Tanglebound vs Sparkchime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tanglebound
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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.
Sparkchime
Create dazzling pixel fireworks displays on your screen. Tap to launch rockets, play a musical chime keyboard with letter keys, and record your own shows. Enjoy various skylines and burst shapes for a unique visual and auditory experience.
- Tap-to-launch fireworks
- 26-key chime keyboard
- Record and replay shows
- Multiple burst shapes
- Three selectable skylines
- Offline play
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Sparkchime turns your screen into a small pixel city at night and hands you the fireworks. Tap anywhere in the sky and a rocket climbs to that spot and bursts. Open the KEYS panel and the 26 letters become a glockenspiel: each key fires its own colour, its own shape and its own note, so quick typing becomes a chain of light and sound. Pick star, ring, flower or heart bursts, call down a shower of fourteen rockets at once, or let AUTO run a show while you watch. Hit REC, put on a performance, hit STOP, and it is saved to MY SHOWS for replay any time. Three skylines (Midnight City, Harbor Dusk, Hill Village) change the mood, six small achievements mark your milestones, and a share button hands a screenshot of your best burst to the system share sheet. Everything you hear is synthesised live on the device. There are no audio files to download and no account to create, and the fireworks work even when you are offline. WHAT YOU GET • Tap-to-launch fireworks with four burst shapes • A 26-key chime keyboard: one letter, one colour, one note • Shower and AUTO modes for hands-off displays • Record and replay your own shows • Three night skylines to choose from • Six achievements to unlock • Optional haptics, music and sound toggles • English and Simplified Chinese • Free to play, no purchases, supported by an occasional ad Made for idle minutes, late nights and small hands. Light the night.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Tanglebound at none against Sparkchime'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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Tanglebound | Sparkchime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 4.3 (27 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 27 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 147 MB | 260 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MindsEye Mobile Limited | zafer karan |
In-app purchases
Tanglebound
No in-app purchases
Sparkchime
No in-app purchases








