Comparison

ClaypathAYP vs Chroma Map Lock

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

Head to head
About

ClaypathAYP

A logic puzzle game where you slide paths to clear the board. Plan your moves carefully to avoid hitting arrows and losing hearts. Enjoy a relaxing, offline experience with a charming clay aesthetic.

Highlights
  • Arrow path sliding puzzles
  • 20 handcrafted levels
  • Hints, grid lines, zoom, restart
  • Stars, coins, and achievements
  • Light & dark themes
  • Offline play
  • No ads or account required
Features
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ClayPathAYP is an arrow puzzle game with a warm clay look. Tap a path and it slides off the board — hit another arrow and you lose a heart. Clear every path in the right order to win. Levels start simple, then grow into dense grids that reward careful planning. Replay for perfect 3-star runs, or take your time and enjoy the solve. FEATURES • 20 handcrafted levels • Hints, grid lines, zoom & restart • Stars, coins, and 12 achievements • Light & dark themes, sound & haptics • Fully offline — no ads, no account Your progress stays on your device. One finger, pure logic. Feedback welcome in-app.

About

Chroma Map Lock

Features
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Chroma Map Lock turns any photo into a puzzle built from your own memory. Upload a picture from your gallery. The game immediately strips every colour out of it, reducing it to a greyscale edge map — a sketch made of boundaries and shapes. Sky meeting horizon. Face meeting background. Shadow falling across a wall. The structure of your photo, intact. The colour, gone. Below the sketch, eight colour swatches appear. These are not random colours. They are extracted from your photo by a clustering algorithm that analyses every pixel and finds the eight most representative colour groups. The dominant palette of your image, distilled to eight squares, displayed in shuffled order. The task: place each swatch back into the correct region of the sketch. Select a swatch and tap anywhere on the greyscale image. If the region you tapped belongs to that colour, the entire region simultaneously reveals its original pixels in full colour — that area of your photo lights up exactly as it was. If you are wrong, the tapped region flashes red for a moment, showing you its full shape and extent. That flash is information: you now know what region that colour belongs to, even if you do not yet know which swatch it matches. The game ends when all eight colours are correctly placed and your photo has been rebuilt from its skeleton. The final image matches the original exactly, because every pixel was always still there — just hidden under the greyscale until you found where each colour belonged. The difficulty is entirely personal. A landscape with clear sky, ground, and water is straightforward — the clusters divide neatly along the shapes you can see in the sketch. A portrait against a complex background is harder — the algorithm might find three similar skin tones as separate swatches, and distinguishing them requires remembering which parts of the face catch the light. A market scene or a forest is harder still — many colours of similar brightness, indistinguishable in greyscale, each needing to be placed by reasoning about what object occupies that shape. Your memory of your own photo is the advantage the game gives you. You know what colour the jacket was. You know what the sky looked like that afternoon. You know which wall was painted white and which was painted cream. The player who remembers their photo well will score better than the player who does not. The puzzle rewards attention. A daily curated image is available for players who want a common puzzle: a painting, a photograph, a natural landscape. The daily puzzle is the same for every player, and scores are shared. Your photo never leaves your device. All processing happens locally.

Screenshots

ClaypathAYP4 screens
Chroma Map Lock4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Chroma Map Lock at every 2 days against ClaypathAYP's fortnightly. ClaypathAYP's advantage is iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ClaypathAYP ships an update fortnightly, Chroma Map Lock every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
ClaypathAYP versus Chroma Map Lock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterClaypathAYPChroma Map Lock
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (13 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings13 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB11 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperCaesar DarwinLieke Schreurs

In-app purchases

None

ClaypathAYP

No in-app purchases

None

Chroma Map Lock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is ClaypathAYP free?
ClaypathAYP is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chroma Map Lock free?
Chroma Map Lock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do ClaypathAYP or Chroma Map Lock have ads?
Neither ClaypathAYP nor Chroma Map Lock shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ClaypathAYP or Chroma Map Lock?
ClaypathAYP ships an update fortnightly, and Chroma Map Lock every 2 days. Most recently, ClaypathAYP was updated on September 15, 2026 and Chroma Map Lock on September 20, 2026.

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