Comparison

Picture Bloom vs Loomora

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

Head to head
About

Picture Bloom

Features
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Every Picture Bloom puzzle has one unique solution. Solve by logic, never by guessing - then watch the grid soften into a painted picture for your garden. Picture Bloom is a calm, handcrafted take on nonograms, also known as picross, griddlers, hanjie, and Japanese crosswords. Read the clues, fill the right cells, mark the rest, and reveal a keepsake. GROW AT YOUR PACE - A fresh daily bloom, gently matched to your progress - 34 pictures across six themed collections - An interactive first-bloom tutorial - A garden journal of every picture you have grown, each with its name, its own garden line, your solve time, and your favorites MADE FOR QUIET FOCUS - Every picture is checked by the app's own solver before it ships: one solution, reachable by logic alone - Quiet Garden and Night Garden themes - Play offline - Calm sound and haptic controls PLAY FREE, GROW MORE The seven-picture Garden collection and the daily puzzle are free. Picture Bloom Pro is one optional purchase that unlocks five more packs and removes ads. No subscription.

About

Loomora

Features
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Loomora is a nonogram โ€” picross, griddler, hanjie โ€” reimagined as cross stitch. The board is a piece of linen. The numbers along each row and column tell you how the stitches are grouped: "3 1" means three in a row, a gap, then one. Read the clues, work out where the thread goes, and a small hand-made scene appears under your needle: a heart, a cat, a mushroom, a cup of tea. NO GUESSING. EVER. Every pattern is generated from a seed and then handed to a solver, and it is only kept if the solver can reconstruct it by pure line logic. That means the solution is unique and reachable by deduction โ€” never by a coin flip. If you are stuck, there is something left to work out. DELIBERATELY KIND โ€ข A wrong square costs a star. It never ends the game โ€ข Marking empty squares with an X is free and never penalised โ€ข Undo goes back as far as you like, and a hint fills in a real square โ€ข No lives, no energy, no countdown, nothing nagging you to come back THREE WAYS TO PLAY โ€ข Campaign โ€” boards grow from 5x5 to 12x12 as you do, with pinch to zoom on the big ones โ€ข Daily Challenge โ€” one pattern a day, the same one for every player in the world, with times to compare and a streak to keep โ€ข Collections โ€” four themed chapters of hand-picked patterns, some of them in colour, with a reward for finishing a chapter THE ALBUM Finished embroideries go into an album; the ones you have not stitched yet wait as an empty hoop. Any piece can be shared as a framed poster. FOURTEEN QUIET ACHIEVEMENTS First stitch, collector, a week's streak, a month's streak, level 25. Soft goals, no pressure. MADE TO BE READABLE VoiceOver reads every square and every clue. Colour-blind assistance gives each thread its own shape as well as its own colour, so a colour pattern is never a guessing game about hue. FREE, AND HONEST ABOUT IT The whole game is free and complete. Coins are earned by playing and pay for hints; you can buy them in packs if you would rather not wait โ€” each pack says exactly how many coins it gives โ€” or watch an ad to earn a hint without spending any. There are no loot boxes, no random rewards and no subscription: the only other thing you can buy is the themes, all of them at once and for good, and a theme changes the linen, the thread and the accent colour, never the puzzle. A hint fills in a square you could have deduced yourself; no purchase skips the logic, or a board. Ads pay for the rest, and one purchase removes them for good. PLAYS OFFLINE Everything except the daily leaderboard works with no connection at all. There is no account, no sign-up and no name: your progress lives on your phone. Privacy Policy: https://www.oscargarrucho.com/loomora/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.oscargarrucho.com/loomora/terms/

Screenshots

Picture Bloom4 screens
Loomora4 screens

Verdict

The call

Picture Bloom and Loomora are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Picture Bloom sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Loomora sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Picture Bloom versus Loomora: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPicture BloomLoomora
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksโ€”
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size8 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVytautas JazbutisOscar Rodriguez

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Picture Bloom

One-time1
  • Picture Bloom Pro$4.99
5 purchases

Loomora

One-time5
  • 500 Coins$0.99
  • 1,500 Coins$2.99
  • All Themes$3.99
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  • Remove Ads$3.99
  • 5,000 Coins$6.99

Questions

Is Picture Bloom free?
Picture Bloom is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Loomora free?
Loomora is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Picture Bloom or Loomora have ads?
Both Picture Bloom and Loomora show ads.

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