Comparison

Puzzole vs Driftleaf

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

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Puzzole

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Puzzole is a logic puzzle game where you paint your way through each board to reveal its hidden pattern. Use the shape shown on the right as your clue, then find the same shape on the board. Fill the correct cells with color and watch small clues come together into a complete puzzle. Take your time to think, paint, and adjust. Use the brush, eraser, and undo tools to fill the board your way, choose colors from the palette, and solve every stage at your own rhythm. Features - Logic puzzles built around finding matching shapes - Brush, eraser, and undo tools - A customizable color palette - Stage completion and progression - A one-time in-app purchase to remove ads - Music and sound-effect settings - iPhone and iPad support Puzzole is a game of observation and judgment, not quick reflexes. Start with a small shape and enjoy the quiet moment when the full board comes together.

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Driftleaf

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You drop a leaf on a grid of arrows and let go. It drifts the way the arrow beneath it points โ€” and here is the whole game in one line: as the leaf leaves a tile, that tile turns a quarter. So the path rewrites itself while you watch. Come back to a square a second time and it sends you somewhere new. Loops untie themselves. A route that looked hopeless closes like a door. You never touch the leaf. Before you release it you may turn three or four arrows โ€” no more โ€” and then you watch. The puzzle is not "draw the path". It is "build a current that will solve itself", and watching it run is the reward. Sixty-three puzzles across four worlds โ€ข Creek (2ร—1โ€“5ร—5) โ€” arrows and rocks, and the one rule everything else is built on. โ€ข Whirl (5ร—5โ€“6ร—6) โ€” marble arrows that never turn, and whirls that turn the other way. Two spins on one board. โ€ข Lily (6ร—6โ€“7ร—7) โ€” reaching the pond is no longer enough. Every lily has to be touched on the way. โ€ข Delta (7ร—7) โ€” everything at once, on the widest water, with the tightest budgets in the game. And then it does not stop The campaign teaches the vocabulary and ends. What follows is a creek that keeps going: a hundred and eighty more proven boards, whose difficulty rises and falls on a twelve-board wave instead of climbing for ever. You are never more than six boards from a breather, and never more than six from a fight. One board a day The same puzzle for everyone, changing at midnight. Finish it and you can say how it went โ€” the taps it cost, the days you have kept โ€” on a card that never shows the board, so it cannot spoil it for whoever reads it. Each world has its own water The creek starts cool and green, deepens as it turns, greens again among the lilies, pales where the delta widens, and runs into dusk downstream. The leaf, the rocks and the lilies never change colour: they are things in the water, not the water. Every level is proved, not guessed Each board was generated and then brute-forced: a solution exists, no cheaper solution exists, and there are never more than a handful. When the counter says three taps, all three are needed. That is why the budget is a hint rather than a resource. A quiet game No timers. No lives. No score. Fail and the water simply settles โ€” your taps stay exactly where you put them, and you try the next idea. The only thing recorded is how few taps you needed. The daily keeps a streak if you want one, and forgets it without a word if you do not. Free, with one short ad between every third level โ€ข No purchases, no accounts, no analytics, no energy timers. โ€ข A short video runs after every third level you clear, and you can choose to watch one for an extra tap when a board has you stuck โ€” never more than twice, and never needed: every level is solvable within its printed budget. โ€ข Your progress lives on your device and nowhere else; we run no servers and receive nothing about you. โ€ข The puzzles need no connection. Offline, every level and language works normally and the ads are simply skipped. โ€ข Full keyboard support, screen-reader labels, reduced-motion and dark themes. โ€ข Ten languages: Turkish, English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese. Set the current. Drop the leaf. Watch.

Screenshots

Puzzole4 screens
Driftleaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Driftleaf at none against Puzzole's 1. Driftleaf also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. Puzzole sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Driftleaf asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Puzzole ships an update fortnightly, Driftleaf every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 6, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences ยท 3 level
Puzzole versus Driftleaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuzzoleDriftleaf
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size54 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJaeyoung KimBurak Gocegoz

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Puzzole

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$5.49
None

Driftleaf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Puzzole free?
Puzzole is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Driftleaf free?
Driftleaf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Puzzole or Driftleaf have ads?
Both Puzzole and Driftleaf show ads.
Which is updated more often, Puzzole or Driftleaf?
Puzzole ships an update fortnightly, and Driftleaf every 4 days. Most recently, Puzzole was updated on November 6, 2026 and Driftleaf on November 6, 2026.

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