Potion Stack
Tap-to-pour color sorter dressed as an alchemist's workbench with glowing vials and a clearing cauldron.
Tap a bottle to lift its top liquid, tap another to pour only if colors match and space exists, complete each bottle as a single hue to clear it.
One-thumb tap a bottle to pick up, tap another to pour.
Magical alchemist's lab with bubbling cauldrons, glowing potion bottles, and ingredient rewards between rounds.
Magic Sort hit #3 free in Canada with 44K ratings and a 4.6, proving the water-sort loop is still pulling; reviews complaining about 60-second ads and 900-coin pay-to-continue walls leave room for a fairer, lighter take on the same mechanic.
Magic Sort's #3 Casual ranking, 4.7★ across 550K ratings and $6M/mo revenue prove the water-sort loop still pulls, but the 'mystical alchemist' framing is already Magic Sort's own angle, not novel.Magic Sort! – 550K ratings, 4.7★, Chart #3 Casual ↗
Water-sort is a chill/oddly-satisfying ASMR-leaning category with moderate but not breakout TikTok shareability; reviews call the genre relaxing rather than clip-worthy reaction content.247+ water-sort apps category page; genre skews toward casual/relaxation audience ↗
Single tap-to-pick, tap-to-pour loop with color-match and capacity rules is trivial to spec and prototype — no physics, no timing, one thumb.
Magic Sort grosses $6M/mo with $3.3M IAP from only 478K DAU (≈$7 ARPU), and reviewers confirm strong ad+IAP combo with teams/collectibles/lives — but the 'fairer monetization' gap is largely closed by Magic Sort itself, leaving little room.Magic Sort $3.3M IAP / 478K DAU / 43% of top-10 IAP share ↗Magic Sort $6M/mo, $72M/yr, 3M downloads ↗
App Store lists 247+ water-sort apps and reviewers literally say 'they're all the same'; Magic Sort already owns the alchemist/magic theme at #3 Casual, leaving essentially no whitespace for a direct clone.247+ water sorting puzzle apps ranked; market is heavily cloned ↗Magic Sort occupies the magical/alchemist niche at #3 ↗