Comparison

Element Battle vs Ad

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

Head to head
About

Element Battle

Engage in an epic strategy game where you play as a Mender, a creator tasked with stopping destructive Wreckers. Heal, revive, and strategically destroy to protect the world across eight challenging levels.

Highlights
  • Eight unique levels
  • Strategic combat
  • Healing mechanics
  • Revival abilities
  • Destruction for defense
  • Mender vs. Wrecker gameplay
Features
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Fight your way through eight different levels in this epic strategy game. Your mission as a Mender is to stop the Wreckers before they destroy everything! Menders are creators nice and peaceful folk. Wreckers are built on destruction all they want to do is destroy, but there is still hope. As Menders you have a positive purpose. As you battle your way to victory you will have to heal, revive, and yes you will even have to destroy to stop the wreckers and their mischievous schemes.

About

Ad

This app offers a curated collection of fun games designed for children, completely free of ads, tracking, and internet requirements. It features a variety of engaging titles, including a city-swallowing hole game and an arcade pack with coloring, space shooting, and snake games. Parents appreciate the ad-free, private, and offline experience.

Highlights
  • No ads or tracking
  • Offline play
  • Multiple game modes
  • Coloring and drawing pad
  • Space shooter with power-ups
  • Snake game with leaderboards
  • One-time purchase for arcade pack
Features
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Ad-Free Games is an ever expanding library of games in one app, made for kids with absolutely NO ads, NO tracking, and NO internet required. Pick a tile on the main menu: HOLE (free) — You are a hole. Swallow a living 3D world — a night city, a forest full of animals, or a snowfield — and gulp down rival holes. Four modes, including Infinite. ARCADE PACK (one-time purchase, shared with your family) • TOWER STACK (NEW) — tap to drop the sliding block and build as high as you can. Overhangs get sliced off; land it dead centre for a Perfect. Chill and Normal modes. • POCKET PET — adopt a pixel-art pal: a puppy, kitten, bunny, turtle, dragon or fox. Feed it, give it a bubble bath, play Bounce and Peekaboo for coins, and spend them on toys, homes and garden decor. Your pal naps while you're away and is happy to see you when you come back. • GEM SWAP — a match-3 with a hundred levels. Swap gems to line up three; four makes a blaster, five a rainbow gem, an L a bomb. Score targets, colours to collect and ice to melt, three stars each, plus a Zen mode with no moves and no clock. • ROAD HOP — tap to hop, swipe to dodge. Cross roads, railways and rivers in a bright 3D world, and spend the coins you pick up on thirteen characters, from a frog to a penguin. Chill mode for little ones, Normal for the brave. • BLOCK BURST — drag pieces onto the board and fill rows or columns to burst them. Classic mode is endless and autosaves; Levels mode has a hundred boards of gem blocks to clear, three stars each. • MANCALA — the classic stone-sowing game with glowing glass gems. Land your last stone in your store for another turn, capture across the board, and outsmart the computer on Easy, Normal or Hard, or pass the phone to a friend. • STACK SMASH — a carnival knock-down. Fire the cannon and topple every tower of cans before your balls run out. Earn coins for boosters as you climb. Nothing to buy with money, ever. • TINY TOWN — your own pocket farm. Sweep a sickle across ripe fields, drag seeds to sow whole rows, bake bread, milk the cow and deliver orders to level up. Crops keep growing while you're away. • FRUIT MERGE — Drop glowing fruit into the well and match two of a kind to grow the next one. Merge all the way up to the melon to win. Three difficulties. • COLORING — A coloring book and drawing pad: 55 pages in 9 themes, crayons, markers, a paint bucket, stickers, and your own photos turned into coloring pages. • SPACE SHOOTER — Drag to fly, fire automatically, grab power-ups, and unlock new ships in the hangar with the coins you earn. • SNAKE — Slither around a bright arena, eat orbs to grow, slice smaller snakes, and climb the leaderboard. Three difficulties, eight colors. • CONNECT 4 — drop glowing discs and line up four against a computer that plans ahead, or two players on one device. • TIC TAC TOE — three in a row on a neon board. Easy, Normal or Hard, or pass the phone in 2 player mode! • NEW GAMES — any new games we add to the library will automatically be included if you already purchased the Arcade Pack. WHY PARENTS LOVE IT • No ads. No pop-ups. No "watch a video to continue." Ever! • No tracking, no analytics, no accounts, no sign-ups. • Works fully offline and private. • One optional purchase through Apple, with Ask to Buy for kids' accounts. No subscriptions, no coins. • One sound switch for the whole app, for quiet time. Made by a parent who was tired of their kid getting blasted with ads. TEN calm, fun, ad-free games. That's it.

Screenshots

Element Battle2 screens
Ad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Element Battle at 5.0 against Ad's 3.4. Element Battle also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Ad's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (9 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Element Battle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 9 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Element Battle ships an update every 8 months, Ad every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Element Battle versus Ad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterElement BattleAd
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.4 (9 ratings)
Positive reviews—62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings39 — better
Update frequencyEvery 8 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size408 MB64 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperZacharias BryantOne Light Media LLC

Customer experience

Element Battle

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ad

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Element Battle

No in-app purchases

None

Ad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Element Battle free?
Element Battle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ad free?
Ad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Element Battle or Ad?
Element Battle is rated higher. Element Battle averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Ad averages 3.4 from 9 ratings.
Do Element Battle or Ad have ads?
Neither Element Battle nor Ad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Element Battle or Ad?
Element Battle ships an update every 8 months, and Ad every 3 days. Most recently, Element Battle was updated on October 24, 2026 and Ad on October 31, 2026.

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