Binary Twist vs LanternFlow
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Binary Twist
Engage in challenging logic grid puzzles with a clean, distraction-free interface. Solve hundreds of unique brain teasers using logical deduction, with unlimited hints available. Enjoy a pure puzzle experience with optional ad removal.
- Distraction-free puzzle experience
- Hundreds of puzzles available
- Unlimited hints
- Solution checking
- Expansion packs
- Logic-based solving
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Binary Twist brings you the joy of pure puzzle-solving. Just you, the grid, and the challenge. No fuss, no frills. Solve these logic puzzles to challenge yourself, relax, train your brain, or simply pass the time. What the app offers: - A distraction-free puzzle magazine experience. - Hundreds of puzzles, all ready to play from the start, no unlocking required. - Unlimited hints that guide, not just give away the answer. - Option to check your solution at any time. - Play for free with ads, or remove them with a one-time purchase. - Expansion packs for even more brain-teasing fun. About the puzzle: Binary Twist is a challenging logic grid puzzle, also known as Tango or Binairo+. It's a unique twist on the classic Binary puzzle (Binairo, Binoxxo, Takuzu, etc.) and identical to the daily Tango puzzle published by LinkedIn. It can be seen as both an object placement puzzle, similar to Star Battle and Queens, and a binary determination puzzle, like Hitori or Nurikabe. The rules: Fill the grid with 0s and 1s, making sure that: - Each row and column contains an equal number of 0s and 1s. - There are never more than two adjacent 0s or 1s. - All (not-)equal signs are satisfied. Every puzzle has exactly one solution, which can be found through logic reasoning. No guessing required. Let's Twist, let's Tango, have fun! Can you solve them all?
LanternFlow
Enjoy a relaxing tile-matching puzzle game with hundreds of hand-designed boards. Follow a charming story, discover special tiles, and use helpful tools. Play at your own pace, even offline, and collect unique tile sets.
- Hundreds of hand-designed boards
- Story mode with shadow theatre
- Special tiles and helpers
- Daily challenges and trophies
- Offline play
- Collectible tile sets
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Unwind with LanternFlow, a calm mahjong solitaire painted in warm wood, rice paper and ink. Tap a free tile and it moves to your tray. Two alike vanish. Fill the tray with four different tiles and the board wins, so look ahead, plan your pairs and clear every tile. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Big, clear tiles that are easy on the eyes • Hundreds of hand-designed boards, from gentle warm-ups to clever puzzles, and every board can be solved • A story to follow: each chapter you finish plays the next episode of the shadow theatre, Momo and Tiko's journey to the Moon Palace • A new special tile to discover every few levels • Helpers when you need them: a hint, undo and an aimed magnet that gathers a whole kind of tile • When nothing is left to decide, the board finishes itself • Build three lantern islands with the stars you earn • Collect tile sets with their own look, from black lacquer to blue-and-white porcelain • Catch Tiko on the board and collect Tiko's Friends, a tile set of his own • Two golden tiles together pay 10 coins • A daily challenge with trophies, daily goals and a win streak • No clock: play at your own pace, even offline • Your progress is saved in the cloud • In 18 languages CLASSIC MAHJONG, AT YOUR OWN PACE LanternFlow keeps the heart of classic mahjong solitaire: match pairs of free tiles and clear the board. Every level is a short, relaxing tile-matching puzzle that keeps your mind sharp, with big tiles you can read at a glance. Play mahjong whenever you like, at home or on the go, even without the internet. Questions or ideas? Write to hello@pollflow.io
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Binary Twist at 5.0 against LanternFlow's 4.3. LanternFlow's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Binary Twist sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and LanternFlow sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Binary Twist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Binary Twist ships an update every 5 weeks, LanternFlow every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Binary Twist | LanternFlow |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.3 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 466 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Bas Adriaan van den Berg | Flow Group AB |
In-app purchases
Binary Twist
- Expansion 1$1.99
- Expansion 3$1.99
- Expansion 4$1.99
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- Expansion 2$1.99
- Remove ads$3.99
LanternFlow
- 800 Coins$1.99
- Pearl Garden$2.99
- Coin Lantern$3.49
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- Amber Lanterns$3.99
- All tile collections$4.99
- Imperial Cloisonné$4.99
- Moonlit Crystal$4.99
- Amber Pack$4.99
- No Ads Bundle$8.99
- All tile collections$9.99









