Loops vs Untangle by Ocular Braid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Loops
This logic puzzle game challenges you to draw a single, unbroken loop on a grid. Numbers indicate how many sides of adjacent cells the loop uses. It offers a relaxing experience with multiple art styles and an original soundtrack.
- Draw a single loop on a dotted grid
- Numbers indicate loop usage on adjacent sides
- Eight hand-made visual styles
- Original soundtrack with 33 calm pieces
- Interactive lessons and ranking system
- Daily puzzles with streaks and leaderboards
- Offline play
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Close the loop. Loops is Slitherlink — the classic logic puzzle from Japan — built for iPhone and iPad with eight hand-made styles and an original soundtrack of calm music. No ads, no subscription: start free, unlock everything with one purchase. HOW IT WORKS Draw a single loop along the dotted grid. Each number tells you how many of its sides the loop uses. The loop never crosses itself and never branches. That’s the whole rulebook: every puzzle has exactly one solution, and you reach it by logic, not by guessing. NEW IN LOOPS • Pentagons — a fifth shape: 250 puzzles on the Cairo tiling, an irregular lattice that makes familiar patterns feel new. • Eight hand-made styles, each a world of its own with its own paper, ink, sounds and music — washi and vermilion, brush strokes on rice paper, sepia parchment, pure ink, newsprint with blue pencil, Czech folk indigo, sage atelier and carbon with gold. • An original soundtrack of 33 calm pieces — piano, koto, shakuhachi and temple bowls, and music written for each style, from lute and jazz piano to cimbalom and cello. Every style also draws with its own sound: a brush on rice paper, a quill on parchment, a pencil on newsprint, needle and thread on linen. • The Dojo — 14 interactive lessons, from your first zero to master-level reasoning. Watch the rule, then find the move yourself on a real board. • Ranks — climb from 10 kyu to 7 dan. Harder puzzles, clean solves and new shapes are worth more. • Hints that catch mistakes — if a line of yours is wrong, the hint shows you where before anything else. • Widgets for your Home and Lock Screen — today’s puzzle and your streak at a glance. WHAT’S INSIDE • 1,250 puzzles, each with exactly one solution, in five shapes — squares, hexagons, triangles, diamonds and pentagons — and five difficulties, from a five-minute warm-up to Master. • A new daily puzzle, with streaks that forgive one missed day, a gentle reminder and a daily leaderboard. • Draw by dragging. One finger is the pen; hold an edge or switch the pen to mark a cross. Pinch to zoom on the big boards. • Zen mode hides the clock and every button. Just you and the loop. • Your collection: every loop you close stays in the gallery, with badges for streaks, clean solves and Master levels. • Undo and redo, smart crosses, pen colors, sound and haptics, detailed statistics — and iCloud sync between your iPhone and iPad. FREE TO START Download Loops and play 29 career puzzles — squares, hexagons and a first taste of pentagons — 3 daily puzzles, the whole Dojo and two styles. Hints, ranks, zen mode, widgets and the collection are included. No ads, ever. THE FULL GAME — ONE PURCHASE Unlock everything once: all 1,250 puzzles in five shapes, the daily puzzle every day plus the whole archive, all eight styles and every shape we add in the future. No subscription, no ads, no tricks — yours for good, and restorable on all your devices. MADE IN PRAGUE BY ONE PERSON Loops is an independent game, designed and built by a single developer in Prague who loves logic puzzles. No team, no ad networks, no tracking — a puzzle game made the way good puzzle games used to be made. If you enjoy sudoku, nonograms, kakuro or a quiet ten minutes with a pencil, you will feel at home.
Untangle by Ocular Braid
A serene puzzle game where you untangle lines on a board by carefully choosing the order of their removal. Offers multiple difficulty levels and a calming aesthetic with original music. Play offline without accounts or ads.
- Line untangling gameplay
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Calming original music
- Offline play
- No ads or analytics
- Themed worlds and line skins
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Untangle is a comfortable puzzle game about clearing a tangled board one line at a time. Tap a line and its head leads the way off the edge, the rest following the path the head takes. Send every line off without crossing a line that is still there. That is the whole rule. The levels get denser, and the order you choose is the puzzle. Three difficulties: Easy, Relaxed, and Hard, each with 3,000 levels. Relaxed is the default. Hard keeps your best times on your device, so the only person you are measured against is you. Fourteen themes, four of them free from first launch. A theme refreshes the palette and the art. Skins are a smaller change: swap the look of the lines, keep the theme. Twenty-five original tracks play on a shuffle. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, and it plays offline. Untangle collects nothing about you. A missed exit costs a heart, hearts come back on their own while you are away, and Unlimited Lives is available as a pass that does not renew or as a subscription, if you would rather not wait. Adjustable cell size, separate music and effects volume, a reduce-audio setting, and haptics you can switch off. Made for iPhone and iPad, by Ocular Braid. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS Unlimited Lives subscriptions are US$3.99 for one month, US$9.99 for three months, or US$19.99 for one year. Unlimited Lives passes are one-time purchases that do not renew: US$0.99 for 24 hours, US$1.99 for one week, US$2.99 for two weeks. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. A subscription renews automatically for the same period at the same price unless you cancel at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Your Apple Account is charged for renewal within 24 hours before the period ends. Manage or cancel a subscription in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.ocularbraid.com/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://www.ocularbraid.com/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Loops at every 4 days against Untangle by Ocular Braid's fortnightly. On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Loops sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Untangle by Ocular Braid sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Loops ships an update every 4 days, Untangle by Ocular Braid fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Loops | Untangle by Ocular Braid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 102 MB | 286 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DAVID GREBEN | Ocular Braid |
Customer experience
Loops
Untangle by Ocular Braid
In-app purchases
Loops
- Loops Premium (intro)$5.99
- Loops Premium$9.99
Untangle by Ocular Braid
- Skin Pack — Sweet Treats$1.99
- Skin Pack — Night Sky$1.99
- Theme Pack — Christmas$2.99
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- Theme Pack — Hanukkah$2.99
- Theme Pack — Lunar New Year$2.99
- Theme Pack — Candy$2.99
- Theme Pack — Linen$2.99
- Skin Packs (Sweet and Night packs)$2.99
- 3 Theme Bundle 1$5.99
- Mega Theme Bundle 1$17.99
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