Comparison

hocus. vs Katy and Bob 3

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

hocus.

Engage with a collection of mind-bending puzzles featuring impossible shapes. Create and share your own levels, or get assistance from AI when you're stuck. Explore both handcrafted challenges and an endless mode.

Highlights
  • 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
  • Create and share custom levels
  • Load levels from pictures
  • Endless mode
  • AI-assisted gameplay
Features
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hocus. is celebrating 10th year; Let artificial intelligence design new levels for you. You can even get help from her if you get stuck. Best Games on iPhone; Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Middle East New, polished, mind-bending, impossible shapes. Features: • 120 mind-bending hand-craft levels • Create/share your own levels • Load / take picture of levels cards • Endless mode • Shortest path algorithm

About

Katy and Bob 3

Help a couple overcome a wedding cake shortage by building a successful bakery business. This engaging game features colorful locations, exciting levels, and jolly characters, offering simple gameplay suitable for all ages.

Highlights
  • Build a wedding bakery business
  • Colorful locations
  • Exciting levels
  • Upgrade your team
  • Simple gameplay for all ages
  • Bonus buildings
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Katie and John are preparing for their wedding, but! Oh no! There's nowhere to order wedding cake on the island! With the help of Bob, our heroes can solve this problem and create a cake-baking business for special occasions while they're at it. Transform a wedding plan into a successful business! This game offers colorful locations, exciting levels, jolly characters, bonus buildings on each level, the ability to upgrade your team, trophies to suit any taste, simple gameplay for any age, pleasant music, and a captivating plot. Katie and Bob – let's open a wedding bakery! - Three beautiful locations - 60 exciting levels - Over 10 jolly characters - Bonus buildings on every level - The ability to upgrade your team - Simple gameplay for any age - Pleasant music"

Screenshots

hocus.4 screens
Katy and Bob 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Katy and Bob 3 at 5.0 against hocus.'s 4.3. Katy and Bob 3 also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 5 weeks). hocus.'s advantage is price ($1.99 vs $10.99) and ratings volume (234 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

hocus. costs $1.99 and Katy and Bob 3 $10.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Katy and Bob 3 holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: hocus. has 234 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, Katy and Bob 3 every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
hocus. versus Katy and Bob 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterhocus.Katy and Bob 3
Price$1.99 — better$10.99
Rating4.3 (234 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews87.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings234 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#42 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB221 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI8Floor

Customer experience

hocus.

All ratings234 ratings
Positive80.3%
Neutral7.7%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews402 reviews
Positive87.1%
Neutral5.7%
Negative7.2%

Katy and Bob 3

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

hocus.

No in-app purchases

None

Katy and Bob 3

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is hocus. free?
hocus. costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Katy and Bob 3 free?
Katy and Bob 3 costs $10.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, hocus. or Katy and Bob 3?
Katy and Bob 3 is rated higher. hocus. averages 4.3 out of 5 from 234 ratings, while Katy and Bob 3 averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do hocus. or Katy and Bob 3 have ads?
Neither hocus. nor Katy and Bob 3 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, hocus. or Katy and Bob 3?
hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, and Katy and Bob 3 every 3 days. Most recently, hocus. was updated on October 29, 2026 and Katy and Bob 3 on October 19, 2026.

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