Star Grab vs Tiny Tinker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Star Grab
A fast-paced game where you must quickly identify and tap objects matching a given description. Avoid incorrect taps to maintain your score. Features multiple difficulty levels and an asteroid-dodging mini-game.
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Score multiplier
- Object matching gameplay
- Avoid incorrect taps
- Asteroid dodging mini-game
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Select from 4 different difficulty parameters to have the game change from stupidly easy to impossibly hard. As the difficulty increases, so does your score multiplier! Touch the objects that match the description at the start of the game. Don't touch incorrect objects or your score will drop. If you fail to grab an object that matches the description, you lose. Also check out the asteroid dodging mini game Collision Course.
Tiny Tinker
A unique game where you repair customer devices to earn money. Invest your earnings to unlock new repair areas and fix more phone parts, ultimately increasing your income and having fun.
- Device repair simulation
- Customer service
- Money earning and investment
- Unlockable repair areas
- Progressive gameplay
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See and immediately detect problems with the devices of customers who come for repair. In this unique game, you have to go to the repair area at the back and make repairs with the machines there. Deliver the phone after making the necessary repairs. Earn money. You need to open new repair areas with the money we earn. Opening new repair areas allows you to repair different phone parts and you earn more. Work, invest, earn a lot of money and best of all, have fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Star Grab at none against Tiny Tinker's shown. Star Grab also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and ratings volume (3 vs 1). On price, rating, update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Star Grab against 5.0 for Tiny Tinker. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Star Grab ships an update every 18 months, Tiny Tinker every 24 months. The most recent releases landed on June 22, 2026 and September 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Star Grab | Tiny Tinker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 18 months — better | Every 24 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 81 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Nestingen-Palm | omer cetin |
Customer experience
Star Grab
Tiny Tinker
In-app purchases
Star Grab
No in-app purchases
Tiny Tinker
No in-app purchases
