Jigsawscapes® - Jigsaw Puzzles

I’ve been coming back to this app for almost 2 years and I love the features it has. I enjoy the auto-separation of the edges, the toggle for whether the pieces rotate or not, and the options to do one puzzle with a handful of piece amounts options. With that being said, I just came back to the app after a few months hiatus. I know that there are ads before opening the puzzle and ad banners below the puzzle, but I have also gotten ads that play music or audio in the top right. I usually play a video or music in the background of my puzzle and the latter type of ad has made the game unusable for me. I looked into buying a premium, but the prices for premium are exorbitant and unaffordable and it only comes in a weekly/monthly/yearly option. You’re telling me I have to pay the high prices more than once to remove the ads on AI art puzzles? Absolutely not. I am wholly willing to pay a flat, one-time rate to remove ads permanently with no other benefits offered in premium, but at this point in time that does not seem to be what they offer. I’ll check back again on the app in a few months perhaps, but in the meantime it will sit unused again.

Update (original review below): Today when I opened the puzzle, there were the normal annoying ads for other games that play every time I open the app, finish a puzzle, start a new puzzle, etc. But now there are these ads with sound that force pauses anything I’m listening to. They only take up a small part of the board, and they do allow me to mute them, but only after they play long enough to stop whatever I’m listening to before the mute option opens, so I have to leave the puzzle app to go to the other app to restart what I’m listening to. Then within only a minute or two, another loud ad pops up and this process repeats over and over. It’s now impossible to use this app to relax, even if I give up trying to listen to something in the background, I am jarred out of the peace that puzzling brings by yet another loud ad that I must listen to before I can mute it. I spend more time trying to mute the ads than doing the puzzle. I was willing to deal with the ads before, since it’s a free app, but the new in-puzzle ads have ruined any calm. I would rather pay, but there is no option for that, so I am deleting this app. So disappointing. The following original review was 5 stars: I love these puzzles. The ads can be annoying, but they aren’t very long, so no big deal. I would love for there to be a search function to find puzzles based on my mood or interest. I really don’t like having to scroll to find what I’m looking for. There are soooo many puzzles, that a search option is almost needed! Thanks again.

This is the third time I’ve written about the size of the sample picture. It used to be able to adjust it so the smaller version could be kept to the side and not obstruct the game. Then it became too big and always covers part of the game making it necessary to move the sample time and time again. I resigned myself to not seeing it changed to the adjustable size but I’m in the middle of a 400 piece puzzle and I’m just plain tired of moving the sample off the puzzle so I can see what I’m doing. PLEASE make the sample adjustable again. It was a stupid change. Can’t imagine why anyone thought it would be a good idea. Love the puzzles but am getting frustrated. It appears I never sent the above paragraph the last time you made a horrible change. Now this one with the side pieces is even way worse. The sample hides the pieces AND a part of the puzzle. STOP making changes. Every time you do, it is a disaster. This one may really drive me off to another app. Don’t you understand the sample shouldn’t have to be moved frequently. It is more than annoying. Go back to the one before this last change. I do not want to have to also move pieces in three directions. IT IS AN AWFUL CHANGE.

Dear Developer, Thank you for replying and providing a suggestion to retrieve the upswipe arrow to display Multiple Columns and Multiple Rows of pieces from which to simultaneously select. I Already had this feature selected and still the Upswipe Arrow had disappeared, however today the arrow MAGICALLY appeared and I can now view and select from (on my phone) 40 !!!!! Pieces At A Time!! So now, it is again, a much more enjoyable puzzle experience. However it happened, thank you.🧩🧩🧩 Updates usually fix something but the recent update that deleted the arrow to have full screen view and select Many pieces at a time is not a fix or improvement😠. It makes the game Much Less Enjoyable only being able to view a few pieces at a time and having to go swiping the bar back and forth to look for pieces. Until this 'fix' is 'unfixed' I am looking for a new puzzle app.

I really enjoy this app except for two things, one of them probably going to make me delete the app. First, the developers added a reward? Cheer? With a recent change several pieces you've put together suddenly slide into place with a fireworks display. I just want to be able to attach several pieces together before always having to put them in the puzzle separately, and to be able to attach those pieces to the rest of the puzzle myself without being rewarded for it by rather childish methods, and also to avoid being startled. As a person with PTSD this doesn't help no matter how small this seems and so I have to mention it in case others are supersensitive as well. I then can't fully relax doing the puzzles anyway for anticipation of it coming, and spend time trying to make sure none of those pieces get close enough to already attached pieces that suddenly sets off the splash of fireworks. The second issue for me has just appeared today where the line of pieces to choose from at the bottom has become two, one stacked on top of the other, and it basically wipes out any space there used to be at the outside of the bottom of the puzzle to work on fitting pieces together before adding them inside the puzzle. This one will probably have me delete the app because there's little enough room there as it is and now it's basically nonexistent. I don't know what the reasoning is for this change but it doesn't seem necessary so explanation would be nice. Also if there is a way to reset it back to one line of pieces instead of two please instruct how. Or to stop the fireworks display for that matter. I'm sad to say that won't be using this app much any longer except for checking in to see if any of this changes, because I otherwise enjoyed it.

while I love that in this version I can utilize the space outside the puzzle, and I love the select multiple, there are still some strong settings that are lacking on this app. while some may love the X-Large puzzle size I found the size of the puzzle peices (when not on the board) are way too large and take up too much scree. also I thought when purchasing the app(wish it was a one time purchase and not a subscription) would allow for more room with the adds gone; however instead of an add the space is just taken up by a blank space, yet again taking away from the main puzzle area. I also love on other puzzle apps that you can move the peices to the right of the screen or the bottom, while in this app peices go to the right only on smaller size puzzles. That being said it would be great to have a larger amount of peices. 400 seems low compared to other puzzle apps where they have 450 + size puzzles. I’d love the puzzle board to have more of a zoom out feature. the zoom in is perfect. so far this is a much better upgrade compare to the puzzles app version previously.