fast!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sorting Stacks at 4.6 against Color Shades 3D's 4.0. Sorting Stacks also leads on ratings volume (50 vs 1) and update cadence (fortnightly vs every 5 weeks). Color Shades 3D's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sorting Stacks holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sorting Stacks has 50 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Color Shades 3D ships an update every 5 weeks, Sorting Stacks fortnightly. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Color Shades 3D | Sorting Stacks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) | 4.6 (50 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 50 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 119 MB | 228 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mercimek Corbasi | Ela Game |
Customer experience
Color Shades 3D
Sorting Stacks
In-app purchases
Color Shades 3D
No in-app purchases
Sorting Stacks
No in-app purchases
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