Candy Cup vs Construct Up
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Candy Cup
Tap the screen to open a pot and drop candies into moving cups. Earn points for each candy caught, but miss a cup and the candy is lost. Navigate increasing speeds and shrinking cups across two distinct game modes.
- Tap to open pot
- Catch falling candies
- Score points based on candy color
- Arcade Mode: strict candy loss
- Survival Mode: relaxed gameplay
- Increasing difficulty
- Progressive speed and size challenges
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The goal of the game is to fill moving cups with falling candies by opening the gate of the pot by touching on the screen. For each candy you manage to get through the glass you’re rewarded with a different amount of points, depending on its color. If the candies misses the glass, it disappears. Arcade Mode Here gameplay is simple and restricted. You miss the glass, you lose the candy . Also if the glass remains empty then its gone FOREVER. Lose glasses or lose 100 candies and game over. Survival Mode Here gameplay is not restricted. You can take whatever time you need. Your aim just becomes to keep the candies in the screen. Throughout the levels the difficulty of the game progresses by increased speed of the glasses and decreasing their size
Construct Up
Build a balanced tower using sticks to reach a goal at the top. Tap to connect new sticks and increase height, but ensure stability to ascend.
- Tap to connect sticks
- Build balanced towers
- Reach the top goal
- Physics-based gameplay
- Simple controls
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Construct a tower using sticks and reach up the goal at top. Be careful though, a tower has to be balanced in order to rise up to the sky. --- How to play? Tap anywhere to connect a new stick to the tower. Increase the height and reach the goal up top.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Candy Cup at 5.0 against Construct Up's 3.1. Construct Up's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 11 months) and ratings volume (15 vs 3). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Candy Cup holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Construct Up has 15 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Candy Cup ships an update every 11 months, Construct Up every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Candy Cup | Construct Up |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 3.1 (15 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 125 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Yen Nguyen | Lutfi Altin |
Customer experience
Candy Cup
Construct Up
In-app purchases
Candy Cup
No in-app purchases
Construct Up
No in-app purchases
