Osmo Newton vs Brainzy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Osmo Newton
Engage with creative physics puzzles by drawing or placing physical objects. Guide falling balls into target zones using everyday items. Experience a blend of physical and digital play.
- Draw lines to solve puzzles
- Place physical objects to interact
- Guide falling balls into targets
- Works with everyday items
- Hands-on learning experience
- Promotes creativity and problem-solving
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Solve creative physics puzzles by drawing lines or placing items in front of the screen. Play your favourite Osmo Newton on both iPhone and iPad! Use your iPhone with the "Osmo Base for iPad" which can be found at playosmo.com. * Please see our device compatibility list here: https://support.playosmo.com/hc/articles/115010156067 "..games that interact with just about any physical object—pen, paper, blocks, even toys your kids already own. - The Wall Street Journal "This interplay between the physical and digital realms looks and feels like magic." - Forbes "Osmo has been a revolution in our family." - Wired Awarded: **Best Design** - Good Design, 2016 **Best Product Designs** - Fast Company Finalist, 2016 **Innovative Toy of the Year** - TOTY Finalist, 2015 **Best Inventions** - TIME, 2014 Works with any object or drawing – Mom’s keys, hand-drawn basket, even toys you already own. Simply place the object/drawing in front of the screen and manipulate it to guide the falling balls into the target zones. About Osmo Osmo is using the screen to create a new healthy, hands-on learning experience that promotes creativity, problem-solving and social interaction. We do this with our reflective artificial intelligent technology.
Brainzy
Engage in daily trivia challenges and solve puzzles to earn points and unlock real-life gifts. Compete globally for the fastest answers and climb leaderboards to win increasingly valuable rewards.
- Daily trivia challenges
- Solve puzzles
- Win real-life gifts
- Global leaderboards
- Hints available
- Puzzle archive
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You are looking for a trivia or puzzle game to keep your brain busy during your free time? Brainzy is a new trivia game where anyone can win real-life gifts by playing! Yes, Yes! You heard correctly: Real Life Gifts! Brainzy will feature multiple puzzles and challenging questions every single day. Puzzles will be live at the same time across the World! Start time of each puzzle will be available in the app. Once puzzle is live, the faster you answer or solve the puzzle, more points you will earn! You can always get help by utilizing hints available for each puzzle! Points you earn accumulate to reach new levels and once you reach a new level, you will win Real Life Gifts! Value of the gifts are increasing with each level! So, never stop playing as there is always next level where you can win even bigger gifts! Users can always review old puzzles! Archive will feature all the previous puzzles, user performance in each of puzzle, leaderboard featuring the fastest users to answer/solve the puzzle and puzzle solutions. Download for FREE now! Register and start competing to win precious gifts!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Osmo Newton at none against Brainzy's 16. Osmo Newton also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (384 vs 4). Brainzy's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, monetization model 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. Brainzy sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Osmo Newton asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Osmo Newton against 4.0 for Brainzy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Osmo Newton has 384 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Osmo Newton ships an update every 2 months, Brainzy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Osmo Newton | Brainzy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (384 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 65.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 384 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 451 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Tangible Play | MobileApp LLC |
Customer experience
Osmo Newton
Brainzy
Bugs and requests
Osmo Newton
Reported bugs
10 issues- App crashes on launch or during gameplay
- Unresponsive app after recent updates
- Lorem Ipsum placeholder text stuck on screen
- Achievement page frozen preventing gameplay
- App incompatible with iPad Air 2 and 11-inch iPad
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- Camera permission prompt issues on newer iOS
- Line detection fails to recognize drawings
- Game slows down significantly with multiple balls
- App fails to load or gets stuck on loading screen
- Whiteboard compatibility issues
Requested features
8 requests- Back/front camera option for better positioning
- Pause menu functionality
- More levels beyond the current 61
- Grid screen option for better line detection
- Adjustable camera sensitivity settings
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- Better instructions and tutorial for beginners
- Start button before gameplay begins
- Support for older iPad models
Brainzy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Osmo Newton
No in-app purchases
Brainzy
- 10 Timeless Puzzles$0.99
- 8 Timeless Puzzles$0.99
- 10 hints$0.99
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- 25 Timeless Puzzles$1.99
- 25 Hints$1.99
- 12 hints$1.99
- 50 Timeless Puzzles$2.99
- 50 Hints$2.99
- 20 Timeless Puzzles$2.99
- 40 Timeless Puzzles$4.99
- 20 Hints$4.99
- 100 Timeless Puzzles$5.99
- 100 Hints$5.99
- 40 Hints$6.99
- 100 Timeless Puzzles$9.99
- 100 Hints$9.99
Questions
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