Comparison

SortFlow vs Chain Link Words

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

Head to head
About

SortFlow

Features
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SortFlow is a relaxing water-sort puzzle. Pour colored liquids between tubes until each tube holds a single color. • Four ways to play: Standard, Classic (the traditional rules), Time Attack and Zen • Hundreds of handcrafted puzzles across eight difficulty tiers, up to Legendary • A new Daily Challenge every day, with streaks and trophy celebrations • Weekly Leagues: earn XP in any mode, climb from Bronze to Diamond, and claim coins every Monday • Leaderboards in the app for every mode and difficulty, Global or Friends, plus Game Center achievements • Daily and weekly quests with coins to claim • Challenge a friend: share a puzzle and see who scores higher on the same board • Level up, earn coins, and unlock themes, tube skins, sound packs and win celebrations • Leave any puzzle and resume right where you left off — all modes save automatically • Build combo streaks with a burning combo counter and sound effects • Play offline, anytime No pressure, no clutter — just satisfying, colorful logic.

About

Chain Link Words

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SUN Ā· FLOWER Ā· POT One word sits between two others and links them both. Sunflower. Flowerpot. Find it, and the chain grows. Chain Link Words is a word puzzle built on compound words and everyday phrases. Each answer becomes the anchor for the next, so a chain builds beneath you as you climb — and one wrong turn is the difference between a clean run and a scrappy one. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY DAILY — Five links, once a day. Everyone gets the same chain. Keep the streak alive. LADDER — The long climbs, up to eleven links. No clock. Just how far you can go. BLITZ — Ninety seconds. How much chain can you build before it runs out? RELAY — A finished chain with gaps in it, fillable in any order. Work backwards, sideways, whatever gets you there. HUB — One word in the middle. How many words can you hang off it? RECORDS — Every past daily, still playable. Nothing expires. BUILT PROPERLY Every link in the game is a real compound word or a phrase people actually say — checked against a corpus of billions of words, not a dictionary that treats "leaflove" and "lighthouse" as equals. Stuck? Spend a key to reveal a letter, or give up and move on. You collect keys every day and earn more for solving unaided. No ads. No account. No internet needed. Just words.

Screenshots

SortFlow4 screens
Chain Link Words4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: SortFlow at Free against Chain Link Words's $0.99. Chain Link Words's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.6). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

SortFlow is free to download; Chain Link Words costs $0.99 up front. SortFlow sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Chain Link Words asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences Ā· 3 level
SortFlow versus Chain Link Words: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSortFlowChain Link Words
PriceFree — better$0.99
Update frequencyEvery 5 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIsaac Cocaradam rogan

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SortFlow

One-time3
  • 500 Coins$0.99
  • 1,800 Coins$2.99
  • 4,000 Coins$4.99
None

Chain Link Words

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SortFlow free?
SortFlow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Chain Link Words free?
Chain Link Words costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do SortFlow or Chain Link Words have ads?
Neither SortFlow nor Chain Link Words shows ads.

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