Comparison

Loops vs Untangle by Ocular Braid

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

Head to head
About

Loops

Engage in a daily loop logic puzzle game that sharpens your mind. Enjoy a beautifully crafted, ad-free experience with multiple difficulty levels and offline play. Unlock all content with a single purchase.

Highlights
  • Daily new logic puzzles
  • Five difficulty tiers
  • Hints that teach techniques
  • Ad-free and distraction-free
  • Offline play, no account needed
  • One-time purchase for full unlock
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A new logic puzzle every day. Beautifully made. No ads, ever. Loops is a calm, premium puzzle game built around Slitherlink — the loop logic puzzle from Japan, beloved by puzzle fans for over thirty years and now reimagined for iPhone and iPad. The rules are simple. The grid hides one perfect loop. The numbers tell you how many of their four sides belong to it. Connect the dots, follow the clues, and find the only path that works. Every puzzle has exactly one solution. No guessing. No luck. Just clean, satisfying deduction — and that small, perfect "click" when the loop closes. TRAIN YOUR BRAIN, ONE LOOP AT A TIME Loops is a logic workout disguised as a beautiful little app. Solving it trains pattern recognition, working memory, spatial reasoning, and patience — the same mental muscles you flex with sudoku, crosswords, and chess puzzles. Ten quiet minutes a day is enough to feel sharper. WHAT MAKES LOOPS DIFFERENT • A new puzzle every day, free forever — hand-curated, never random. • Five difficulty tiers — from gentle five-minute warm-ups to Master puzzles that take a week. • Hints that teach — instead of revealing the answer, Loops explains the technique you missed. • Built like a real app — typography, haptics, sound, and motion crafted for focus. • Zero distractions — no ads, no pop-ups, no notifications begging you to come back. • Truly offline — play anywhere, no account required, no tracking. PERFECT IF YOU LOVE Sudoku · Wordle · daily logic puzzles · nonograms (Picross) · crosswords · Knotwords · Mahjong · Mini Metro · Monument Valley · or simply ten focused minutes a day. Never tried a loop puzzle before? Loops is built to teach you. The three-minute onboarding has no walls of text and no tutorials to skip — you'll solve your first puzzle by the end of it, and your brain will thank you. FREE FOREVER • A new daily puzzle every day, with Easy and Medium difficulties fully unlocked. • Five generated puzzles per day to keep you sharp. • Pencil marks, unlimited undo, and a mistake checker — always free. • Streak tracking, full statistics, and iCloud sync across all your devices. • Beautiful dark mode and accessibility-grade contrast. UNLOCK EVERYTHING — ONCE A single one-time purchase unlocks: • Every difficulty: Hard, Expert, and Master. • Unlimited generated puzzles. Never run out. • The full daily archive — every puzzle since launch. • All themes, including the hand-drawn Czech Folk theme. • Unlimited hints and lifetime mastery stats. One payment. Yours forever. No subscriptions, no ads, no dark patterns. FROM THE NIKOLI TRADITION Slitherlink — also called Fences, Takegaki, or Loop the Loop — was created by the legendary Nikoli puzzle house in Japan in 1989. Loops carries that tradition forward with the craft of a modern iOS app. MADE WITH CARE BY ONE INDEPENDENT CZECH DEVELOPER No team. No ad networks. No data harvesting. Just one developer trying to make the puzzle app he always wanted to play. Buy once, own forever, like apps used to be.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Line untangling gameplay
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Calming original music
  • Offline play
  • No ads or analytics
  • Themed worlds and line skins
Features
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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

Screenshots

Loops4 screens
Untangle by Ocular Braid4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Loops at daily against Untangle by Ocular Braid's every 2 weeks. 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Loops ships an update daily, Untangle by Ocular Braid every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Loops versus Untangle by Ocular Braid: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLoopsUntangle by Ocular Braid
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—3 — better
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size38 MB286 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDAVID GREBENOcular Braid

Customer experience

Loops

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Untangle by Ocular Braid

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Loops

One-time2
  • Loops Premium (intro)$5.99
  • Loops Premium$9.99
10 purchases

Untangle by Ocular Braid

One-time10
  • 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

Questions

Is Loops free?
Loops is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Untangle by Ocular Braid free?
Untangle by Ocular Braid is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Loops or Untangle by Ocular Braid have ads?
Neither Loops nor Untangle by Ocular Braid shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Loops or Untangle by Ocular Braid?
Loops ships an update daily, and Untangle by Ocular Braid every 2 weeks. Most recently, Loops was updated on October 6, 2026 and Untangle by Ocular Braid on October 15, 2026.

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