Comparison

Tessel vs PointYourPhone

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

Head to head
About

Tessel

Features
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Tessel is a colorful tile placement game. Place tiles with matching colors to make shapes and fill the board. The larger the shape, the higher the points. Features: • Play an easy square game, or choose a more challenging pattern. • Customize your game settings to change the rules. • Create your own tiling patterns in the drawing tool. Choose from a wide range of tiling patterns to form endlessly varied tesselations: • Square • Triangular • Rhombille • Cairo pentagonal • Hexagonal • Deltoidal-trihexagonal • Penrose P3 • Snub square • Ammann-Beenker

About

PointYourPhone

Features
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Where is the Eiffel Tower right now? Not on a map. From where you are standing, through walls, across oceans, which way is it? PointYourPhone gives you one target every day: a famous landmark or a world city. Point your phone straight at it, lock in your direction, and the globe reveals how close you were, down to the degree. HOW IT WORKS - Every day at noon (Amsterdam time), everyone in the world gets the same target - Aim your phone and lock it in. No map, no cheating, just your sense of direction - Watch the globe spin to the answer and see your guess next to the true direction - Build a streak by playing every day HINTS, IF YOU WANT THEM Stuck? Reveal the compass directions, the country, or the continent. Your score stays yours; hints just tell your friends you needed a little help. SHARE WITHOUT SPOILING Share your score card with fellow players (no spoilers), or share the full globe reveal with friends who have not played yet. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No tracking. Your location is used on your phone to compute a direction and never leaves it. Can you point at Machu Picchu from your kitchen? There is one way to find out.

Screenshots

Tessel4 screens
PointYourPhone3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tessel at every 5 days against PointYourPhone's every 4 weeks. Tessel also leads on device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tessel ships an update every 5 days, PointYourPhone every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Tessel versus PointYourPhone: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTesselPointYourPhone
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGijs van TulderRonald Butzelaar

In-app purchases

None

Tessel

No in-app purchases

None

PointYourPhone

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tessel free?
Tessel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is PointYourPhone free?
PointYourPhone is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tessel or PointYourPhone have ads?
Neither Tessel nor PointYourPhone shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tessel or PointYourPhone?
Tessel ships an update every 5 days, and PointYourPhone every 4 weeks. Most recently, Tessel was updated on October 24, 2026 and PointYourPhone on October 9, 2026.

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