Comparison

Onyx vs Unciphered

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

Head to head
About

Onyx

A refined take on the classic logic puzzle, offering thoughtful gameplay with fluid touch controls and customizable themes. Enjoy various difficulty levels, custom challenges, and detailed progress tracking in a distraction-free, offline experience.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free classic Minesweeper
  • Fluid touch controls and responsive boards
  • Multiple difficulty levels and custom fields
  • Progressive hints and safe first move
  • Light and dark themes with customization
  • Offline play with no ads or tracking
  • Detailed player statistics
Features
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Minesweeper, reimagined. Five difficulties on boards certified solvable by logic alone, in twelve themes built to be looked at. Onyx is made from proportion, material and restraint. The board is the only thing on screen asking for your attention. CLASSIC PLAY • Five balanced difficulties, from Beginner to Extreme • Logic fields, certified solvable by deduction alone • Random fields, for the traditional challenge • Custom fields shaped to your own size and mine count • Infinity mode with a board that expands as you explore • A safe first move on every board, every time FAIR BY CONSTRUCTION Logic fields are laid out uniformly at random, then certified solvable before you ever tap. Nothing is shaped to be safe, so the fields keep the real game's clusters, open pockets and ragged edges - Onyx simply refuses any layout its solver cannot finish. TWELVE THEMES, SIX FAMILIES Bronze and Pearl. Silver and Frost. Oxblood and Rose. Ink and Porcelain. Verdigris and Sage. Aubergine and Lilac. Each family is a light and a dark twin, with themed, classic or mono number colours. A HINT, NOT A HANDOUT Hints walk you through the reasoning before showing the answer, using only the clues already visible to you. Covered cells are never inspected. ALSO INSIDE • Find the Mine: short deduction puzzles with adaptive difficulty and a rating • The Daily: one board, everyone, the same day, with streaks and a spoiler-free share • Chording, quick-open numbers, adjustable reveal speed, sound and haptics • Records for every field, with assisted and unassisted times kept apart • VoiceOver, large touch targets and reduced-motion alternatives throughout PRIVATE BY DESIGN Onyx works completely offline. No accounts, no ads, no in-app purchases, no tracking. Your games, settings and records remain on your device. Take a breath, read the field and find the next certain move. Privacy Policy: https://codensio.com/onyx/privacy-policy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Contact: hello@codensio.com

About

Unciphered

Decode hidden proverbs by solving cryptograms where letters correspond to numbers. Solve crossword-style clues to reveal letters that fill in the entire puzzle. Enjoy daily puzzles, track your progress, and collect solved wisdom.

Highlights
  • Daily cryptogram puzzles
  • Crossword-style clue solving
  • Offline play
  • Progress tracking
  • Journal of solved proverbs
  • Accessibility features
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Crack the code. Decode the quote. Unciphered is a cryptogram word puzzle where every number hides a letter — solve crossword-style clues and watch the hidden phrase reveal itself. A famous line is hiding on every board. The same number always hides the same letter, and every letter you prove fills in across the whole puzzle. Piece by piece, a proverb, a classic quote or a great line from TV comes back into the light. New to cryptograms? A one-minute guided puzzle teaches you how to play. FREE BRAIN GAME, HUNDREDS OF PUZZLES Unciphered is free to play from start to finish. Hundreds of cipher puzzles are included, from gentle warm-ups to expert decoding. Optional extras, each a one-time purchase kept forever: • The Wisdom Collection — four harder chapters, 80 more proverbs and quotes • A TV pack — 100 famous lines from much-loved sitcoms and dramas, with clues in each show's voice • A superhero film pack — 100 famous big-screen hero lines across five chapters Every pack has a free chapter to try. Coin packs are available too. DAILY PUZZLE AND STREAKS A fresh cryptogram every day keeps your streak alive. A two-week calendar lets you replay days you missed for coins, but the streak only counts the days you truly showed up. QUESTS THAT UNLOCK SECRET LEVELS Finish the day's quests — the daily puzzle plus a level you've never solved — and earn a hidden secret level, yours forever. A JOURNAL OF FAMOUS QUOTES Every phrase you decode is saved with a short, true fact about where it came from: who said it, and when. Build your own collection of wisdom, quotes and proverbs, one solve at a time. RELAXING, OFFLINE, YOURS • Play offline anywhere: no Wi-Fi needed • No account, no sign-up; progress follows you to a new iPhone through iCloud • Use Unciphered's keyboard or your own iPhone keyboard • Hints when you want them: reveal a letter or a whole word • Full VoiceOver support, large text, Reduce Motion, light and dark mode • Made for iPhone, iPad and the folding iPhone Love word games, crosswords, cryptoquotes, word search, logic puzzles or code-breaking? Unciphered is the cipher puzzle for you. Unciphered is not affiliated with or endorsed by the shows, films, networks or studios quoted.

Screenshots

Onyx4 screens
Unciphered4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Onyx at none against Unciphered's 6. Onyx also leads on ratings volume (17 vs 2). Unciphered's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Unciphered sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Onyx asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Onyx against 5.0 for Unciphered. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Onyx has 17 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Onyx's written reviews are positive against 100% of Unciphered's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Onyx ships an update every 9 days, Unciphered every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Onyx versus Unciphered: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOnyxUnciphered
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (17 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings17 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 9 daysEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB5 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMARK SOLTYKAhmed ElGhoroury

Customer experience

Onyx

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral10.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

Unciphered

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Onyx

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Unciphered

One-time6
  • Coins 100$0.99
  • Coins 350$2.99
  • The Wisdom Collection$4.99
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  • Prime Time$4.99
  • Heroes Assemble$4.99
  • Coins 800$5.99

Questions

Is Onyx free?
Onyx is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Unciphered free?
Unciphered is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Onyx or Unciphered?
Unciphered is rated higher. Onyx averages 4.9 out of 5 from 17 ratings, while Unciphered averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Onyx or Unciphered have ads?
Neither Onyx nor Unciphered shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Onyx or Unciphered?
Onyx ships an update every 9 days, and Unciphered every 5 days. Most recently, Onyx was updated on October 31, 2026 and Unciphered on October 31, 2026.

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