Get help with Pebble Shift, the weighted-stone balance puzzle.
Pebble Shift is an iOS and Android balance puzzle: slide weighted stones around a ring, one step at a time into an empty slot, until the two pans of the scale weigh the same. It has 120 plates in eleven worlds, a Daily plate with a streak and an endless Free bench, is free to play with ads, has no accounts, and works offline. Questions? Write to bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com.
Yes. Pebble Shift is free to play, with ads served by Google AdMob: a banner on the home screen and below the scale on the play screen, and a full-screen ad after some completed plates. You can earn ad-free play each month by watching short videos, or go ad-free every month with an optional monthly subscription.
Tap a stone to lift it, then tap a glowing neighbouring slot to slide it there. The right half of the ring is the right pan and the left half the left pan; the beam levels when the two sums match. Later worlds add bolted stones that never move but still weigh, and counterweights that move the target so the beam must settle with one pan heavier by a set amount. Fewer moves earn more stars (three stars for the shortest solution). Undo and restart are free, and there are no timers and no lives. The lightbulb button shows the first slide of a shortest solution after a short video.
Open Ad-free from the menu and watch short rewarded videos. A progress bar shows how many videos you have watched this month and the date it resets. Reaching the goal turns ads off until that date. Watching is always your choice.
Ad-free Monthly is US$2.99 per month (local price shown in the store). It renews automatically every month until you cancel, and it removes ads for as long as it is active.
iPhone and iPad: Settings > your name > Subscriptions > Pebble Shift > Cancel Subscription. Android: Google Play > Profile > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions > Pebble Shift > Cancel subscription. Deleting the app does not cancel it.
Open Ad-free in the app and tap Restore purchases. You need to be signed in to the same Apple ID (iPhone and iPad) or Google account (Android) that subscribed.
Yes. The game plays fully offline; only ads and subscription checks need a connection.
The app has no accounts and no servers of ours, and your progress stays on your device. It shows ads served by Google AdMob, which may use your advertising ID. Where the law requires it the app shows Google’s consent form, and on iPhone and iPad it asks permission through Apple’s App Tracking Transparency prompt. See the Privacy Policy.
Apple’s standard Licensed Application End User License Agreement on iPhone and iPad, and the Google Play Terms of Service on Android.
Progress is stored on your device, so it does not carry over to a new device or after an uninstall.
Email bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com and tell us your device, the app version and what happened.