Puzzly vs NERVE.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Puzzly
Create and share personalized photo puzzles with friends. Transform selfies into solvable grids and embed hidden messages for a unique social experience. Challenge friends to solve your puzzles and compete for speed and efficiency.
- Create selfie puzzles
- Slice photos into grids
- Share on Puzzly or Messenger
- Solve friends' puzzles
- Embed hidden messages
- Compete for speed and moves
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Puzzly is a new and fun social network for sharing puzzles of selfies with your Facebook friends and send hidden messages! It's simple! Just 1. Take a selfie with your camera 2. Slice your photo into a 3x3, 4x4, 5x5 or 6x6 square grid 3. Share it with your friends on Puzzly or Facebook Messenger And see if they can solve your selfie puzzle! * Puzzly is also a great game! Have an entertaining time solving your friends puzzles and show how quick you are by solving faster and with less moves than everyone else. * Leave a hidden message for your friends! You can leave a message that will only show when someone solves your puzzle!
NERVE.
This app facilitates a live-streaming game where participants can stream exciting activities to viewers. Viewers gain premium access and can send custom donations to streamers. Receive notifications when players go live and embrace the opportunity to become famous.
- Live-streaming gameplay
- Viewer premium access
- Custom donations to players
- Live player notifications
- Become famous through streaming
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Are you a WATCHER or a PLAYER? NERVE is a livestream game. "Players" stream themselves doing exciting things to "watchers", who get premium access to streams and can send custom donations to players. You'll receive a notification whenever a player goes live. You can be fearless. You can be famous. Welcome to NERVE.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: NERVE. at 73% against Puzzly's 0%. NERVE. also leads on rating (4.5 vs 1.2) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Puzzly's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10) and iOS requirement (8.2 vs 17.0). On price, ads 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. NERVE. sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Puzzly asks for nothing beyond the download.
NERVE. holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 1.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: NERVE. has 84 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Puzzly's written reviews are positive against 73% of NERVE.'s.
Puzzly ships an update every 3 weeks, NERVE. every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Puzzly | NERVE. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.2 (5 ratings) | 4.5 (84 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 73.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 84 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 8.2 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 611 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | TETRAPI - CENTRO DE ACTIVIDADES EDUCACIONAIS, SA | Phi Vision, Inc. |
Customer experience
Puzzly
NERVE.
Bugs and requests
Puzzly
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
NERVE.
Reported bugs
5 issues- Phone number verification not sending code
- Error sending code
- App crashes on opening
- Shows everyone is offline, playing same clips
- App displays webpage and replays a single video
Requested features
3 requests- Fix phone number verification for UK users
- Allow bidding on stream times
- More streamers online more often
In-app purchases
Puzzly
No in-app purchases
NERVE.
- $1$1.00
- $2$2.00
- $3$3.00
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- $5$5.00
- $7$7.00
- $10$10.00
- $15$15.00
- $20$20.00
- $50$50.00
- $100$100.00
