Comparison

Jigsaw Puzzles vs StringFusor

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

Head to head
About

Jigsaw Puzzles

Enjoy a calming jigsaw puzzle experience with no interruptions. Choose from a vast library of beautiful puzzles or create your own from personal photos. Features adjustable difficulty and intuitive controls for a seamless gameplay.

Highlights
  • No ads or upsells
  • Custom photo puzzles
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Themed puzzle packs
  • Pan and zoom functionality
  • Auto-save progress
  • Haptic feedback
Features
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Jigsaw Puzzles: No Ads is exactly what it sounds like. No ads. No upsells. No accounts. No tracking. Just a calming, beautifully crafted jigsaw game with bold colors, tactile piece feel, and the right amount of challenge. Pick from a curated library of gorgeous puzzle packs, or turn your own photos into puzzles with a single tap. Every piece has a hand-tuned cardboard bevel, soft drop shadows, and a satisfying snap when it locks into place. Features • Multiple difficulties from quick 4-piece warmups to 625-piece marathons • Hundreds of curated puzzle images across multiple themed packs • Turn any photo from your library into a custom puzzle • Optional rotated pieces for an extra challenge • Edge filter to focus on building the border first • Smart hints when you need a nudge • Pan and zoom the board to work on any region at full detail • Reference-image peek for when you want to check your progress • Auto-save resumes every puzzle exactly where you left off • Celebratory fireworks when you finish the border and the full puzzle • Sound toggle and haptic piece feedback Jigsaw Puzzles: No Ads is designed to feel great on every device, from iPhone to iPad. Pieces scale to the screen, the tray accelerates so you can scrub through long piece lists quickly, and the board is pinch-to-zoom so even 625-piece puzzles stay precise. Perfect for • Unwinding at the end of the day • A relaxed brain-teaser on a commute • Quiet time with kids (4-piece and 25-piece modes are kid-friendly) • Turning vacation photos into a keepsake puzzle No ads. No pushy upsells. Just puzzles.

About

StringFusor

Features
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Strings of colored energy fall into a reactor. Fuse them into patterns and release what they hold. StringFusor is a color-matching puzzle in the classic falling-piece family, rebuilt around one idea: patterns you can AIM for. Beyond rows and columns lies a book of named fusion patterns — THE BLOCK, THE ZIGZAG, THE X — each with a measured difficulty and a real payout. You are never matching by accident; you are hunting a shape you chose. TWO WAYS TO PLAY EXPERIMENT is the self-directed game. Choose your target pattern, set your own dials — how many colors, how long the strings — and the reactor pays you for difficulty honestly: harder hunts, bigger energy. When you outgrow the pattern book, the forge offers shapes designed by the game itself — symmetric, provably buildable, and never seen before. Skip what you like; the chooser is never a dead end. PROGRESSION is the shared game. Every day, one board, one seed, one bonus target — identical for every player on Earth. Same strings, same order, pure play. Your best lands on that day's leaderboard, and tomorrow is a fresh start for everyone at once. New here? A short optional ORIENTATION teaches the six easiest patterns on a fixed board, and its own leaderboard ranks your cleanest run. BUILT CALM ON PURPOSE No timers — think as long as you want. Unlimited undo — every move can come back. No ads, ever. Nothing pulses, nags, or flashes at you: the reactor hums, the planet turns, the strings fall when you say so. Every button carries a small accessibility feature: a tap filter tuned to the frequency of a resting hand tremor, so an unsteady hand registers one clean press — designed in from the start, not bolted on. REPLAY any run move by move. Watch the DEMO play itself when you would rather study than fuse. Compete on Game Center, or never sign in at all. ONE HONEST PRICE All of PROGRESSION — the daily board, the orientation, replays, and its leaderboard — is free, forever. A single one-time unlock opens the full EXPERIMENT track: the dials, the pattern chooser, the forge, and its leaderboard. No subscription. No ads. No consumables. Try EXPERIMENT free once per day before deciding. GIVING 2.5% of the net profit from halfmarble's software will go directly to support Team Fox, the grassroots fundraising program of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research. halfmarble is an independent Team Fox third-party fundraiser. 2.5% to Public Health Collaboration (PHC) - https://phcuk.org/ StringFusor is a halfmarble game.

Screenshots

Jigsaw Puzzles4 screens
StringFusor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: StringFusor at 18.6 against Jigsaw Puzzles's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Jigsaw Puzzles sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and StringFusor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Jigsaw Puzzles versus StringFusor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterJigsaw PuzzlesStringFusor
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (92 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings92 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael HollowayHaalfMaarble LLC

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Jigsaw Puzzles

One-time9
  • Beach Pack 1$0.99
  • Dogs Pack 1$0.99
  • Cats Pack 1$0.99
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  • Flowers Pack 1$0.99
  • Lakes Pack 1$0.99
  • Animals Pack 1$0.99
  • Dogs Pack 2$0.99
  • Reefs Pack 1$0.99
  • Unicorns Pack 1$0.99
1 purchases

StringFusor

One-time1
  • Fusion Core$4.99

Questions

Is Jigsaw Puzzles free?
Jigsaw Puzzles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is StringFusor free?
StringFusor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Jigsaw Puzzles or StringFusor have ads?
Neither Jigsaw Puzzles nor StringFusor shows ads.

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