Comparison

FOLD vs Nodebound

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

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About

FOLD

This puzzle game challenges you to fold paper to merge numbers and clear the board. It offers a unique folding mechanic with increasing complexity across multiple sheets and a daily puzzle. Enjoy a relaxing, ad-free experience with unlimited undos and no timers.

Highlights
  • Paper folding mechanic
  • Number merging and doubling
  • Multiple puzzle sheets with unique challenges
  • Daily puzzle with streak tracking
  • Unlimited undo and restart
  • Optional Game Center integration
Features
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Fold a sheet of paper. The numbers that land on a matching number merge and double. Keep folding until one tile is left. Free to play: all 120 levels, the daily puzzle and the new Endless mode. Earn stars on a sheet to open the next. No timers, no lives, no energy bars, no account, no sign-up. HOW IT PLAYS Touch a cell and swipe toward the middle of the sheet, or drag the tab on its edge. The paper creases at the near edge of that cell and everything past it folds over, mirrored. Tiles that land on an equal number merge and double: 1 and 1 make 2, 2 and 2 make 4, 4 and 4 make 8. Different numbers block the fold and the paper springs back. Every fold makes the sheet smaller, so the board you are reading is never the same twice. Solve it in par and take three stars. 120 LEVELS IN SIX SHEETS Sheet 1, First Creases — fold, shrink, block, mirror. Sheet 2, Two Ways — order matters. Sheet 3, Overhang — an off-centre crease, every time. Sheet 4, Cascades — several merges in a single fold. Sheet 5, Long Fold — rectangles, 5x7 and 6x6. Sheet 6, Origami — everything at once, and at most two solutions. Earn 40 of a sheet's 60 stars and the next sheet opens. Every level was built and re-checked by a solver, so every level has an answer and par is the shortest one there is. ENDLESS MODE Board after board, made on your device, each at a random difficulty. The first boards are the easy ones; the hardest arrive over your first twenty. Solve at par to keep your chain going. A NEW PUZZLE EVERY DAY One daily puzzle, the same board for everyone, made from the date itself. Solve it to keep your streak. Reminders are optional and only come if you allow notifications. NOTHING TO LOSE Undo is unlimited and instant. Restart costs nothing. Three free hints a day fold the solver's next move for you; when they are spent you can watch a short ad for one more. One hinted fold caps that level at two stars; a level the hint folds from start to finish scores one. The level you were on is saved after every single fold. ONE UNLOCK, NO SUBSCRIPTION One payment removes every ad and opens every sheet at once, with no stars to earn first. It adds the daily archive — the last thirty days, replayable any time — unlimited hints, and Skip board in Endless. It restores on every device signed into the same Apple Account, and App Store offer codes can be redeemed in the game. GAME CENTER Two leaderboards — total stars and best streak — and seven achievements. Signing in is optional and never blocks play. BUILT TO BE READ Dynamic Type everywhere. VoiceOver reads the board and offers every legal fold as an action. Reduce Motion turns a fold into a quiet cross-fade with no flip and no confetti. The tile faces were checked under deuteranopia and protanopia, and the number — never the colour — is what the rule reads. ADS AND PRIVACY Free players see a banner on the menus and, now and then, a short ad between boards. Never on a board while you fold. Ads that give a hint or a skip are only ever your choice. iOS asks before any tracking, and the game plays the same whatever you answer. Where the law asks for it, Google's consent form lets you choose, and Settings keeps your ad privacy choices. Every mark on the screen is drawn from vector paths in code, and every sound was synthesised for this game. Licences: fold.devera.app/licenses Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://fold.devera.app/privacy/ Requires iOS 18 or later. iPhone.

About

Nodebound

Features
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Draw one continuous path through every node. Start at green, finish at yellow, and visit each node exactly once. Nodebound turns planar graphs into focused logic puzzles. Five progressive levels range from approachable boards to the strongest challenges in the collection. FEATURES - Draw naturally or tap an allowed connected node - All 253 Level 1 puzzles included free - Levels 2–5 available with Lifetime Access - One-time $2.99 purchase unlocks all 1,517 puzzles and removes ads forever - No subscription or recurring charge - Live solve timer and detailed statistics by level - Pause and continue unfinished puzzles - Undo, backtracking, restart, saved progress, and completion tracking - Prefix-aware hints that return to the last correct point - Clean, crossing-free graph layouts optimized for mobile play - Non-personalized banner ads support the free version Think ahead, avoid revisiting nodes, and find the one path that connects them all. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://path-22.expo.app/privacy.html

Screenshots

FOLD4 screens
Nodebound3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Nodebound at 16.4 against FOLD's 18.0. On price, ads, 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. FOLD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Nodebound sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
FOLD versus Nodebound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFOLDNodebound
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS18.016.4 — better
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperFarzin TavakoliShahab Karimi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

FOLD

One-time1
  • FOLD Full Game$4.99
1 purchases

Nodebound

One-time1
  • Nodebound Lifetime Access$2.99

Questions

Is FOLD free?
FOLD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Nodebound free?
Nodebound is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do FOLD or Nodebound have ads?
Both FOLD and Nodebound show ads.

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