Tangrams Block Puzzle vs PentoCruncher
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tangrams Block Puzzle
Challenge your spatial reasoning by fitting colorful blocks into a box. With infinite puzzles and no timers, this game offers a relaxing yet engaging experience for all skill levels. Save your progress and enjoy a stress-free puzzle-solving adventure.
- Infinite puzzles
- Five difficulty levels
- Easy touch controls
- Hint function
- No timers
- Automatic progress saving
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Are you good at packing? Try to fit all the pieces into the box with Boy Howdy's Block Puzzle game! • Five difficulty levels, so you can find a challenge that's just right for you! • Infinite number of puzzles to try! Play forever with no puzzle packs to buy, ever! • Easy touch controls to move the blocks around! • Hint function if you get stuck! • Beautiful blocks in a rainbow of colors! • No timers at all! Just relax and have fun! • Your progress is automatically saved, all the time, so go ahead and take that call or jump out to any other apps - you can come back and pick up playing right where you left off! • Sounds can be disabled if you want a quiet game • You can even listen to your own music while you play Download Boy Howdy's Block Puzzle today! It's 100% FREE!
PentoCruncher
This app solves a variety of tile-based puzzles, including pentominoes, tetrominoes, and more. It can handle puzzles of any shape and any combination of these pieces.
- Solves pentominoes puzzles
- Handles any puzzle shape
- Supports multiple polyomino types
- Solves mixed polyomino combinations
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PentoCruncher solves pentominoes puzzles of any shape. It can also solve puzzles of any combinations of pentominoes, tetrominoes, trominoes, duomino and monomino.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: PentoCruncher at none against Tangrams Block Puzzle's shown. PentoCruncher also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Tangrams Block Puzzle's advantage is ratings volume (113 vs 2) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 8 months). On price 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
PentoCruncher holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tangrams Block Puzzle has 113 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Tangrams Block Puzzle's written reviews are positive against 100% of PentoCruncher's.
Tangrams Block Puzzle ships an update every 3 months, PentoCruncher every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on August 28, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tangrams Block Puzzle | PentoCruncher |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (113 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 113 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 8 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Boy Howdy Technology LLC | Felix Stehli |
Customer experience
Tangrams Block Puzzle
PentoCruncher
In-app purchases
Tangrams Block Puzzle
No in-app purchases
PentoCruncher
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Tangrams Block Puzzle free?
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