Comparison

har vs Starlight Music Life Sim

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

Head to head
About

har

This is a puzzle game that combines color matching with music. Players rearrange colored blocks to match a palette, with increasing complexity and over 1000 levels. Enjoy an immersive experience with ambient music and sound effects.

Highlights
  • Color block rearrangement
  • Sophisticated color palettes
  • Ambient background music
  • Over 1000 levels
  • Increasing level complexity
  • 100% solvable levels
Currently charting
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har•mo•ny is a puzzle game of color and music, blended in perfect harmony… Your objective is simple, yet deceivingly complex: rearrange the blocks according to a palette of colors that blend together in harmony. Blocks may only move horizontally or vertically and each block must use up all its moves. Sophisticated color palettes range from simple boards with 3 colors up to incredibly challenging 10-color boards. As levels increase, so does the intricacy and beauty of each color palette. Accompanied by elegant background music and harmonized sound effects, har•mo•ny is truly a game to be experienced! • • • • • • • • • • • • • Handcrafted color palettes • Mesmerizing ambient background music • Over 1000 beautiful levels • 3-color to 10-color boards • Natural increase in level complexity • Latter levels are insanely hard! • All levels are 100% solvable! • • • • • • • • • • • • har•mo•ny contains 10 undos to get you started on tackling tough levels. Optional undo packs are available for purchase in the game and greatly help support us in our effort of making great games for you! Thanks for your support! If you enjoy har•mo•ny please rate & review - thank you for your support! Follow us! http://facebook.com/borderleap http://twitter.com/borderleap http://borderleap.com Have feedback? Would love to hear from you! Please email us at hello@borderleap.com

About

Starlight Music Life Sim

Build a music career from scratch, writing songs, managing studio upgrades, and navigating the business side of the industry. Experience the highs and lows of fame, from chart success to touring and contract negotiations.

Highlights
  • Write and produce music
  • Upgrade recording studio
  • Negotiate record deals
  • Manage tours and concerts
  • Compete with rival artists
  • Navigate industry trends
Features
Currently charting
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Nobody is waiting for your first song. You have a name, a hometown, and a genre you'd bleed for. That's the whole inventory. No fans. No skills. No money. The charts are already full of people who got there first, and not one of them is moving over for you. So take it from them. • MAKE SOMETHING WORTH HEARING Write the lyrics. Cut the vocal. Build the beat. Sit with a track at 3am deciding whether it's the single or the skip. Upgrade the studio one room at a time and actually hear the difference. Then sequence an album — and know that the second you release it, the running order is frozen forever. • BET EVERYTHING ON A TUESDAY Pick the week. Pick the platforms. Buy the promo slots. Go exclusive, or go wide and pray. Then hit release and find out if anyone was listening. Some records detonate. Some vanish by Sunday. Both of them are yours. • READ THE FINE PRINT OR PAY FOR IT Ten labels want a piece, and every one of them buries something in the contract. Negotiate clause by clause. Hire a lawyer good enough to notice — a cheap firm won't even tell you what you signed. Miss an obligation and you get a notice. Ignore the notice and you get sued. Lose in court and they garnish the money you already spent. • THE CHARTS DO NOT CARE WHO YOU ARE You don't get placed on the Hot 100. You beat somebody off it. Streams bank country by country. Radio programmers decide if you get spins. Critics review your album — and everyone else's — and their verdicts follow you all the way to awards night, where you sit in the room and watch someone else's name get read out. Or yours. • GET IN THE VAN Route the tour city by city. Book the venues, hire the crew, price the merch, split the door with a promoter who's done this longer than you have. Build a setlist that sends the crowd home talking — because word of mouth sells tickets in the next town before you've even packed the truck. Then read the boxscore and see what it really cost. • A WORLD THAT MOVES WITHOUT YOU Rivals drop albums the week you were going to. Executives get fired and take your deal with them. Festivals rise and flop. Trends turn over whether you followed them or not. And in the middle of it: hundreds of people who remember exactly how you treated them. Every favour, every snub, every night you didn't show up. • THE MONEY IS NEVER SAFE Catalogues age. Old songs fade unless you keep them breathing — sync placements, remixes, re-records, reissues. Meanwhile the taxes land, the commissions come off the top, the loan is still due, and one bad year can end with your masters sold to somebody else's company. • UNDER THE HOOD 600 rival artists running real careers of their own. 14 genres. 11 skills. 10 career tiers, from bedroom artist upward. 10 record labels and 90+ named executives who remember what you did to them. 58 brands across 13 exclusivity shelves. 30 producers selling beats. 10 radio stations. 15 world festivals. 7 awards shows and 10 critics who cannot be bought. 26 certification bodies handing out plaques territory by territory. 45 life events that stop the week cold. And 12 fixers in a back room, if you turn out to be that kind of artist. 600 rival artists running real careers of their own. 14 genres. 11 skills. 10 career tiers, from bedroom artist upward. 10 record labels and 90+ named executives who remember what you did to them. 58 brands across 13 exclusivity shelves. 30 producers selling beats. 10 radio stations. 15 world festivals. 7 awards shows and 10 critics who cannot be bought. 26 certification bodies handing out plaques territory by territory. 45 life events that stop the week cold. And 12 fixers in a back room, if you turn out to be that kind of artist. Nothing here is given. Nothing here is permanent. Every fan is one you converted. Every plaque is one you earned. Every deal is one you should probably have read twice.

Screenshots

har2 screens
Starlight Music Life Sim4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Starlight Music Life Sim at Free against har's $0.99. Starlight Music Life Sim also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). har's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (86% vs 58%). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and chart position 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

Starlight Music Life Sim is free to download; har costs $0.99 up front. har sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Starlight Music Life Sim sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

har holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: har has 130 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of har's written reviews are positive against 58% of Starlight Music Life Sim's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

har ships an update every 3 weeks, Starlight Music Life Sim every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
har versus Starlight Music Life Sim: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterharStarlight Music Life Sim
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (130 ratings) — better3.5 (22 ratings)
Positive reviews85.6% of reviews — better58.3% of reviews
Number of ratings130 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#47 — better#84
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB325 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBorderLeapEvans ONUOHA

Customer experience

har

All ratings129 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral4.7%
Negative2.3%
Written reviews874 reviews
Positive85.6%
Neutral5.3%
Negative9.2%

Starlight Music Life Sim

All ratings18 ratings
Positive61.1%
Neutral16.7%
Negative22.2%
Written reviews12 reviews
Positive58.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

har

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Occasional freezing or crashing
  • Difficulty seeing dots on darker blocks

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to skip or get hints for levels
  • More challenging and varied puzzles
  • Option to revisit previous levels
  • Progression tracking and achievements

Starlight Music Life Sim

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

5 purchases

har

One-time5
  • 10 Undos$0.99
  • 35 Undos$1.99
  • Skip Button$4.99
Show 2 more
  • 100 Undos$4.99
  • Unlimited Undos$9.99
2 purchases

Starlight Music Life Sim

One-time2
  • God Mode$9.99
  • Music Empire DLC$9.99

Questions

Is har free?
har costs $0.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Starlight Music Life Sim free?
Starlight Music Life Sim is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, har or Starlight Music Life Sim?
har is rated higher. har averages 4.7 out of 5 from 130 ratings, while Starlight Music Life Sim averages 3.5 from 22 ratings.
Do har or Starlight Music Life Sim have ads?
Neither har nor Starlight Music Life Sim shows ads.
Which is updated more often, har or Starlight Music Life Sim?
har ships an update every 3 weeks, and Starlight Music Life Sim every 2 days. Most recently, har was updated on November 11, 2026 and Starlight Music Life Sim on November 10, 2026.
Which is more popular, har or Starlight Music Life Sim?
har currently peaks at #47 in the App Store charts, and Starlight Music Life Sim at #84. Chart position reflects recent download velocity rather than total install base.

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