Comparison

Daily Brain Journey vs Valley Sort

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

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About

Daily Brain Journey

Features
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Daily Brain turns four classic games into one focused daily ritual. Complete today’s four-stop journey: • Mahjong for visual scanning and spatial attention • WordHurdle 5 for vocabulary recall and deduction • Sudoku for logic and pattern tracking • Klondike Solitaire for sequencing and forward planning Every calendar day brings a deterministic new set of challenges. Everyone receives the same daily word and seeded game layouts, and returning to a previous day restores that day’s challenge. Track your time, moves, difficulty, and points in every game. Your Brain Score is a rolling average of your latest seven calendar days, so thoughtful play and a consistent daily habit both matter. Once you begin, skipped days count as zero in the average. Choose how you play: • Adjust Mahjong and Sudoku difficulty inside each game • Choose Klondike Draw 1 or Draw 3 • Replay completed games without inflating your daily score • Use tutorials, restart controls, haptics, and offline-friendly play • Explore Spider Solitaire, FreeCell, and WordHurdle 4 and 6 in the Practice Library Daily Brain Journeys Plus is an optional auto-renewing monthly or yearly subscription. Plus unlocks hints, past calendar journeys, harder game modes, additional games, and the full Practice Library. A subscription is not required to complete the free Core journey. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Daily Brain is for entertainment. It describes the thinking styles used during play; it does not diagnose, treat, or promise changes to cognitive health.

About

Valley Sort

Guide travelers home in this serene puzzle game. Solve increasingly complex sorting challenges by directing colored crowds to their designated platforms. Discover new mechanics and enjoy a calming visual and auditory experience.

Highlights
  • Color-based crowd sorting
  • Progressive puzzle mechanics
  • Themed valley chapters
  • Endless supply of puzzles
  • Relaxing ambient music and visuals
  • Undo and hint system
Features
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A crowd of robed travellers waits at the top of the stairs. Tap to lift them, tap again to send them walking down — and watch a whole valley sort itself into colour. Valley Sort is a calm, beautiful sorting puzzle set among pastel towers, floating stones and long stairways. Gather every colour onto its own platform to finish the valley, then watch it crumble into the mist as the next one rises out of it. LEARNED IN TWO TAPS Travellers will only join a crowd of their own colour, or step onto an empty platform. That is the whole rule. Everything after it is you, looking at a beautiful little tangle and quietly working out the thread to pull first. A VALLEY THAT KEEPS SURPRISING YOU Just as you settle into a rhythm, the valley teaches you something new: - Veiled travellers who hide their colour until the crowd in front of them walks away - Caves that let crowds out one by one, and never let anyone back in - Frozen crowds that thaw only as you complete others - Wild travellers who belong to every colour at once - Burning lanterns counting down, worn stairs that crumble, carts that must move as one - Dyed stairs that recolour whoever crosses them - A harbour where completed crowds sail away and caravans bring new travellers to the gate IT NEVER RUNS OUT — AND IT IS NEVER UNFAIR Hand-built opening valleys give way to an endless supply of fresh ones, and every single puzzle is solved by the game before it ever reaches you. No impossible deals. No wasted evening. A JOURNEY WITH A SHAPE Climb through chapters of themed valleys, rise from Traveller to Valley Sage, fill your firefly jar, and meet a boss valley — the biggest of its chapter — at the end of each one. Your furthest valley goes to Game Center, if you want the company. MADE TO RELAX IN - Soft isometric architecture that dissolves into drifting mist - Skies that turn from dawn to lagoon to lilac to a starlit night - Gentle generative music and bell-like chimes that follow each level - Undo, hints, power-ups and a rewind for when you are truly stuck - Haptics on supported devices Take a breath, lift a crowd and guide the travellers home.

Screenshots

Daily Brain Journey4 screens
Valley Sort4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Brain Journey at none against Valley Sort's 10. Valley Sort's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 days). On price, ads, 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. Valley Sort sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Daily Brain Journey asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Daily Brain Journey ships an update every 8 days, Valley Sort every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 5 level
Daily Brain Journey versus Valley Sort: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDaily Brain JourneyValley Sort
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size48 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUnwind Media, LLCHE HE

In-app purchases

None

Daily Brain Journey

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Valley Sort

One-time6
  • Hour of Hearts$0.99
  • Wayfarer’s Kit2 variants$1.99
  • Afternoon of Hearts2 variants$1.99
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  • Day of Hearts$4.99
  • Explorer’s Bundle2 variants$7.99
  • Legend of the Valley2 variants$19.99

Questions

Is Daily Brain Journey free?
Daily Brain Journey is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Valley Sort free?
Valley Sort is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Daily Brain Journey or Valley Sort have ads?
Neither Daily Brain Journey nor Valley Sort shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Daily Brain Journey or Valley Sort?
Daily Brain Journey ships an update every 8 days, and Valley Sort every 2 days. Most recently, Daily Brain Journey was updated on October 29, 2026 and Valley Sort on November 6, 2026.

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