BirdBrainz vs Sort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
BirdBrainz
A logic puzzle game where players deduce the correct placement of birds on a grid, following simple rules about rows, columns, and diagonals. Offers over 40,000 puzzles with unique solutions and beautiful bird artwork.
- Over 40,000 puzzles
- Unique solution for every puzzle
- Animated bird artwork
- Six difficulty tiers
- Helpful hints
- Simple tap or drag controls
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Train your brain with logic. Fall in love with the birds. BirdBrainz is a colorful puzzle where a flock of feathered friends absolutely refuse to share a row, a column, or so much as a diagonal glance. Your job: figure out exactly where each one belongs, using nothing but deduction. Every puzzle is generated to have exactly one solution. There's no guessing required—only logic. Place a bird where the others don't like, and the newcomer startles them away, feathers ruffling in a huff. Whether you have two minutes or twenty, BirdBrainz offers relaxing puzzles that reward careful thinking—and a cast of characters that make solving them fun. FEATURES • More than 40,000 puzzles • One unique solution for every puzzle • Beautiful animated bird artwork, with signature reactions for every species • Six difficulty tiers, from a gentle warm-up to seriously tricky, unlocking as you improve • Helpful hints when you're stuck • Simple controls—tap or drag birds into place EASY TO LEARN Each bird has its own home. Birds don't share rows. Birds don't share columns. Birds can't perch next to other birds, even diagonally. Those simple rules combine to form a huge range of puzzles, from simple to seriously tricky. HOWEVER YOU LIKE TO SOLVE You can mark off every impossible cell before placing a single bird — total certainty, one step at a time. Or you can place a bird the moment it feels right, then backtrack if a bird objects. Most of the time you'll land somewhere in between, and BirdBrainz keeps up either way: mark, place, undo, repeat. There's no wrong way to think it through. MEET THE CAST You'll start with 5 recurring birds and meet 4 more as you progress—from the bold red Cardinal and the sharp-crested Blue Jay to the tiny, hovering Hummingbird and the round, watchful Snowy Owl. Each one has its own look, its own moves, and its own opinion about being told where to sit. RELAXING No timers. No rushing. No pressure. Just you, colorful birds, and satisfying deductions. Download BirdBrainz and see how many puzzles—and ruffled feathers—you can rack up. Terms of Use (Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sharkriverstudios.com/birdbrainz/privacy
Sort
A relaxing puzzle game where you tap beans to sort them into matching colored baskets. Progress through hundreds of levels with a daily challenge and unlockable content. Tools are available to help when you get stuck.
- Hundreds of bean-sorting levels
- Daily puzzle challenges
- Unlockable content and hidden pictures
- Helpful in-game tools
- Colorblind mode
- Short, satisfying gameplay sessions
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Tap a bean, watch it roll, fill the basket. Sort-a-Bean is a cozy sorting puzzle with hundreds of beans, a pea pod, and a heap that's always one good tap from clearing. HOW TO PLAY • Every bean lies the way it will roll. Tap it and off it goes. • Match beans to baskets of their color. Fill a basket and it's carried away. • Clear the table to finish the level. EASY TO LEARN, SATISFYING TO MASTER • Beans on top come off first. Dig for the ones underneath. • Taller stacks block the roll. Read the heap, then tap. • No basket out yet? Park a bean in the pod. Seats are few, so choose well. • Sprouts tie two beans to one stem. Take one and both come along. A GAME THAT GROWS WITH YOU • 500 levels in chapters of ten, gentle at first, with HARD levels announced on the way in. • A new daily puzzle, the same for everyone, every day. • A pod to open every day, with a bigger one at the end of the week. • Hidden pictures poured into the heaps, and a levels map that changes as you journey deeper. • Every level can be finished without spending a thing. TOOLS FOR WHEN YOU'RE STUCK • Sort fills every basket you have out and seals them. • Magnet lifts any one bean straight off the table, whatever is in its way. • Shuffle puts the heap back down a different way. • Earn coins by finishing levels and opening your daily pod. COZY BY DESIGN • Colorblind mode, and an optional daily reminder you can turn off any time. • Most levels take two to four minutes. Good for a bus stop or a cup of tea. Pour a heap. Sort a bean. Clear the table.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: BirdBrainz at none against Sort's 10. BirdBrainz also leads on ads (none vs shown). Sort's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating 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
Both are free to download. Sort sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. BirdBrainz asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for BirdBrainz against 5.0 for Sort. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 3 respectively.
BirdBrainz ships an update monthly, Sort every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | BirdBrainz | Sort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Shark River Studios LLC | Levi Tracy |
In-app purchases
BirdBrainz
No in-app purchases
Sort
- 600 Coins$0.99
- Starter Pack$1.99
- 1,600 Coins$2.49
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- 3,500 Coins$4.99
- Booster Bundle$5.99
- No Ads$6.99
- No Ads Pack$8.99
- 7,500 Coins$9.99
- 16,000 Coins$19.99
- 40,000 Coins$39.99









