Comparison

Color Wheel Sort vs Lanterns

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

Head to head
About

Color Wheel Sort

Features
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Get ready to spin, tap, and sort your way to victory in the ultimate color-matching puzzle experience! Immerse yourself in a vibrant world of colorful strategy. Tap the filled box containers at the bottom to release balls into the central spinning wheel. Match the right colored balls into rotating wheel, route them upward, and complete the target color trays at the top! It’s easy to pick up, satisfying to play, and packed with brain-teasing visual fun!

About

Lanterns

Engage your mind with a continuous stream of logic puzzles. Solve a variety of challenges, from grid-based problems to pathfinding, with hints available to guide your progress. Maintain your daily streak and save favorite games for later.

Highlights
  • Endless logic puzzles
  • Multiple game types (Light Up, Paths, Takuzu, etc.)
  • Hints that explain moves
  • Difficulty progression
  • Daily puzzles and streaks
  • Save favorite games
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Lanterns is an endless feed of small logic puzzles. Solve one, swipe up, and the next one is waiting. Most take a minute or two. THE GAMES • Light Up: place lanterns until every square is lit • Paths: link each lantern to its twin • Takuzu: fill the grid with suns and moons • Harbour: slide the boats and free the lantern boat • Star Battle: one star in every row, column and region • Tents: pitch a tent beside every tree • Nonogram: fill squares from the number clues • Sudoku: the classic 9×9 New games every day. HINTS THAT EXPLAIN THE MOVE Stuck? Tap the hint. It shows you a square that has to be right and says why, like "Two suns sit side by side in row 6, so this square is a moon." GOES AS HARD AS YOU WANT Tap Next round after a solve to play the same game again, a step harder. TEN A DAY Solve 10 puzzles to light your daily lantern and keep your streak going. A daily reminder is there if you want one. YOUR SHELF Save the games you like to your shelf and play them back to back. FREE No ads. No sign-in. Just open it and play.

Screenshots

Color Wheel Sort4 screens
Lanterns4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Color Wheel Sort at none against Lanterns's 6. Color Wheel Sort also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Lanterns sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Color Wheel Sort asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Color Wheel Sort versus Lanterns: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterColor Wheel SortLanterns
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—10 — better
Update frequency—Daily
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size197 MB125 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperLost Panda Games Oyun Yazilim Bilisim Teknolojileri Ticaret Anonim Sirketi10X Ventures LLC

In-app purchases

None

Color Wheel Sort

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Lanterns

One-time6
  • Pouch of Embers$1.99
  • First Light Pack$2.99
  • The Gilded Lantern$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Satchel of Embers$4.99
  • Remove Forced Ads$4.99
  • Chest of Embers$9.99

Questions

Is Color Wheel Sort free?
Color Wheel Sort is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lanterns free?
Lanterns is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Color Wheel Sort or Lanterns have ads?
Lanterns shows ads; Color Wheel Sort does not.

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