Card Hero vs Grindstone
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Card Hero
Embark on a dungeon-crawling adventure where you'll battle monsters with magic, level up your hero, and collect loot. Explore mysterious dungeons, complete quests, and survive as long as possible to uncover greater rewards.
- Dungeon crawling
- Magic combat
- Hero leveling
- Boss battles
- Quest completion
- Treasure hunting
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Card Hero is a simple to learn engaging dungeon card crawler. Discover mysterious dungeons, fight with evil forces, unleash your power! Level up your hero, hunt for treasures and, above all, survive as long as you can! The deeper you get into the dungeon the better reward is waiting for you! In Card Hero you will: * CRAWL through dangerous dungeons filled with monsters! * Use MAGIC to defeat enemies! * Level up your HERO! * Fight with evil BOSSES and collect loot! * Complete various QUESTS and get rewards!
Grindstone
Engage in a challenging puzzle-battle game where you slash your way up a treacherous mountain. Cleave through swarms of enemies, battle bosses, and discover blueprints for powerful gear. Over 200 levels of intense puzzle-battling await.
- Sword-slashing puzzle battles
- Over 200 levels
- Battle bosses
- Loot resources
- Discover gear blueprints
- Cleave deadly foes
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GRINDSTONE is a game of sword-slashing puzzle battles from the award-winning creators of Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP, Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes and Critter Crunch! Grindstone Mountain is overrun with vicious Creeps! Slay your way up its treacherous peak where fortune, glory (and death) awaits! It’ll take sharp puzzle skills and an even sharper blade to cleave your way through the swarms of bloodthirsty Creeps dwelling within Grindstone’s dungeons. Battle bosses, loot resources, discover long-lost blueprints for powerful gear, all while cleaving the innards from your deadly foes! Now with more than 200 levels of intense puzzle-battling madness!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grindstone at none against Card Hero's 7. Grindstone also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (78% vs 50%). Card Hero's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence 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. Card Hero sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Grindstone asks for nothing beyond the download.
Grindstone holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grindstone has 7.3K ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of Card Hero's written reviews are positive against 78% of Grindstone's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Card Hero | Grindstone |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (9 ratings) | 4.7 (7.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 7.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 250 MB | 990 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vitaliy Onyshchenko | Capybara Games Inc. |
Customer experience
Card Hero
Grindstone
Bugs and requests
Card Hero
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Grindstone
Reported bugs
3 issues- Freezing on black screen after intro
- Inability to complete certain levels due to glitches
- Disappearing save data after updates
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and content updates
- Ability to save progress mid-level
- Option to disable animations
- Landscape mode support on iPad
- In-game enemy encyclopedia
In-app purchases
Card Hero
- 1 000 coins$0.99
- Sale Offer$1.99
- Remove ads$2.99
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- 5 500 coins$4.99
- 12 000 coins$9.99
- 25 000 coins$19.99
- 70 000 coins$49.99
Grindstone
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Card Hero free?
Is Grindstone free?
Which has better reviews, Card Hero or Grindstone?
Do Card Hero or Grindstone have ads?
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