Star Battle vs Lanterna Grid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Star Battle
Engage in a calming logic puzzle where you place stars on a grid. Follow simple rules to ensure no two stars touch, and each row, column, and region has the correct number of stars. Offers hundreds of puzzles with varying difficulty levels for a mentally stimulating experience.
- Hundreds of handcrafted puzzles
- Five difficulty tiers
- Daily Puzzle with streak tracking
- Auto-mark and error highlighting
- Light and dark themes
- Offline play
- Detailed statistics
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Star Battle (also known as Two Not Touch) is a calm, elegant logic puzzle. Place stars on the grid so that every row, every column, and every outlined region holds the right number of stars — and no two stars ever touch, not even diagonally. Simple rules, deep logic. Every puzzle has one solution you can reach with pure reasoning — no guessing required. FEATURES - Hundreds of handcrafted puzzles - Five difficulty tiers, from Easy to Master - A fresh Daily Puzzle with streak tracking - Tap to place a star, long-press to mark a dot - Auto-mark, error highlighting, and undo to help you think - Light and dark themes with a relaxing animated starfield - 50 languages and full offline play - Detailed statistics: best times, averages, and solve streaks Whether you have five minutes or a full hour, Star Battle is the perfect way to unwind and sharpen your mind. Download now and start solving.
Lanterna Grid
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Lanterna Grid is a quiet logic puzzle about light. Every grid is split into coloured regions. Place one lantern in each region so that no two lanterns share a row or a column - and no two ever touch, not even at a corner. That is the whole game. There is nothing to learn beyond those four rules, and everything to work out. No guessing, ever. Every puzzle has exactly one solution and every solution can be reached by pure deduction. Each one is verified twice before it ships: once by an exhaustive solver, and once by the same reasoning engine that writes the hints. - A new daily puzzle every day, the same grid for everyone - 112 puzzles across six packs, from gentle 5x5 grids to nine-by-nine at its meanest - Hints that teach - each one names the deduction you could have made, and why - One free hint every day - Timer, stars and best times for anyone who wants the pressure, ignorable for anyone who does not - Plays completely offline - Dark and light themes, region labels for colour-blind players, haptics you can turn off No accounts. No sign-in. No subscriptions or in-app purchases. Your progress stays on your device. Lanterna Grid is free and supported by ads. They stay out of the way: never on the board, never during a puzzle, and a short one only between puzzles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Star Battle at none against Lanterna Grid'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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Star Battle | Lanterna Grid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Alper Sumer Guc | Tal Nir |
In-app purchases
Star Battle
No in-app purchases
Lanterna Grid
No in-app purchases







