Boxy Pals vs Screw Machine
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Boxy Pals
Guide snakes across a grid, matching colors to clear them. Plan your moves carefully to escape each level without filling the rotating bar.
- Snake matching mechanic
- Grid escape puzzles
- Hundreds of handcrafted levels
- No timers or stress
- Offline play
- Smart hints
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A crowd of pals is waiting, and every one of them belongs somewhere. Boxy Pals is a color-matching queue game with a twist: the boxes you fill are the picture. Tap a line and the pals at its front march into the waiting room. Send every pal into a box of their own color, fill the open boxes from the ground up, and watch the mural above you come apart one box at a time. Empty the last box and the level is yours. HOW TO PLAY - Tap a line to send its front color group marching. - Only a few box colors are open at any moment. - Match every pal to a box of the same color. - Empty the boxes below to reach the ones above. - Leave breathing room for the colors still to come. - Stuck? Rescue pulls your pals back into a line. WHY PLAYERS KEEP TAPPING - One thumb, one tap, no tutorial needed - Every line you open changes your next ten moves - Crowds that shuffle, shove and squeeze into place - A picture that takes itself apart, box by box - No timer, no move limit — think as long as you like - Bright, chunky 3D worlds One wrong line and the room fills up. One right line and the whole board opens. Which line will you tap first?
Screw Machine
This game challenges you to sort colored screws onto a spinning machine. Tap panels to release screws onto a rail, where they thread into matching plates. Fill all plates to win, but avoid jamming the machine by overloading the rail.
- Color-sorting screw puzzle
- Spinning machine mechanic
- Tap-to-release screws
- Level-based progression
- Offline play
- Mystery plates, gates, tunnels, arrows
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Screw Machine is a color-sorting screw puzzle with a moving twist. Instead of stacking screws onto a bolt, you spill screws onto a spinning machine and let timing do the sorting. Tap a panel drop its screws onto the rail, and watch each color thread itself into its matching plate as the ring carries it around. Fill every plate to win. Overload the rail and the whole machine seizes up. HOW THE MACHINE WORKS • Tap a panel to loosen its screws onto the spinning rail • Four color plates sit around the ring — each one takes three screws of its color • As the machine turns, every screw passing its matching plate drives itself in • Fill a plate and it locks shut; the next color rolls up behind it • Clear all the plates to finish the level KEEP IT TURNING • The rail only holds so many screws, release colors with nowhere to go and it jams solid • Read the machine before you tap: open the panels whose colors have an open plate • No move counter, no timer, you only lose if the rail jams for good • Every level is a small sorting puzzle built to be untangled PARTS THAT CHANGE THE GAME • Mystery plates: The next color stays hidden behind a "?" until it rolls into place • Gates: Run a screw through and it splits into more • Tunnels: Feed a whole extra run of panels onto the board • Arrows: Panels that you can only unlock from a certain direction WHY IT'S HARD TO PUT DOWN • A fresh, tactile spin on the nuts and bolts puzzles you already love • One-tap, simple, with real timing and planning underneath • Hand-built levels that stay clever without ever feeling like work • Oddly satisfying to watch, screws driving home, plates locking in sequence • Play offline, anywhere, no wifi needed • Free to play, with lives that refill over time Loosen the screws. Run the machine. Sort every color.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Screw Machine at 736 against Boxy Pals's 123. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Boxy Pals sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Screw Machine sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Boxy Pals against 4.9 for Screw Machine. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Screw Machine has 736 ratings behind it against 123, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Boxy Pals ships an update every 5 days, Screw Machine every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boxy Pals | Screw Machine |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (123 ratings) | 4.9 (736 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 123 | 736 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 378 MB | 428 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Loop Games Oyun Teknolojileri Anonim Sirketi | Twist Games |
Customer experience
Boxy Pals
Screw Machine
In-app purchases
Boxy Pals
- Coin Pack 1$1.99
- End Game Offer$5.99
- Remove Ads Bundle$7.99
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- Coin Pack 2$7.99
- Starter Pack$9.99
- Value Pack$19.99
- Coin Pack 4$24.99
- Treasure Pack$39.99
- Coin Pack 5$59.99
- Mega Pack$79.99
- Coin Pack 6$99.99
- Ultimate Pack$99.99
Screw Machine
- 1000 Coins$1.99
- Fail Offer$4.99
- 5000 Coins$7.99
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- No Ads$7.99
- Small Bundle$9.99
- No Ads Bundle$12.99
- 10000 Coins$14.99
- Medium Bundle$19.99
- Large Bundle$29.99
- Mega Bundle$49.99









