Soda Sort Puzzle is a casual logic game for mobile devices where players sort colored liquids into glasses.
Product velocity
Active
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Games
Sentiment
4.5
305k reviews
Nemesis
Water Sort Puzzle
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Users hire this game for low-stakes, repetitive stress relief during idle time, where the absence of time limits is the primary value driver.
For Casual mobile gamers seeking low-stakes, repetitive puzzle challenges for stress relief.
What does it look like?
Key features
Pour colored water between glasses to group identical colors, requiring logical planning to avoid deadlocks
Interaction model limited to tap-and-hold gestures for pouring water
Allows players to reset the current puzzle state without penalty or time limits
How much does it cost?
Ad-supported model with in-app purchases, anchored by free access to the full puzzle catalog.
Velocity
Active developmentShow more...
5 versions in history. Development pace: active.
Who built it?
IEC GAMES AUSTRALIA PTY
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What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads frustrated. Users appreciate relaxing puzzle mechanics provide a stress-relieving experience for long-term daily players.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Relaxing puzzle mechanics provide a stress-relieving experience for long-term daily players
- Recent UI changes reduced bottle size making the game difficult for visually impaired players
49 of 49 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
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Competitive landscape for Soda Sort Puzzle
How's the Games market?
Soda Sort Puzzle holds the #72 Grossing position in the Puzzle category, but the recent ad-heavy update creates a monetization-to-retention imbalance that threatens its chart stability.
Read the market outlookThe rivals identified
By IEC Global Pty Ltd
This app is the direct market leader in the water-sorting niche, sharing a developer lineage and dominating the category with over 1.3 million reviews.
- Maintains a high-frequency update cadence with six releases in the last six months to ensure stability.
- Leverages massive user-base data to refine level difficulty curves that smaller clones struggle to replicate.
- Establishes a category-defining brand presence that captures the majority of organic search traffic for sorting puzzles.
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Key takeaways for Soda Sort Puzzle
Where is it heading?
The casual puzzle market is consolidating around high-polish, ad-lite experiences, leaving Soda Sort Puzzle exposed to churn as its recent monetization shift alienates the core base. Without a reversal of the UI accessibility issues, the app will likely see a continued decline in daily active users as players migrate to competitors.
- The latest UI update (reduced bottle size) causes accessibility friction, which directly correlates with the current negative sentiment trend.
- Aggressive ad frequency between levels disrupts the core puzzle loop, accelerating churn among long-term players who value the game for stress relief.
The SWOT
- One-finger control lowers entry barrier for casual users
- Unlimited restarts maintain long-term casual retention
- Implement account synchronization for device-switching retention
- Introduce customizable UI settings for visual accessibility
Next best moves
Revert bottle size UI changes because accessibility complaints are the #1 churn driver → stabilize rating
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's #72 grossing rank is a liability, not an asset…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Cloud-save synchronization (available in Water Sort Puzzle but missing here) +1
Since the last report: The app's competitive position has declined due to aggressive ad-monetization and UI regressions that trigger accessibility-related churn.
Bottom line
The app retains users through a sticky core loop but is currently sabotaging its own growth with accessibility-breaking UI changes and excessive ad-load, so the PM must prioritize UI restoration and cloud-save to prevent mass churn to established rivals.
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Is Soda Sort Puzzle free to play?
Does Soda Sort Puzzle work offline?
How does Soda Sort Puzzle compare to Water Sort Puzzle?
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