Wavelark vs Sparkchime
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Five unique puzzle skies
- Code-generated interactive art
- Shareable digital art cards
- Offline gameplay
- No timers or failure states
- Customizable audio and haptics
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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.
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
Wavelark and Sparkchime both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Wavelark's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sparkchime's. Wavelark also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days). Sparkchime's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 7). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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.
Wavelark holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Wavelark's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sparkchime's.
Wavelark ships an update every 2 days, Sparkchime every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Wavelark | Sparkchime |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (7 ratings) — better | 4.3 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 26 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 313 MB | 260 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Zeren Brisk | zafer karan |
Customer experience
Wavelark
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In-app purchases
Wavelark
No in-app purchases
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No in-app purchases








