Comparison

Sugar Witch vs Apprentice Witch Match 3

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

Head to head
About

Sugar Witch

Embark on a sweet adventure with a little witch to discover delicious treats. Engage in over 2300 levels featuring new mechanics and exciting game modes, including a ghost-finding challenge. Enjoy improved graphics and daily bonuses while competing with friends.

Highlights
  • 2300+ levels
  • New game mechanics
  • Ghost-finding game mode
  • Improved graphics
  • Daily bonus rewards
  • Leaderboard competition
Features
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Match sweets, cast spells, and solve thousands of puzzles in a world made of candy. Sugar Witch is a relaxing match-3 puzzle game — playable offline, with no forced ads. Journey with the Little Witch through kingdoms of cake, jelly, and magic — gentle enough to unwind with, and deep enough to keep you playing for years. 6,800+ LEVELS Over 6,800 hand-designed puzzles across 450+ missions, with plenty of new challenges to discover. Players who started years ago are still finding fresh boards to beat. NO FORCED ADS No banners. No pop-ups between levels. Nothing interrupts your game — it's just you and the puzzle. PLAY OFFLINE No internet? No problem. Every level plays offline — take Sugar Witch on the subway, on a flight, or anywhere the signal drops. STRATEGIC MATCH-3 Match three or more sweets to clear the board. Plan each move, combine special blocks, and set off powerful chain reactions. MAGIC BOOSTERS Stuck on a tricky board? Use magic wands to clear a single piece, sweep a row or column, or remove a color from the board — or add five extra moves when you run out. DAILY REWARDS Check in each day to collect free coins and boosters. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Connect with Facebook to send and receive lives with friends, and compare your best scores on the leaderboard. A WORLD WORTH SLOWING DOWN FOR Hand-illustrated candy landscapes and gentle music, designed to help you unwind — not to stress you out. Free to play, with optional in-app purchases. Follow us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SugarWitchGame

About

Apprentice Witch Match 3

Embark on a magical puzzle adventure as a beginner witch collecting enchanted ingredients. This game features unique match-3 mechanics with distinct rules for day, night, and graveyard levels, offering hundreds of challenging puzzles.

Highlights
  • Unique match-3 mechanics for different times of day
  • Hundreds of unique puzzle levels
  • Variety of boosters and powerups
  • Challenging obstacles like frozen items and spellbooks
  • Social features with Facebook connect and leaderboards
  • Bewitched graphics and sounds
Features
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Who said becoming a witch was easy? Abracadabra! Hocus Pocus! Let's go for the magic broom! Help Ursula, the beginner witch to pick up her witchery stuff before the supreme sorcerer notice the mess. It seems that Aura the cat messed up all the potions and ingredients! If Ursula does not find out what happened, she will not be able to win her magic broom. This is not another match 3 game. It has a lot of levels, with different game mechanics. Very... bewitched game modes! * The daylight levels run under the match3 classic rules. Match 3 or more stuff to collect it. Matching more than three will you a witchery booster. At night levels, you need to connect the witchcraft stuff to collect it, Connect more than seven stuff to collect all same color items at once. Finally, the graveyard has it's own rules, you need to touch a witchcraft piece to pick up this one and its same color adjacents. Collecting more than three will give you amazing powerups. Each game mode, has its own boosters and powerups: * Vertical and horizontal cleaners * Skull Bombs * Explosive Crystall balls * Toad, will paint stuff * Full moon, use as wildcard Also, these game modes have each one their own troubles: * Crystal slots you need to break * Frozen witchcraft stuff you need to defrost before collecting them. * Spellbooks you have to vanish * White spiders to collect Same way, you have some boosters to make it easier: * Magic Broom to sweep same color witchcraft stuff * Claws to pick up a single bewitched piece * Tornado to shuffle it all Win gems to get free lives, boosters and other additional witchery. FEATURES; * Very fun, very easy but hard to master * Bewitched graphics and sounds. * Witchcraft elements for a scary experience. * Hundreds of puzzle levels each one is very unique * Free, so download now * Multiple difficulty levels * Play with your friends & Family. * Facebook connect, so you can share your goals and scores. * Ranks for all levels, so you can check your friends scores and defeat them. * Fun for all ages What are you waiting for? Play this amazing match3 and give Ursula the chance to win her magic broom and become the best witch ever. Fun to play, you will love this bewitched adventure, collecting witchery. Each level is an amazing puzzle to solve.

Screenshots

Sugar Witch4 screens
Apprentice Witch Match 34 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sugar Witch at none against Apprentice Witch Match 3's shown. Sugar Witch also leads on rating (4.8 vs 4.6) and review sentiment (84% vs 75%). Apprentice Witch Match 3's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ratings volume, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sugar Witch sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Apprentice Witch Match 3 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sugar Witch holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 173 and 87 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Sugar Witch's written reviews are positive against 75% of Apprentice Witch Match 3's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sugar Witch ships an update every 3 months, Apprentice Witch Match 3 every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sugar Witch versus Apprentice Witch Match 3: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSugar WitchApprentice Witch Match 3
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (173 ratings) — better4.6 (87 ratings)
Positive reviews84.4% of reviews — better75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings173 — better87
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size121 MB257 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCubefluxOne Up Games Studio

Customer experience

Sugar Witch

All ratings173 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.7%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews45 reviews
Positive84.4%
Neutral4.4%
Negative11.1%

Apprentice Witch Match 3

All ratings87 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral6.9%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Bugs and requests

Sugar Witch

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game crashes after completing a screen
  • Game freezes up quite a bit
  • Unable to invite friends through Facebook

Requested features

4 requests
  • Provide a way to earn boosters and coins without paying
  • Improve product support and communication channels
  • Allow users to log in to Facebook properly
  • Fix the issue where sound/music turns on by itself

Apprentice Witch Match 3

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Sugar Witch

One-time9
  • 10 Coins$0.99
  • Starter Pack2 variants$1.99
  • 50 Coins$4.99
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  • 52 Coins$4.99
  • 100 Coins$8.99
  • 250 Coins$19.99
  • 250 Coins$20.99
  • 500 Coins$39.99
  • 520 Coins$39.99
4 purchases

Apprentice Witch Match 3

One-time4
  • 30 Magic Gems$1.99
  • 100 Magic Gems$3.99
  • 300 Magic Gems$9.99
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  • 1000 Magic Gems$25.99

Questions

Is Sugar Witch free?
Sugar Witch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Apprentice Witch Match 3 free?
Apprentice Witch Match 3 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sugar Witch or Apprentice Witch Match 3?
Sugar Witch is rated higher. Sugar Witch averages 4.8 out of 5 from 173 ratings, while Apprentice Witch Match 3 averages 4.6 from 87 ratings.
Do Sugar Witch or Apprentice Witch Match 3 have ads?
Apprentice Witch Match 3 shows ads; Sugar Witch does not.
Which is updated more often, Sugar Witch or Apprentice Witch Match 3?
Sugar Witch ships an update every 3 months, and Apprentice Witch Match 3 every 2 weeks. Most recently, Sugar Witch was updated on October 12, 2026 and Apprentice Witch Match 3 on September 23, 2026.

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