Comparison

Twilight Grids vs Lanterns Daily

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

Head to head
About

Twilight Grids

Features
Read full description

Twilight Grids is a dual-grid logic puzzle game where every puzzle has one solution — and no guessing. Each puzzle splits into a day grid and a night grid that share clues but follow their own rules. Reading them together is the whole game. No timer, no ads mid-puzzle, no pay-to-win. Just clean deduction. CAMPAIGN Seven unlock chains teach you one mechanic at a time — row parity, island counts, light runs, split gradients, tornado constraints, twilight tiles, and snake paths. Once you've cleared them, branch into mixed 12-level chains that combine everything you've learned. Stars roll up into badges, chain tiers, and a titles ladder from Wanderer to Twilight Eternal. RACES Span races kick in mid-campaign, pacing four opponents against your progress. Active play keeps them on your tail; take a long break and they'll catch up. Finish first for badge rewards. PERKS Earn badges to unlock three perks. Extra Mistake adds buffer lives to every puzzle. Streak Saver protects a missed daily. Badge Bonus stacks on top of every completion, growing with your total badge count. ACHIEVEMENTS Twenty-plus achievements, from easy daily-streak milestones to hidden skill feats. Clean Run rewards a 12-level chain solved without a single mistake or hint. First of Many celebrates your first Infinity Mastery cycle. Twilight Sage caps the progression at 200 total badges earned. INFINITY MASTERY After you clear a GL's mastery demos, its grid sizes open for endless free play. Each cycle completes when you've earned enough 3-star solves at that size, awarding badges and pushing toward the 10x10 Master achievement. DAILY PUZZLE One new daily puzzle per day, rotating across all seven GLs. Streaks track your consistency; Streak Saver catches a missed day. QUICK PLAY Random puzzles from the full pool, plus a favorites picker for your preferred GLs and sizes. CLOUD SYNC Optional Game Center sync preserves progress across reinstalls and devices. Every chain, badge, perk, and race record backs up. PLAY ANYWHERE Puzzles generate on-device and play fully offline once installed. Optional Game Center sync keeps progress across reinstalls and devices. INFINITE PUZZLES Beyond the campaign, every grid size in Infinity Mastery has its own endless cycle of procedurally-generated puzzles. Solve as many as you want at your own pace — each cycle awards badges and pushes you toward the 10x10 Master achievement. ADS AND IAP One optional interstitial ad appears periodically between non-daily puzzle completions, with Infinity subscription available to remove it if you prefer ad-free play. Rewarded ads unlock optional hints; the daily puzzle is always ad-free in the play flow. DESIGNED FOR DEDUCTION Every puzzle is machine-verified to have exactly one solution. If you think you're stuck, you're not guessing right — the path is there. Built for solo players who enjoy sitting with a problem until it cracks.

About

Lanterns Daily

Engage your mind with five daily logic puzzles, each offering a unique challenge. Build your solving streak with a calm, ad-free experience designed for pure deduction and no guesswork.

Highlights
  • Five daily logic puzzle games
  • Guaranteed solvable by logic alone
  • Build and track daily streaks
  • Optional global leaderboards
  • Ad-free and no tracking
  • Offline puzzle generation
Features
Read full description

Five daily logic puzzles in one quiet app. Light the board, build your streak. Lanterns is a daily logic puzzle in the spirit of the Queens family of games — with a warm twist. Every day, everyone gets the same hand-built board. Place a lantern in every row, every column, and every colored region, with one simple rule: no two lanterns may touch, not even diagonally. Too close, and their light washes out. The board starts dark and blank — it's pure deduction from the very first tap. Mark embers where a lantern can't go, and if you're ever stuck, ask for a hint: it reveals the next genuinely deducible move on your board. Never a guess. THE PROMISE: NO GUESSING Every daily puzzle in every game is verified to be solvable by logic alone — a unique solution you can always reason your way to, never guess at. A lot of puzzle games skip this. We don't. If it can't be solved by deduction, it never ships. FIVE DAILY GAMES • Lanterns — one lantern per row, per column, per colored region, and none may touch • Mini Sudoku — a calm 6×6: one of each per row, column and box, in three difficulties • Skyscrapers — a 6×6 skyline: match every view from the edge • Fireflies — a 6×6 meadow: light half the swarm, no three alike in a row • Fuse — a 6×6 burn: one unbroken line through every square, passing the charges in order Each game has its own daily board, its own streak, and its own stats. Jump between them from the games hub. A DAILY RITUAL • One fresh puzzle a day in every game, the same boards for everyone • A solve timer and a streak counter that rewards showing up • A spoiler-free, emoji-grid result you can share — compare times, not solutions • A dark board that illuminates as you solve, with regions that glow when satisfied COMPETE, QUIETLY • A global daily leaderboard for Lanterns — same board for everyone, one honest ranking of solve times • A best-streak leaderboard for every one of the five games, via Game Center • Entirely optional: no sign-in required, ever — leaderboards are there when you want them and invisible when you don't CALM BY DESIGN No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No network — your puzzles are generated right on your device, and your streak and history never leave it. Just you, the board, and one good puzzle a day. HOW TO PLAY LANTERNS • Tap a cell to mark an ember ("no lantern here"); tap again to place a lantern; tap once more to clear • One lantern per row, per column, and per colored region • No two lanterns may touch, including diagonally • Light all the regions with no conflicts to win Take a breath. Light the dark.

Screenshots

Twilight Grids4 screens
Lanterns Daily4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Lanterns Daily at none against Twilight Grids's 1. Lanterns Daily also leads on ads (none vs shown). Twilight Grids's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. Twilight Grids sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Lanterns Daily asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Twilight Grids ships an update daily, Lanterns Daily weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Twilight Grids versus Lanterns Daily: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTwilight GridsLanterns Daily
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (12 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—12 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size89 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVectorWeaveDavid Price

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Twilight Grids

One-time1
  • Infinity Package$9.99
None

Lanterns Daily

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Twilight Grids free?
Twilight Grids is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lanterns Daily free?
Lanterns Daily is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Twilight Grids or Lanterns Daily have ads?
Twilight Grids shows ads; Lanterns Daily does not.
Which is updated more often, Twilight Grids or Lanterns Daily?
Twilight Grids ships an update daily, and Lanterns Daily weekly. Most recently, Twilight Grids was updated on October 31, 2026 and Lanterns Daily on November 5, 2026.

Other comparisons