Four Squares vs Fruit Merge
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Four Squares
Test your memory and concentration by watching sequences and repeating them. Increase difficulty, speed, and challenge friends across multiple game modes. Customize your experience with themes and sound packs.
- Sequence memorization and repetition
- Three distinct game modes
- Adjustable difficulty levels
- Customizable themes and sound packs
- iCloud save and sync
- Automatic game pausing
- Game Center leaderboards
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Four Squares is a game of memory, skill, and concentration. Watch what happens each turn and repeat what you see. Each time you successfully repeat the sequence it is lengthened, the speed increases, and your thinking time is shortened. Keep practising, work your way up the leaderboards, and challenge your friends. ----- 3 Game Modes ----- Four Squares features 3 different game modes to challenge you in unique ways. Each game mode can be played with easy, normal, or hard difficulty. Endless is the classic mode that gives you a single life to repeat the longest sequence you can. One wrong move and it's game over! Time Attack mode gives you 30 seconds to repeat the longest sequence you can. Every correct sequence will win you some more time, but every wrong move will lose you time so don't rush! Speedrun mode gives you 3 lives to reach a sequence of 10 in the quickest time. You'll lose a life with each wrong move, but the timer doesn't stop so find the right balance of speed and accuracy. ----- Customisation ----- With 9 themes and 6 sound packs Four Squares allows you to customise the experience to your heart's content. ----- Save, Sync, and Replay ----- Each game you complete is saved and backed up to iCloud. You can view completed games on any device and choose to play the same sequence to get the best score. ----- Automatic Pausing ----- When interruptions occur, such as phone call or replying to a text, Four Squares will automatically pause the game and allow you to resume where you left off. ----- Leaderboards ----- Game Center integration provides leaderboards that let you compare your score to friends and other players worldwide. ----- Privacy ----- Four Squares doesn't collect user data or contain any adverts. It is funded by a single in-app purchase that unlocks extra themes and sound packs.
Fruit Merge
Drop and merge cute fruits to create evolved versions, aiming to merge until you obtain melons. This popular puzzle game offers timed or untimed play and allows you to compete for high scores.
- Drop and merge fruits
- Evolve fruits
- Merge to get melons
- Timed or no timer modes
- Earn high scores
- Unlimited lives
- Online and offline play
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Cute Fruit Merge Game is now available! Optimized for iPhone and iPad! Drop cute fruit, merge similar fruit to create evolved fruit! Merge until you get melons and win! Melon game is popular in Japan and all around the world! Features of Fruit Merge Game: - 11 unique fruits to play - Play with timer or no timer - Earn official high scores - Cute fruits and watermelons - Unlimited lives - Play online or offline
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Four Squares at 79% against Fruit Merge's 34%. Four Squares also leads on ads (none vs shown). Fruit Merge's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 57 months) and ratings volume (3.3K vs 5). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Four Squares sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Fruit Merge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Fruit Merge holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Fruit Merge has 3.3K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of Four Squares's written reviews are positive against 34% of Fruit Merge's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Four Squares ships an update every 57 months, Fruit Merge every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Four Squares | Fruit Merge |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (5 ratings) | 4.7 (3.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 34.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 3.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 57 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 197 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yetii Ltd. | Puzzle Cats |
Customer experience
Four Squares
Fruit Merge
Bugs and requests
Four Squares
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Fruit Merge
Reported bugs
2 issues- Fruits get stuck in corners
- Game sometimes ends for no reason
Requested features
4 requests- Bring back the old fruit theme
- Add more fruit options
- Allow continuing after getting a watermelon
- Add an option to disable the 'New Fruit' dialog
In-app purchases
Four Squares
- Four Squares⁺$0.99
Fruit Merge
- Balloon Game Ad Free$14.99
