Comparison

Stack Order vs Patch Switchboard Daily

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

Head to head
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Stack Order

Features
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Welcome to a world filled with flowers! Run your own cozy flower shop! It’s fun and strategic. Pay close attention to what customers want. Maybe yellow roses, or cute succulents. You’ll need to get them ready. Tap and drag cards with the same flowers. Stack them together. Collect the flowers and give them to customers. Earn lots of coins! As your shop grows, unlock more slots. Use helpful tools like “Refresh” and “Wild Cards.” They’ll help you with harder orders. Features: Relaxing and cozy: A cute flower shop theme. Beautiful art and bright flowers make you feel good. Sorting and running a shop: It’s satisfying to stack and sort cards. It’s also fun to make customers happy. Easy to play, anytime: Lots of levels to play. Many flowers to find. Short rounds let you play anywhere. Practice your logic skills! Start your own flower shop today!

About

Patch Switchboard Daily

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A vintage telephone switchboard, a grid of brass jacks, and one clean way to wire it. Patch is a daily connect-the-callers puzzle. Colored caller pairs sit in jacks on a small board, and your job as operator is to drag a jewel-colored cord from each jack to its partner. But there's a catch: the cords may not cross or share a socket, and when you're done every single jack on the board must be covered. It's a flow puzzle that has to fill the whole board. Every daily is built solution-first: the board is carved into a set of non-crossing cord paths that tile the grid, and only then are the path ends turned into caller jacks. Because a complete wiring already exists by construction, the board is ALWAYS solvable — and par is the number of caller pairs, one clean cord each. Wire it in par and the day logs under par. As the week goes on the boards get meaner: mid-week they grow and start sprouting SEALED jacks — out-of-service sockets marked with an X that no cord may route through, so you have to wire around the dead spots. From Thursday the exchange also clips on PINNED jacks: live sockets locked to a single caller's color. Only that caller's cord may pass through a pin, which prunes the easy alternate wirings and forces real deduction. By Sunday it's a dense 6×6 pocked with sealed sockets and pins. And once the daily is cleared, clock in for the NIGHT SHIFT: a timed gauntlet of escalating boards. You start with two minutes on the shift clock; every board you patch buys back time and deals a harder line — bigger grids, sealed sockets, pinned jacks — until the clock runs out. Calls patched pay brass tokens, a new best pays double, and your best shift goes in the operator's log. Clearing boards pays BRASS TOKENS, and tokens buy the Collection: eight cord palettes (from the house jewels to a neon exchange to the Moonlit Shift) and five board finishes (walnut, oxblood, verdigris and more). You choose what to unlock first and which set to run — a whole switchboard you dress the way you like. There is exactly one board a day, the same for everyone, with a spoiler-free share card and a streak to protect. Once today's board is cleared, work as many random practice boards as you like. • A fresh hand-generated switchboard every day, the same for everyone • Drag jewel cords between brass jacks; no crossing, no sharing a socket • Fill every jack — a flow puzzle that must tile the live board • Sealed dead jacks on later boards you must route your cords around • Pinned jacks late in the week — live sockets only one caller's cord may use • NIGHT SHIFT — a timed gauntlet of escalating boards with its own best-shift record • Generation-first: every board is provably solvable, with a real par • Difficulty ramps 5×5 open early week to a dense, sealed-and-pinned 6×6 by Sunday • Earn brass tokens and collect eight cord palettes and five board finishes • Climb the operator ranks from Trainee to Night Legend • Streaks, an operator's log of your record, and a spoiler-free share card • Endless random practice boards after the daily • Fully offline, no account, nothing collected Work the board.

Screenshots

Stack Order4 screens
Patch Switchboard Daily4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Patch Switchboard Daily at none against Stack Order's 2. Stack Order's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Stack Order sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Patch Switchboard Daily asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stack Order ships an update weekly, Patch Switchboard Daily every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Stack Order versus Patch Switchboard Daily: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStack OrderPatch Switchboard Daily
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size179 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGloryway PuzzleJordan Wegner

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Stack Order

One-time2
  • NoAds$7.99
  • Ad Free Pack$12.99
None

Patch Switchboard Daily

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Stack Order free?
Stack Order is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Patch Switchboard Daily free?
Patch Switchboard Daily is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Stack Order or Patch Switchboard Daily have ads?
Neither Stack Order nor Patch Switchboard Daily shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stack Order or Patch Switchboard Daily?
Stack Order ships an update weekly, and Patch Switchboard Daily every 3 months. Most recently, Stack Order was updated on October 7, 2026 and Patch Switchboard Daily on October 16, 2026.

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