Comparison

Decant vs Orbit Shift

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

Head to head
About

Decant

This is a color-sorting puzzle game where players pour liquids into glass vessels to achieve a single color in each. It offers a variety of puzzles, daily challenges, and practice modes with customizable controls and no timers or lives.

Highlights
  • 180 color-sort puzzles
  • Daily ranked challenges
  • Practice puzzle generation
  • Satisfying glass pour animations
  • Customizable controls
  • No timers or lives
Features
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Pour a little color. Make a little order. Decant is a color-sort puzzle with luminous glass vessels and a simple goal: leave each filled vessel with just one color. Tap a vessel, choose a matching color or an empty space, and pour the top group. Two spare vessels give you room to think—not a shortcut to buy. NO ADS. ROOM TO PLAY. - 180 puzzles across four difficulty levels, each checked for a solution. - A fresh, always-free Daily, with the same ranked board and rules for everyone. - Practice puzzles generated and checked before you play. - Satisfying glass pours—or instant pours when you prefer to skip the animation. - Liquid symbols, a high-contrast palette, and sound, haptic, handedness, and motion controls. - Free restarts. No lives, energy, timers, or extra vessels for sale. Find a solution, then try to make it cleaner. A Perfect clear uses the fewest possible pours. Older archived Daily puzzles may show a Target instead; that is a reference solution, not a promise of the minimum. START FREE. UNLOCK MORE IF YOU LIKE. The first 30 puzzles, today's Daily, and three practice puzzles per day are free, with three undos per board. The Daily does not count against your practice allowance. A one-time Decant Full Game Unlock opens all 180 puzzles, unlimited practice and undos outside the ranked Daily, the full Daily archive for unranked practice, and advanced records. Or choose the StackForge Play Pass for Pro access across StackForge games and One Good Thing. Prices are shown before purchase. Play Pass subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled. Today's ranked Daily gives every player the same three undos, whether free or Pro. No ads in either tier. Optional account sync keeps your progress and Play Pass connected. Terms: https://stackforgestudios.com/terms Privacy: https://stackforgestudios.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Orbit Shift

Engage in a unique circular puzzle game where you strategically place curved pieces to complete rings and rays. Plan ahead for orbital shifts to trigger chain reactions and achieve new high scores. Track your progress, compete on global leaderboards, and enjoy offline play.

Highlights
  • Circular puzzle board
  • Strategic piece placement
  • Orbital shift prediction
  • Chain reactions and combos
  • Resumable gameplay
  • Global and friend leaderboards
  • Offline progress tracking
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Build the orbit. Plan the shift. Chase a new high score. Orbit Shift is an original circular puzzle game built around a six-ring board. Drag curved pieces into place, complete full rings and center-to-edge rays, and plan around clearly announced orbital shifts. Every clear pulls remaining cells inward, opening the door to chain reactions and bigger scores. Keep a run going with Play/Continue. The first run you finish each local day is recorded under Today. Earn Spark XP, build streaks, and work through 12 illustrated challenges in My Progress. Compare your best score on the Global leaderboard or add friends to see how you stack up. Choose a public nickname to join the online leaderboards, or keep playing offline without a profile. Features: • Touch-first portrait play for iPhone and iPad • Strategic ring and ray clears • Predicted orbital shifts • Chain reactions, combos, and high scores • One resumable Play/Continue path • Global and Friends leaderboards • Automatic Today tracking, Spark XP, streaks, and 12 challenges • Five colorful themes, including pink Berry Burst, and four original soundtracks • Optional Game Center leaderboard and achievements • Offline-friendly local progress • Optional rewarded continues • A one-time Remove Automatic Ads purchase No sign-in is required to play. Online leaderboard features need an internet connection. Public profiles show your nickname and best score. Reporting, blocking, and online player-data deletion are available in the app. Rewarded videos are optional. A gameplay banner and paced interstitial ads support the free game. Remove Automatic Ads removes the banner and automatic interstitials; player-requested rewarded videos remain optional.

Screenshots

Decant4 screens
Orbit Shift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Orbit Shift at 5.0 against Decant's 4.5. Decant's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Decant sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Orbit Shift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Orbit Shift holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Decant ships an update weekly, Orbit Shift monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Decant versus Orbit Shift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDecantOrbit Shift
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Number of ratings23 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.115.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB86 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperStackForge StudiosCONNOR D HOHLEN

Customer experience

Decant

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Orbit Shift

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Decant

Subscriptions2
  • StackForge Play Pass Monthly$2.991 Month
  • StackForge Play Pass Annual$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Full Game Unlock$4.99
1 purchases

Orbit Shift

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Decant free?
Decant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Orbit Shift free?
Orbit Shift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Decant or Orbit Shift?
Orbit Shift is rated higher. Decant averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Orbit Shift averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Decant or Orbit Shift have ads?
Orbit Shift shows ads; Decant does not.
Which is updated more often, Decant or Orbit Shift?
Decant ships an update weekly, and Orbit Shift monthly. Most recently, Decant was updated on October 29, 2026 and Orbit Shift on October 25, 2026.

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