FolkloreFieldGuide vs SortSafe
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FolkloreFieldGuide
Engage in a daily text-deduction game where you analyze clues from town reports to identify cryptids. Build your reputation as an investigator and uncover larger mysteries through connected story arcs. The game is free to play with optional ads.
- Daily cryptid mysteries
- Text-based clue analysis
- Reputation and streak system
- Connected story arcs
- Unlockable field guide entries
- One-time purchase for ad removal and extras
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A new cryptid mystery every day. Folklore Field Guide is a cozy text-deduction game — read the town's tip-line report, weigh the clues, and name the creature behind the sighting. DEDUCE, DON'T SEARCH - Each day brings a new sighting: a track shape, a strange sound, the time of day, the weather, a smell on the wind - Cross-reference the clues against the entries in your field guide - Narrow the suspects and name the cryptid — Bigfoot, Mothman, the Jersey Devil, Chupacabra, Nessie and more BUILD YOUR REPUTATION - Wrong guesses cost you reputation, so deduce carefully - Keep a daily streak going and rise from curious local to trusted investigator UNCOVER THE BIGGER MYSTERY - Daily reports connect into multi-week story arcs and regional mysteries - Unlock field-guide entries as you encounter new creatures CRYPTOZOOLOGIST'S PASS — ONE-TIME PURCHASE Unlock the Pass once and keep it forever: remove ads, the full annotated field guide, extra clue reveals, and the story-arc archive with advanced stats. No subscription. Folklore Field Guide is free to play and supported by ads; remove them anytime with the one-time Pass. Grab your notebook. The woods are talking.
SortSafe
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Every color has its own shape, so you can sort by color, by shape, or both. SortSafe is a calm water-sort puzzle you can play without telling colors apart, with full VoiceOver support. All 1,000 levels are checked by a solver, and every level has a par to beat. ■ How to play ・Tap a bottle, then tap another to pour ・Pour onto the same color or into an empty bottle. Each bottle holds 4 units ・Sort every color into its own bottle to clear the level ■ Color and shape, together ・All 12 colors carry their own symbol: red circle, orange triangle, yellow star, lime square, green diamond, teal heart, sky plus, blue hexagon, purple moon, pink bolt, brown club, silver spade ・Symbols are always shown, faintly, so they never get in the way ・Turn on Bold symbols to make them large and strong ・Bold symbols switch on automatically when Differentiate Without Color is on in iOS Settings ■ Made for VoiceOver and larger text ・Full VoiceOver support: each bottle reads its contents from top to bottom, for example "Bottle 3: 2 Red circle, 1 Blue hexagon, 1 space left" ・Built to hold up at larger Dynamic Type sizes ■ Every level can be solved ・1,000 levels, each machine-generated and verified by a solver ・Every level shows a Par: the move count the solver found. Clear it and compare, like "You 14 moves / Par 12" ・If SortSafe detects that the level has no solution, it shows "No way forward". You can use Undo or Restart ■ Nothing in the way ・Your level waits at the top of the home screen. Replay any cleared level from the list ・No timers, no lives, no online features, nothing to collect ・Undo is free with no ads, as many times as you like. +1 empty bottle is available by watching an ad ・Full-screen ads appear at most once every three cleared levels, at least 3 minutes apart ・A one-time Remove Ads purchase turns off full-screen and banner ads and makes +1 empty bottle free
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Verdict
FolkloreFieldGuide and SortSafe are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. FolkloreFieldGuide sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and SortSafe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | FolkloreFieldGuide | SortSafe |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Christian Pedersen | Kenji Ido |
In-app purchases
FolkloreFieldGuide
- Folklore Field Guide Lifetime$4.99
SortSafe
- Remove Ads$2.99
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