Comparison

Grid Tide vs Piecefull

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

Head to head
About

Grid Tide

Experience a unique puzzle game where you roll a 3D cube across a grid to reveal safe tiles. Deduce hidden craters based on adjacent numbers and clear the board to win. Enjoy procedural layouts and a fresh, tactile gameplay experience.

Highlights
  • Roll a 3D cube to explore the grid
  • Deduce hidden craters using number clues
  • Chain rolls for fluid movement
  • Colored flood waves for visual tracing
  • Procedural board generation
  • Adjustable difficulty and board size
Features
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Minesweeper logic. You explore by rolling. GridTide is a fresh take on classic neighbor-count puzzles: instead of tapping cells from above, you hold and drag to roll a 3D cube across the board. Where you land opens new ground — movement feels like exploration, while the deduction stays deep. HOW YOU PLAY • Roll across the grid — Steer with one continuous gesture; chain rolls to sweep the board in a fluid motion. • Read the numbers — Each value counts hidden “craters” on adjacent tiles. Zeros expand automatically, flood-clearing safe zones. • Flag suspected craters — Tap a hidden tile to plant a flag. You can’t roll onto a flagged tile — use that to block paths while you think ahead. • Clear every safe tile — Reveal the whole safe zone to win. Land on a crater and the run ends — then try again with a new layout. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • 3D cube control — Familiar rules, a new physical feel on iPhone. • Colored flood waves — The bottom face of the cube tints the next batch of revealed tiles, so your last move leaves a visible trace. • Procedural boards — New layout every run; adjust difficulty and board size on the title screen. • No account required — Start in seconds. No ads. Best scores stay on your device. Whether you grew up on classic grid puzzles or you’re new to the genre, GridTide is built for quick sessions and readable, satisfying clears.

About

Piecefull

Features
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Most jigsaw apps slice the picture into equal squares. That is why the pieces over an empty sky are near-impossible and the pieces over the detailed part fall into place by themselves. Piecefull cuts where the detail actually is. Smart Cut looks at the picture before it cuts it. Busy areas break into more, smaller pieces. Flat, quiet areas stay in fewer, larger ones. Every piece ends up about equally findable, so the board has no dead corner and no cruel patch - just 48 hand-made pictures waiting as long as you need them to. SMART CUT - EVERY PIECE WORTH FINDING - The app measures how much detail sits in each part of the picture and places the cut lines to match. - Dense, colorful areas become more pieces; calm areas stay in bigger, easier ones. - The difficulty never spikes halfway through and never collapses at the end. - Prefer the classic look? Turn Smart Cut off and get a plain equal grid instead. 48 PICTURES IN 6 THEMED PACKS - Mandalas, Stained Glass, Blooms, Mosaics, Cosmos and Waves - eight pictures in each. - Two full packs are open from the very first launch. No waiting, no purchase, no trial. - The other four each open with one optional rewarded video, and then stay open forever. FROM 9 PIECES TO 300 - Choose your size in plain words, from a gentle start up to a long project. - Nine pieces is a two-minute breather. Three hundred is something you come back to for weeks. - No timer, no countdown, no lives, no score. Nothing on the screen is racing you. A BOARD THAT WAITS FOR YOU - Every board saves itself the moment you leave, right down to the clock, and reopens exactly as it was. - Put a 300-piece picture down half finished and pick it up next month with nothing lost. - Drop a piece in the wrong place and it goes quietly back to the tray, so finished work can never be knocked loose and the board never turns into a mess. ONE PICTURE A DAY, THE SAME FOR EVERYONE - A new daily picture every calendar day, identical for every player in the world. - Playable even while its pack is still closed, so there is always something new on the table. PROGRESS WORTH LOOKING AT - Puzzles finished, pieces placed, current streak and longest streak, all on one screen. - An 18-week consistency grid and weekly bars show the quiet rhythm of your sessions. - 40 achievements that reward showing up, never speed. EASY ON THE EYES BY DESIGN - Large text throughout, plus a text size control you can set to suit you. - Six board color styles and a full light or dark mode. - A faint guide image under the board when you want the help, gone with one tap when you do not. - Six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. PERFECT FOR - Long unhurried evenings with one picture and no clock anywhere. - Anyone who wants a relaxing jigsaw with large clear pieces and text they can actually read. - Coffee breaks, waiting rooms and long journeys with no signal. - Winding down before sleep, with no noise and no leaderboard shouting at you. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE - Works 100% offline. On a plane, in a basement, on a train through a tunnel - it plays the same. - No account, no login, no sign-up, no email address. Nothing you do leaves your device. - Free with ads. Rewarded video is always your choice, and only ever to open a pack you want. Pick a picture. Pick a size. Then take all the time in the world.

Screenshots

Grid Tide4 screens
Piecefull4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Piecefull at 3 against Grid Tide's 1. Piecefull also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 5 level
Grid Tide versus Piecefull: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrid TidePiecefull
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDear Friend Digital GmbHFerran Espuna

In-app purchases

None

Grid Tide

No in-app purchases

None

Piecefull

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Grid Tide free?
Grid Tide is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Piecefull free?
Piecefull is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Grid Tide or Piecefull have ads?
Both Grid Tide and Piecefull show ads.

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