Cake or Real vs Open The Box
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cake or Real
Test your perception in this challenging game where you must distinguish between real-world objects and their cake replicas. It's a fun and addictive test of your visual acuity.
- Distinguish real objects from cake
- Challenging perception gameplay
- Addictive visual test
- Simple and intuitive mechanics
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Let's find out which one is real or cake! It's harder than you think!
Open The Box
Uncover hidden items by unfolding box sides and solving puzzles. Decorate your virtual home with the treasures you discover. A fun and engaging experience for puzzle and decoration enthusiasts.
- Solve box puzzles
- Unfold box sides
- Discover hidden items
- Decorate your house
- Collect items
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What's in the box? Tap to fold the sides, open the box and solve the puzzle. Decorate your house with all the items you find in the boxes.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Open The Box at 4.8 against Cake or Real's 1.0. Open The Box also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 17 months) and ratings volume (4.1K vs 1). Cake or Real's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Open The Box sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cake or Real asks for nothing beyond the download.
Open The Box holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Open The Box has 4.1K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Cake or Real ships an update every 17 months, Open The Box every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cake or Real | Open The Box |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 4.8 (4.1K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 44.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 4.1K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 17 months | Every 8 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 12.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 207 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 3A YAPIM VE YAZILIM DANISMANLIK LIMITED SIRKETI | HOMA GAMES |
Customer experience
Cake or Real
Open The Box
Bugs and requests
Cake or Real
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Open The Box
Reported bugs
3 issues- Opening game shows black/grey screen
- Ads crash the game
- Boxes give duplicate items
Requested features
4 requests- Add more rooms/houses
- Make gems/diamonds easier to obtain
- Add more challenges and harder boxes
- Add a paid ad-free version
In-app purchases
Cake or Real
No in-app purchases
Open The Box
- Remove Ads$2.99
Questions
Is Cake or Real free?
Is Open The Box free?
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