Comparison

Pick The Pack vs CleanSort

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

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About

Pick The Pack

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Can you find the animals that belong together? Pick The Pack is a simple, accessible animal sorting game designed especially for toddlers and preschoolers, but anyone can play! It is built around clear pictures, spoken instructions, and easy-to-understand choices, so no reading is required. Listen to a request, explore the animals on screen, make your choice, and confirm your answer. Choose between two ways to play: โ€ข Levels: ten rounds that gradually become more challenging, with more animals and different groups appearing together. โ€ข Free Play: no levels, just keep picking animals for as long as you like. Meet 50 animals across five groups: farm animals, jungle animals, water animals, flying animals, and dinosaurs. Animal names can be spoken aloud, displayed under each picture, or both. Pick The Pack includes highly customizable accessibility settings: built-in voice guidance, VoiceOver support, optional spoken and displayed animal names, a dyslexia-friendly font, high contrast, reduced motion, adjustable speaking speed, voice encouragement, vibration feedback, and separate controls for sound and music volume. Play in English or Italian, completely offline and without an account. There are no advertisements, subscriptions, or in-app purchases.

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CleanSort

Features
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No ads, no pop-ups, no "watch a video to continue." No fake currency. No timers pressuring you. No puzzle secretly rigged to be unsolvable so you'll watch a rescue ad. CleanSort is ball sort the way it should have been all along โ€” a calm, honest color-sorting puzzle you can play on a plane, hand to a kid, or share with a friend, without anyone trying to sell you something or interrupt your train of thought. WHAT MAKES IT CLEAN - No ads, ever. Not between levels, not on restart, not mid-puzzle โ€” and not a banner parked at the bottom of the screen. None. - No in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no "premium." The whole app is yours. - Every new deal is guaranteed solvable โ€” checked by a built-in solver before you ever see it. You'll never be handed an impossible puzzle. - Works fully offline. No account, no sign-in, no tracking. BUILT FOR PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY LIKE THE GAME - Unlimited undo โ€” take back as many moves as you want, no penalty, no watching anything. - Optional hints when you're stuck โ€” and a hint is the real answer: the first move of a shortest solution, not a guess. (Games you needed a hint on don't count as clean wins. Fair's fair.) - The grudge list: needed a hint? That deal is remembered. Rematch it any time โ€” beat it without help, and the grudge is redeemed. - Bookmarks: mark a position you're unsure about, experiment freely, and jump straight back. - Smart pours: a run of same-colored balls moves together in one move, the way the puzzle really works. SHARE PUZZLES WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY Every deal has a short shareable code. Send a fiendish one to a friend, or compare how you each cracked the same puzzle. WHY IT EXISTS I got tired of ball sort apps stuffed with ads and dark patterns, and I wanted my own kids to have a clean one. So I made it, and I'm sharing it. That's the whole story. Bugs, ideas, or a deal code that deserves to be framed: dev@stevepetersen.net

Screenshots

Pick The Pack3 screens
CleanSort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: CleanSort at Free against Pick The Pack's $1.99. Pick The Pack's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CleanSort is free to download; Pick The Pack costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 3 level
Pick The Pack versus CleanSort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPick The PackCleanSort
Price$1.99Free โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size49 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLoredana LaniaSTEPHEN DAVID PETERSEN

In-app purchases

None

Pick The Pack

No in-app purchases

None

CleanSort

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pick The Pack free?
Pick The Pack costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is CleanSort free?
CleanSort is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Pick The Pack or CleanSort have ads?
Neither Pick The Pack nor CleanSort shows ads.

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