Comparison

Voidsweeper vs Brain Groove

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

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About

Voidsweeper

Features
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Fly through the planets and the void with your spaceship and grow powerful! Slay the monsters and adapt your strategy to survive the void. Compete against your friends on the quest for the highest score! VoidSweeper is a roguelike puzzle game inspired by the classic Minesweeper, featuring: - Each run is a fresh start. Challenging planets to explore. Each harder than the last - Monsters, Skills, and more to slay which give you XP and help you level up your ship - Destroy bosses you find on your way to continue your journey - Avoid the mines by using logic and strategy - Find the warp gate, and when the time is right, light-jump to the next sector - Collect stamps and compete against your friends in a global leader-board

About

Brain Groove

Engage in a fast-paced brain training experience with 12 unique games across four mental skills. Challenge yourself with 48-second rounds, daily leaderboards, and adaptive difficulty. Designed for accessibility with colorblind-safe puzzles and various support options.

Highlights
  • 12 unique brain games
  • 48-second timed rounds
  • Daily leaderboard challenges
  • Adaptive difficulty
  • Colorblind-safe design
  • Practice mode
  • Game Center integration
Features
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Four skills. Sixteen games. Forty-eight seconds. Now with friends! Brain Groove is a fast, friendly brain trainer built around one simple loop: pick a game, beat the clock, push your score. Every round is a 48-second sprint, perfect for a coffee break, a commute, or a spare minute in line. PLAY TOGETHER Challenge up to three friends to a live race. Share a room code or a link, wait until everyone's ready, and play the same four games with the same puzzles at the same moment. Scores reveal after every round, and the race ends on a podium. Pure skill, no excuses. THE DAILY GROOVE Your daily ritual: three quick sessions, each with one game from every skill, then see how your run stacks up on the daily leaderboard. A fresh challenge every day, in just a few minutes. SIXTEEN GAMES, FOUR MENTAL MUSCLES • Calculate: quick numerical reasoning under the clock. • Memorize: stretch your short-term and working memory. • Analyze: logic and deduction, one fair puzzle at a time. • Visualize: spatial reasoning and seeing what others miss. Each category packs four genuinely different puzzles, not reskins of the same mechanic. What's inside is for you to discover. FAIR BY DESIGN Every puzzle is built to be solved by skill, never luck. Defuse, our no-guessing take on Minesweeper, verifies that every board is solvable by pure logic, so you never lose to a coin flip. In a challenge, everyone gets the exact same puzzles, so the best brain wins. Difficulty adapts as you play: it ramps up when you're on a roll and eases back after a miss, keeping you in the zone. MADE FOR EVERYONE Brain Groove is colorblind-safe by design. No puzzle relies on color alone; every cue also uses shape, count, or position. Paired with clear, minimal instructions, the puzzles stay readable for every kind of vision. MORE TO LOVE • Practice mode: drill any game clock-free before you race the timer. • Game Center leaderboards: climb per game, per category, and overall. • Race notifications: know the moment a friend joins your room. • Satisfying haptics, sound, and bouncy animations that make every tap feel good. • Dark mode, Dynamic Type, reduced-motion support, and full keyboard play. • No ads getting in your way. Minimal data, never sold. Find your groove.

Screenshots

Voidsweeper4 screens
Brain Groove4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Voidsweeper at none against Brain Groove's 1. Brain Groove's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, device support and iOS requirement 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. Brain Groove sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Voidsweeper asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Voidsweeper versus Brain Groove: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVoidsweeperBrain Groove
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—2 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysEvery 2 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB34 MB
Age rating4++4
DeveloperAndre RibeiroKadir Yazgan

In-app purchases

None

Voidsweeper

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Brain Groove

One-time1
  • Brain Groove Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Voidsweeper free?
Voidsweeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Brain Groove free?
Brain Groove is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Voidsweeper or Brain Groove have ads?
Voidsweeper shows ads; Brain Groove does not.
Which is updated more often, Voidsweeper or Brain Groove?
Voidsweeper ships an update every 2 days, and Brain Groove every 2 days. Most recently, Voidsweeper was updated on October 13, 2026 and Brain Groove on October 8, 2026.

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