Comparison

Cramble vs Nine

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

Head to head
About

Cramble

This game challenges you to estimate the size and quantity of various objects, animals, and landmarks. Test your knowledge with trivia and aim for high scores in challenge mode. It's a fun way to learn surprising facts and impress friends.

Highlights
  • Estimate object sizes and quantities
  • Learn facts about animals, buildings, and more
  • Challenge Mode with trivia
  • High score tracking
  • Endless mashups of objects and places
Features
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How many elephants can you stuff into the Empire State building? How many giraffes stacked up would reach the top of the Eiffel Tower? How big is that? How heavy? Learn more about the size of animals, buildings and other things with Cramble’s crazy object collection. Win the high score in Cramble Challenge Mode with clues and trivia questions. Impress friends with your knowledge of the number of squirrels that can fit inside an elephant and the weight of a Goliath Beetle. A perfect conversation starter, joke punch line and game, Cramble create endless mashups of animals, objects and places. Cramble it!

About

Nine

Features
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Every sudoku app has a hint button. You press it, a digit appears, and you have learned nothing. Next time you are stuck in the same place. Nine does it differently. You get one explanation per puzzle, and it fills in nothing. It names the technique, highlights the row, column or box where the proof is, and spells out the reasoning: "ONLY PLACE. In the bottom right box the 7 can only go here. The 7s in row 8 and column 9 rule out the other cells." "POINTING PAIR. In the bottom right box the 5 can only go in row 8. So the 5 is out everywhere else in row 8. That leaves column 2 with only one place for the 5: here." Then you place it yourself. You learn something instead of being handed the answer. THE PUZZLES Four difficulty levels, 30 levels each. Difficulty does not come from the number of given digits, but from the techniques needed to solve: from lone digits to triples and X-wing. Every puzzle is verified to have exactly one solution. Guessing is never required. THE EIGHT TECHNIQUES Only option, only place, pointing pair, box claimed, naked pair, hidden pair, naked triple and X-wing. Together they solve every puzzle in Nine. Each one has its own page with an example board where you see it happen, and when an explanation uses one you tap its name to read what it is. THE RULES Three mistakes and the puzzle restarts. One explanation. Three stars if you finish without either. A NEW ONE EVERY DAY Everyone gets the same daily puzzle, with Sunday as the hardest, just like the newspaper. Your streak sits on the home screen. ALSO • Notes, undo, automatic saving • Your own times and statistics per difficulty • Light and dark mode • Dutch, English, French, German, Turkish, Spanish and Portuguese TRY IT FREE Play everything free for 7 days. After that, unlock Nine with a one-time purchase, no subscription. Nothing is ever charged automatically. WHAT IS NOT IN IT No ads. No account. No subscription. No internet needed to play. The app collects nothing and sends nothing: your progress lives on your device and nowhere else. Made in Belgium by Made by Balthazar.

Screenshots

Cramble4 screens
Nine4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cramble at none against Nine's 2. Cramble also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Nine's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 8 months). On price, ads 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

Both are free to download. Nine sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Cramble asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cramble ships an update every 8 months, Nine every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Cramble versus Nine: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrambleNine
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size76 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRoman KalantariBalthazar Van de Velde

In-app purchases

None

Cramble

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Nine

One-time2
  • 7-Day TrialFree
  • Nine Lifetime$3.99

Questions

Is Cramble free?
Cramble is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Nine free?
Nine is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Cramble or Nine have ads?
Neither Cramble nor Nine shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cramble or Nine?
Cramble ships an update every 8 months, and Nine every 2 days. Most recently, Cramble was updated on October 29, 2026 and Nine on October 26, 2026.

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