Tesserae Trails vs Diffworld
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Color blending mechanics
- Tournament-themed campaign
- Daily puzzles
- Star-based progression
- Luminous glass visuals
- Offline play
- No ads or tracking
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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.
Diffworld
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tesserae Trails ships an update monthly, Diffworld every 3 days. Both last shipped on October 17, 2026.
| Parameter | Tesserae Trails | Diffworld |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 75 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Moellering | SUNGWOO JUNG |
In-app purchases
Tesserae Trails
No in-app purchases
Diffworld
No in-app purchases
Questions
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Which is updated more often, Tesserae Trails or Diffworld?
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