Comparison

NekoZabuton 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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NekoZabuton

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Tuck a sleepy cat in beside every cushion. NekoZabuton is a cozy nap-time logic puzzle that never asks you to guess. Every single puzzle can be solved with pure deduction โ€” no luck, no leaps of intuition, just calm, satisfying logic. HOW TO PLAY - Place one cat next to each cushion (directly above, below, left, or right) - Cats need their space: no two cats can touch, not even diagonally - The numbers along the edges tell you how many cats sleep in each row and column WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT - 300 handcrafted puzzles, every one verified to be solvable without guessing - No penalties and no pressure. Undo, redo, and pencil marks let you think at your own pace - Hints that actually teach: instead of just revealing an answer, each hint explains why a cat belongs there - A new Daily Puzzle every day โ€” build a streak one quiet morning at a time - Works completely offline, so you can play on flights, trains, and anywhere else - Supports Dark Mode, VoiceOver, and larger text sizes A QUIET GAME, ON PURPOSE No flashing lights, no loud fanfare, no lives to run out of. Just you, a small grid, and a few cats who really need their nap. A round can be as short as a minute โ€” perfect for a little break โ€” or stretch out like a lazy Sunday afternoon. ABOUT ADS NekoZabuton is free to play and supported by ads. Ads never appear on the puzzle screen while you are solving, and how often they appear is capped. Every feature is available to everyone, whether or not you ever watch an ad. If you enjoy tents-and-trees style grid puzzles, nonograms, or sudoku, this kind of pure logic will feel right at home โ€” with more cats. Curl up, get comfortable, and help everyone fall asleep.

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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

NekoZabuton4 screens
Driftleaf4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Driftleaf at every 4 days against NekoZabuton's every 2 weeks. Driftleaf also leads on 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

NekoZabuton ships an update every 2 weeks, Driftleaf every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
NekoZabuton versus Driftleaf: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNekoZabutonDriftleaf
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS17.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size5 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperERI MUNAKATABurak Gocegoz

In-app purchases

None

NekoZabuton

No in-app purchases

None

Driftleaf

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is NekoZabuton free?
NekoZabuton is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Driftleaf free?
Driftleaf is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do NekoZabuton or Driftleaf have ads?
Both NekoZabuton and Driftleaf show ads.
Which is updated more often, NekoZabuton or Driftleaf?
NekoZabuton ships an update every 2 weeks, and Driftleaf every 4 days. Most recently, NekoZabuton was updated on October 31, 2026 and Driftleaf on November 6, 2026.

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