Comparison

Quarc vs Block Time!

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

Block Time!

A block puzzle game offering a pure, uninterrupted experience with no ads, timers, or in-app purchases. Enjoy dropping pieces, clearing lines, and chaining combos with dynamic themes and an extra life feature.

Highlights
  • Ad-free gameplay
  • No energy timers
  • Block dropping mechanics
  • Line clearing
  • Combo chaining
  • Dynamic themes
  • Extra life feature
Features
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Remember when games didn't try to sell you something every 12 seconds? Yeah, we do too. Block Time is a block puzzle game with zero ads, zero energy timers, and zero "watch this video to keep playing." Just you, some very good Tetris-shaped bricks, and the increasingly unhinged joy of clearing a full board. Drop pieces. Clear lines. Chain combos until the screen basically throws a party for you. Clear enough lines in a row and the whole board changes its entire outfit — new theme, new vibe, zero warning. We don't make the rules. We do make the bricks... and the rules.. i guess we do kinda make the rules. About to lose? Extra Life shows up like the fastest friend on the internet, bailing you out before you even finish panicking. No ads watched. No ads. Ever. Not even a tiny one. No subscriptions, energy bars, or fake urgency Dozens of themes, more always on the way Anyway. Go clear some lines. The board isn't going to clear itself. Okay, it kind of does. That's the whole game. You get it.

Screenshots

Quarc4 screens
Block Time!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Quarc at 27 against Block Time!'s 8. On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 and Block Time! sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 Block Time!. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 8 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 93% of Quarc's written reviews are positive against 100% of Block Time!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Quarc ships an update weekly, Block Time! every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Quarc versus Block Time!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterQuarcBlock Time!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (27 ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews92.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings27 — better8
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB96 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLuke BradfordAndrew Russell

Customer experience

Quarc

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

Block Time!

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Quarc

One-time1
  • Quarc Pro$3.99
1 purchases

Block Time!

One-time1
  • Block Time PRO$4.99

Questions

Is Quarc free?
Quarc is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Block Time! free?
Block Time! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Quarc or Block Time!?
Block Time! is rated higher. Quarc averages 4.9 out of 5 from 27 ratings, while Block Time! averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Quarc or Block Time! have ads?
Neither Quarc nor Block Time! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Quarc or Block Time!?
Quarc ships an update weekly, and Block Time! every 3 days. Most recently, Quarc was updated on October 24, 2026 and Block Time! on October 24, 2026.

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