Crates! vs cardinal.
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crates!
A physics-based puzzle game where players must strategically remove crates to safely land a yellow crate on a brown one. New crate types with unique behaviors are introduced every five levels, increasing the challenge. The game features 75 levels and a variety of crate mechanics.
- Physics-based gameplay
- Strategic crate removal
- Progressive level difficulty
- Introduction of new crate types
- 75 challenging levels
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The goal of the game is to place the yellow crate safely on top of a brown crate. You have to remove all the other crates (by tapping them) in order to complete the level. The level will restart if the yellow crate hits the ground. Every 5th level, a new type of crate is revealed. New crates have different attributes and different behaviors when you tap them. The Game Currently Contains: - 75 Levels - 13 Types of Crates
cardinal.
Engage in a minimalistic logic puzzle game where you deduce a secret solution using sixteen cards and clues. Enjoy procedurally generated boards for endless play and compete globally in daily challenges.
- Minimalistic logic puzzles
- Deduce secret solutions
- Procedurally generated boards
- Endless regular mode
- Daily global competitions
- 16 logic cards
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Minimalistic yet challenging, CARDINAL gives you sixteen different cards and clues in which you must figure out the secret solution! Begin with the cardinal rule you can then continue to creatively deduce the solution from there! An endless amount of procedurally generated boards waits for you in regular mode. And when you feel ready, test yourself in the daily competition alongside players from all over the globe.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: cardinal. at 5.0 against Crates!'s 4.5. cardinal. also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 2). Crates!'s advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
cardinal. holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: cardinal. has 12 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of Crates!'s written reviews are positive against 75% of cardinal.'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Crates! ships an update every 2 months, cardinal. every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and July 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crates! | cardinal. |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (12 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 75.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 12 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dag Andersen | Perfect Hat Games LLC |
Customer experience
Crates!
cardinal.
In-app purchases
Crates!
No in-app purchases
cardinal.
No in-app purchases
