Potion Sort vs ScrewNut Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Potion Sort
This game offers a relaxing puzzle experience where players sort elixirs. It teaches logic, cause-and-effect, and basic science literacy through playful exploration, rewarding curiosity.
- Relaxing puzzle gameplay
- Logic and reasoning skills
- Cause-and-effect learning
- Basic science literacy
- Curiosity-driven rewards
- Single-round sessions
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Potion Sort Potion Sort is a puzzle that turns sorting into a living craft. Potion Sort is a gentle on-ramp to logic, cause-and-effect reasoning and basic science literacy. Designed for relaxed, single-round sessions, Potion Sort teaches by play, rewarding curiosity over speed and turning every elixir into a tiny, learnable system.
ScrewNut Lab
Engage in a physics-based puzzle game where you assemble mechanical components. Manipulate nuts, bolts, and tools, observing their interactions with friction, vibration, and heat to solve experiments. Focus on visual and tactile feedback to understand complex mechanical systems.
- Mechanical assembly puzzles
- Realistic physics simulation
- Friction, vibration, and heat mechanics
- Visual and tactile feedback
- Interactive rigs for experimentation
- System-based problem solving
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ScrewNut Lab ScrewNut Lab turns mechanical assembly into a hands-on physics puzzle. Enter a workshop where every nut, bolt, washer, and tool responds to friction, vibration, heat, pressure, and resonance. Observe each target, choose your equipment, operate the rig, run a test, study the clues, and refine your setup until the experiment succeeds. ScrewNut Lab favors sound, color, motion, haptic response, deformation, and traces over crowded numerical displays.Many distinct interactive rigs help observation and controlled gestures. Discover why lower resistance is not always safer, tighter is not always stronger, and the best solution comes from understanding the system.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: ScrewNut Lab at 100% against Potion Sort's 0%. ScrewNut Lab also leads on rating (3.5 vs 1.3). Potion Sort's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
ScrewNut Lab holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 11 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Potion Sort's written reviews are positive against 100% of ScrewNut Lab's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Potion Sort | ScrewNut Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (4 ratings) | 3.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 382 MB | 384 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 宇平 魏 | 佩龙 孟 |
Customer experience
Potion Sort
ScrewNut Lab
In-app purchases
Potion Sort
No in-app purchases
ScrewNut Lab
No in-app purchases
