Comparison

Orbit Shift vs Sweepfield

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

Head to head
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.

About

Sweepfield

Features
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A cozy minesweeper where flowers bloom in the cells you open. Clear the board to collect them, and find all 64 kinds for your Field Almanac. ■ Collect flowers ・Flowers bloom in the empty cells you open ・Clear the board to collect one of each flower that bloomed ・Home shows a bouquet of your flowers, one bloom for each kind you have ・Rare flowers bloom only now and then. The Field Almanac shows the odds ・Flowers you haven't collected yet sparkle on the board ■ Four difficulties ・Choose Quick, Beginner, Intermediate, or Expert ・Your first tap and the cells around it are always safe ・The game looks for a board you can solve without guessing. Only if none is found will a board need a guess ・Tracks your wins in a row and your best time on each difficulty ■ Feel and accessibility ・Soft sounds and haptics as cells open ・Light and dark appearance ・Playable start to finish with VoiceOver, and works with larger text and Reduce Motion ■ Ads and purchases ・Every board works without a connection, and there is nothing to sign up for ・A banner appears at the bottom during play ・Full-screen ads sometimes appear between games, but not during your first 3 days ・Dug up a mine? Watch an ad by choice to go back to just before you dug ・Watch an ad by choice to get a Hint ・The one-time Remove Ads purchase removes the banner and the ads between games

Screenshots

Orbit Shift4 screens
Sweepfield4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sweepfield at every 4 days against Orbit Shift's monthly. Orbit Shift's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 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. Orbit Shift sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sweepfield sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orbit Shift ships an update monthly, Sweepfield every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Orbit Shift versus Sweepfield: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbit ShiftSweepfield
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size86 MB6 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperCONNOR D HOHLENKenji Ido

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Orbit Shift

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99
1 purchases

Sweepfield

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$2.99

Questions

Is Orbit Shift free?
Orbit Shift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sweepfield free?
Sweepfield is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Orbit Shift or Sweepfield have ads?
Both Orbit Shift and Sweepfield show ads.
Which is updated more often, Orbit Shift or Sweepfield?
Orbit Shift ships an update monthly, and Sweepfield every 4 days. Most recently, Orbit Shift was updated on October 25, 2026 and Sweepfield on October 29, 2026.

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