Comparison

Decant vs Sort & Settle

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

Head to head
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Decant

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/

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Sort & Settle

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Sort & Settle is a sorting puzzle with nothing hurrying you. Tap a tube to lift a block. Tap another to pour it. Fill each tube with one colour and the level is done. You can learn it in about eight seconds, and there is no way to lose it. BUILT FOR BRAINS THAT NEED SOMETHING TO DO This was designed with ADHD, ADD and autistic players in mind. That shaped real decisions, not just the description: • No timers. Anywhere. Not on levels, not on menus. • No streaks, no lives, no daily targets. Nothing expires while you're away. Put it down for a month and nothing is lost. • Unlimited undo and unlimited hints, always, free. Nothing is counted and nothing runs out. • No ads. Not now, not later. • No notifications unless you turn them on. • Your music, podcast or noise app keeps playing. Sort & Settle mixes with it and never interrupts. IT WILL TELL YOU IF A BOARD CAN'T BE WON Sorting puzzles let you paint yourself into a corner — a position that's legal, still has moves, and cannot be finished. Most games leave you working at one until you give up and assume you're bad at it. This one checks after every move, and if the board really can't be won it says so and offers to step you back to where it still could be. You will never spend twenty minutes on something that was already lost. MADE TO BE SEEN • Three themes — Calm, Contrast and Playful — switchable instantly, all free. • Every colour was tested against simulated protanopia, deuteranopia and tritanopia, and adjusted until the hardest pair was comfortably distinguishable. • When a board has more colours than a theme can keep clearly apart, distinct shapes appear on the blocks automatically. You don't have to know that setting exists. • Full VoiceOver support, and the game names blocks by shape rather than colour, so the labels make sense whether or not you've seen the colours. • Larger Text, Bold Text, Reduce Motion and Differentiate Without Colour all respected. • Every action is a single tap on a large target. Nothing needs a drag. MORE ROOM WHEN YOU WANT IT Turn on Extra Spare Tube and every board in the game gets more forgiving. It isn't called easy mode, because it isn't one — it's just more room to think. WORKS ANYWHERE No account. No sign-up. No internet needed, ever. The app has no networking code in it at all. If you're signed into iCloud your place follows you between iPhone and iPad; if you're not, everything still works and stays on your device. FREE, THEN ONE PAYMENT Levels 1–25 are free. One purchase unlocks every level after that, forever, on all your devices. It's a single payment, not a subscription, and it buys levels — never hints, never themes, never accessibility settings. Hundreds of hand-paced levels before the board stops growing, then it keeps going.

Screenshots

Decant4 screens
Sort & Settle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Decant at 15.1 against Sort & Settle'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. Decant sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Sort & Settle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Decant versus Sort & Settle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDecantSort & Settle
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size79 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStackForge StudiosDaniel Maldonado

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

Sort & Settle

One-time1
  • Full Version$3.99

Questions

Is Decant free?
Decant is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sort & Settle free?
Sort & Settle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Decant or Sort & Settle have ads?
Neither Decant nor Sort & Settle shows ads.

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