Comparison

Zoo sorting vs Tail Out

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

Head to head
About

Zoo sorting

Features
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Zoo Sorting is a relaxing animal puzzle game full of adorable zoo animals, satisfying sorting gameplay, special challenges, and hundreds of levels to complete. HOW TO PLAY • Tap animals from their enclosures and move them into the tray • Match 3 identical animals to clear them • Complete the level by sorting all animals • Plan carefully: the tray only has 7 slots • Use helpful boosters when you get stuck FEATURES • 999 puzzle levels to complete • 30+ adorable zoo animals including pandas, lions, giraffes, penguins, crocodiles, and more • Increasing difficulty with timer-based challenges • Ocean Survival: an endless challenge where every match keeps you alive longer • Easy, Normal, and Hardcore difficulty modes in Ocean Survival • 7-Day Daily Rewards with increasingly valuable prizes • Option to double eligible daily rewards by watching a rewarded ad • Lucky Spin with coins, cash, boosters, and other rewards • Watch an optional rewarded ad to spin the Lucky Wheel • Helpful boosters: Shuffle, Remove 3, and Skip Level • Coins and cash to earn and spend • Cloud save to help keep your progress • Optional haptic feedback • Sound and music settings Sort, match, collect rewards, and see how far you can go!

About

Tail Out

Features
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Every rope on the board wants out. You decide which way it goes. Tail Out is a quiet logic puzzle about pulling things free. Drop an arrow on the end of a rope and the rope threads out head first, following the direction you gave it — every cell behind it stepping into the one in front. Clear the board and the level is solved. It sounds simple because it is. Then the board fills up, and the order starts to matter. HOW TO PLAY • Drag an arrow onto the end of a rope. • The rope leaves head first, the way the arrow points. • Ropes block ropes. Arrows waiting on the board block them too. • Clear every rope with the arrows you were given. An end takes an arrow from three sides — the only direction it refuses is back into its own body. So there is nearly always another way out. Finding the order is the whole puzzle. WHEN YOU GET STUCK • Undo — step back through your moves, as far as you like. • Hint — one rope and one arrow light up. You still play the move. • Replace — the arrows are dealt again, and the board can always be finished afterwards. • Eraser — take a rope and its arrow off together. Boosters never solve the level for you. They give you a board worth thinking about again. MADE TO BE THOUGHT ABOUT • No timer. Take an hour on one board if you want to. • Hand-made levels, each one checked by a solver — you will never be handed a board that cannot be cleared. • Paper and ink: a white board, grey lattice dots, black rope. Nothing blinking for attention. • Plays offline, one hand, anywhere. A puzzle where the answer was always there and you just had not seen it yet — that is the feeling this game is built around. No luck, no hidden information, no move you could not have worked out. Pull one rope. Then the next one.

Screenshots

Zoo sorting4 screens
Tail Out4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tail Out at none against Zoo sorting's 3. Tail Out also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Zoo sorting sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Tail Out asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Zoo sorting ships an update every 2 weeks, Tail Out every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Zoo sorting versus Tail Out: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterZoo sortingTail Out
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size129 MB197 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVeronika SpinarovaGAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Zoo sorting

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • 500 Coins$2.99
  • Starter Pack$2.99
None

Tail Out

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Zoo sorting free?
Zoo sorting is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tail Out free?
Tail Out is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Zoo sorting or Tail Out have ads?
Both Zoo sorting and Tail Out show ads.
Which is updated more often, Zoo sorting or Tail Out?
Zoo sorting ships an update every 2 weeks, and Tail Out every 4 days. Most recently, Zoo sorting was updated on October 10, 2026 and Tail Out on October 13, 2026.

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