Comparison

Light Up Akari vs Squircle Shift

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

Head to head
About

Light Up Akari

Features
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Light Up, also known as Akari, is a logic puzzle about lighting the board. You place bulbs that shine down their whole row and column until a wall blocks them, and your goal is to illuminate every white cell. Two bulbs can never see each other, and every numbered wall has to be satisfied exactly. Features: • Tap a cell to place or remove a bulb • Drag across cells to mark them empty with an X, no mode switching • Light rays spread across the board with a warm glow • Bulbs that see each other flash red right away • Numbered wall clues turn green once they're satisfied • Undo any move with a single tap • Three difficulty levels: Easy, Medium, Hard • Pick up right where you left off • Stats and best times for every difficulty • Plays fully offline A bright, rewarding puzzle that's all about careful deduction. If you enjoy Sudoku, Minesweeper, or grid logic, Light Up is easy to fall into.

About

Squircle Shift

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A tranquil, minimalist spatial phenomenon where out-of-the-box thinking and precise color frame alignments offer total mental clarity. Escape noisy, over-stimulating games and discover true mental calm! Designed for thinkers seeking refined simplicity, this aesthetic puzzle experience invites you to slide rounded squares (squircles) into matching colored frames. While the rules are deceptively easy, solving these handcrafted challenges demands genuine creative intuition and lateral thinking—where a single brilliant move can unlock solutions you've contemplated for days! Enhanced by a subtle visual aesthetic, soothing ambient music, and intuitive one-handed controls, enjoy a peaceful sanctuary featuring 48 initial handcrafted levels, a smooth puzzle previewer, and a powerful undo mechanism.

Screenshots

Light Up Akari3 screens
Squircle Shift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Light Up Akari at none against Squircle Shift's shown. Squircle Shift's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 4 level
Light Up Akari versus Squircle Shift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLight Up AkariSquircle Shift
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.112.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLUKAS ANDREAS NILSENMong Xuan Luong Hoang

In-app purchases

None

Light Up Akari

No in-app purchases

None

Squircle Shift

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Light Up Akari free?
Light Up Akari is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Squircle Shift free?
Squircle Shift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Light Up Akari or Squircle Shift have ads?
Squircle Shift shows ads; Light Up Akari does not.

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