Comparison

Limnering vs Match Attack

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

Head to head
About

Limnering

Features
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Paint one page a day. By Christmas, you will have a whole illuminated year. Limnering is a quiet, parchment styled daily puzzle that puts you in the seat of a medieval manuscript painter. Each day a fresh hand designed page appears in your studio: a saint's portrait, a giant decorative initial, a bestiary creature, a margin drollery, a biblical scene, or a Lindisfarne style carpet page. Tap a region to fill it with the pigment of your choice. Sign the page into your year long codex. Come back tomorrow for another. NEW IN 3.0 - Undo and redo every stroke. Clearing a page asks first, and Undo brings it back. - Codex backup and restore: save your whole codex (pages, gilding, journal notes, streak, pigments, achievements) to a file you keep. Restoring merges safely and keeps a copy of your codex from before the restore. - Today's Page widgets for the Home Screen and Lock Screen, a Control Center button, and Siri and Shortcuts actions: "Open today's page", "What's today's page", "Open my codex". - An optional daily reminder that stays quiet once today's page is signed. - Reduce motion, a plain reading font and high contrast outlines, and text that follows your system text size. Twelve historical pigments wait in the tray: Lapis lazuli ultramarine, the most expensive medieval pigment, reserved for the Virgin's robe. Vermillion, ground from cinnabar, the bright red of blood and royalty. Gold leaf, beaten foil burnished onto the page for haloes and the figure of Christ. Verdigris, copper acetate, beautiful and corrosive. Malachite, the safe and stable green from copper ore. Indigo, fermented from Indigofera leaves, cheaper than ultramarine. Woad, the European blue, even cheaper. Saffron, hand picked crocus stigmas, used for yellow highlights. Lead white, toxic but bright opaque, the medieval flesh ground. Bone black, charred bones, the scribe's ink and outline color. Madder lake, a cool plant red layered over warmer reds for royal robes. Orpiment, brilliant arsenic yellow, fatal to grind without ventilation. Forty hand designed patterns, grouped into six sections: Eight saint portraits with halo, robe, attribute, and flesh. Six decorative initial letters with knotwork interior and marginal vine. Eight marginalia pages: knight and snail, dancing rabbits, monkey trumpet, owl scribe, ape doctor, fox preaching, hare hunting hound, cockerel joust. Four biblical scenes in silhouette: Nativity, Annunciation, Last Supper, Crucifixion. Six bestiary creatures: unicorn, manticore, basilisk, gryphon, leviathan, pelican. Eight geometric Insular carpet pages: four corners, cross of the scribe, rosette, checker field, vesica weave, eight fold knot, star of the north, spiral quadrants. A monastic accuracy score quietly rewards you for following the iconographic conventions a medieval illuminator was taught: gold for haloes, ultramarine for Mary, malachite for foliage, lead white for flesh, vermillion for martyr's robes. A daily patron commission asks for one rule in particular. Press and hold gold leaf to burnish it to a mirror finish. Turn on Guided mode for numbered regions when you want to relax. The Scriptorium explains every rule, every pigment, and the source it would have come from. Missed a day? Open it from the Quires calendar and paint it at your own pace. Earn a Scribe's Indulgence every seven pages to protect your streak. Bind your codex as a PDF book, or share a single page as an image. There is no time pressure and no fail state. The soundtrack is generated on device: an organ drone, a lute pluck for each pigment, and a recorder line when you satisfy a rule. Limnering includes 35 achievements, stats with an accuracy heatmap, a sandbox that unlocks every pattern from the first launch, and local SwiftData storage for the codex. Everything is included in one purchase. No subscriptions. No in app purchases. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. No accounts. No third party SDKs.

About

Match Attack

Engage in roguelike match-3 combat where tile swaps trigger attacks, defense, and healing. Collect powerful relics and build game-breaking synergies across multiple chapters. Enjoy single-player, offline gameplay with no timers or energy systems.

Highlights
  • Match tiles to attack, defend, and heal
  • Create powerful tile cascades
  • Collect over 280 synergistic relics
  • Progress through three distinct chapters
  • Unlock permanent relics through runs
  • Ascension tiers for increased difficulty
Features
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Match Attack is a match-3 roguelike game where the board is your weapon! Swap tiles to make matches and watch satisfying cascades. Set up the perfect board, collect upgrades and create gamebreaking builds! - Match tiles to attack, defend, recharge and heal - Get rewarded for bigger matches with clears, empowered tiles, wildcards, and bombs - 280+ relics with synergizing mechanics - Three chapters, each with fights, elites, events, shops, rest sites, and a boss finale - Earn experience from every run to permanently unlock new relics - Ascension tiers add difficulty for uncapped replayability Single-player, fully offline. No timers, no energy. One optional in-app purchase to removes ads and support the solo developer!

Screenshots

Limnering4 screens
Match Attack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Match Attack at Free against Limnering's $2.99. Match Attack also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Limnering's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On device support 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

Match Attack is free to download; Limnering costs $2.99 up front. Match Attack sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Limnering asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Limnering ships an update every 6 days, Match Attack every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Limnering versus Match Attack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLimneringMatch Attack
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating—4.7 (19 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—19 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size8 MB111 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperRobert CorbinMichael Ip

In-app purchases

None

Limnering

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Match Attack

One-time1
  • Match Attack Remove Ads$1.99

Questions

Is Limnering free?
Limnering costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Match Attack free?
Match Attack is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Limnering or Match Attack have ads?
Match Attack shows ads; Limnering does not.
Which is updated more often, Limnering or Match Attack?
Limnering ships an update every 6 days, and Match Attack every 2 days. Most recently, Limnering was updated on October 31, 2026 and Match Attack on October 31, 2026.

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