Comparison

Quarc vs Tessel Run

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

Head to head
About

Quarc

This game offers a fresh take on falling block puzzles with uniquely curved pieces like circles and stars. Strategically rotate and drop shapes to clear rows, navigating a gentle but accelerating pace. Golden gems provide a strategic advantage for filling gaps.

Highlights
  • Curved block shapes
  • Strategic rotation and dropping
  • Accelerating difficulty
  • Golden gems for gap filling
  • Game Center leaderboards
  • Intuitive controls
Features
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QUARC is a twist on the classic falling block puzzle game with pieces built out of concave and convex curves, from circles to four-pointed stars. Match the curves so they fit together and filled rows will disappear. But when pieces collide or leave behind impossible holes, it's a recipe for disaster. Using curves instead of straight lines drags the classic block puzzle genre into new territory where nothing looks familiar. No more stacking squares. In QUARC, you're reading the smooth contour of the surface you've already built, and finding the piece that belongs. No ads, no subscriptions. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY Classic: endless, and it steadily gets faster. Zen: endless, and it never speeds up. The quiet, relaxing one. Stay as long as you like. Sprint: clear sixteen rows as fast as you can. A pure race against the clock. Survival: at first, every piece fits somewhere. As your score climbs, fewer and fewer fit anywhere. Survive. Challenge: a brand-new pre-filled board every day to surprise and exasperate you. Each day's challenge uses the same board for everyone, worldwide. ON THE BOARD Golden pieces help you fill the gaps that ill-fitting curves leave behind. Bombs let you blast a piece out of midair when it's the one shape you can't use. A streak of ten perfect landings in a row gives you 20 seconds of slow motion, so you have a chance to breathe. GAME CENTER Four leaderboards — Classic, Sprint, Survival and the daily Challenge. See where you land. FREE TO PLAY, OR BUY ONCE Classic and Zen are free forever, unlimited and endless. No lives, no energy, no cooldowns, no limit on how much you play. Quarc Pro is the one optional purchase in Quarc. It unlocks Sprint, Survival and Challenge modes, plus five additional color themes and three background styles. You pay once. There is no second purchase, since there is nothing else to sell you. Every new player gets Quarc Pro free for their first seven days. No card, nothing to cancel. BUILT FOR IPHONE Quarc has minimal geometry, crisp arcs, and smooth animation. Its accessibility features include Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion, a high-contrast mode, and haptics you can switch off. Playable offline, always. Made with love by one person who also loves to play. Curves change everything. Are you ready?

About

Tessel Run

Navigate a physics-based puzzle platformer where colored surfaces alter the rules of gravity and movement. Roll through hand-drawn levels, using color-coded tessels to overcome obstacles and reach the goal. Precision and experimentation are key to mastering the dynamic challenges.

Highlights
  • Physics-based puzzle platforming
  • Color-coded physics mechanics
  • Hand-drawn tangram level design
  • Precision and momentum gameplay
  • Dynamic tessellations
Features
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You are a ball in a world of hand-colored tessels where color changes the rules of physics. Tessel Run is a physics-based puzzle platformer where color-coded tessels modify how the world behaves. Roll across different colored surfaces to flip gravity, remove obstacles, bounce higher, and chain effects together to reach the goal. Each level is built from hand-drawn tangram shapes, scanned from real paper drawings by the developers and assembled into dynamic tessellations. Precision, momentum, and experimentation matter. And falling is part of learning the path.

Screenshots

Quarc4 screens
Tessel Run4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tessel Run at none against Quarc's 1. Tessel Run also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Quarc's advantage is ratings volume (27 vs 3). On price, rating and ads 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. Quarc sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Tessel Run asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Quarc against 5.0 for Tessel Run. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Quarc has 27 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Quarc versus Tessel Run: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuarcTessel Run
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (27 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings27 — better3
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke BradfordMicah Arvey

Customer experience

Quarc

All ratings27 ratings
Positive96.3%
Neutral3.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews14 reviews
Positive92.9%
Neutral7.1%
Negative0.0%

Tessel Run

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quarc

One-time1
  • Quarc Pro$3.99
None

Tessel Run

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Quarc free?
Quarc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tessel Run free?
Tessel Run is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Quarc or Tessel Run?
Tessel Run is rated higher. Quarc averages 4.9 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Tessel Run averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Quarc or Tessel Run have ads?
Neither Quarc nor Tessel Run shows ads.

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