Zoombinis vs Spice Sort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zoombinis
Guide adorable blue creatures through a series of logic puzzles and challenges to escape their captors and reach a new home. This re-creation of a classic game sharpens problem-solving, data analysis, and pattern recognition skills with engaging story and characters.
- Logic puzzles
- Data analysis challenges
- Pattern recognition
- Problem-solving skills
- Story-driven adventure
- Twelve unique puzzles
- Digitally painted backgrounds
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Play Zoombinis and guide the little blue creatures through fun and increasingly challenging puzzles on their way to a new home. Zoombinis is a re-creation of the classic, award-winning 1990’s puzzle game Logical Journey of the Zoombinis. The small blue creatures, each with distinct personalities and appearances, are escaping imprisonment by the evil Bloats who have taken over the Zoombinis’ home. Players take on the role of guide and help the Zoombinis reach the safety of Zoombiniville. Use logic, analyze data, spot patterns and hone problem solving skills. Players face a series of increasingly difficult challenges that stand between the Zoombinis and freedom. Twelve perilous puzzles each with 4 levels of increasing difficulty, a great story, and many fun and memorable characters make for an engaging and challenging experience. We challenge you to get all the Zoombinis to safety! The Challenges • Allergic Cliffs • Stone Cold Caves • Pizza Pass • Captain Cajun’s Ferryboat • Titanic Tattooed Toads • Stone Rise • Fleens • Hotel Dimensia • Mudball Wall • Lion’s Lair • BubbleWonder Abyss • Mirror Machine Featuring • Beautiful digitally painted backgrounds • The original voices for the Narrator, Stone Guards, Pizza Trolls, Captain Cajun, and the Innkeeper • Restored music from version 1.0 of the original game • Improved celebrations and achievements
Spice Sort
A calming, offline puzzle game where you sort colorful spices into glass jars. Enjoy hand-crafted levels with no timers or pressure, and a focus on relaxation and accessibility.
- 500 hand-tuned, solvable levels
- Daily Spice challenges
- Unlimited undo and instant restart
- Relaxing pour animations and sounds
- Offline play
- Colorblind assist mode
- VoiceOver and Reduce Motion support
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Spice Sort is a calm, hand-crafted sorting puzzle. Pour ground spices between glass jars until every jar holds a single color. That's the whole game — no timers, no lives, no energy meters, no pressure. It's the sort-puzzle you've played before, with a warmer soul: a dim pantry, real glass jars, and eight richly colored spices — turmeric, paprika, basil, sumac, black pepper, cinnamon, blue butterfly pea, and pink Himalayan salt. WHY YOU'LL KEEP IT ON YOUR PHONE • 500 hand-tuned levels, each one guaranteed solvable • A new Daily Spice every day — the same puzzle for everyone, with a streak to keep • Unlimited undo and instant restart. Stuck is never a dead end. • Genuinely relaxing pour animations and soft, tactile sounds BUILT TO RESPECT YOU • No ads. Not one. • No accounts, no sign-up, nothing to buy. • Works completely offline — play on a plane, on the subway, anywhere. • Google usage analytics and crash sharing are on by default. Turn either off in Settings. No advertising use. MADE FOR EVERYONE • Colorblind assist mode adds a distinct pattern to every spice • Full VoiceOver support and Reduce Motion friendly • One-handed, portrait, pick-up-and-play Sort a jar. Breathe. Sort another.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spice Sort at none against Zoombinis's 1. Spice Sort also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Zoombinis's advantage is ratings volume (600 vs 5) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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
Both are free to download. Zoombinis sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spice Sort asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spice Sort holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zoombinis has 600 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Zoombinis's written reviews are positive against 100% of Spice Sort's.
Zoombinis ships an update every 6 weeks, Spice Sort fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zoombinis | Spice Sort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (600 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 600 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 631 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TERC, Inc. | Prachi Jain |
Customer experience
Zoombinis
Spice Sort
Bugs and requests
Zoombinis
Reported bugs
4 issues- Zoombinis disappearing or getting lost between levels
- Mirror Cave puzzles not functioning properly on harder difficulties
- Crashes and freezes, especially on older devices
- Inability to move Zoombinis in certain puzzles
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to adjust difficulty level in journey mode
- Cross-progression between devices
- More Zoombinis games (Mountain Rescue, Island Odyssey)
- French language option
Spice Sort
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Zoombinis
- Full Game$4.99
Spice Sort
No in-app purchases









