Comparison

Float Five vs Tessera

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

Head to head
About

Float Five

Features
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Guess the five-letter word before your oxygen runs out! Float Five is a word-guessing puzzle with a cosmic twist. Letters float as physics-driven bubbles in a zero-gravity chamber, and every mission is a race between your vocabulary and your air supply. HOW IT WORKS • Guess the hidden 5-letter word in six tries. • Green means right letter, right spot. Yellow means right letter, wrong spot. • Win missions to earn Star Dust and Cosmic Insight, and climb the Stellar Ranks. EXPLORE THE ATLAS Chart your way across a galaxy map of word systems. Every solved word lights up a new star, complete systems to earn badges like Orbital Observer and Galactic Scholar. MISSION TOOLS Unlock and deploy tools that bend the game in your favor: • Telescope: scout a letter before you guess • Meteor: blast a wrong letter off your keyboard • Wormhole: one more try OXYGEN SYSTEM Each failed mission costs an Oxygen Bubble. Bubbles refill over time or go Zen. ZEN MODE One purchase, infinite calm: unlimited oxygen, no mission timer, no interruption ads. Just you and the words, floating forever. TWO LANGUAGES, TWO DIMENSIONS Play in English or Dutch: each language is its own dimension with its own word atlas. Every solved word comes with a short explanation, so you learn while you play. DAILY STREAKS Keep your streak alive with daily missions and watch your rank rise.

About

Tessera

This daily word puzzle game challenges you to rearrange letters on a board to form words in each row. Compete with friends on leaderboards, unlock themes, and track your progress with daily challenges.

Highlights
  • Daily new puzzles
  • Classic and Hard grid sizes
  • Share results anonymously
  • Tessera Chain puzzle ladder
  • Daily leaderboards
  • Unlockable themes
  • Light/dark/color-blind modes
Features
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Free to play, with nothing you need to buy. Every daily puzzle and every Chain level is free, and all 20 themes can be unlocked with coins you earn by playing. Purchases are optional shortcuts. Tessera is a daily word puzzle. The letters are all on the board, just in the wrong places. Swap two tiles at a time until every row spells a word, in as few moves as you can. EVERY DAY • A new puzzle each day, the same for everyone • Classic on a 4x4 grid, or Hard on 5x5 • Share your result without giving the answer away • Keep your streak going and see every solve in Your Tessera TESSERA CHAIN • A ladder of puzzles: clear a level to reach the next • Solve in fewer moves to earn up to three stars • Bonus rounds against the clock • Earn coins as you go, and spend them on hints or extra moves PLAY TOGETHER • Daily leaderboards, worldwide and in your country • Make a league with friends and see who wins each day MAKE IT YOURS • 20 themes to unlock, from Walnut Workshop to Night Drive • Try any theme free for one puzzle before you buy • Light and dark modes, and a color-blind mode • English and Spanish Tessera is free to play. Coins and the every-theme unlock are optional purchases. There are no ads unless you choose to watch one for coins.

Screenshots

Float Five4 screens
Tessera4 screens

Verdict

The call

Float Five and Tessera are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Float Five sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Tessera sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Float Five ships an update weekly, Tessera every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Float Five versus Tessera: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFloat FiveTessera
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—80.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size66 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJorne DumonCooper Banfield

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Float Five

One-time6
  • Star Dust S$0.99
  • Medium pack of Stardust$1.99
  • Remove ads$2.99
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  • Large pack of Stardust$3.99
  • Zen Mode$4.99
  • Xtra large pack of Stardust$7.99
4 purchases

Tessera

One-time4
  • 400 Coins$0.99
  • 1,000 Coins$1.99
  • 2,800 Coins$4.99
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  • Every Theme$9.99

Questions

Is Float Five free?
Float Five is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tessera free?
Tessera is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Float Five or Tessera have ads?
Both Float Five and Tessera show ads.
Which is updated more often, Float Five or Tessera?
Float Five ships an update weekly, and Tessera every 4 days. Most recently, Float Five was updated on October 31, 2026 and Tessera on November 6, 2026.

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