FALLMATCH vs The Bindery
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FALLMATCH
Engage in a relaxing block puzzle experience where you slide and match patterns to clear the board. With no timers or lives, focus on strategic moves and gravity-based mechanics. Explore hundreds of levels with adjustable difficulty and unique challenges.
- Sliding block mechanics
- Pattern matching to clear
- Board rotation and gravity
- 400 campaign levels
- 500 ladder levels
- 10 difficulty tiers
- Offline play
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FALLMATCH is a logic block puzzle game with gravity. Slide a block left or right, and matching patterns clear when they touch. Rotate the board, flip it, and gravity does the rest. No timer, no lives, no ads. Just you and the board. A BRAIN PUZZLE, NOT A REFLEX TEST Every board has a proven best solution. The 3-star target is the real minimum number of moves, found by a solver before the level shipped. If it says 6, then 6 is possible and 5 is not. Think first, then move. THE NUMBERS 400 campaign levels 500 ladder levels 900 unique puzzle boards 10 difficulty tiers, from VERY EASY to NIGHTMARE 9 languages DIFFICULTY IS MEASURED, NOT GUESSED Each board carries a score built from its solution depth, how narrow the path is, and how easily a careless move kills the board. That score decides its tier, so the puzzles get harder at a steady pace. CAMPAIGN 400 logic puzzles grouped into chapters. Special moves unlock as you go: rotate, flip, tumble. Some boards have a broken frame. A block that slides through a gap is gone for good. LADDER Ten rungs, one per difficulty tier. Stars are the score, every cleared board climbs, 30 stars is a perfect run. No hints. Leaving a board ends the run. DAILY PUZZLE One fresh board every day, the same for everyone. Keep a streak, save your result card and share it. A streak earns hints at 3, 7, 14 and 30 days, and a streak freeze covers a day you miss. WEEKLY One harder board every Monday, the same for everyone. Finish it and you earn a hint; take all three stars and you earn three. It opens once you have 30 stars. OPTIONAL EXTRAS All of the above is free. If you want more, there is a one-time PREMIUM (every level unlocked, skip any level, a bigger hint pool plus 25 bonus hints) and hint packs that never expire. No subscriptions, and still no ads. OFFLINE, NO ADS, NO ACCOUNT Play offline anywhere. Optional play stats help us tune the levels: a random ID only, no name or email, no tracking across apps, nothing is sold. If you like block puzzle games, logic puzzles and brain teasers without a clock, FALLMATCH was built for you.
The Bindery
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You are a conservator. A water-damaged journal arrives in an estate lot with the name cut out of its flyleaf, and your job is to bring it back. The woman who wrote it did not want to be brought back. She was an archivist who spent four years removing herself from every record that named her — deliberately, methodically, to escape a husband who used paperwork the way other men use their hands. She left exactly one copy of her life, locked so that only her granddaughter could open it. You are not her granddaughter. The journal works that out. THE BINDERY is a digitization workstation, and every screen is that software: raking light, ultraviolet, spectral separation, a damage log that records every key you recover. Restoring a leaf gives you what the next leaf needs. The book is open from the first minute — you can read all twenty-eight leaves whenever you like. You simply cannot restore one until you have earned what it asks for. TWENTY-EIGHT LEAVES, TWENTY-FIVE DISTINCT PUZZLES Almost no mechanism repeats. A ledger whose balance is honest and whose prices are not. A radio log where one weekday matters. A census sheet whose own arithmetic forces the line that was scraped away. Each one is solved once, and then never asked of you again. NO HINTS. NONE. There is no hint button, no skip, no nudge, no pity timer. There is also no punishment: no timers, no limited guesses, no fail states, no lockouts. Every answer field tells you the shape of what it wants. Everything you need is inside the book. If you are stuck, you are stuck with everything you need — that is the deal, and it is the whole game. THREE ENDINGS, AND ONE OF THEM COSTS YOU At the end you sign a certificate, and where you write her name decides what happens to her. One of the three is permanent. The app will ask you twice. A NOTE ON TRUST The journal sometimes claims to know things about you. It is lying — and it is lying using only what you typed into it. Nothing leaves your device. There is no account, no tracking, no ads. One-time unlock. Act I restores free; the rest of the book is a single purchase, and you can read every leaf either way.
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Verdict
FALLMATCH and The Bindery are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. FALLMATCH sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and The Bindery sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
| Parameter | FALLMATCH | The Bindery |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | GOKHAN US | Simon Shih |
In-app purchases
FALLMATCH
- 5 Hints$0.99
- 20 Hints$2.99
- Premium$4.99
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- 60 Hints$6.99
The Bindery
- Full Restoration$5.99









