Pixelogic

My app won’t open today.

While I like the new update, I am only giving the app 3 stars because now I have to pay for it and the new version won’t restore my history. I don’t mind paying because I love this game but want my history and extra guesses I paid for back. Fix those issues and I will give this 5 stars

Love the daily puzzles. Love that there are no annoying ads. Great start to my day!

I’m a big fan of Picross on the Switch, but I wanted to find an alternative for iPad. Pixelogic is the best Picross-like app I’ve found, with a no-nonsense interface and lots of pixel art puzzles.<br/><br/>There are a few features that I’d love to see added:<br/><br/>– The ability to toggle tools by double-tapping Apple Pencil<br/>– A third tool for marking spaces temporarily (the Diamond shape in Picross)<br/>– An undo<br/>– Custom pixel color (I’d pick black)<br/>– Ghosted numbers for completed rows (the gray background alone doesn’t feel very noticeable to me)<br/>– Disable Game Center<br/>– Disable Bolts

I would give this app 5 stars if the daily free play increased to 3. There are 2 dailies, a weekly, and a huge archive. The one time purchase packs are quite a bit for 20ish puzzles each. $1 would be more reasonable. <br/><br/>The previous version (way back when) had a “+” version you could get for a one time purchase and included the entire archive. I would gladly pay about $5 to have permanent full access to even the previous 30 days of archive without limited daily “free plays”. Or a couple bucks ONE TIME to increase the daily plays to 5 or so. <br/><br/>There are plenty of ways to get people to support a quality game like this one without a subscription. $15 a year is not unreasonable, but I do not like to support subscriptions if I can avoid it. I’d rather pay $15 for a year’s worth of previous archive that I can access and play at my own pace.

I purchased unlimited puzzles years ago, when this app was just starting out. At the time they had limited content, and it was a gamble on my part that they would continue to produce content. Recently they removed the unlimited status and reneged on the agreement. Hard to trust someone who breaks their end of an agreement.

This is the best nonogram style puzzle out there by far! I have tried them all but none even come close to how enjoyable Pixelogic is! You can tell the creator, Joel, actually cares about his app and the people that use it.

In engineering we call this the keep it simple principle. This is a perfect example of being just complicated enough without being bloated