Comparison

Notebook Games vs Foldixel

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

Head to head
About

Notebook Games

Relive classic notebook paper games with 16 hand-drawn mini-games. Enjoy offline play, pass-and-play multiplayer, and customizable themes without ads or data collection.

Highlights
  • 16 hand-drawn mini-games
  • Offline play
  • Pass-and-play multiplayer
  • Multiple notebook themes
  • Game statistics tracking
  • No ads or data collection
Features
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Remember doodling games in the back of your notebook during class? Tic Tac Toe in the margins. Dots & Boxes on the last page. Snake on every scrap of paper you could find. Notebook Games brings that feeling back — right on your phone. Every game is hand-drawn on warm, yellowed notebook paper. The lines wobble a little. The text looks pencilled in. The background has eraser marks and pencil smudges, just like the real thing. It's not polished. That's the point. 18 games, all hand-drawn on paper: • Doodle Kingdom — A full card adventure drawn in the margins. Build your deck, battle doodle monsters, reach the boss. No two runs alike. • Tic Tac Toe — The timeless classic, plus Super (4x4) and Ultimate (nine boards in one) modes. • Dots & Boxes — Draw lines, capture squares, outwit the AI. • Gomoku — Five in a row on a 15x15 grid. Pinch to zoom, undo moves. • Connect Four — Drop pieces to connect four in a row. Three AI levels. • Checkers — Jump and capture on an 8x8 board. Three AI difficulty levels. • Winding Words — Trace the theme words as they twist through the grid. Every letter gets used. • Five Letters — Guess the five-letter word in six tries. Hand-drawn circles and scribbles for clues. • Mini Sudoku — Quick 4x4 puzzles. Three difficulty levels with timer. • Minesweeper — Tap to reveal, hold to flag. Includes a no-guess mode: every board is solvable by pure logic. • Word Search — Find hidden words in a letter grid. Drag to select. • Maze — Find the exit, or try One Line mode: cover every cell with a single unbroken pencil stroke. • Snake — A calmer, softer Snake. Pencil-drawn on notebook paper. • Hangman — Guess the word before the stickman swings, then learn it: pronunciation, meaning, and an example sentence. • Notebook Siege — Angry-doodles-style slingshot game. 30 hand-crafted levels across 3 chapters, plus endless mode. • Paper Football — Flick a folded paper triangle across the desk. Score touchdowns on notebook paper. • Paper Airplane — Launch a paper airplane through rings and past obstacles. Tilt to steer. • Doodle Jump — Bounce a stickman up through pencil platforms. How high can you go? A new puzzle every day: The Daily Challenge rotates through the week — a fresh Minesweeper board, Word Search, Maze, Winding Words, Five Letters, and more. Everyone gets the same puzzle. Keep your streak alive with tally marks in the margin, and share your result as a hand-drawn card. Everything you'd want, nothing you wouldn't: - No account required. Just open and play. - Works completely offline. No Wi-Fi, no problem. - No ads during gameplay - ever. - AI opponents for solo play. - Sound effects that feel like pencil on paper. - Dark mode support throughout. - Warm notebook paper aesthetic. Notebook Games Pro ($1.99 one-time): Unlock four extra notebook themes - Graph Paper, Blackboard, Aged Parchment, and Blueprint - plus detailed game stats. One purchase, yours forever. No subscription. Whether you're looking to unwind, challenge a friend, or just relive the joy of rainy-day doodling, Notebook Games is here for you. No sign-in. No nonsense. Just games on paper. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://quietbyte.io/privacy-notebookgames.html

About

Foldixel

Features
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Solve the clues. Reveal a hidden pixel picture. Foldixel is a logic puzzle about filled squares and folded pairs. Each row and column tells you how many squares to fill and how many mirrored pairs have both squares filled when folded through the middle. Find the answer one square at a time. Learn by doing in a guided practice puzzle, then discover small pictures and larger pictures made from four pieces. • 204 pictures, including 100 large pictures • Sizes from 4×4 to 20×20, with different difficulty levels • Solve four 10×10 pieces to complete each large 20×20 picture • Tap or drag to fill squares and mark empty spaces with × • Three free hints and three hearts per attempt • Free retries when you need another try • Keep your completed pictures in a collection • Automatic saving and resume • English, Korean and Japanese • Play offline with no account required Contains ads; no in-app purchases. Interstitial ads may appear when moving to another screen after completing a puzzle. When ads are available online, you can choose to watch a rewarded ad for an extra hint or a continue reward. Progress is stored on your device and can be backed up to a file. Automatic cross-device sync is not supported.

Screenshots

Notebook Games4 screens
Foldixel4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Foldixel at none against Notebook Games's 1. Foldixel also leads on update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Notebook Games's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price and device support 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. Notebook Games sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Foldixel asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Notebook Games ships an update fortnightly, Foldixel weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 5 level
Notebook Games versus Foldixel: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNotebook GamesFoldixel
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyWeekly — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJUMING LAIyoungho cho

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Notebook Games

One-time1
  • Notebook Games Pro$1.99
None

Foldixel

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Notebook Games free?
Notebook Games is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Foldixel free?
Foldixel is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Notebook Games or Foldixel have ads?
Foldixel shows ads; Notebook Games does not.
Which is updated more often, Notebook Games or Foldixel?
Notebook Games ships an update fortnightly, and Foldixel weekly. Most recently, Notebook Games was updated on October 31, 2026 and Foldixel on October 31, 2026.

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