Matching Pairs vs Speed Puzzle Timer
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Matching Pairs
Enhance your memory and concentration with this engaging game. It offers 25 difficulty levels and over 10 themed card packs, suitable for all ages. Track your progress and compete with others globally.
- Memory and concentration training
- 25 difficulty levels
- 10+ themed card packs
- Global score comparison
- Soothing graphics and animations
- User-friendly interface
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Improve and train your memory while having fun! Test your memory and concentration across 25 difficulty levels and compare your scores with friends and players around the world thanks to integration with Game Center. — 4.0.0 — • Time Attack The clock starts at 30 seconds and every pair adds a few more. Clear the board to earn 5 extra seconds before a bigger board is dealt, while your score keeps adding up. The run ends when time runs out. • 2 Players Take turns on the same device. Find a pair and you play again; miss and the turn passes. Points count as usual — the highest total wins. • 2 Players Online The same rules as 2 Players, live against another player through Game Center. • Educational Choose an activity to practice letters, words, numbers, memory or another language. A pair can join cards that look or sound different but mean the same thing — a picture and its word, lower- and uppercase letters, or two languages. Ready-made activities set up the cards for you; Custom lets you choose the image, text, voice and language on each side. • Choose your look — Original Wood • Mochi Friends • Sea Glass Lagoon • Deco Midnight You can change it any time in Settings. • Card backs — Colors • Decorations • Layouts • Enhanced animations With 10 different card packs, each of excellent quality, appealing to all types of visual memory: - Animals - Musical instruments - Sports - Food - Faces - Emojis - Numbers - Capital letters - Lowercase letters - Common words With its soothing graphics, smooth animations and user-friendly interface, the game offers an immersive and enjoyable gaming experience.
Speed Puzzle Timer
Track your puzzle-solving times with a dedicated timer and log. Catalog your collection, record your progress with photos and notes, and analyze your performance with detailed stats. Share your achievements and challenge friends to beat your best times.
- Speed timer with countdown or immediate start
- Puzzle catalog with barcode scanning
- Track solve history, ratings, and notes
- Compare solve times and personal records
- Record solve videos and timelapses
- Challenge friends with shared solve times
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Puzzle Stats is built for speed puzzlers who want a focused timer, a clear puzzle catalog, and to see numbers and stats after every solve. TIME EVERY SOLVE Start a speed timer with a countdown or jump in immediately. Pause, resume, and finish with large, easy controls. Add one-tap markers while you work—flip complete, sorting milestones, or custom tags—so you can see where time went. YOUR PUZZLE COLLECTION Scan a barcode or search the bundled catalog to add puzzles fast. Keep box and completed photos, ratings, notes, and a full history of solves on each puzzle. Need to start now? Quick Timer gets you timing immediately—assign the puzzle later. COMPARE AND IMPROVE See how this run stacks up against your last, best, and average. Track trends and personal records by piece count. Pair and team solves keep partner names so you can look back at who you solved with. VIDEO AND TIMELAPSE Optionally record your solve—standard video or live timelapse—while the timer stays front and center. Save, share, or export when you’re done. CHALLENGE A FRIEND Share a completed time as a challenge link. Friends can open it, start the same puzzle setup, and try to beat you. Built for the table: tap quickly during the solve, rich details after.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Speed Puzzle Timer at none against Matching Pairs's shown. Speed Puzzle Timer also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Matching Pairs's advantage is ratings volume (922 vs 1). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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. Matching Pairs sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Speed Puzzle Timer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Speed Puzzle Timer holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Matching Pairs has 922 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of Matching Pairs's written reviews are positive against 100% of Speed Puzzle Timer's.
Matching Pairs ships an update every 10 days, Speed Puzzle Timer fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Matching Pairs | Speed Puzzle Timer |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (922 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 93.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 922 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 213 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Clement Marty | James Browning |
Customer experience
Matching Pairs
Speed Puzzle Timer
Bugs and requests
Matching Pairs
Reported bugs
4 issues- App stops opening after giving 5-star rating
- Game fails to launch or becomes unplayable
- Progress not transferable between devices
- Compatibility issues with device changes
Requested features
6 requests- More diverse and varied card images
- Ranking system for multiple attempts
- Speed/time-based challenges
- More free category options
- Progress transfer between devices
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- Clear in-game tutorial or instructions
Speed Puzzle Timer
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Matching Pairs
- Food Card Pack$0.99
- Memory Card Pack Lower Case Letters$1.99
- Memory Card Pack Music Instruments$1.99
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- Memory Card Pack Numbers$1.99
- Memory Card Pack Sports Images$1.99
- Memory Card Pack Upper Case Letters$1.99
- Memory Card Pack Words$1.99
- Card Pack "Faces"$1.99
- Card Pack Emoji$1.99
- Card Pack Animals$1.99
- Memory$8.99
Speed Puzzle Timer
- Lifetime Premium$5.99
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