Merge Pocket vs Tintforge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merge Pocket
This game offers a relaxing merge puzzle experience where players combine adorable characters and objects to create a vibrant pocket world. It's designed for all ages, providing a cozy and satisfying way to unwind.
- Merge adorable characters and objects
- Build a complete pocket world
- Relaxing and cozy gameplay
- Satisfying merging mechanics
- Creative puzzle solving
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- A Merge Puzzle That Brings a Pocket World to Life Merge adorable characters and objects, and experience the moment when scattered pieces come together as a complete world. - Merge Gameplay with Adroable Characters From charming animals to playful friends, and rich environmental elements— each character brings its own personality and warmth, adding life to your world with every merge. - Pieces Coming Together as One Scene This is more than just merging. Images completed through merging become puzzle pieces, gradually building a cozy pocket world. - Relaxing and Cozy Healing Gameplay Unwind from your day with calm, satisfying gameplay, and feel a rich sense of excitement with every merge. - A Puzzle Game for Everyone Easy to start and naturally engaging. Perfect for players of all ages who love cute characters and creative puzzles.
Tintforge
A relaxing puzzle game where you mix pigments to create target shades. Explore themed worlds with unique color challenges and unlock rewards. Perfect for creative problem-solving and satisfying progression.
- Relaxing color-mixing puzzle
- Blend pigments to match shades
- Themed worlds and chapters
- Stages from simple to advanced
- Rewards for completion
- Helpful mixing tools
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Tintforge is a relaxing color puzzle where every stage begins with a target shade and a handful of pigments. Instead of matching tiles or clearing blocks, you create the answer yourself. Add pigment drops, watch them blend across the canvas, and adjust your mix until it matches the target. A little more blue, a softer touch of white, one cleaner ratio — small choices turn into satisfying color discoveries. Travel through themed worlds filled with crafted color challenges, from Studio Basics and Tone Lab to Garden Pigments, Night Palette, Digital Neon, Deep Ocean, and Master Gallery. Each world is divided into color chapters with new palettes, rules, and puzzle twists. Earn stars for accuracy, complete stage sets, restore chapters and worlds with color, and collect rewards that help when a shade is just out of reach. Helpful tools give you ways to compare colors, fix tricky mixes, and keep progressing. Features: - A relaxing color-mixing puzzle experience - Blend pigment drops to match target shades - Themed worlds and color chapters to unlock - Stages ranging from simple mixes to advanced color trials - Star ratings, perfect clears, set rewards, chapter rewards, and world rewards - Special puzzle twists including hidden targets, locked inks, and mystery palettes - Helpful tools for comparing colors, fixing mixes, and solving tricky shades Tintforge is made for players who enjoy calm puzzle games, color matching, creative problem solving, and satisfying progression.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Merge Pocket at 7 against Tintforge's 1. 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. Merge Pocket sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Tintforge sells 5 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 — 5.0 for Merge Pocket against 5.0 for Tintforge. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Merge Pocket has 7 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Merge Pocket ships an update fortnightly, Tintforge weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Merge Pocket | Tintforge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 207 MB | 70 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cozycat Inc. | Kyoungsu Kim |
Customer experience
Merge Pocket
Tintforge
In-app purchases
Merge Pocket
- Coin 110$0.99
- Coin 550$2.99
- Remove Auto Ads$3.99
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- Coin 1200$4.99
Tintforge
- Starter Pack$1.99
- Heart Pack$2.99
- Basic Pack$5.99
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- Progress Pack$11.99
- Mega Pack$17.99









