Comparison

Squircle Shift vs Pofu

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

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About

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 thinkingโ€”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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Pofu

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Half puzzle, half chat. Touch a pofu: every pofu of its color that it is standing against goes with it, and everything above the gap falls. Then talk with other players in rooms for your game and language, or one to one. Each time you open Pofu, you choose a half. THE PUZZLE That falling is the game: the same board cleared in a different order is a different board. Press and hold to see what a touch will take before you let go. - Three hundred levels in nine worlds, each level stored with a solution that the tests replay through the game's own rules, so every board can be finished - A new daily puzzle every morning from level 20, with a streak you can save once a week - Fifteen special pofu, from one that counts as every color to a black hole that sends you back to level one, with one chance per board to escape it - Skins you earn with your stars, achievements, and rules drawn behind the i: no words on the board - The puzzle needs no account and plays offline THE PLAYER CHAT (ADULTS ONLY) The chat is the same in every Erek Studio game that has it: one account, made with Sign in with Apple. It is for adults only: 18+, and 19+ in Korea. - Rooms for each game and language, and one-to-one messages; a first message from someone new arrives as a request - You choose who to talk to: there is no matching - Report or block anyone from their message or profile; what you report is hidden for you at once - Messages are checked for safety by Anthropic's AI; you agree to this before you join - Text only, no photos or links; a profile photo comes with Chat+ and is checked by AI before anyone sees it - With notifications on, you know when a message or a chat request arrives; they never show what it says - In Korea, the chat is Pofu's Korean room, and one-to-one messages go only between people who both wrote there - Delete your chat account in the app at any time; your game progress stays ADS, POFU PRO AND CHAT+ The puzzle is free to play with ads: one between levels every so often, never during a board, and optional videos for a help. No level needs them. Pofu Pro, a one-time purchase, removes the ads, gives every help instantly without a video, adds three Pro skins and opens the daily archive. Chat+ is an auto-renewing subscription, monthly or yearly. In Pofu it gives everything Pofu Pro gives, and in the chat: - Unlimited direct messages - Looks and a profile photo - Contact sharing: only in an accepted one-to-one chat, once the other person has written 3 times; they can turn it off. Never in rooms or profiles - Outside Korea: create your own rooms, public or invite-only, and find players by country and language Chat+ works in every Erek Studio game where you sign into the chat. Bought in Pofu without a chat account, it unlocks Pofu's perks on this device; signing into the chat later moves it to your account. Restore purchases brings back Pofu Pro and Chat+. Payment is charged to your Apple ID when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically at the same price unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it anytime in your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mustafasalimerek-bit.github.io/pofu-legal/

Screenshots

Squircle Shift4 screens
Pofu4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Squircle Shift at none against Pofu's 3. Squircle Shift also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads 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. Pofu sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Squircle Shift asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Squircle Shift versus Pofu: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSquircle ShiftPofu
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 6 weeks
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod โ€” better
Requires iOS12.0 โ€” better15.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size104 MB34 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMong Xuan Luong HoangMustafa Salim Erek

In-app purchases

None

Squircle Shift

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Pofu

Subscriptions2
  • Chat+ Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Chat+ Yearly$24.991 Year
One-time1
  • Pofu Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Squircle Shift free?
Squircle Shift is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pofu free?
Pofu is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Squircle Shift or Pofu have ads?
Both Squircle Shift and Pofu show ads.

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