Comparison

Sorting Stacks vs Carve Factory!

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Color-coded character launching
  • Matching block-smashing
  • Timed gameplay
  • Strategy-based challenges
  • Fast-paced action
Features
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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!

About

Carve Factory!

Features
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Dive into a relaxing strategic puzzle experience where you carve wooden rings to form growing spirals. Tap to carve — rings shrink from outside to inside while a spiral forms on your tool. Release the carving tool and send the spiral to the machine. Spirals that enter the machine transform into color pencils. Pencils line up side by side into the dock area. When the boxes are filled with pencils of their color, they are packed, and a new box arrives. To complete the boxes, you need to carve rings in the correct color. If pencils don’t match any box, they stay in the dock area. If the dock area is full, you will fail. By carving rings in the right colors, you become a master of spirals.

Screenshots

Sorting Stacks4 screens
Carve Factory!4 screens

Verdict

The call

Sorting Stacks and Carve Factory! are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sorting Stacks ships an update fortnightly, Carve Factory! every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sorting Stacks versus Carve Factory!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSorting StacksCarve Factory!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (50 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings50 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.014.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size228 MB197 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEla GameAden Games

In-app purchases

None

Sorting Stacks

No in-app purchases

None

Carve Factory!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sorting Stacks free?
Sorting Stacks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Carve Factory! free?
Carve Factory! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sorting Stacks or Carve Factory! have ads?
Both Sorting Stacks and Carve Factory! show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sorting Stacks or Carve Factory!?
Sorting Stacks ships an update fortnightly, and Carve Factory! every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sorting Stacks was updated on October 30, 2026 and Carve Factory! on October 30, 2026.

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