Comparison

CalystrixCard Carnival vs Spark Leap

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

Head to head
About

CalystrixCard Carnival

Features
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CalystrixCard Carnival is a collection of three original card puzzles, each with its own rule set. One idea holds them together: a deck of cards is a wonderful set of puzzle pieces, and a Joker is the piece that fits anywhere. Joker Orbit asks you to plant cards on three turning rings around a Joker star. Every card you plant makes the whole orrery drift, so you are always planning one step into a board that is about to move. Joker Bloom treats cards as seeds. Each suit grows its own way — hearts spread sideways, diamonds run diagonally, spades creep downward, clubs send out a single runner. Four touching plots of one suit bloom and lock in. Plant in the wrong order and your garden strangles itself. Joker Prophecy shows you the future. You can see the next three cards and the exact square each one will land on. You cannot stop them — but you can spend Joker tokens to redirect them, change their suit, or turn them wild. Then you satisfy the omens the stage demands. Every one of the 36 stages is built from a fixed seed, so a stage is the same puzzle for everybody, every time. Skill decides the outcome, not the shuffle. Features • Three original puzzles, 36 hand-authored stages, three stars to earn on each. • Joker Orbit — a drifting three-ring orrery. Nudge a ring, spend a Freeze, align the rays. • Joker Bloom — suit-directed growth on a 6Ɨ6 garden, with Joker Suns that revive everything nearby. • Joker Prophecy — turn-based and untimed. See what is coming, then bend it with Joker tokens. • Versus (2–6 players) — the host picks one puzzle and stage, everyone solves an identical board, and the best score takes the round. Placing earns XP for everyone. • No internet, no accounts, no data leaving your device — versus runs peer-to-peer over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. • Failed attempts still earn XP, so progress only ever moves forward. • Progression: levels, XP, stars, solve streaks, achievements, a leaderboard, plus Stats and a full run History. • Sound and haptics, both switchable.

About

Spark Leap

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A discharge starts at the socket with zero charge. Every step, it looks for the nearest unburned conductor inside its reach and leaps there — and then that coin burns away, so the next step is measured on a board that just changed. You never draw the route. You place coins, change the geometry, and the route works itself out. Your job is to arrange the tray so the arc lights every fruit coin, builds the charge the vault asks for, and finally leaps into the vault capacitor. • 100 hand-shaped levels across five substations, each with its own twist to the machine — generous reach and nothing else in Copper Yard, compulsory fruit and charge quotas in Fruit Line, short reach and superconductors in Storm Deck, queue-jumping lightning rods and paired twin coins in Rod Field, and a cruel 6Ɨ6 plate with a one-coin tray in The Vault • Every level is verified by a built-in solver before it is handed to you, so an unsolvable puzzle cannot exist — and Par, the second star, is the smallest winning arrangement that solver could find • Ties between equally distant conductors always break clockwise from North, so the same arrangement produces the same arc on every device, every time • A kit of four tools on every plate, refilled for every level and never sold: Probe traces the first leaps, Dry Run walks the whole route as a ghost without burning anything, Spare Coin adds a coin at the cost of the third star, Snuffer lifts a bolted coin off the board • No shop, no currency to hoard, no daily chores — just the puzzles, in order, whenever you feel like them • Coin and arc finishes unlocked with stars alone — never money, never chance • No lives, no failure state: if the arc gutters out, everything snaps back and you simply try again • Ten badges, a full log book, colourblind marks and a slow-arc mode for reading a route step by step • Completely offline. No ads, no in-app purchases, no accounts, no data collection The Surge bar at the top is a bonus and never a threat — beat it for extra sparks, miss it and the bar just goes dark while you keep thinking. This is a game about working it out, not about hurrying. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

CalystrixCard Carnival4 screens
Spark Leap4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: CalystrixCard Carnival at 14.0 against Spark Leap's 16.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CalystrixCard Carnival ships an update every 6 days, Spark Leap weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
CalystrixCard Carnival versus Spark Leap: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCalystrixCard CarnivalSpark Leap
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB5 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperZEYNEP UMUTOliver Shallenberger

In-app purchases

None

CalystrixCard Carnival

No in-app purchases

None

Spark Leap

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is CalystrixCard Carnival free?
CalystrixCard Carnival is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spark Leap free?
Spark Leap is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do CalystrixCard Carnival or Spark Leap have ads?
Neither CalystrixCard Carnival nor Spark Leap shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CalystrixCard Carnival or Spark Leap?
CalystrixCard Carnival ships an update every 6 days, and Spark Leap weekly. Most recently, CalystrixCard Carnival was updated on October 11, 2026 and Spark Leap on October 16, 2026.

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