Comparison

Tanglebound vs Wavelark

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

Head to head
About

Tanglebound

Features
Read full description

A little friend is waiting for your help. Tanglebound is a cozy puzzle game about unraveling tangled paths and bringing animals home. Follow the arrows, find a path that can escape, and loosen the cage one piece at a time. Every puzzle you solve adds a new friend to your Rescue Journal. CHOOSE A COMPANION THAT SUITS YOU Before each rescue, choose from five animal companions. Each one helps in a different way—from revealing useful paths to giving you another way through a difficult tangle. Pick the companion that matches how you like to play. 100 RESCUES, 100 FRIENDS Meet cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, and foxes, each illustrated in a soft watercolor storybook style. Bring them home, fill every page of your Rescue Journal, and choose rescued favorites to travel with you on future puzzles. PUZZLES THAT GROW WITH YOU The rules are easy to learn: look at each arrow, understand what blocks its path, and choose the right order. Later boards become larger and more intricate, inviting you to zoom, explore, and think ahead—always at your own pace. FEATURES - Directional path puzzles designed for touch - Five companions with distinct ways to help - 100 rescue puzzles and 100 animal friends - Cats, dogs, rabbits, birds, and foxes to discover - A Rescue Journal that records every friend brought home - Gentle watercolor art and a warm storybook atmosphere - Relaxed play with no time pressure Unravel every cage. Bring every friend home.

About

Wavelark

Engage with a unique puzzle game where you tap to send rings of light through five distinct skies, each with its own quiet rule. Solve short, readable puzzles without timers or pressure, and receive a shareable digital art card upon completion.

Highlights
  • Five unique puzzle skies
  • Code-generated interactive art
  • Shareable digital art cards
  • Offline gameplay
  • No timers or failure states
  • Customizable audio and haptics
Features
Read full description

Five skies are listening. Tap, and a ring of halftone light leaves your finger and travels up. When it reaches a receiver, the receiver charges; charge one twice and it answers with a gold ring of its own. That is the whole verb. Everything else is the sky. Each of the five skies adds one quiet rule: - The Courtyard - clouds absorb what you send. - The Wind - the wind carries every wave sideways. Aim upwind. - The Night - the receivers are hidden until a wave strikes them. - The Harbor - the water mirrors your wave back at the sky. - The Chorus - only the chorus can reach the great eye. You get a small budget of taps per sky, so a sky is a short, readable puzzle rather than a test of speed. There is no timer and nothing to fail loudly at. A run takes about ten minutes. When you finish, the app draws you a card - live, by the same renderer that drew the sky you just played - and you can keep it, share it, or save it to Photos. Also inside: - An atlas of the five skies, with your best run for each and single-sky replay. - A gallery of the cards you kept. - Music, sound and haptics each with their own switch. Made to be quiet: - The game itself plays offline; the network is used for ads and attribution. - No account and no sign-in. Free, with no in-app purchases. - Ad supported: one interstitial after a full five-sky run, never during play. - Your runs, cards and settings stay on this device. The advertising and attribution SDKs collect device identifiers and ad data - see the privacy policy. The music is written for this app and synthesized live as you play, so no two runs sound quite the same. The scenery is AI-generated and was reviewed by hand; everything interactive - the waves, the receivers, the rings, the card - is drawn by code at runtime.

Screenshots

Tanglebound4 screens
Wavelark4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tanglebound at none against Wavelark's shown. Tanglebound also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Tanglebound versus Wavelark: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTangleboundWavelark
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.3 (20 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—20 — better
Update frequency—Every 2 days
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Ad-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB313 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMindsEye Mobile LimitedZeren Brisk

In-app purchases

None

Tanglebound

No in-app purchases

None

Wavelark

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tanglebound free?
Tanglebound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Wavelark free?
Wavelark is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Tanglebound or Wavelark have ads?
Wavelark shows ads; Tanglebound does not.

Other comparisons