Comparison

Puzzle Day vs Netflix Puzzled

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Puzzle Day

Discover a growing collection of unique, bite-sized puzzles added weekly. Enjoy daily challenges, quick gameplay, and no account required. Support the developer by watching ads.

Highlights
  • Unique daily and weekly puzzles
  • Multiple puzzle types (Numby, Pathwords, Burbs, Hoots)
  • Daily challenge mode
  • No account or login required
  • Quick and satisfying gameplay
  • New puzzles added regularly
Features
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Puzzle Day is a growing collection of bite-sized puzzles—fun, weird, and refreshingly different. Every week, a new one is added. Every day, a fresh challenge awaits. Hi, I’m Kurt. I’m a game designer and a dad. A few months ago, I lost my job. Instead of panicking (okay, I panicked a little), I decided to make you the best puzzle game on the planet! Puzzle Day is my way of turning that gamble into something real—one puzzle at a time. It’s a home for all the quirky little puzzle ideas I’ve had over the years but never got to share. Some are clever. Some are silly. Some are surprisingly tricky. All of them are built with care. Here’s what you’ll find inside: • Numby – The first of many! A clever little number-matching game with daily and random modes • Pathwords – Each words last letter is the next words first letter ... it's ... forget it, just try it • Burbs – Stranger Things meets Sudoku in this simple game of logic and deduction • Hoots – The smallest possible match 3 game you've ever played. It's fast, it's cute, and it's a hoot • New puzzle (almost) every week – I’m building and releasing new games right inside the app • Daily mode – Play once a day, share your score, and try to beat your friends • No accounts or logins – Just open and play • Quick and satisfying – Most puzzles take just a few minutes, but you’ll want to replay • Fun for your brain, not your wallet – You can support the app by watching ads (thank you!) and enjoy it for free Why I'm Doing This This app isn’t backed by a big company. It’s just me, in my home, designing, coding, testing, and sharing games. I’m also sharing the journey of trying to make $100K in 100 days by building indie games and posting about it on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube (@kurtiswow). Every ad you watch, puzzle you share, or kind comment you leave helps me get a little closer to that goal—and helps me support my family doing what I love. Coming Soon: More puzzle types (word, logic, grid-based, memory, timing) Achievements, streaks, and unlockables Special limited-time puzzles and events Your feedback! I’m reading everything and building features based on what players ask for Thanks for checking out Puzzle Day. I hope these little puzzles brighten your day the way building them brightens mine. — Kurt Follow the journey: @kurtiswow on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube

About

Netflix Puzzled

Engage your mind with daily logic and word puzzles. Enjoy a variety of brain games, including Sudoku and crosswords, with special collections inspired by popular Netflix series and films. Play online or offline without interruptions.

Highlights
  • Daily word games
  • Logic puzzles
  • Crossword challenges
  • Netflix-themed collections
  • Offline play
  • No in-game ads
Currently charting
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NO NETFLIX MEMBERSHIP REQUIRED. Build a brain-boosting daily habit. Solve new word, logic and visual puzzles every day and explore collections inspired by favorite Netflix worlds. Ready for a new morning routine? Make this your home base for daily puzzles and find something fresh to play every day, from the brain-teasing word game Bonza to the classic logic challenge Sudoku. Solve without distractions, online or offline, with no in-game ads to interrupt. Keep your mind sharp with special puzzle collections that weave in the magic of Netflix series and films, from "KPop Demon Hunters" to "Squid Game" and "Black Mirror." Find new puzzles every day in the app or at Tudum.com, and get started on a legendary solving streak. DAILY PUZZLES FOR WORD WIZARDS *** Word puzzles are only available in English for now. *** • Combo • Link together a chain of phrases, using words and symbols to connect overlapping expressions. • Bonza • Take a hint from the theme and join together pieces of words (vertically or horizontally) until all the segments connect — like a crossword combined with a jigsaw puzzle. • Crossover • Switch the position of letters and icons in a mini crossword grid, using clues, until you get the right word in every row and column. • Waywords • Go on a word search journey. Form a path to the end of each puzzle by finding words that fit the theme — and steer clear of decoys! DAILY PUZZLES FOR LOGIC LOVERS • Currents • Find the flow in this path-tracing puzzle. Create a single, unbroken stream to connect all the numbers. • Sudoku • Use your powers of deduction to fill a grid with the numbers 1 through 9 in this classic logic game. Each number can only appear once in every row, column and 3x3 block. • Starstruck • Figure out the perfect spacing of stars on a grid so that there's only one star in each row, column and colored region, with no star neighboring another. DAILY PUZZLES FOR VISUAL THINKERS • Neon • Light up the board! Link each pair of brightly colored symbols without getting your wires crossed. • Snippets • Follow the numbers to unfold colored paper into rectangular spaces and watch a hidden figure come to life. • Jigsaw • Fit puzzle pieces together to complete an image in this perfectly portable twist on the classic pastime. - Created by Next Games, a Netflix Game Studio.

Screenshots

Puzzle Day4 screens
Netflix Puzzled4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Puzzle Day at none against Netflix Puzzled's 1. Puzzle Day also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks) and review sentiment (89% vs 76%). Netflix Puzzled's advantage is ratings volume (4.2K vs 11) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Netflix Puzzled sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. Puzzle Day asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Netflix Puzzled holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Netflix Puzzled has 4.2K ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 89% of Puzzle Day's written reviews are positive against 76% of Netflix Puzzled's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Puzzle Day ships an update weekly, Netflix Puzzled every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 14, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Puzzle Day versus Netflix Puzzled: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPuzzle DayNetflix Puzzled
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11 ratings)4.8 (4.2K ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews — better75.8% of reviews
Number of ratings114.2K — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 6 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#100 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size147 MB167 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperSimple Machine, LLCNetflix, Inc.

Customer experience

Puzzle Day

All ratings11 ratings
Positive90.9%
Neutral9.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive88.9%
Neutral11.1%
Negative0.0%

Netflix Puzzled

All ratings4,197 ratings
Positive95.4%
Neutral2.2%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews592 reviews
Positive75.8%
Neutral10.3%
Negative13.9%

In-app purchases

None

Puzzle Day

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Netflix Puzzled

Subscriptions1
  • Netflix Standard Plan$19.991 Month

Questions

Is Puzzle Day free?
Puzzle Day is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Netflix Puzzled free?
Netflix Puzzled is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Puzzle Day or Netflix Puzzled?
Netflix Puzzled is rated higher. Puzzle Day averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11 ratings, while Netflix Puzzled averages 4.8 from 4.2K ratings.
Do Puzzle Day or Netflix Puzzled have ads?
Neither Puzzle Day nor Netflix Puzzled shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Puzzle Day or Netflix Puzzled?
Puzzle Day ships an update weekly, and Netflix Puzzled every 6 weeks. Most recently, Puzzle Day was updated on August 14, 2026 and Netflix Puzzled on September 24, 2026.

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