Comparison

Tendril Puzzles vs must be one

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

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About

Tendril Puzzles

Features
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Tendril is a calm logic-puzzle game about drawing lines. Every number tells you how many cells its line covers. Drag out from a number โ€” or from any empty cell โ€” and watch the board fill. When every clue is satisfied and every cell is covered, the board blooms. TWO GAMES IN ONE โ€ข Lines โ€” each number grows one straight line. Easy to learn, deep to master. โ€ข Branches โ€” numbers grow arms in several directions at once. The same counting, a whole different puzzle. From a gentle first board to Extreme packs on boards up to 17ร—17, there is always a next step. A DAILY RITUAL Two fresh puzzles every day, one of each kind. Keep a streak, compare times on the daily board, and come back tomorrow. Play a week in a row and you earn a rest day, so a missed day does not undo the month behind it โ€” and every seventh day in a row pays a little extra for the garden. A GARDEN THAT COMES ALIVE Solving earns Water and Seeds. Spend them in your own small meadow: plant flowers, bushes and trees, grow them stage by stage, and arrange everything the way you like. Grow the right things and animals move in โ€” twelve of them, from a butterfly and a frog to a fox, an owl and a bear. Tap one and it hides. The meadow follows the seasons, visitors pass through, and a journal tells you who lives here and who might come next. FRIENDS AND LEADERBOARDS Daily, weekly and all-time boards, with your own neighbourhood always in view. Follow friends with a link, challenge them to beat your time on a board you just solved, leave a reaction on a good solve, and visit their gardens. SOMETHING TO AIM FOR Awards for streaks, for perfect days and flawless runs, for whole packs finished without a reveal, for Extreme boards and for a garden full of life โ€” each one showing how close you are, and remembering the day you earned it. HELP THAT WAITS TO BE ASKED A hint asks what you need: check the board for mistakes and erase them in one step, or be shown the next move the board proves. Zoom in on any board, and every line shows which number it belongs to. MADE TO BE KIND โ€ข More than 2,100 puzzles, and every one has exactly one solution โ€” you never have to guess. โ€ข Packs and stats work offline. โ€ข 14 languages, light and dark themes, colour-blind friendly palettes, and reduce-motion support. โ€ข Notifications are optional and asked for in context, never at startup. โ€ข Free to play, with three free hints every day. Tendril Complete, one optional purchase, removes ads and gives you unlimited hints. Water and Seeds are on sale too, for a garden that grows faster. No subscriptions, ever. Five quiet minutes a day, or a whole evening โ€” the garden will be there either way.

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must be one

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must be one is a number puzzle built on a single rule โ€” the one in its name. A grid of numbers. Four operators. Combine neighboring tiles with arithmetic and collapse the whole board down to a single 1. That's the entire game: all becomes one. It reads as obvious for about three moves. Then it doesn't. - One rule, no filler โ€” no twenty-minute tutorial, no menus to dig through. You understand it in seconds and spend the rest of your time actually thinking. - Always solvable โ€” every stage is generated so that a solution is guaranteed to exist before you ever see it. If you're stuck, that's on you, not the board. - A climb that keeps widening โ€” early stages stay in single digits; later ones open the range up and the arithmetic gets meaner. - Free, and quick to pick up. One stage on the train; look up an hour later. From office-canard โ€” a one-person studio making small, system-first games. If this one gets its hooks in, there are more small games where it came from.

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Tendril Puzzles4 screens
must be one4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tendril Puzzles at every 10 days against must be one's every 5 weeks. On price, 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tendril Puzzles ships an update every 10 days, must be one every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Tendril Puzzles versus must be one: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTendril Puzzlesmust be one
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 days โ€” betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 โ€” better15.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size50 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMJK APPS SRLoffice-canard games

In-app purchases

None

Tendril Puzzles

No in-app purchases

None

must be one

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tendril Puzzles free?
Tendril Puzzles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is must be one free?
must be one is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tendril Puzzles or must be one have ads?
Both Tendril Puzzles and must be one show ads.
Which is updated more often, Tendril Puzzles or must be one?
Tendril Puzzles ships an update every 10 days, and must be one every 5 weeks. Most recently, Tendril Puzzles was updated on October 31, 2026 and must be one on October 31, 2026.

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