Comparison

Ellena vs Candy Smash 2026

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

Head to head
About

Ellena

Enhance your mental math abilities with this engaging game. Practice and improve your calculation speed and accuracy through various challenges.

Highlights
  • Improve mental calculation
  • Practice calculation speed
  • Enhance accuracy
  • Engaging challenges
Features
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With Ellena play and improve your mental calculation skills

About

Candy Smash 2026

Embark on a sweet adventure through a vibrant kingdom filled with delicious treats and challenging puzzles. Match colorful candies, unleash powerful boosters, and blast through hundreds of levels to collect scattered toys and discover new worlds. Enjoy endless fun with friends or solo, online or offline.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of challenging levels
  • Match, swap, and crush colors
  • Unique boosters and rich rewards
  • Collectible toys with special powers
  • Online and offline play
  • Play solo or with friends
Features
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With updated graphics, fun new game modes and blast through hundreds of levels! Your Candy Blast Match Toy have been scattered throughout the Candy Kingdom - Join this match 3 puzzle game to find them! This friendly bunch have their own unique powers to help you to create sweet candy combinations and blastthrough blockers! This fun new Candy game is filled with delicious treats - cookies, jam, chocolate and more! Your favourite game modes, but sweeter than ever! Fun and challenge never ends and you will never have a dull moment in Candy Blast Match Toy Candy Blast Match Toy features: • Solve puzzles • Match, swap and crush colors • Get tons of unique boosters • Rich rewards - earn coins and exchange them for in-game goods • Hundreds of challenging, chilling, and funny levels • Beautiful animations, cheerful music • Lots of ways to kill time with fun and joy • Hundreds of levels to play – collect your favorite friends along the way! • Explore sweet new worlds in Candy Blast Match Toy • Easy to play but challenging to master! • Play whenever, online and offline. Easily sync the game between devices and access full game features when connected to the internet. • Take on this epic saga alone or play with friends to see who can get the highest score! Candy Blast Match Toy is completely free to play but some optional in-game items will require payment with real money. You can turn off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings.

Screenshots

Ellena4 screens
Candy Smash 20264 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Ellena at none against Candy Smash 2026's 6. Ellena also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months). Candy Smash 2026's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, review sentiment 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. Candy Smash 2026 sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Ellena asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ellena ships an update every 4 days, Candy Smash 2026 every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Ellena versus Candy Smash 2026: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEllenaCandy Smash 2026
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.7 (60 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—60 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB153 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKangah Jacques N'GUESSANEmma Stone

Customer experience

Ellena

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Candy Smash 2026

All ratings31 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.5%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Ellena

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Candy Smash 2026

One-time6
  • Get 400 coins$0.99
  • Get 200 coins$1.99
  • Get 550 coins$2.99
Show 3 more
  • Get 50 coins$3.99
  • Get 1000 coins$4.99
  • Get 25000$19.99

Questions

Is Ellena free?
Ellena is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Candy Smash 2026 free?
Candy Smash 2026 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Ellena or Candy Smash 2026 have ads?
Candy Smash 2026 shows ads; Ellena does not.
Which is updated more often, Ellena or Candy Smash 2026?
Ellena ships an update every 4 days, and Candy Smash 2026 every 3 months. Most recently, Ellena was updated on October 18, 2026 and Candy Smash 2026 on October 29, 2026.

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