Comparison

Zyl vs Lexics

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Zyl

A minimalist puzzle game focused on elegant path tracing. Guide paths from start to exit by strategically placing arrows, collecting stars along the way. Enjoy a relaxing experience with handcrafted levels and no timers or ads.

Highlights
  • Elegant path tracing puzzles
  • 300 handcrafted levels
  • Collect stars
  • Cloud save sync
  • Relaxing music and sound
  • No timers or ads
Features
Currently charting
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Zyl is a puzzle built around elegant path tracing. It's a small, quiet game. Soft colors, clean lines, and nothing on screen you don't need. Drop arrows on the grid to guide each path from its start tile to an exit. Pick up the stars on the way. When you're ready, hit Play and watch the route run. The rules: • Drag arrows onto the grid. • Send every path to an exit. • Pick up every star. • Hit Play to test the route. • Reset and try a new approach whenever. It starts simple, but then the difficulty ramps up: • Boards don't always use a clean grid. • Some levels have more than one start, or more than one exit. • Split arrows send a path off in two directions at once. • Merge arrows converge two paths into one. • U-turn arrows re-route a path from where it came. A few things worth knowing: • 300 handcrafted levels, each built around a single idea. • Levels stay small. Most of them can be finished in less than a minute. • Cloud save syncs your progress across devices. • Relaxing music and sound design. • No timers. • No ads. • No in-app purchases. • No data collected. Every puzzle has a solution. Some have multiple. The fun is in finding it.

About

Lexics

Features
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Letters fall, bump into each other and pile up. You make words and the pile goes down. Lexics is a word game with real physics: every tile bounces, spins and settles wherever it can. No two runs are ever the same. HOW IT PLAYS Move the tile as it falls and drop it where you like. When letters in a row spell a word from the dictionary, they clear and you score. If the pile reaches the top, you are done. FIVE MATERIALS • Wood: the normal tile, good grip. • Ice: slippery, mind where you put it. • Stone: heavy, and it crushes whatever is underneath. • Gold: worth double points. • Bomb: blows up everything around it. TWO WAYS TO PLAY • Normal: full physics, tiles roll and the pile grows crooked. • Easy: on a grid, every tile lands straight and stays put. A 1,000-LEVEL ADVENTURE Every level asks for something different: reach a score, spell long words, survive on a fixed number of tiles. Up to three stars each. DUELS ON THE VERY SAME TILES Create a duel, play your run and pass the code to anyone. Whoever gets it plays exactly the same letters in the same order, so the better placement wins. No turns, no waiting: each of you plays whenever you can. SIX REAL LANGUAGES Spanish, English, French, German, Italian and Portuguese, each with its own dictionary and its own letter distribution. ALSO • Optional on-screen controls that you can drag anywhere. • Light and dark themes. • Music that speeds up as you level. • No sign-up, no account: open it and play. Free, with ads.

Screenshots

Zyl4 screens
Lexics4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Lexics at Free against Zyl's $1.99. Zyl's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#195 vs unranked). On in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Lexics is free to download; Zyl costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
Zyl versus Lexics: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZylLexics
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (41 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings41 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#195 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB31 MB
Age rating4++12
DeveloperFleon LabsOliver Tacoronte Mendoza

In-app purchases

None

Zyl

No in-app purchases

None

Lexics

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zyl free?
Zyl costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lexics free?
Lexics is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Zyl or Lexics have ads?
Lexics shows ads; Zyl does not.

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