Comparison

Grid Zen vs Serialogic

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

Head to head
About

Grid Zen

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Grid Zen Relax your mind with a clean, satisfying line puzzle game built around focus, flow, and calm progression. Connect the numbered points in order, fill the grid, and discover the perfect path. Each puzzle is simple to understand, but the challenge grows as boards become larger, smarter, and more surprising. Play through carefully organized level packs, from gentle tutorials to harder master puzzles. Explore special mechanics like walls and hidden points, take on daily challenges, and unlock new visual skins to make every solved path feel different. Features - Thousands of handcrafted and generated logic puzzles - Smooth grid-based path drawing - Daily challenges with streak progress - Level packs for every skill level - 5x5, 6x6, 7x7, 8x8, 9x9, and 10x10 puzzle collections - Special mechanics including walls and hidden waypoints - Unlockable zen-inspired skins - Hints when you need a little help - Clean, relaxing design made for short sessions or deep focus Grid Zen is easy to start, satisfying to master, and designed to give your brain a quiet little workout every day.

About

Serialogic

This logic puzzle game challenges players to optimize their moves to solve color-sorting levels. It provides the minimum number of moves required, turning each level into an optimization problem. Enjoy a vast collection of levels with no ads or subscriptions.

Highlights
  • Minimum move solutions provided
  • Optimization-based gameplay
  • 350 levels across 7 tiers
  • No ads or subscriptions
  • Offline play
  • Accessibility features
  • Progress sync via iCloud
Features
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The perfect move exists. It is shown. Serialogic prints the smallest number of moves that solves the level at the top of the screen, while you play. An exact solver found that number before the level shipped. You are no longer looking for a solution. You are looking for the solution. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT In an ordinary sorting game every solution is worth the same, so tapping until it works out is enough. Here the minimum is known and announced, which turns each level into an optimisation problem. The board also shows, before you commit, how many tokens each destination would take — information the genre simply does not give you. This is golf, not fumbling. THE RULES, IN FOUR LINES Coloured tokens sit mixed across vertical threads. Move the token at the end of a thread onto an empty thread, or onto a token of the same colour. A run of identical adjacent tokens moves as one move, up to the space available. You win when every colour is gathered in full on a single thread. WHAT YOU GET 350 levels across 7 tiers, from three colours on five threads to eight colours on ten. Difficulty climbs inside each tier as much as from one tier to the next. The first three tiers — 150 of the 350 levels — are proven free of dead ends. Every reachable position was enumerated, not sampled. Beyond that a dead end is possible, and a safety net checks after each move that a win is still within reach, telling you the moment it is not. A single undo always brings you back. Undo is free, unlimited, and costs no star. Only the moves of your final solution count. There is no timer anywhere in the app: a clock beside a move count would push you to hurry on a dimension that measures nothing. Nine themes in light and dark, six typefaces, forty-four languages. Progress syncs through iCloud. Game Center achievements and leaderboards. WHAT IS NOT IN IT No advertising, and there never will be. No subscription. No account. No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDK of any kind. No network request is ever made: all 350 levels ship inside the app and play in airplane mode, from the first level to the last. The first 150 levels are complete and cost nothing. They sit entirely inside the proven-safe range, so a player who has not paid cannot get stuck. The remaining 200 unlock with a single purchase, once. Nothing recurring. BUILT TO BE READ Six typefaces including OpenDyslexic and Andika, applied to the whole interface. VoiceOver on every thread, announcing each token's colour and fill. Dynamic Type. Reduced motion. Token fill — disc or ring — already tells half the colours apart without relying on colour at all, and a colour-blind mode replaces green with violet. iPhone and iPad on iOS 17 or later, Mac on macOS 14 or later. One purchase covers all three. Serialogic is the fourth in a family of Bauhaus logic games, after KubiLogic, LineaLogic and Tektologic. Privacy policy: https://www.michaeldardol.com/serialogic/en/privacy/ Questions and bug reports: michael@caliapps.fr

Screenshots

Grid Zen4 screens
Serialogic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Serialogic at none against Grid Zen's shown. Grid Zen's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 2 weeks). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Grid Zen sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Serialogic sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Grid Zen ships an update daily, Serialogic every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Grid Zen versus Serialogic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrid ZenSerialogic
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size116 MB12 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUgurcan Sarimichael dardol

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Grid Zen

One-time10
  • Master Pack$0.99
  • Aurora Silk Skin$0.99
  • Kintsugimoon Skin$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Sakura Tide Skin$0.99
  • Jade Glass Skin$0.99
  • Amethyst Mist Skin$0.99
  • 20 Hints$2.99
  • Unlock All Skins$2.99
  • Zen Mode$6.99
  • Complete Package$11.99
1 purchases

Serialogic

One-time1
  • Same-Color Series$4.99

Questions

Is Grid Zen free?
Grid Zen is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Serialogic free?
Serialogic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Grid Zen or Serialogic have ads?
Grid Zen shows ads; Serialogic does not.
Which is updated more often, Grid Zen or Serialogic?
Grid Zen ships an update daily, and Serialogic every 2 weeks. Most recently, Grid Zen was updated on October 12, 2026 and Serialogic on October 25, 2026.

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