Comparison

Red Sword vs Fold

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

Head to head
About

Red Sword

Engage in epic battles by enlarging your sword and unleashing a multitude of skills to defeat legions of monsters. Power up your abilities, equip numerous skills, and discover rare items to achieve ultimate strength. Explore bonus and hidden stages for an enhanced gaming experience.

Highlights
  • Enlarge sword for powerful attacks
  • Activate numerous skills
  • Equip any number of skills
  • Obtain powerful weapons
  • Power up abilities
  • Discover rare items
  • Bonus and hidden stages
Features
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Power up the various abilities! Activate a large number of skills to defeat enemies!! ■ Game description ・Enlarge your sword and attack many enemies! ・Obtain powerful weapons to attack legions of monsters! ・Activate a large number of skills to attack many enemies! ・You can equip any number of skills! ・Obtain rare items to achieve unrivaled power! ・You can power up the various abilities! ・There are bonus stages and hidden stages!

About

Fold

Features
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FOLD is a game about folding. There is a sheet of paper, some pieces of ink sitting on it, and nothing else. Swipe across the sheet. Everything before your finger folds over the rest, and flips on the way, the way paper actually does. Two pieces landing in the same cell merge, and their parts add up. When the cell is finally full, it becomes a shape: it scores, and it frees itself. Nothing is ever destroyed. What overlaps, though, is lost. That is waste, it never comes back, and too much waste ends the game. That is the whole rule. What you do with it is the hard part. YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S COMING The next pieces are shown above the sheet, in the order they will fall. And they fall on the cells your fold just emptied, so you choose where they land by choosing your fold. Nothing is drawn at random during a game. That is what makes looking ahead genuinely pay. A player who plans three folds ahead scores roughly twice what a player taking the best immediate move does. THE STREAK A fold that scores while wasting almost nothing extends your streak, and the streak multiplies your next fold, up to five times. A lucky hit pays once. Three prepared folds in a row pay far more. THE CUTS How the ink is cut changes the game completely. There are six cuts, and each one starts from a shape and cuts it up. Round: a disc cut into four quarters. You need all four. The easiest one, and the one to start with. Triangle: a square cut along its diagonals. Two triangles facing each other across a border make a diamond, which is what makes chains possible. Square: a square cut into four quadrants. Nothing combines across cells, only a whole cell counts. Cross: five squares in a cross. The middle square crosses folds without ever turning, so it is the one you place first. Octagon: eight parts per cell. The most valuable shape in the game, and the hardest to assemble. Mix: round, triangle and square on one sheet. Two different cuts never merge with each other. Each cut keeps its own best score and its own leaderboard. A good score on Square has nothing to do with a good score on Triangle, so mixing them would mean nothing. THE MODES Endless: the marathon. The sheet refills faster and faster, so a game always ends, but it lasts three to five times longer than Wear. Wear: a crease only takes four folds. Thirty-two folds in all, and scores you can compare directly. Puzzle: 48 levels across eleven chapters, each with a fixed deal, a counted number of folds and a target to reach. Every level has at least one solution, and the game remembers how many tries it took you. The second half is played on other sheet shapes: wider, smaller, larger, notched, perforated. Watermark: a mode of its own. You are shown an imprint and the number of folds that produced it, and it is up to you to find the way back. Paper stacks and is never lost, but a fold cannot be undone. Daily challenge: the same sheet for everyone until midnight. RUN CODES At the end of a game you can copy a code. Send it to someone and they will play the very same sheet, with the same pieces in the same order. It is also what makes the leaderboards hold up. The server replays the game fold by fold from its code and keeps the score it computes itself. A score no game could produce is refused. WHAT THERE ISN'T No account to create, no password, no connection required. The game works entirely offline. Progress is saved to your Apple Account, so it follows you if you change iPhone. Available in English and French.

Screenshots

Red Sword4 screens
Fold4 screens

Verdict

The call

Red Sword and Fold are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Red Sword sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and Fold sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Red Sword ships an update weekly, Fold every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Red Sword versus Fold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRed SwordFold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (280 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews78.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings280 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size155 MB37 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTatsukiMathieu Vigne

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Red Sword

One-time2
  • RingEx1$6.99
  • playercolor1$6.99
1 purchases

Fold

One-time1
  • REMOVE ADS$3.99

Questions

Is Red Sword free?
Red Sword is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fold free?
Fold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Red Sword or Fold have ads?
Both Red Sword and Fold show ads.
Which is updated more often, Red Sword or Fold?
Red Sword ships an update weekly, and Fold every 3 days. Most recently, Red Sword was updated on November 11, 2026 and Fold on October 31, 2026.

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