Rastro vs Induction
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Rastro
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Who's hiding where? Read what each hider whispers and find them all. Rastro is a hide-and-seek logic game. You're the seeker: every person leaves a clue about their hiding spot, and pure deduction tells you where each one is. No luck and no guessing: every board has exactly one solution, checked. - A NEW ROUND EVERY DAY - ⢠The daily round is free and the same for everyone ⢠Three sizes: 4Ć4, 6Ć6 and 9Ć9 ⢠Keep your streak and compare times on Game Center - DRAG, JOT DOWN, UNDO - ⢠Drag each card to its hiding spot: the cells where it fits light up ⢠Notes mode: cross out with an X where nobody can be and leave colored dots where someone might be ⢠Long-press a cell for every note at once ⢠Undo, step by step, whenever you change your mind ⢠Every clue has its icon: arrows, objects and areas you read at a glance - THE TATTLETALE HAS YOUR BACK - ⢠Stuck? The Tattletale explains the next logical step and the clue behind it ⢠It never spoils the answer: it helps you reason ⢠Optional visual aid: marks the cells each person's own clues rule out - FROM THE VILLAGE TO THE CITY - ⢠The village is small and played around what's nearby: trees, benches and fountains ⢠Solve 5 rounds in the village to open the town, split into areas: the square, the park, the market ⢠Solve 10 in the town to reach the city ⢠The city has a trickster: one hider lies in every clue. Work out who before you find anyone - ON YOUR IPHONE, YOUR WAY - ⢠A widget with today's round and your streak, plus a Control Center button ⢠Ask Siri: "Play today's Rastro" ⢠Share your result: the daily without giving the board away, every other round with the solved board ⢠Game Center achievements ⢠With Apple Intelligence, whoever you find leaves you a line at the end, written on your device ⢠Saves itself and picks up where you left off, on your iPad too - FULL GAME - The daily round is free forever. One payment opens the village and the road to the city, with endless rounds and unlimited Tattletale hints. No ads. No account. No subscriptions. No tracking: your games only travel to your iCloud.
Induction
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Somewhere inside the box, lodestones are hiding. You can't see them. You can only fire probes into the machine and watch what comes out. A beam that flies straight through? Nothing in its path. A beam that never comes out? A direct hit. A beam that exits somewhere unexpected? Now you're getting somewhere. Every deflection is a clue! Induction is a pure logic deduction game in the tradition of the classic Black Box puzzle: a hidden grid, a limited set of probes, and everything solvable by reasoning alone. No luck, no timers, no move-matching. If you love Minesweeper, nonograms, or picross-style deduction, this is that same "aha!" ā with beams. HOW IT PLAYS ⢠Fire probes into the edges of a hidden grid ⢠Read the results: hits, deflections, reflections, pass-throughs ⢠Mark your deductions in the grid until you're certain ⢠Seal your answer. Clean solves and streaks are tracked. WHAT'S INSIDE ⢠Over 1,000 hand-tuned puzzles across notebook collections, from gentle on-ramp to expert codex ⢠A new Daily Challenge every day. The same puzzle for everyone, and streaks to keep ⢠A tutorial that teaches by demonstration, not walls of text ⢠Beautiful vintage-laboratory notebook style PLAYS ANYWHERE ⢠Fully playable offline (commutes, flights, dead zones) ⢠No account required. Sign in with Google or Apple only if you want your progress backed up or synced across devices ⢠Progress backup and cloud sync when signed in FAIR & FOCUSED ⢠Free, supported by ads; rewarded ads are always your choice ⢠No pay-to-win, no energy systems, no consumable nonsense ⢠Your brain is the only power-up From Connexus Digital, the makers of Connexus Puzzles. Charge the coils. Fire the probe. Find what's hiding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Induction at none against Rastro's 1. Induction also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 27.0). Rastro's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Rastro sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Induction asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rastro ships an update daily, Induction every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rastro | Induction |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Daily ā better | Every 2 days |
| Ads | No ā better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No ā better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 15.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Ruben Gonzalez | Connexus Digital, LLC |
In-app purchases
Rastro
- Full Game$0.99
Induction
No in-app purchases









