Ink Sync vs Shade Walker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ink Sync
Engage your mind with a unique logic puzzle game where you paint entire rows or columns at once. Mix colors, plan your moves, and solve over 400 handcrafted puzzles. Enjoy a relaxing yet challenging experience with no timers or lives.
- Unique row/column painting mechanic
- Color mixing logic
- 400+ handcrafted puzzles
- No timers or lives
- Offline play
- Hint system
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Paint the grid. Match the target. It sounds simple — until it isn’t. Ink Sync is a fresh take on logic puzzles, built around a unique mechanic: each pen paints an entire row or column at once. Mix colors intelligently — blue + yellow = green — plan your moves, and discover the exact sequence needed to recreate the target pattern. One wrong move can change everything. No timers. No lives. Just pure logic. With 400+ handcrafted puzzles, Ink Sync starts approachable and steadily challenges your spatial reasoning, planning, and color logic. Some puzzles take seconds. Others make you stop, rethink, and try again — until that satisfying “aha!” moment hits. What’s inside • 400+ unique puzzles with gradually increasing difficulty • A one-of-a-kind gameplay mechanic you won’t find elsewhere • One-tap, intuitive controls • Color mixing logic — combine primary colors to create new ones • Hints available when you’re stuck • Offline play — no internet required • 12 language support Relaxing, yet mentally engaging. Simple to learn, surprisingly deep to master. Free to play. No puzzle left unsolvable.
Shade Walker
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Move the sun. Swing the shadows. Get your ice cream home before it melts. Shade Walker is a turn-based logic puzzle. Your ice cream cone can only stand in the shade, and every building and tree on the board casts a shadow that turns as the day goes on. Take a few steps, push the sun forward an hour, watch the shade swing to a new place, and step again. Reach the freezer and you're safe. The catch: time only goes forward. Advance the sun too soon and the shade you needed is gone. Every level asks you to look ahead and plan the whole day, not just the next move. HOW IT PLAYS • Tap a cell to walk. Tap the sun dial to move the sun to its next stop. • Houses cast short shadows, towers cast long ones. At noon, shadows shrink. • Step into the sun and you melt. Undo is unlimited and free. • Push crates to build your own shade where there is none. • Finish a level with as few sun moves as possible to earn 3 stars. 110 PUZZLES, 5 CHAPTERS Morning Walk teaches the rules. Long Afternoon adds more hours to the day. Moving Day brings crates. Heat Wave and Longest Day put it all together on bigger boards with a little more room for error. Every puzzle has been checked by a solver to make sure it has a real solution, and from chapter 2 on, that spinning the sun alone never wins. MADE FOR SHORT SESSIONS • Levels take a minute or two, so it fits a coffee break or a commute. • No account and no login. Your progress is saved on your device. • Painted, storybook art with a calm palette. Quiet and clear, without a timer. • Stuck? A hint shows the next move of an optimal solution from where you are. FREE TO PLAY, HONESTLY Shade Walker is free with ads. Rewarded videos are optional and only play when you ask for a hint or a second chance after melting. A one-time purchase removes the banner and interstitial ads for good. Optional hint packs and two cosmetic board themes (Night and Mars) are also available. There are no paid levels and nothing you need to buy to finish the game. Stay in the shade. See you at the freezer.
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Verdict
Ink Sync and Shade Walker are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Ink Sync sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Shade Walker sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | Ink Sync | Shade Walker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 107 MB | 115 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EverSky Studio, LLC | Thang Vu |
In-app purchases
Ink Sync
- Remove Ads$5.99
Shade Walker
- 10 hints$0.99
- Night theme$1.99
- Mars theme$1.99
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- 30 hints$2.99
- Remove ads$4.99





