Comparison

Puzzle Lab vs Piecefull

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

Head to head
About

Puzzle Lab

Enjoy a peaceful jigsaw puzzle experience with customizable options. Import your own photos or choose from a gallery, select piece shapes and difficulty levels, and utilize helpful tools to complete puzzles. Features include offline play, optional ambient sounds, and daily challenges.

Highlights
  • Import personal photos
  • Classic, circle, or hexagon pieces
  • Adjustable difficulty (9-400 pieces)
  • Snap-to-fit pieces
  • Reference image overlay
  • Daily challenges
  • Offline play
Features
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Puzzle Lab is a calm, distraction-free jigsaw game. Pick one of the built-in photos or import any picture from your library, choose a shape (classic / circle / hexagon) and a difficulty (9 to 400 pieces), and drop pieces into place. Pieces snap when they're close, you can filter to just edge pieces to start with the border, and a quick tap shows the reference image whenever you're stuck. A daily challenge reseeds every day for a quick session. Optional white noise and two ambient tracks help you focus. Time, move count and 20+ achievements are saved locally. Everything is offline. No accounts, no ads, no tracking, no network. The photos you import never leave your device.

About

Piecefull

Features
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Most jigsaw apps slice the picture into equal squares. That is why the pieces over an empty sky are near-impossible and the pieces over the detailed part fall into place by themselves. Piecefull cuts where the detail actually is. Smart Cut looks at the picture before it cuts it. Busy areas break into more, smaller pieces. Flat, quiet areas stay in fewer, larger ones. Every piece ends up about equally findable, so the board has no dead corner and no cruel patch - just 48 hand-made pictures waiting as long as you need them to. SMART CUT - EVERY PIECE WORTH FINDING - The app measures how much detail sits in each part of the picture and places the cut lines to match. - Dense, colorful areas become more pieces; calm areas stay in bigger, easier ones. - The difficulty never spikes halfway through and never collapses at the end. - Prefer the classic look? Turn Smart Cut off and get a plain equal grid instead. 48 PICTURES IN 6 THEMED PACKS - Mandalas, Stained Glass, Blooms, Mosaics, Cosmos and Waves - eight pictures in each. - Two full packs are open from the very first launch. No waiting, no purchase, no trial. - The other four each open with one optional rewarded video, and then stay open forever. FROM 9 PIECES TO 300 - Choose your size in plain words, from a gentle start up to a long project. - Nine pieces is a two-minute breather. Three hundred is something you come back to for weeks. - No timer, no countdown, no lives, no score. Nothing on the screen is racing you. A BOARD THAT WAITS FOR YOU - Every board saves itself the moment you leave, right down to the clock, and reopens exactly as it was. - Put a 300-piece picture down half finished and pick it up next month with nothing lost. - Drop a piece in the wrong place and it goes quietly back to the tray, so finished work can never be knocked loose and the board never turns into a mess. ONE PICTURE A DAY, THE SAME FOR EVERYONE - A new daily picture every calendar day, identical for every player in the world. - Playable even while its pack is still closed, so there is always something new on the table. PROGRESS WORTH LOOKING AT - Puzzles finished, pieces placed, current streak and longest streak, all on one screen. - An 18-week consistency grid and weekly bars show the quiet rhythm of your sessions. - 40 achievements that reward showing up, never speed. EASY ON THE EYES BY DESIGN - Large text throughout, plus a text size control you can set to suit you. - Six board color styles and a full light or dark mode. - A faint guide image under the board when you want the help, gone with one tap when you do not. - Six languages: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese. PERFECT FOR - Long unhurried evenings with one picture and no clock anywhere. - Anyone who wants a relaxing jigsaw with large clear pieces and text they can actually read. - Coffee breaks, waiting rooms and long journeys with no signal. - Winding down before sleep, with no noise and no leaderboard shouting at you. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE - Works 100% offline. On a plane, in a basement, on a train through a tunnel - it plays the same. - No account, no login, no sign-up, no email address. Nothing you do leaves your device. - Free with ads. Rewarded video is always your choice, and only ever to open a pack you want. Pick a picture. Pick a size. Then take all the time in the world.

Screenshots

Puzzle Lab4 screens
Piecefull4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Puzzle Lab at none against Piecefull's shown. Piecefull's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). On price and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 4 level
Puzzle Lab versus Piecefull: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuzzle LabPiecefull
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeโ€”
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS18.013.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size1 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerๆ™“ ้ƒญFerran Espuna

In-app purchases

None

Puzzle Lab

No in-app purchases

None

Piecefull

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Puzzle Lab free?
Puzzle Lab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Piecefull free?
Piecefull is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Puzzle Lab or Piecefull have ads?
Piecefull shows ads; Puzzle Lab does not.

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