Comparison

Art Scrambles vs Pieced

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

Head to head
About

Art Scrambles

Engage with classic art through a unique puzzle experience. Swap pieces to reveal famous paintings and explore works from over 100 artists. Enjoy orchestral music and helpful tools to complete challenging puzzles.

Highlights
  • Discover beautiful masterpieces
  • Swap puzzle pieces
  • 11 included paintings
  • Over 100 artists featured
  • Orchestral soundtrack
  • Assistant and Peek tools
  • Progress saving
  • Replay with different piece shapes
Features
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"If you like jigsaw puzzles you'll love Art Scrambles!" Discover beautiful masterpieces as you swap puzzles pieces to reveal the paintings. Bangkok Post: "This app is an undiscovered gem..." • Includes 11 beautiful paintings with 600 more available • Over 100 artists • Orchestral sounds created by a classically-trained composer • Use Assistant to help with hard-to-place pieces • Use Peek for sneak-peeks beneath the pieces • Progress is stored for each puzzle so pause one and start another • Replay puzzles in different piece shapes and sizes Included in Sampler collection: Leonardo da Vinci Vincent Van Gogh Hans Holbein the Younger Utagawa Hiroshige Edgar Degas Gustav Klimt Franz Hals Ilya Repin Hieronymus Bosch Pieter Brueghel the Elder Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot James McNeill Whistler Additional Collections: Alma-Tadema Art Nouveau Posters Bosch Bosch Haywain Bouguereau I & II Brueghel Brueghel Proverbs Caravaggio Cassatt Cézanne Fra Angelico I & II Eakins Expressionists Giotto I & II Hals Hiroshige Edo I & II Hiroshige Tokaido Impressionists I & II Manet I, II, & III Masterpieces I, II, III, IV, V, & VI Monet I, II, & III Neo-Impressionists I & II Realists Rembrandt I & II Renaissance I & II Renoir Rubens Seurat Stubbs Tissot Titian I & II Toulouse-Lautrec I & II Van Gogh I, II, & III Vermeer I, II, & III Artists: Altdorfer, Albrecht Angelico, Fra Audubon, John James Bellini, Giovanni Bosch, Hieronymus Botticelli, Sandro Bouguereau, William-Adolphe Brueghel the Elder, Pieter Caillebotte, Gustave Cassatt, Mary Cezanne, Paul Coolidge, Cassius Marcellus Copley, John Singleton Corot, Jean-Baptiste Camille Cossa, Francesco del Courbet, Gustav da Vinci, Leonardo Degas, Edgar Dürer, Albrecht Eakins, Thomas Eyck, Jan van Fouquet, Jean Francesca, Piero della Gainsborough, Thomas Gauguin, Paul Ghirlandaio, Domenico Goya, Francisco Gris, Juan Hals, Franz Hiroshige, Utagawa Hokusai, Katsushika Holbein the Younger, Hans Homer, Winslow Kandinsky, Wassily Klimt, Gustav Krøyer, Peder Severin Macke, August Manet, Edouard Mantegna, Andrea Marc, Franz Masaccio Michelangelo Millet, Jean-François Monet, Claude Moore, Albert Joseph Morisot, Berthe Münter, Gabriele Peal, Charles Willson Perugino, Pietro Pissarro, Camille Pryanishnikov, Illarion Raphael Remington, Frederlc Renoir, Pierre Auguste Repin, Ilya Rijn, Rembrandt van Rubens, Peter Paul Sargent, John Singer Seurat, Georges Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri de Uccello, Paolo Van der Weyden, Rogier Van Gogh, Vincent Velázquez, Diego Vermeer, Johannes Waterhouse, John William Whistler, James McNeill

About

Pieced

Restore famous masterpieces by dragging and dropping scattered pieces together. Explore different art epochs with unique ambient soundtracks and learn about the art history behind each painting. Play at your own pace with no timers or pressure.

Highlights
  • Drag-and-drop jigsaw puzzles
  • Restore famous art masterpieces
  • Explore different art epochs
  • Learn art history facts
  • Ambient soundtracks
  • Five difficulty levels
  • Curator rank progression
Features
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A journey through art history, one masterpiece at a time. Pieced is a cozy drag-and-drop puzzle game built around a few of the most famous paintings across different art epochs. Restore masterpieces by connecting scattered pieces on by one. When two correct neighbours touch, they merge. Keep going until the full painting is revealed. Puzzle through different art epochs Work your way through the Renaissance, Baroque, Impressionism, and beyond. Each epoch features 20 hand-picked paintings and its own ambient soundtrack that matches the painting and era. Five difficulty levels Choose your challenge: from a relaxing grid to a demanding expert puzzle. Earn more Curator Rank points at greater difficulties and chase your best completion times. Become a curator Climb from Visitor to Museum Keeper as you earn rank points. Master entire epochs by completing every painting, and track your progress on your personal curator profile. Learn while you play Every completed puzzle reveals the painting's title, artist, year, and a brief story. Tap "More Info" for deeper context: medium, provenance, artist biography, and the epoch that shaped the work. Unique soundscapes Each epoch has its own ambient music. Satisfying sound effects accompany every drag, merge, and completion. Designed to be calm No ads. No energy systems. No countdown timers pressuring you. The optional puzzle timer pauses when you leave and picks up where you left off. Play at your own pace. All paintings are in the public domain. Two collections are free to play; additional epochs can be unlocked individually or as a complete bundle.

Screenshots

Art Scrambles4 screens
Pieced4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Art Scrambles at 24 against Pieced's 3. Art Scrambles also leads on iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Art Scrambles sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Pieced sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pieced holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Art Scrambles has 24 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Art Scrambles ships an update every 2 months, Pieced every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Art Scrambles versus Pieced: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterArt ScramblesPieced
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (24 ratings)4.3 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings24 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB378 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJohn BlackburnJannik Obenhoff

Customer experience

Art Scrambles

All ratings24 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral12.5%
Negative12.5%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive79.4%
Neutral11.8%
Negative8.8%

Pieced

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Art Scrambles

One-time10
  • Expressionists$1.99
  • Renoir$1.99
  • Masterpieces I$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Masterpieces II$1.99
  • Masterpieces III$1.99
  • Vermeer I$1.99
  • Vermeer II$1.99
  • Alma-Tadema$1.99
  • Art Nouveau Posters$1.99
  • Mucha$1.99
6 purchases

Pieced

One-time6
  • Baroque$2.99
  • Realism$2.99
  • Renaissance$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Romanticism$2.99
  • Post-Impressionism$2.99
  • Complete Collection$8.99

Questions

Is Art Scrambles free?
Art Scrambles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pieced free?
Pieced is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Art Scrambles or Pieced?
Pieced is rated higher. Art Scrambles averages 4.2 out of 5 from 24 ratings, while Pieced averages 4.3 from 3 ratings.
Do Art Scrambles or Pieced have ads?
Neither Art Scrambles nor Pieced shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Art Scrambles or Pieced?
Art Scrambles ships an update every 2 months, and Pieced every 3 months. Most recently, Art Scrambles was updated on November 1, 2026 and Pieced on October 31, 2026.

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