Comparison

Whack A Braille vs Trace Memory Game

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

Head to head
About

Whack A Braille

An accessible arcade game that challenges players to type braille characters, symbols, and contractions before they disappear. Designed for blind players and braille learners, it offers various practice modes and adjustable settings for a playful learning experience.

Highlights
  • Playable with Braille Screen Input, Displays, and keyboards
  • Practice Grade 1 letters, symbols, and Grade 2 contractions
  • Adjustable speech rate and voice selection
  • Non-timed training mode for beginners
  • Adaptive Mole Recon for personalized practice
  • Blind-first and Accessibility-first design
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Whack a Braille! is a fast-paced accessible arcade game where you type the right braille character, symbol, or contraction before the mole ducks away. Play with a braille display, an external keyboard, or Braille Screen Input. Practice Grade 1 letters, symbols, typing-row patterns, and Grade 2 contractions, then cash in your tickets for prizes as you build up your shelf. The game is designed for blind players, braille learners, teachers, and anyone who wants a playful way to build braille speed and confidence. Features: • Built with Blind-first and Accessibility-first design. • Playable with Braille Screen Input, Braille Displays, and external keyboards. • Adjustable speech rate and voice selection. • Mole sets include keyboard touch-typing training, Grade 1 letters and numbers, and UEB Grade 2 symbols,, word signs, and two-character contractions. • Battle Modes have sets of 3-letter, 4-letter, and 5-letter Grade 1 words, and Wordy Mole Mayhem has randomly drawn 4 to 10 letter words to be typed. • Non-timed training mode for beginners, along with adjustable difficulty modes and round timer lengths. • Adaptive Mole Recon feature that keeps track of misses and what braille characters need practice. Type fast, bonk moles, earn tickets, and see what prize suits your fancy.

About

Trace Memory Game

Features
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A shape flashes on screen. You have to redraw it from memory — in the same place, at the same size, before time runs out. Trace is a memory recall game. Every round walks through three phases: memorize, recall, score. The shorter the flash, the harder it gets. From a generous three-second look on Beginner to a brutal 0.3-second flash on Master, every recall tests your visual memory and your motor precision. WHAT YOU GET FOR FREE - 15 hand-tuned Basics shapes — circles, stars, infinity loops, hearts, spirals, more - Daily challenge: same shape worldwide every day, with a daily streak that builds across days - All six difficulties: Beginner, Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert, Master - The full scoring breakdown — shape match, position match, scale match — shown after every round so you understand exactly why you scored what you did UNLOCK TRACE PRO ($2.99 ONE-TIME) - 106 more shapes across 7 categories: Nature, Animals, Faces, Zig-zags, Constellations, Symbols, and the full A–Z Alphabet - Streak mode: chain perfect recalls in a single run with a combo multiplier that grows up to 3x. Earn zero stars on any round and the run ends. - Future shape packs and game modes included at no extra cost HOW SCORING WORKS Three sub-scores combine into your final accuracy: how close your drawn curve is to the target shape, how close your stroke's centroid is to the original position on the canvas, and how close your bounding-box span is to the original scale. Faster recalls earn speed bonus points. Recalls completed in a single unbroken stroke earn an extra +100. Stars are awarded based on your total points, capped at three. DESIGNED FOR FOCUS - One-time purchase. No subscriptions. No ads. No third-party tracking. No analytics. - Plays entirely offline — only contacts Apple's StoreKit, and only when you initiate a purchase or restore. - Phone calls or notifications mid-round automatically pause the round timer so you don't lose progress to interruptions. - Full VoiceOver support across every screen. - Dark-mode native. PRIVACY Trace collects no personal data. Game progress is stored only on your device. Your finger drawings exist only in memory during a single round and are discarded as soon as the next round begins — they're never written to disk, transmitted, or shared. The complete privacy policy is linked from the in-app Settings screen. Built by an indie developer in Würzburg, Germany.

Screenshots

Whack A Braille4 screens
Trace Memory Game3 screens

Verdict

The call

Whack A Braille and Trace Memory Game are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Whack A Braille sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Trace Memory Game sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Whack A Braille versus Trace Memory Game: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWhack A BrailleTrace Memory Game
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarco SalsicciaLisi Qarkaxhija

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Whack A Braille

One-time4
  • Light Thwap$0.99
  • Big Bonk$1.99
  • Mega Whack$2.99
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  • Ultimate Whackage$4.99
1 purchases

Trace Memory Game

One-time1
  • Trace Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Whack A Braille free?
Whack A Braille is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Trace Memory Game free?
Trace Memory Game is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Whack A Braille or Trace Memory Game have ads?
Neither Whack A Braille nor Trace Memory Game shows ads.

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