Comparison

Block'n'Roll vs Potionary

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

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Block'n'Roll

Features
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A drafting sheet, and blocks with grooves cut into them. Lay a route from the feeder to the catcher, then let the ball go and find out whether it works. Laying a route is not the same as finishing one: a climb costs speed and a drop returns some of it, but what you get back from coming down never pays for going up again. Height is spent, not borrowed. Corners cost speed too. Nothing is settled until the ball has rolled. WHAT IS IN IT Practice โ€” ten courses on small boards, where the rules are learned. Nothing is ranked. Open League โ€” twenty hand-built courses, free, ranked by the total number of pieces used across the whole set. Fewest wins. Finishing them opens the Pro League. Pro League โ€” twenty courses for people who have already finished twenty. Getting the ball home is assumed here; what is asked is how few pieces it took. Each course knows its own true minimum, so you can always see how far off you are. Drills โ€” pick a theme and a course is built on the spot. One is free each day; Pro removes the limit. Skill Trials โ€” Pro courses where the ball must pass through a fixed checkpoint before reaching the goal. A new course is made each time. Workshop โ€” place the start and the goal yourself and build whatever you like. Once it has actually rolled home, it can be given away with a share code. What arrives is the problem; the answer does not travel with it. After the other person has solved it themselves, they can look at how you did it. NO ACCOUNT, NO PERMISSIONS No sign-up, no camera, no location, and no advertising. To improve the app, we collect anonymous aggregate counts of fixed actions and the app version only โ€” never personal information, device identifiers, course content, or share codes. Generated courses rebuild from seven-character codes; your progress and hand-built courses stay on your device. No course content is uploaded to or stored on our servers. Block'n'Roll Pro is a one-time purchase โ€” not a subscription โ€” that opens Skill Trials and the Workshop, and removes the limit on drills. The Pro League becomes available after all 20 Open League courses are cleared.

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Potionary

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Sort the potions. Fill the book. Potionary is a colour-sort puzzle with an alchemist's notebook behind it. Pour glowing liquid from flask to flask until each one holds a single colour โ€” and every few puzzles, a new recipe appears in your Alchemy Journal. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT โ€ข Every level is proven solvable by a solver before you ever see it. No impossible boards, ever. โ€ข Forty hand-built opening levels that teach one idea at a time, then a measured difficulty curve for as long as you want to keep going. โ€ข An Alchemy Journal that turns the stars you earn into a collection worth finishing. MECHANICS THAT ARRIVE WHEN YOU ARE READY โ€ข Hidden potions that reveal themselves only at the top of a flask โ€ข Covered flasks that unlock as you finish others โ€ข Undo, Shuffle, Extra Flask and Hint โ€” introduced one at a time MADE TO BE PLAYED ANYWHERE โ€ข Fully offline. No account, no login, no sign-up. โ€ข No lives and no energy timer. Being stuck is a puzzle to solve, not a wall to wait behind โ€” Restart is always free. โ€ข Every bottle, star and drop of liquid is drawn in code โ€” there is not a single image file in the game. Free to play, with optional ads and optional rewards.

Screenshots

Block'n'Roll4 screens
Potionary4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Block'n'Roll at none against Potionary's shown. Potionary's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Block'n'Roll sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Potionary sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 3 level
Block'n'Roll versus Potionary: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlock'n'RollPotionary
PriceFreeFree
AdsNo โ€” betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.0 โ€” better
Further details โ€” not scored
Size3 MB38 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTakayuki Hamurofaizahmad dae

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Block'n'Roll

One-time1
  • Block'n'Roll Pro$12.99
1 purchases

Potionary

One-time1
  • Remove ads$2.99

Questions

Is Block'n'Roll free?
Block'n'Roll is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Potionary free?
Potionary is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Block'n'Roll or Potionary have ads?
Potionary shows ads; Block'n'Roll does not.

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