AlphaFuse vs Wickgrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AlphaFuse
This minimalist puzzle game challenges players to merge letters from A to Z, requiring strategic thinking and foresight. With a clean design and smooth animations, it offers an engaging experience for both quick breaks and extended play sessions.
- Intuitive letter merging
- Clean, colorful design
- Smooth animations
- Endless replayability
- Short or long play sessions
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AlphaFuse is a minimalist puzzle game built around a single idea: letters merge upward from A to Z. Every move changes the board. Every merge matters. There are no tutorials to read and no distractions to slow you down. Just a clean grid, smooth animations, and a challenge that rewards planning and foresight. Whether you’re playing for a quick break or chasing a perfect run, AlphaFuse delivers a focused, satisfying experience that’s easy to learn and hard to master. Features • Simple and intuitive letter merging • Clean, colorful design • Smooth animations and subtle feedback • Endless replayability • Designed for short or long play sessions How far through the alphabet can you go?
Wickgrid
Engage your mind with daily logic puzzles that require you to light up cells on a grid based on numeric clues. Form a single connected chain while avoiding any 2x2 blocks of lit cells. Offers a free tier with recent puzzles and an optional one-time purchase for full archive access and advanced features.
- Daily hand-verified puzzles
- Four difficulty tiers plus Extreme
- Blackout Mode for pure deduction
- Streak tracking with heatmap
- Fully offline gameplay
- No ads or data collection
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One new logic puzzle every day. Five minutes of pure deduction — no guessing, no ads, no account, works fully offline. Light the correct cells using the numeric clues. Keep every lantern connected in a single chain. Never let four lit cells form a square. Three rules you'll learn in a minute — puzzles that will still be testing you months from now. A DAILY RITUAL Every day brings one hand-verified puzzle, and everyone in the world gets the same one. Difficulty climbs through the week — gentle Monday, brutal Sunday "Extreme." Build a streak, protect it, and watch your month fill in on the heatmap. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Send any puzzle you've solved as a link. Your friend plays the exact same board and sees your time to beat. Same puzzle, head to head, bragging rights included. WHEN YOU WANT MORE Practice mode serves unlimited puzzles at any difficulty, whenever you want. Made a mess of the board? Undo one move at a time or clear it and start fresh. Stuck? Three free hints on every puzzle. Truly stuck? Reveal the solution and see how it comes together. MADE FOR PUZZLE PEOPLE - New to grid deduction? A guided tutorial teaches you the solving method one rule at a time, not just the rules - Veteran? Try Blackout Mode — zero feedback while you solve, pure deduction, verdict at the end - Spoiler-free result cards you can share without ruining the puzzle for anyone - Signed in to iCloud? Your streaks and history follow you across your devices WICKGRID PLUS — $4.99, once, forever - The complete archive: play every past daily, all the way back - Practice History: every practice solve saved — revisit any board, anytime - Unlimited hints - Streak Freeze: never lose a streak to one missed day - Advanced Stats: perfect-solve tracking, per-tier bests, long-term trends No subscriptions. No ads. No tracking. Your progress syncs privately through your own iCloud — no account, no servers, nothing that reaches us. Just a good puzzle, every day.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AlphaFuse at none against Wickgrid's 1. Wickgrid's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Wickgrid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. AlphaFuse asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for AlphaFuse against 5.0 for Wickgrid. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.
AlphaFuse ships an update every 5 days, Wickgrid every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AlphaFuse | Wickgrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yusuf Bakhurji | Daniel Grabowski |
Customer experience
AlphaFuse
Wickgrid
In-app purchases
AlphaFuse
No in-app purchases
Wickgrid
- Wickgrid Plus$4.99








