Comparison

Magic Merge vs Just Stack · Just Play

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

Head to head
About

Magic Merge

Engage in a relaxing merge puzzle experience where you combine items to unlock new creations and decorate a charming garden. Enjoy daily challenges, special bonuses, and a peaceful atmosphere, all playable offline.

Highlights
  • Merge items to unlock new levels
  • Decorate a cozy garden
  • Combo multipliers and chain reactions
  • Unlock permanent gameplay bonuses
  • Daily challenges and rewards
  • Global leaderboards and friend sharing
  • Offline play
Features
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Merge emojis into magic, then relax and decorate a cozy garden — a calming offline puzzle to unwind, anywhere. MERGE THE MAGIC Drag two identical items onto each other to unlock the next level — from a simple gift box all the way to a cosmic crown gift. Nine emoji lines, twelve levels each: that's 108 things to discover. COMBO & CASCADES Merge fast for combo multipliers. Hit a chain reaction — when a neighbor of the same kind triggers automatically — and feel the cosmic CHAIN ×3! ENCHANTED GARDEN Artifacts unlock buildings in a living isometric scene: rotate and zoom it with gestures, collect with a tap on the coin. Upgrade buildings up to five stars, expand the garden to 5x5, trade spare artifacts at the altar. Every building grants a permanent bonus. ORDERS AND ALBUM Lily, Root and Saffi order items right on the board — merge to fill an order and get paid on the spot. Lucky moments drop collectible cards: 36 of them in six sets, and a finished album opens the next volume. AN EVENT EVERY DAY Lily's Kitchen, Root's Grotto, Saffi's Hide and Seek, Night Fireflies and the daily Lily's Sprint. Every week brings its own themed event with rewards, and sometimes the sky drops a Starfall. DAILY CONTENT Three daily challenges (easy, normal, hard), a free spin every 24 hours, login streaks up to 7 days. Always something to come back for. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Sign in with Apple to climb the global leaderboard, add friends, and share your high score in one tap. ATMOSPHERE Magical soundtrack with four ambient tracks, satisfying haptics on every merge, surprise visitors (fireflies, shooting stars, petal rain) that drift across your screen. PRIVACY-AWARE Optional Apple Sign In with full email privacy support. Local-first save — works offline, syncs only when you're signed in. Leaderboard upload is opt-in. The game shows only non-personalized ads. Available in English, Russian, and Spanish. iPhone and iPad supported. Built with SwiftUI for iOS 17+.

About

Just Stack · Just Play

Features
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Just Stack is a quiet take on the sort puzzle — colored wooden blocks scattered across small open-top boxes. Pour the top of one box onto another. One color per box wins the level. Three small rules govern the whole game: 1. Tap a box to lift its top group; tap another box to pour. 2. The block at the bottom of the pour must match the color it lands on, unless the target box is empty. 3. Sort every box to a single color — or leave it empty — to win. That's it. The rules are small. The space they open up is not. WHAT'S INSIDE — 700 hand-rated puzzles in total, across seven difficulty tiers from gentle Beginner to honest Expert. — Campaign mode: 200 levels with a steady difficulty curve. Early levels go quickly so you find your footing; later ones stretch out for long evenings. After every win, one tap takes you to the next level. — Finish the 200? Free Play unlocks. Pick any difficulty and keep drawing from the remaining 500-puzzle library. — Played a puzzle? You won't see it again in the same tier until you've worked through it. PART OF JUST PLAY Just Stack is the fourth game in the Just Play series, after Just Sudoku, Just Puzzle, and Just Yin Yang. The series shares a single design philosophy: classic logic puzzles, rebuilt patiently, in a quiet voice. No ads, no streaks, no engagement loops. The interface stays out of the way; the puzzle does the talking. Each game looks the same on day one as it does on day one hundred. Just Stack uses the same calligraphy-paper background as Just Yin Yang, but trades black-and-white stones for deep walnut boxes holding low-saturation blocks — indigo, mustard, plum, dark green, and others. If you enjoy this one, you may also enjoy its siblings. PLAY YOUR WAY — Tap to lift, tap again to pour. No dragging needed. — Three undos per level for the moments you didn't quite plan ahead. — Restart the current level any time — never costs you anything. — No moves left? A small message tells you so. No silent stuck states. — Soft haptics that confirm your touch without shouting. PRIVACY BY DEFAULT Just Stack does not collect any personal data. It works completely offline. There is no account to create, no email to enter, no servers to talk to. Your progress lives on your device, and on iCloud if you choose to sync it. FULLY LOCALIZED Available in: English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어, Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português (Brasil), Русский, العربية. For people who love the puzzle itself.

Screenshots

Magic Merge4 screens
Just Stack · Just Play4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Just Stack · Just Play at none against Magic Merge's shown. On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Magic Merge sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Just Stack · Just Play sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Magic Merge versus Just Stack · Just Play: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagic MergeJust Stack · Just Play
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size104 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNTSAUTOSIGA LLCTwo Intelligences, Inc.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Magic Merge

One-time10
  • Pouch of Coins$0.99
  • Vial of Light$1.99
  • Handful of Boosters$1.99
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  • Chest of Coins$2.99
  • Chest of Boosters$4.99
  • Spring of Light$4.99
  • Garden Pass$6.99
  • Treasure Hoard$7.99
  • Arsenal of Boosters$7.99
  • Remove Ads$9.99
1 purchases

Just Stack · Just Play

One-time1
  • Just Stack Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Magic Merge free?
Magic Merge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Just Stack · Just Play free?
Just Stack · Just Play is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Magic Merge or Just Stack · Just Play have ads?
Magic Merge shows ads; Just Stack · Just Play does not.

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