Comparison

Cube at a Glance vs Minimum Effort

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

Head to head
About

Cube at a Glance

This app uses your device's camera to scan and solve twisty puzzles. It provides step-by-step 3D guidance, allowing you to follow solutions move by move. You can also manually input colors or practice with a virtual puzzle.

Highlights
  • Camera-based puzzle scanning
  • Automatic color recognition
  • Step-by-step 3D solution guidance
  • Manual color input
  • Virtual puzzle play
  • Supports multiple puzzle types
Features
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Cube at a Glance turns your camera into a puzzle-solving guide. Scan a real twisty puzzle, review the recognized colors, and follow a clear 3D solution one move at a time. You can also enter colors manually or play with the virtual puzzle. Scan and solve • Follow a puzzle-specific 3D camera guide to capture each face. • Sticker colors are recognized automatically. • Review the result and correct any color before solving. • The app validates the entered state before generating a guide. Step-by-step 3D guidance • Continue from the puzzle's current state and viewing direction. • See every move with 3D arrows, animation, and written instructions. • Move backward or forward through the guide, or use auto play. • Lightly scrambled cubes use shorter sequences when possible. Supported puzzles • 2×2×2 and 3×3×3 • 4×4×4, 5×5×5, 6×6×6, and 7×7×7 • Pyraminx, Skewb, and Megaminx • FTO and Square-1 Play and track your solves • Swipe to turn layers, drag to rotate the view, and pinch to zoom. • Use scramble, timer, move count, undo, and completion detection. • Record solves and review them later. Privacy The camera is used only for puzzle scanning. Camera frames and color recognition are processed on your device and are not saved or sent externally. Records and settings remain on your device. From your first cube to advanced twisty puzzles, scan it, understand it, and solve it with Cube at a Glance.

About

Minimum Effort

Features
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You have a job. You do not want to do it. Minimum Effort is a satirical workplace strategy game. Every workday runs from 09:00 to 17:00, and everything you can do with those 480 minutes trades three things against each other: the time it saves you, the output it actually produces, and how conspicuous it makes you. The goal is not to be good at your job. It is to find the least amount of work that survives. HOW A DAY WORKS • Do the work, fake the work, or avoid it entirely. Looking busy covers part of a shortfall when the boss checks the deliverables. It never files the report. • The boss patrols the floor. When he walks past in the middle of something you get a couple of seconds to look busy . and less time the hotter you already are. • Repeat an act and it gets riskier every time. The fourth bathroom break is not the first bathroom break. • Colleagues talk. Each one has their own trust in you and their own doubts, and a rumour that crosses the floor twice reaches the boss's office from a direction you were not watching. THE PEOPLE Your accomplice will cover for you. The overachiever notices an unearned win. The snitch keeps a note of when people leave their desk. The gossip has already told two other people. You can chat, delegate your work, ask somebody to cover, genuinely help them . or put your name on their work, which they never forget. PROMOTIONS ARE A TRAP Every rung on the ladder pays more and expects more. Getting promoted is easy. Staying just competent enough not to be fired, one rung higher, with a bigger quota and the same amount of effort . that is the game. FIVE CAREERS - Corporate. Easy. Meetings, decks and a quarterly review nobody reads. - Startup. Chaotic. Twelve people, no structure, and everybody notices everything. - Consulting. Medium. Frameworks, workstreams, and never being the one with the answer. - Investment banking. Extreme. Enormous money, enormous work, and an associate who never leaves. - Home office. Nobody can see you and everything is measured. The green dot is your new boss and it cannot be charmed. Corporate and Startup are included. Consulting and Investment Banking are unlocked together by the Career Pack. Home Office is its own pack. Both are one purchase each, not a subscription, nothing recurring, and either one removes the advertising. THE ONLY SCORE THAT MATTERS Total money earned, divided by hours you actually worked. Retire at the top of a ladder having been paid for years and worked for weeks, and the number on your record board will say so. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No account and no sign-in. Your careers are saved on your device and nothing about them leaves it. It does show advertising, which Google's ad kit loads over the network, and either pack removes it. Minimum Effort is a work of satire. The offices, the colleagues and the careers are invented, and nothing in it is advice about a real job. Recommendations for our other apps load online. Their views and taps are counted as daily totals, without personal profiles or user/device identifiers. See our privacy policy.

Screenshots

Cube at a Glance4 screens
Minimum Effort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cube at a Glance at 15.4 against Minimum Effort's 17.0. On price, ads, 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. Cube at a Glance sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Minimum Effort sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Cube at a Glance versus Minimum Effort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCube at a GlanceMinimum Effort
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB7 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperODD DUCK Corp.Levin David Schwab

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cube at a Glance

One-time10
  • Unlock 4×4×4 Puzzle$1.29
  • Unlock 5×5×5 Puzzle$1.29
  • Unlock 6×6×6 Puzzle$1.29
Show 7 more
  • Unlock 7×7×7 Puzzle$1.29
  • Unlock FTO$1.29
  • Unlock Megaminx$1.29
  • Unlock Skewb$1.29
  • Unlock Square-1$1.29
  • Remove Home Ads$3.00
  • Remove Solve Ads$5.00
2 purchases

Minimum Effort

One-time2
  • Home Office Pack$3.99
  • Career Pack$3.99

Questions

Is Cube at a Glance free?
Cube at a Glance is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Minimum Effort free?
Minimum Effort is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cube at a Glance or Minimum Effort have ads?
Both Cube at a Glance and Minimum Effort show ads.

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