Comparison

BonbonLab vs HappyBlockBox

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

Head to head
About

BonbonLab

Features
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Bonbon Lab is a beautifully designed puzzle game where you play the part of a pastry alchemist. Open the app and a polished marble workbench appears — at the centre, a glass beaker glows with violet elixir holding the next level. Behind it, a rack of five glowing beakers represents five pastry capitals of the world: Paris, Rome, Kyoto, New York, and Kyiv. Each chapter is a journey through that country's tradition of sweets. The puzzle is simple but deep. On every level the workbench shows a small grid with a handful of basic ingredients — milk, sugar, flour, butter, eggs, chocolate, strawberry, vanilla. Your task is to drag one ingredient onto another. If the combination follows a real recipe, the two ingredients merge into the next stage — milk and sugar become cream, flour and egg become dough, dough and butter become pastry crust. Keep combining and the workbench fills with intermediate components — buttercreams, ganaches, sponges, glazes. Finally those intermediates merge into finished desserts. Each level has a specific order ticket — for example "Make two strawberry creams and one sponge" — and a limited number of moves. Finish the order within the move limit to earn one star. Finish quickly to earn two. Discover a bonus recipe along the way to earn three. The level map for each chapter winds along a zigzag path through a beautifully illustrated country banner — a Parisian boulevard for Patisserie of Paris, a sunlit Roman piazza for Dolce of Roma, a Kyoto temple garden for Wagashi of Kyoto, a New York deli front for Bakery of New York, a wooden Ukrainian village porch for Medivnia of Kyiv. The Cookbook is the heart of progression. Every finished dessert you create gets a beautiful illustrated card in the cookbook — a playful gamified collection rather than a textbook recipe. Each card shows the dessert's name, country of origin, the lineage of ingredients that built it, and a single line of folklore. The cookbook fills up as you discover new combinations across the chapters. The Endless Pot is a free-play mode with no move limit. Ingredients appear continuously, the workbench grows wider as you go, and a counter tracks how many desserts you discover in a single session. Your personal best is saved. The Journal tracks your stars, your recipes, and your milestone badges — first cream, first pastry, all of Paris, all of Rome, full collection, and many more. Bonbon Lab is built to be the most beautifully made dessert puzzle game on the App Store. Cream marble surfaces, lavender-elixir beakers, pink-ribbon flourishes, baroque serif typography throughout. Open the lab and start mixing.

About

HappyBlockBox

A colorful block puzzle game where you fill rows or columns to trigger satisfying clears. No energy or lives, just strategic piece placement. Features power-ups earned through gameplay and multiple modes.

Highlights
  • 8x8 block puzzle gameplay
  • Fill rows/columns for clears
  • Power-ups earned through play
  • Endless, Daily Challenge, and Levels modes
  • Tap or drag placement options
  • Customizable sound and haptics
Features
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HappyBlockBox is a colourful 8x8 block puzzle built around satisfying placements and one simple rule: fill an entire row or column to trigger a Surge. There is no energy or lives. Pick a piece, tap or drag it onto the board, and chase the next perfect clear. THE SURGE Every piece carries its own colour. When a complete row or column is filled, it bursts into light and clears from the board. Keep clearing to build your Combo and earn bigger scores. POWER PIECES Bombs clear a 3x3 area. Beams clear a row and column. Prisms recolour nearby blocks. Power Pieces are available through play and never sit behind a paywall. LUCKY STARS Watch for a glowing Lucky Star on an empty cell. Cover it with a block to collect a bonus score boost. WAYS TO PLAY Endless mode is a calm, open-ended board. Daily Challenge gives everyone the same board of the day. Levels provide score targets and unlock progressively as you complete them. MADE TO FIT YOU HappyBlockBox supports tap-to-place as well as drag-to-place. Settings let you tailor background music, sound effects, and haptic feedback. FAIR AND OPTIONAL HappyBlockBox is designed to be enjoyed at your pace. There are no subscriptions, consumable currencies, loot boxes, or gameplay timers.

Screenshots

BonbonLab4 screens
HappyBlockBox4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: HappyBlockBox at none against BonbonLab's shown. On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

BonbonLab ships an update every 10 days, HappyBlockBox fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
BonbonLab versus HappyBlockBox: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBonbonLabHappyBlockBox
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—7 — better
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterFortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.215.6 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB77 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLYSAS IILIQKIHOILNCYelyzav Shevchenko

In-app purchases

None

BonbonLab

No in-app purchases

None

HappyBlockBox

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BonbonLab free?
BonbonLab is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is HappyBlockBox free?
HappyBlockBox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do BonbonLab or HappyBlockBox have ads?
BonbonLab shows ads; HappyBlockBox does not.
Which is updated more often, BonbonLab or HappyBlockBox?
BonbonLab ships an update every 10 days, and HappyBlockBox fortnightly. Most recently, BonbonLab was updated on October 4, 2026 and HappyBlockBox on October 2, 2026.

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