Get help with Whirrtin, the sewing-puzzle game.
Whirrtin is an iOS and Android wind-up toy puzzle: turn the key, let go, and the little tin toy clatters across tin-plate tiles to the bell. It has 100 stages in ten tile-twist worlds, a Daily Tin stage with a streak, an endless Parade, a Toy Chest of 24 tin toys you buy with free coins, is free to play with ads, has no accounts, and works offline. Questions? Write to bpupadhyaya@equalinformation.com.
Yes. Whirrtin is free to play, with ads served by Google AdMob: a banner on the home and stage-map screens and below the play field, and a full-screen ad after some finished stages. You can earn ad-free play each month by watching short videos, or go ad-free every month with an optional monthly subscription.
Turn the toy’s brass key on the dial (or use the plus and minus buttons) to store winding units, then press go. The toy spends one unit per tile and rests where the energy runs out. You have a small total budget of winding units for each stage; units left over at the bell are your stars. Ramps cost 2, felt costs 3 on arrival, a gap needs a 3-unit hop, bricks bounce the toy back, belts shove it along for free, spring pads fling it two tiles on, turntables spin it around and oil slicks make it slide. Undo, restart and the clerk’s demonstration are always in reach: no timers and no lives.
The Daily Tin is one shared stage per day with a streak counter. The Parade is a run of 60 stages that gets harder as you climb. The Toy Chest holds 24 tin toys that you buy with free coins earned by winning stages; coins are never sold for money.
Open Quiet Key from the home screen and watch short rewarded videos. The Mainspring Meter shows how many videos you have watched this month and the date it resets. Reaching 100 turns ads off until that date. Watching is always your choice.
Quiet Key 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 > Whirrtin > Cancel Subscription. Android: Google Play > Profile > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions > Whirrtin > Cancel subscription. Deleting the app does not cancel it.
Open Quiet Key in the app, choose Monthly and tap Restore. You need to be signed in to the same Apple Account (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.