Teahouse vs Squircle Shift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Teahouse
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Teahouse is mahjong solitaire for people who love a real logic puzzle. Most mahjong games hide the tiles and call the board "guaranteed solvable" — solvable only if you could see every tile and played a perfect line. You can't, so you strand yourself anyway, and then the app sells you a shuffle to escape the dead end it created. Teahouse turns every tile face-up and guarantees a winning line actually exists. The result: no luck, no dead ends — every win is earned. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT • Perfect information — every tile is legible from the first move. Tap any tile to light up its match wherever it hides. Planning replaces guessing. • Certified solvable — every board is proven winnable under correct play before you ever see it. That's why there's no shuffle button: you never need one. • Difficulty that's measured — boards are graded by how far ahead you must plan to avoid stranding a tile, not by tile count or a countdown clock. • Hints that teach — a hint explains WHY a match is safe or fatal (it frees a tile you need, or buries its own pair) instead of gifting a free move to sell an ad. • Unlimited undo, always free — it's a logic puzzle, not a slot machine. • A fresh daily board — reproducible on every layout and difficulty, free forever. Build a streak; chase a clean, no-undo line for all three cups. • A gentle coach — miss the line and it walks back to the exact move that stranded the board, shows the safe pair you missed, and lets you play on. • Six hand-painted tile sets and several classic layouts — carry the heritage with no language barrier. FAIR BY DESIGN • No ads. Anywhere. Ever. • No shuffles, no energy timers, no dark patterns. • Free to play a fresh certified board every day. One optional unlock opens unlimited boards and every tile set — a single payment, yours forever. Pour a cup. Your table is ready.
Squircle Shift
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A tranquil, minimalist spatial phenomenon where out-of-the-box thinking and precise color frame alignments offer total mental clarity. Escape noisy, over-stimulating games and discover true mental calm! Designed for thinkers seeking refined simplicity, this aesthetic puzzle experience invites you to slide rounded squares (squircles) into matching colored frames. While the rules are deceptively easy, solving these handcrafted challenges demands genuine creative intuition and lateral thinking—where a single brilliant move can unlock solutions you've contemplated for days! Enhanced by a subtle visual aesthetic, soothing ambient music, and intuitive one-handed controls, enjoy a peaceful sanctuary featuring 48 initial handcrafted levels, a smooth puzzle previewer, and a powerful undo mechanism.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Squircle Shift at none against Teahouse's 1. Squircle Shift also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Teahouse's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Teahouse sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Squircle Shift asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Teahouse | Squircle Shift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 104 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Karl Groethe | Mong Xuan Luong Hoang |
In-app purchases
Teahouse
- Teahouse Unlock$4.99
Squircle Shift
No in-app purchases
Questions
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