Comparison

SORTS vs Lexfall

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

Head to head
About

SORTS

Trace words by dragging across letter blocks to spell them and clear the board. Progress through beautifully illustrated worlds with unique stories and challenges. Enjoy daily puzzles, competitive duels, and cooperative guild play.

Highlights
  • Letter tracing word puzzles
  • Illustrated story worlds
  • Daily challenges
  • Local multiplayer duels
  • Guilds and social features
  • Match-3 mini-game
Features
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Trace a word with your finger and the blocks burst. SORTS is a word puzzle set in a printer's library. Drag across touching letter blocks to spell a word, and any real word of three letters or more scores the moment you let go. No tray, no tapping, no strikes. Scored blocks burst, the grid falls and refills, and matching inks chain into cascades that grow the longer they run. FREE TO DOWNLOAD The first two books, the Daily, duels and the seasonal book are free. One purchase opens the whole library, forever. Friends, guilds and the Forbidden Section are free too, with three Endless runs and one Compositor's Cabinet bed every day. THE FULL LIBRARY, ONE PURCHASE The Full Library opens Books Three to Six, four hundred more levels, and every campaign book added later. It also gives you unlimited Endless, unlimited Compositor's Cabinet and the premium track of every season ledger. No subscription, no coins to buy and no ads. SIX ENGRAVED WORLDS, 600 LEVELS Every book is a world you walk through, drawn as an engraving. The road climbs past cottages, orchards and harbors, the water moves, the lamps glow, and the level numbers sit on the path. A fog hides what you have not reached and parts as you go, while your own little sort walks the road ahead of it. Book One. A Pocketful of North. One hero, one creaky map, one treasure at the edge of the world. Book Two. The Hungry Spoon. A kitchen wakes before dawn to cook the town a feast. Book Three. Harbour Lights. Every boat has a secret, and the tide is bad at keeping them. Book Four. The Moon's Spare Key. The moon leaves you the key to the sky, a constellation at a time. Book Five. The Tinker's Drawer. A drawer of odd parts that means to build something wonderful. Book Six. The Turning Year. A whole year walked from first green to harvest home. Four chapters a book, each sealed by a page gate you break open by hand. THE SEASONAL BOOK The Patchwork Man, a cozy retelling after Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, is a hundred more levels, free for everyone. A LAMPLIT HOME Home is a lamplit library room. Your next level waits behind one Play button, and every way to play sits one tap away. PLAY EVERY DAY The Daily Edition. One puzzle, the same for everybody, with a streak to keep. Plus gifts, quests and Endless, a countdown you extend with every word. THE COMPOSITOR'S CABINET A letterpress match-3, the game compositors played after hours. Swap touching sorts to line up three of one ink, then print the best word your cleared letters can spell for double score. One bed a day is free, and the Full Library makes it unlimited. Ten of Book Three's levels are parlor nights on the Cabinet. DUEL IN THE SAME ROOM, FREE FOR EVERYONE Two phones, one table, no internet. Sixty seconds, the same board, a rematch on the spot, and a rivalry record worth scarce titles. FRIENDS, GUILDS AND BOARDS Add the people you play with, see what they are reading, and send boosters and cheers. Up to five of you pool weekly points in a guild and open a new Forbidden Section volume every Monday. Game Center boards for the campaign, the daily, Endless, the Cabinet and duels won, plus widgets and a Lock Screen streak. PAGES ARE YOURS TO SPEND Every page you earn by playing also goes into your purse. Bind pages into titles, inks and tile styles in the Bindery. Pages are earned, never sold, and spending them never takes a page out of a book. PLAYS ANYWHERE The campaign, the Daily Edition and the duels all run with no internet. Pages, boosters, titles, your books and your stars are kept in iCloud, so a new phone picks up where you left off. On iPhone Duo, open the phone and every level becomes a two page book. Trace your first word, and feel the board come alive. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sortsgame.com/privacy/

About

Lexfall

Features
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Solve classic crosswords โ€” and learn vocabulary in nine languages along the way. The clue is in your language, the answer in the one you're learning. Anytime, anywhere, even offline. LEARN A LANGUAGE BY SOLVING Clues in your own language, answers in the target one. Every language has its own native word pack โ€” nothing is machine-translated. NINE LANGUAGES, ALL NATIVE Czech, Slovak, English, German, Polish, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and French. Each language has its own content across 60 levels. ONE CAMPAIGN, FOUR WORLDS Travel through four characters: Tiny, Grown-up, Brainy and Genius. A winding map, stars to earn and a wizard guide. Each difficulty is its own world. TWO-PHONE DUEL Take on a friend in real time on the same crossword. Whoever fills in more words wins. DAILY CHALLENGES AND LEADERBOARDS Daily rewards, streaks, goals, trophies and an online leaderboard for each difficulty. There's always a reason to come back. PLAY OFFLINE, NO ACCOUNT No sign-up, no email. Your progress stays on your phone and you can play without a signal. An internet connection is only needed for the leaderboard and the two-phone duel. THE CORE OF THE GAME - Dense crosswords with dozens of words - A native keyboard for every language, diacritics included - 1 to 3 stars per level โ€” solve for the perfect run - Hints, coins, combos and bonus levels - Glowing tiles, animations and a celebration after every win WHO LEXFALL IS FOR For anyone who wants to learn vocabulary without grinding through flashcards. For crossword solvers who want something out of the time they spend. For students who need to widen their vocabulary before an exam. For parents looking for a game with substance. And for anyone with five minutes on the tram. FREE AND LEXFALL PLUS For free you get all of Tiny and Grown-up (30 levels per language), all 9 languages, daily rewards, leaderboards and 1 hint a day. Lexfall Plus is a one-off purchase, not a subscription. It unlocks: - Brainy and Genius difficulties in full - Two-phone duel - Learning mode - 2 hints a day - 500 coins as a welcome

Screenshots

SORTS4 screens
Lexfall4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SORTS at every 6 days against Lexfall's every 3 months. Lexfall's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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. SORTS sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Lexfall sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SORTS ships an update every 6 days, Lexfall every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 6 level
SORTS versus Lexfall: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSORTSLexfall
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviewsโ€”
Update frequencyEvery 6 days โ€” betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesโ€”
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size115 MB70 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael WhitePetr Knobloch

In-app purchases

7 purchases

SORTS

Subscriptions2
  • Pressroom Pass$2.991 Month
  • Pressroom Pass Annual$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Handful of Coins$0.99
  • Sack of Coins$2.99
  • Chest of Coins$4.99
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  • The Full Library$9.99
  • Trunk of Coins$9.99
1 purchases

Lexfall

One-time1
  • Lexfall Plus$1.99

Questions

Is SORTS free?
SORTS is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lexfall free?
Lexfall is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SORTS or Lexfall have ads?
Neither SORTS nor Lexfall shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SORTS or Lexfall?
SORTS ships an update every 6 days, and Lexfall every 3 months. Most recently, SORTS was updated on November 1, 2026 and Lexfall on November 10, 2026.

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