HatPick vs Open The Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HatPick
This app allows you to create custom lists for random selections, perfect for making decisions or playing games. Assign multiple 'slips' to choices for weighted outcomes and easily pick an item from your curated categories.
- Create custom decision categories
- Add multiple choices within categories
- Assign weighted 'slips' to choices
- Randomly select an item from a category
- No physical hat required for selections
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HatPick can help you make decisions or do any number of things that require random choices...and you don't need a hat to use this app!! You create your own categories and a set of choices within each category. Each choice has a counter so you can have multiple 'slips' for each choice. When you're ready, drop them in the hat and make your selection!
Open The Box
Uncover hidden items by unfolding box sides and solving puzzles. Decorate your virtual home with the treasures you discover. A fun and engaging experience for puzzle and decoration enthusiasts.
- Solve box puzzles
- Unfold box sides
- Discover hidden items
- Decorate your house
- Collect items
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What's in the box? Tap to fold the sides, open the box and solve the puzzle. Decorate your house with all the items you find in the boxes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Open The Box at 4.8 against HatPick's 3.1. Open The Box also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (4.1K vs 25). HatPick's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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
Both are free to download. Open The Box sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. HatPick asks for nothing beyond the download.
Open The Box holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Open The Box has 4.1K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 25% of HatPick's written reviews are positive against 44% of Open The Box's.
HatPick ships an update every 5 months, Open The Box every 8 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | HatPick | Open The Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (25 ratings) | 4.8 (4.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 25.0% of reviews | 44.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 4.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 207 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Rick Hutchinson | HOMA GAMES |
Customer experience
HatPick
Open The Box
Bugs and requests
HatPick
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Open The Box
Reported bugs
3 issues- Opening game shows black/grey screen
- Ads crash the game
- Boxes give duplicate items
Requested features
4 requests- Add more rooms/houses
- Make gems/diamonds easier to obtain
- Add more challenges and harder boxes
- Add a paid ad-free version
In-app purchases
HatPick
No in-app purchases
Open The Box
- Remove Ads$2.99
