Pocket8 vs Numeralea
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pocket8
This app brings the PICO-8 fantasy console experience to your mobile device, offering access to thousands of community-made games. Enjoy customizable touch controls or gamepad support, and never lose progress with an instant save system.
- Browse and play community-made PICO-8 games
- Customizable touch controls and gamepad support
- Instant save states for unlimited progress saving
- Portrait and landscape orientation support
- Locked 60FPS gameplay
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Experience PICO-8 Anywhere: Pocket8 brings the magic of the PICO-8 fantasy console to your pocket. Whether you’re on a commute or relaxing at home, thousands of indie games are a single tap away. A Massive Library in Your Pocket: Discover thousands of community-made games with integrated BBS exploration. From challenging platformers to relaxing puzzles, there’s always something new to play. Download your favorites and build a personal collection that goes offline wherever you do. Controls That Feel Right: Gaming on a touch screen can be a struggle. Pocket8 features high-precision controls that feel as good as a real handheld. Choose between a classic D-pad or virtual joystick, or swap the face buttons positioning to match your playstyle. Wanna go touch-less? Connect a controller and play with a bluetooth gamepad or keyboard. Play Without Interruption: Instant save system lets you freeze time and jump back in to the exact pixel where you left off. Manage an infinite amount of save states per cartridge. Features: Browse & Play: Explore the Lexaloffle BBS to find and download new games instantly. Pro-Style Controls: Fluid movement and adaptive controls. Gamepad and Keyboard support included. Portrait & Landscape: Play comfortably in any orientation. Save Anywhere: Never lose your progress with instant state saves. Pure Performance: Locked 60FPS gameplay for the ultimate retro experience.
Numeralea
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All is number; within numbers lie games, within games lies the Way. In Numeralea you face the Entropy — a chaos of numbers closing in. Roll your dice, choose a set that sums to the target, and dissolve it before it reaches you. Land prime numbers, perfect squares, Fibonacci runs, Pythagorean triples, perfect numbers and more — fifteen mathematical relations in all — to unleash powerful resonances. A roguelike where every run is a new equation. Build your dice and modifiers, and travel with legendary mathematicians — Plato, Ramanujan, Euclid, Pythagoras, Lagrange, Goldbach, Fermat — each with a unique power. Choose your Calculus stone, push from Basic to Advanced, brave self‑set Challenge mutators, or descend the endless ∞. Drawn in the style of a da Vinci codex: sepia ink on parchment, astrolabe geometry, and adaptive music.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pocket8 at Free against Numeralea's $1.99. Pocket8 also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Pocket8 is free to download; Numeralea costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pocket8 ships an update daily, Numeralea weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Pocket8 | Numeralea |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $1.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (40 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 40 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 24 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jevon Lipsey | 静 林 |
In-app purchases
Pocket8
No in-app purchases
Numeralea
No in-app purchases









