Comparison

Cantle vs Slackwire

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

Head to head
About

Cantle

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Cantle is a daily logic puzzle with one rule: two shapes joined by a line can't be the same color. There are four colors. The squares come already colored, and you color the circles. Every board has exactly one solution, checked before it reaches you, so you never have to guess. A NEW BOARD EVERY DAY Everyone in the world plays the same board each day, and a new one arrives at midnight UTC. Solve it and see your place on the day's leaderboard. Solve every day to build a streak. Every seven solves earn a freeze that covers a day you miss, and you can hold two. TWO DAILY BOARDS The Standard board is free for everyone. Cantle Pro adds the Hard board, a tougher daily puzzle with its own streak and its own leaderboard. FRIENDS AND DUELS Add friends with a six-character friend code and compare results on a friends leaderboard. Challenge a friend to a duel: you both get the same board and 24 hours to play it. EVENTS On some days of the year the daily boards are pictures for a holiday, like Halloween. Playing them earns free looks, and they stay yours. ACHIEVEMENTS Fifty-five medals for streaks, flawless solves, fast times, top places, practice, duels and friends, from bronze to legend. PRACTICE Unlimited boards on four levels, Seed, Theorem, Proof and Axiom, with your best time kept for each. Practice never touches your streak. Proof and Axiom come with Pro. THE ARCHIVE With Pro, every board since day one is ready to play. Playing a past board never changes your streak. MAKE IT YOURS Choose board themes, symbol sets and wallpapers, and build your own avatar. The Paper wallpaper, the Wax theme and the Sigils symbols are free. Paper is light, and the game can follow your phone between light and dark. Every color can show a symbol, so the puzzle stays easy to play even if you find colors hard to tell apart. NO ACCOUNT, NO ADS No email and no password: Cantle creates an anonymous profile the first time you open it. There are no ads and no third-party analytics. I make Cantle on my own. CANTLE PRO Cantle Pro is an optional subscription, monthly or yearly. It adds the daily Hard board, the full archive, and the Proof and Axiom levels in practice and duels. Board themes, symbol sets and wallpapers can also be bought one by one. Terms of Use: https://cantle.app/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://cantle.app/privacy/

About

Slackwire

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Slackwire is a puzzle about joining cables into loops. Every loop plays music. The board is a panel of cut cables bolted to a plate. Tap a piece of cable and it swings. Bring two cut ends together and they join. Close a whole run and a spark sets off around it, playing one note for every cell it crosses. A loop's shape decides its melody. Where it sits decides how high it sounds, and the number of cells it covers is the length of its phrase. Two loops of different lengths drift against each other and come back together. While you work, the loose ends crackle on their own, in the key of the room you're in. Close a loop and the notes that were already sounding fall into rhythm. WHAT'S IN IT Eight rooms. Each has its own scale, reverb, cable colors and set of four instruments. You move to a new one every few panels. Panels that grow. The first is a single ring of four pieces. Later ones tangle, and once the plain board is familiar, cables start to cross over each other. No score, no timer, no way to lose. No notifications and no streaks. Put it down in the middle of a panel and nothing is spoiled. No account, no analytics, no internet. It works on a plane. PRICE Slackwire is free, with no ads and nothing locked.

Screenshots

Cantle4 screens
Slackwire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Slackwire at none against Cantle's 20. Slackwire also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 10 days). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Cantle sells 20 one-off in-app purchases. Slackwire asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cantle ships an update every 10 days, Slackwire daily. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
Cantle versus Slackwire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCantleSlackwire
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo โ€” better
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 โ€” better17.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size50 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperYurii HalasKevin Spence

In-app purchases

20 purchases

Cantle

One-time20
  • Treats$0.99
  • Spooky$0.99
  • Moonlit$0.99
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  • Suits$0.99
  • Slate$0.99
  • Ember$0.99
  • Pumpkin$1.99
  • Velvet$1.99
  • Currents$1.99
  • Glyphs$1.99
  • Deep$1.99
  • Cosmic$1.99
  • Botanical$1.99
  • Horizon$1.99
  • Tidewater$1.99
  • Marbles$2.99
  • Dune$2.99
  • Obsidian$2.99
  • Chroma$2.99
  • Verdigris$2.99
None

Slackwire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cantle free?
Cantle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Slackwire free?
Slackwire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Cantle or Slackwire have ads?
Neither Cantle nor Slackwire shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cantle or Slackwire?
Cantle ships an update every 10 days, and Slackwire daily. Most recently, Cantle was updated on October 25, 2026 and Slackwire on October 13, 2026.

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