Comparison

Orbit vs iGlyphTrainer

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

Head to head
About

Orbit

This app is a meditative physics puzzler where you launch planets to create stable orbits around black holes. Explore a variety of levels, create your own challenges in a sandbox mode, and enjoy a visually artistic and relaxing experience.

Highlights
  • Gravity simulation puzzles
  • Create stable orbits
  • Sandbox mode for level creation
  • Community-created levels
  • Visual orbital mechanics
  • Minimalist graphics and relaxing music
Features
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ORBIT is a gravity simulator at the heart of a puzzle game. Launch planets with a flick of your finger, and try to get them into stable orbits around black holes. Can you make enough orbits to progress to the next level? New: ORBIT now features a Sandbox (paid) where you can create your own levels! Control time, disable collisions, and paint with gravity. Publish your creations to the world for everyone to play. • 45 free levels, with new mechanics are introduced over time — like repulsive black holes and planets with their own gravity that attract each other • Play community-created levels — virtually limitless content made by other players, all completely free • Launch as many planets as you like, and watch the mesmerizing orbital mechanics unfold • Planets leave colored traces, so that at the end of a level you will have created a beautiful piece of art • See the future trajectory of a planet before you launch it • Play in an environment of smooth, minimalist graphics while listening to relaxing classical piano Follow on Twitter: https://twitter.com/highkeygames Follow on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/highkeygames

About

iGlyphTrainer

Practice Ingress glyph hacking with this training tool. Customize sequence length and view glyph names to improve your recall and speed. This open-source application is not affiliated with Ingress creators.

Highlights
  • Glyph hack training simulator
  • Customizable glyph sequence length (2-5)
  • Display glyph names
  • Open source software
  • Not affiliated with Ingress
Read full description

iGlyphTrainer helps you train ingress glyph hacking. This application imitates the glyph hack game in Ingress. To get used to hack, you can specify the number of glyphs in a sequence (from 2 to 5). And to remember the glyph name, it will be displayed at the question and/or answer sequence. This software is open source software distributed under GNU public license version 2.1. So, you can get the source code from the support web site. NOTE: Ingress is copyright 2014 Niantic Labs. This software is NOT affiliated with Niantic Labs nor Google.

Screenshots

Orbit4 screens
iGlyphTrainer3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Orbit at 94% against iGlyphTrainer's 47%. Orbit also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.6) and ratings volume (7.6K vs 10). iGlyphTrainer's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 7) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Orbit sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. iGlyphTrainer asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Orbit holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orbit has 7.6K ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 94% of Orbit's written reviews are positive against 47% of iGlyphTrainer's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Orbit ships an update every 2 months, iGlyphTrainer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Orbit versus iGlyphTrainer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterOrbitiGlyphTrainer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (7.6K ratings) — better3.6 (10 ratings)
Positive reviews94.4% of reviews — better47.1% of reviews
Number of ratings7.6K — better10
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.08.2 — better
Further details — not scored
Size137 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHIGHKEY GamesTomoo Hamada

Customer experience

Orbit

All ratings7,603 ratings
Positive97.0%
Neutral1.0%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews625 reviews
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.6%
Negative3.0%

iGlyphTrainer

All ratings10 ratings
Positive70.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative30.0%
Written reviews17 reviews
Positive47.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative47.1%

Bugs and requests

Orbit

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • In app purchase not received
  • Sandbox mode not working
  • Game crashing and unable to open

Requested features

6 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to zoom in and out
  • Ability to rotate the game to landscape on iPad
  • Ability to edit and move existing objects in sandbox mode
  • Ability to name planets and add moons
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  • More levels and game modes

iGlyphTrainer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Orbit

One-time7
  • $1 contribution$0.99
  • Remove ads$0.99
  • $2 contribution$1.99
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  • $3 contribution$2.99
  • Unlock Sandbox (and remove ads)$2.99
  • $5 contribution$4.99
  • $10 contribution$9.99
None

iGlyphTrainer

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Orbit free?
Orbit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is iGlyphTrainer free?
iGlyphTrainer is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Orbit or iGlyphTrainer?
Orbit is rated higher. Orbit averages 4.8 out of 5 from 7.6K ratings, while iGlyphTrainer averages 3.6 from 10 ratings.
Do Orbit or iGlyphTrainer have ads?
Orbit shows ads; iGlyphTrainer does not.
Which is updated more often, Orbit or iGlyphTrainer?
Orbit ships an update every 2 months, and iGlyphTrainer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Orbit was updated on October 17, 2026 and iGlyphTrainer on October 5, 2026.

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