Threadform vs Ball Sort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Threadform
Engage in a tranquil puzzle adventure with a minimalist aesthetic. This game uses strings and wooden boxes to create captivating brain-training challenges that enhance spatial reasoning and problem-solving skills.
- Minimalist design
- Brain-training puzzles
- Spatial reasoning improvement
- Logical planning enhancement
- Stress-free gameplay
- Problem-solving speed boost
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Welcome to Threadform, a soothing, minimalist puzzle adventure that turns a simple wooden box and strings into a captivating brain‑training experience. Calm, minimalist design Every puzzle lives inside a hand‑crafted wooden box rendered in soft, natural tones. Creating a tranquil visual that encourages focus and relaxation. Brain‑training benefits Improves spatial reasoning and logical planning. Boosts attention to detail and problem‑solving speed. Offers a stress‑free way to keep your mind sharp daily.
Ball Sort
A brain-training puzzle game where players sort colored balls into tubes. It offers hundreds of challenging levels that require strategy and focus, with simple tap controls and relaxing visuals.
- Hundreds of challenging puzzles
- Strategic gameplay
- Simple tap controls
- Relaxing visuals and animations
- Multiple difficulty levels
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Your goal is simple: sort the colored balls into tubes so that each tube contains only one color. But don’t be fooled—levels quickly become more challenging and require strategy, focus, and smart moves. *Train your brain with hundreds of increasingly difficult puzzles *Simple controls – just tap to move balls between tubes *Relaxing gameplay with satisfying visuals and smooth animations *Multiple difficulty levels from easy to expert Can you solve them all?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Threadform at 4.7 against Ball Sort's 4.1. Threadform also leads on review sentiment (77% vs 45%) and ratings volume (9.7K vs 24). Ball Sort's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support 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
Both are free to download. Threadform sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Ball Sort asks for nothing beyond the download.
Threadform holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Threadform has 9.7K ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 77% of Threadform's written reviews are positive against 45% of Ball Sort's.
Threadform ships an update every 2 months, Ball Sort every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Threadform | Ball Sort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (9.7K ratings) — better | 4.1 (24 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 77.4% of reviews — better | 45.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9.7K — better | 24 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 296 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gimica GmbH | Apperfun |
Customer experience
Threadform
Ball Sort
In-app purchases
Threadform
- 10 Hints$0.99
- 22 Hints$1.99
- Unlock World$1.99
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- 35 Hints$2.99
- 55 Hints$3.99
- 80 Hints$4.99
Ball Sort
No in-app purchases
