Okay? vs Blackbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Okay?
A minimalist puzzle game where the goal is to clear the board. Players can choose to pay any amount they wish for the experience.
- Clear the board puzzles
- Pay what you want pricing
- Minimalist design
- Relaxing gameplay
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Blackbox
This puzzle game challenges you to solve intricate problems without touching the screen. It utilizes minimalistic visual cues, sonic interfaces, and haptic feedback to guide you through unique challenges that require thinking outside the box. Discover a new way to interact with your device and prove your cleverness.
- Touchless gameplay
- Minimalistic visual clues
- Sonic interfaces
- Haptic feedback
- External puzzle solving
- Easter eggs
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So you think you understand this thing you’re holding? Think again. Stop tapping. Stop swiping. In fact, stop touching the screen at all. To crack Blackbox’s puzzles you’ll need to find solitude and stillness, climb mountains, call on friends, get in tune with the cosmos, and think outside the box. Minimalistic visual clues make for incredibly satisfying “Aha!” moments, while sonic interfaces provide an extra level of guidance and nuance that makes Blackbox accessible with or without vision. Thoughtful haptic feedback, Easter eggs on Easter eggs, and solutions that can’t be found beneath the glass of your screen redefine what a puzzle can be. You’ll never see your device the same way again. Think you’re clever? Prove it. (Blackbox is a living game under active development by Ryan McLeod. When not eating burritos or drinking coffee, he’s busy designing and developing new Blackbox challenges.) ■
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Blackbox at none against Okay?'s shown. Blackbox also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (109K vs 14K). Okay?'s advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Okay? sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Blackbox sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Okay? against 4.8 for Blackbox. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Blackbox has 109K ratings behind it against 14K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 92% and 93% positive.
Okay? ships an update every 5 months, Blackbox every 9 days. Both last shipped on September 25, 2026.
| Parameter | Okay? | Blackbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (14K ratings) — better | 4.8 (109K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.2% of reviews | 92.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 14K | 109K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #182 | #31 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 209 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Philipp Stollenmayer | Shapes and Stories LLC |
Customer experience
Okay?
Blackbox
User reviews
Okay?
From 14K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 No ads
- 🎶 Soothing sound design
- 💡 Unique pay-what-you-want model
- 🧠 Challenging yet relaxing gameplay
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🤯 Levels become frustratingly difficult
- 💰 Unclear in-app purchase pricing
Blackbox
From 109K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Unique and creative gameplay
- 🤔 Challenges users to think outside the box
- 😄 Humorous and witty comments
- 🔑 Utilizes phone features in innovative ways
Room to improve
- 🤯 Extremely challenging puzzles
- 💰 Expensive for additional content
- 🤖 Concerns about app accessing device permissions
- 🚗 Puzzles requiring travel/location are inaccessible for some
Bugs and requests
Okay?
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashes on launch for some users
- Levels randomly reset progress
- Inconsistent in-app purchase behavior
Requested features
3 requests- Add sound/music volume controls
- Improve hint system to be more helpful
- Expand level selection with more content
Blackbox
Reported bugs
2 issues- Hints not working as expected
- Progress reset after app update
Requested features
4 requests- Add ability to earn hint credits through watching ads
- Include more free puzzles
- Improve accessibility for users with limited mobility
- Provide better guidance and instructions for puzzles
In-app purchases
Okay?
- Price 1$0.99
- Price 2$1.99
- Price 3$2.99
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- Price 4$4.99
- Price 5$8.99
Blackbox
- Tiny Hint Pack$1.19
- Small Hint Pack$2.39
- Erudite Pack$2.99
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- Push Pack$2.99
- Coffee for Ryan$4.49
- Basic Pack$4.99
- Medium Hint Pack$5.00
- All Knowing Pack$7.99
- Large Hint Pack$10.00
- Extra Large Hint Pack$20.00
