Comparison

Tesserae Trails vs Diffworld

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

Head to head
About

Tesserae Trails

A relaxing puzzle game where you blend colored glass tiles by jumping them over adjacent tiles. Progress through a campaign or solve daily challenges to master color mixing and achieve efficient solutions.

Highlights
  • Color blending mechanics
  • Tournament-themed campaign
  • Daily puzzles
  • Star-based progression
  • Luminous glass visuals
  • Offline play
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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Tesserae Trails is a calm, tactile color puzzle inspired by a classic Macintosh game. Each tile is a pane of colored glass. Jump one tile over a neighbor and onto a third: the middle tile is absorbed and your tile blends its color into where it lands. Red over yellow, blue onto orange — mix the three primaries into secondaries and, finally, into a single glowing piece. • A tournament-themed campaign: twelve groups of trails, unlocked level by level • A new Daily Puzzle every day, each with its own color and difficulty • Earn stars for efficient solutions and open up further trails • Luminous glass visuals, fluid animation, and gentle haptics and sound • No accounts, no ads, no tracking — just you and the board • Plays entirely offline Simple to learn, satisfying to master.

About

Diffworld

Features
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Diffworld is a casual spot-the-difference puzzle. Team up with a curious mascot and its magnifying glass to compare two pictures. The mascot cheers every find, and every puzzle you solve restores another world. - A fresh puzzle every day - Themed worlds, from a snowy glasshouse market to a lantern-lit harvest village - Tap the difference on either picture - Stuck? Use the Hourglass (+30 sec), Big Lens (wide area), or a Hint (exact spot) - Grades and streaks that reward fast, accurate play - Synchronized 1x–3x zoom and pan, plus landscape play - Share your result as an image card - Korean, English, and Dynamic Type support Start immediately without creating an account. The first three standard puzzles include a free hint. After that, you may optionally watch a non-personalized ad for one hint. A result-screen ad appears at most once per three unique completed runs.

Screenshots

Tesserae Trails4 screens
Diffworld4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tesserae Trails at none against Diffworld's shown. Diffworld's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs monthly). 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

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

Tesserae Trails ships an update monthly, Diffworld every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tesserae Trails versus Diffworld: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTesserae TrailsDiffworld
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael MoelleringSUNGWOO JUNG

In-app purchases

None

Tesserae Trails

No in-app purchases

None

Diffworld

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tesserae Trails free?
Tesserae Trails is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Diffworld free?
Diffworld is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tesserae Trails or Diffworld have ads?
Diffworld shows ads; Tesserae Trails does not.
Which is updated more often, Tesserae Trails or Diffworld?
Tesserae Trails ships an update monthly, and Diffworld every 3 days. Most recently, Tesserae Trails was updated on October 17, 2026 and Diffworld on October 17, 2026.

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