Comparison

Ordna vs Sortlock

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

Head to head
About

Ordna

Engage in a collection of 1000 quiet, ad-free sorting puzzles. Move colored blocks to organize them by column, with unlimited undos and free restarts. Hints are available when you get stuck, and a new daily puzzle offers a unique challenge.

Highlights
  • 1000 unique sorting puzzles
  • No timers or scores
  • Unlimited undo and free restart
  • Optional hints for difficult levels
  • Daily challenge puzzles
  • Multiple visual themes
  • Offline play
Features
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Ordna is a sort puzzle — a thousand of them. Sort puzzles got loud. This one's quiet. One install, one thousand puzzles, no interruptions. THE GAME Sort coloured blocks across columns until each column holds one colour. Move a block to an empty column, or onto another block of the same colour. That's all the rules. No timer. No score. Undo is unlimited; restart is free. Difficulty climbs in stages, each step adding more colours or columns. Every puzzle has been solved by exhaustive search before it shipped — you'll never stare at an unsolvable board. The full field of a thousand is open from the start. Pick any number, in any order. Skip the ones that don't land. WHEN YOU GET STUCK Hit a wall, and a hint appears — no shame, no charge. It shows the next optimal move and then gets out of the way. THE DAILY A new puzzle, daily. Same one for everyone, no hints — same test, same day. Some days easy, some days a knot. WHAT'S INSIDE · 1000 puzzles, deterministically numbered (your puzzle #347 is everyone's puzzle #347) · Multiple visual themes, from a muted everyday palette to painterly illustrated blocks · iCloud progress sync across your devices · Available in over 30 languages · Designed for iOS 26, built natively in SwiftUI · Fully offline — no account, no login, no internet required THE BUSINESS Free. No ads, no gems, no catch. Themes change how Ordna looks, never how it plays. If you like the game, chip in once and unlock every theme — that's the whole business model. Analytics are anonymous and EU-hosted (TelemetryDeck). No personal data, no third-party trackers. THE MAKER Built by an independent developer in Sweden. Feedback comes through email or App Store reviews — the old-fashioned way. Sort, solve, set down. Pick it up again when you want to.

About

Sortlock

Features
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Sortlock is a colour-sort puzzle with a brain. Pour balls between flasks until each flask holds a single colour — the satisfying sort you already love. The twist: some balls are hidden under a "?", and you have to DEDUCE their colour before you move. No guessing, no luck — just clean logic. Every board is built by a solver that guarantees exactly one logical solution, so a hidden ball can always be worked out from the clues: colour counts, flask rules and the balls you've already revealed. Think Sort × Minesweeper × Mastermind, in one calm puzzle. HOW TO PLAY • Tap a flask, then another, to pour the top ball across. • Make every flask a single colour to solve the board. • Some balls are hidden ("?") — read the clues and deduce their colour. • Every level is guaranteed solvable by logic alone. WHY IT'S DIFFERENT • A real deduction layer — not another mindless tap-sorter. • Adaptive difficulty keeps you in the zone: the engine learns your pace and tunes colours, hidden balls and empty flasks to you. • Endless, always-solvable content — boards are generated on the fly, never a dead end. • Colour-blind friendly: every colour also shows a letter (R/B/G/Y…); hidden is "?". A BOARD FOR THE WHOLE WORLD • One shared Daily Board every day — the exact same puzzle for everyone. • Climb the daily ranking: fewest moves, then fastest time. • No spoilers — share a clean result card and a unique link to your run. ECHO DUELS — DEDUCTION, HEAD TO HEAD • Race a rival's "echo": an asynchronous replay of how someone else cracked today's board. • Get matched to your skill, or challenge a friend with a 6-character code. • Win on fewer moves and tighter reasoning — no real-time servers needed. CALM BY DESIGN • No timers on normal play, no pressure, no dark patterns. • Plays fully offline — the daily board and duels are the only online extras. • Free to play: no ads and no in-app purchases in this version. Sortlock is made for quiet, thoughtful moments: a coffee break, a commute, or winding down before bed. Sort blind, think it through, and find your flow. Privacy Policy: https://sortlock.shurco.app/privacy Terms of Use: https://sortlock.shurco.app/terms

Screenshots

Ordna4 screens
Sortlock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Ordna at none against Sortlock's shown. Sortlock's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Ordna sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sortlock sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ordna ships an update every 3 weeks, Sortlock every 11 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Ordna versus Sortlock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrdnaSortlock
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 11 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB30 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperGreat Scott ABDmitry Shurco

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Ordna

One-time1
  • Ordna Supporter$4.99
3 purchases

Sortlock

One-time3
  • Pack Small$0.99
  • Pack Medium$2.99
  • Pack Large$4.99

Questions

Is Ordna free?
Ordna is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sortlock free?
Sortlock is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ordna or Sortlock have ads?
Sortlock shows ads; Ordna does not.
Which is updated more often, Ordna or Sortlock?
Ordna ships an update every 3 weeks, and Sortlock every 11 days. Most recently, Ordna was updated on October 24, 2026 and Sortlock on October 16, 2026.

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