Brain It On! vs Setwise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Brain It On!
Engage your mind with tricky physics puzzles. Draw shapes to find creative solutions to increasingly difficult challenges. Compete with friends and discover multiple ways to solve each puzzle.
- Dozens of brain-busting puzzles
- Puzzles added regularly
- Compete with friends
- Multiple solutions per puzzle
- Share unique solutions
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Deceptively challenging puzzles for your brain! Draw shapes to solve challenging physics puzzles. They're not as easy as they look. Care to give one a try? ◆ Dozens of brain busting puzzles, with more being added all the time ◆ Compete with your friends for the Brain It On! crown ◆ Multiple ways to solve each puzzle, can you find the best solution? ◆ Share your unique solutions and compare with your friends If you like this game, please rate it and leave a comment. As a tiny indie developer your support is greatly appreciated. Thank you for your help! If you don't like something in the game, please email me at support@orbitalnine.com and tell me why. I want to hear your feedback and comments so I can continue to make this game better. Follow @orbitalnine on Twitter for all the latest news and updates on this game and upcoming releases. Like the game on Facebook: facebook.com/OrbitalNine Visit online at: orbitalnine.com I hope you enjoy Brain It On!
Setwise
Engage in a unique word association game with multiple solution paths per board. Earn higher scores by discovering complex relationships and less common routes. Create and share custom challenges in multiple languages.
- Multiple solution paths per board
- Scoring based on difficulty
- 14 language options
- Custom community challenges
- Private group creation
- Offline play available
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Setwise is a word-association game where the first correct answer is not always the best answer. Every board has sixteen terms and two to four complete solution paths. Find groups of four while preserving a route through the remaining terms. Harder relationships and less-common paths earn more points. Clear scoring, mistakes, hints, and a complete solution map explain how every board worked. Choose from fourteen languages for expert boards that mix meaning, vocabulary, natural expressions, homophones, and word parts. Create Community challenges from your own topics, build private groups, and share invitation links through the iOS share sheet. Play locally without an account. An optional Setwise account synchronizes preferences, friend-challenge inboxes, private groups, and online results. Community content is filtered, and signed-in players can report challenges and block their creators. Setwise displays a persistent, non-personalized banner in a dedicated bottom area during eligible online use, plus limited rewarded and interstitial ads. Ads never cover gameplay controls, and the reserved banner area prevents the board from shifting as inventory loads or refreshes. Setwise Plus removes and skips all ads. Strict Offline Mode is also ad-free. Purchases are managed by Apple; Civaren does not receive payment-card information. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Setwise at 5.0 against Brain It On!'s 4.5. Setwise also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Brain It On!'s advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Brain It On! sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Setwise sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Setwise holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain It On! has 5.2K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Brain It On! ships an update every 3 weeks, Setwise every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Brain It On! | Setwise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (5.2K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 191 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Orbital Nine Games Inc | Techonym, LLC. |
Customer experience
Brain It On!
Setwise
Bugs and requests
Brain It On!
Reported bugs
4 issues- Level selector not working past level 220
- Inability to draw near screen edges due to OS gestures
- Hint videos not always helpful
- In-app purchases not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- More levels
- Level editor to create custom puzzles
- Ability to save progress
- Improved drawing controls
- Better hints and guidance
Setwise
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Brain It On!
- Remove Popup Ads$0.99
- The Full Game (75% off)$0.99
- Coin Pack$0.99
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- The Full Game (50% off)$1.99
- Coin Pack$1.99
- The Full Game (25% off)$2.99
- Coin Pack$2.99
- The Full Game$3.99
- Coin Pack$3.99
Setwise
- No Ads$1.991 Month
