Comparison

Lost Items vs Delete After Reading

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

Head to head
About

Lost Items

Manage a bustling Lost and Found office, helping people recover misplaced belongings ranging from everyday objects to unusual items. Race against the clock to match items with their owners, as many look alike.

Highlights
  • Manage a Lost and Found office
  • Find various lost items
  • Race against the clock
  • Distinguish similar-looking items
  • Help people recover belongings
Features
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You are the person responsible of this tiny Lost and Found office, help all the people to find their lost items, which can go from the most trivial stuff like books, to other more uncommon items like a sword. But be careful! A lot of the items look similar, and you have to be quick, because you can run out of time!

About

Delete After Reading

Engage in an interactive adventure that blends reading with puzzle-solving. Uncover a secret mission to retrieve a stolen videogame and alter destiny, all while ensuring your actions remain undetected.

Highlights
  • Interactive reading and story gameplay
  • Escape room style puzzles
  • Unique storytelling format
  • Adventure mission
  • Stealth and puzzle mechanics
Features
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A book you can play, or a game you can read, Delete After Reading is a crafted combination of an adventure story and puzzle games about cheating your destiny. An original storytelling format for armchair detectives and escape room aficionados of all ages. On the worst day of your life, you find a strange device with a file named “Delete After Reading”. It’s a classified document. Nina, Cinco, and Tomate, a clandestine group of kids (they happen to be dead, but they’ve never let that small detail interfere with their daily, uh, lives) want you to join them on a secret mission to repair Destiny’s latest injustice: the despised millionaire Martin Skrilhex has stolen the only existing copy of the highly coveted videogame “The Curse of Penguin Island” so only he can play it. Together you’ll have to sneak into the magnate’s mansion and steal back the videogame, so kids around the world can play it. But this mission will only be successful if Destiny does not find out that you are changing his plans, so never ever forget to delete the file after reading it. Main features: - Text is the gameplay, a cool and innovative mix of interactive reading, story, and escape room puzzles. - An immersive storytelling format that broadens the view of what games (and books) could be. - A thrilling adventure story for the whole family.

Screenshots

Lost Items3 screens
Delete After Reading4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Delete After Reading at none against Lost Items's shown. Delete After Reading also leads on ratings volume (73 vs 2). Lost Items's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.2). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Lost Items sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Delete After Reading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Lost Items holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Delete After Reading has 73 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Lost Items ships an update fortnightly, Delete After Reading every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Lost Items versus Delete After Reading: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLost ItemsDelete After Reading
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (2 ratings) — better4.2 (73 ratings)
Positive reviews—48.6% of reviews
Number of ratings273 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 4 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS13.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size62 MB393 MB
Age rating4+9+
Developer502 Studios, Sociedad AnonimaPatrones y Escondites

Customer experience

Lost Items

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Delete After Reading

All ratings73 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative15.1%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive48.6%
Neutral25.7%
Negative25.7%

Bugs and requests

Lost Items

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Delete After Reading

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Cannot scroll on MacBook Pro
  • Symbols on TV are incorrect
  • Cannot buy the game on Mac
  • Chapter 5 is terrible on Mac
  • TV did not show channels 7-9 until reloading app
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  • Audio did not play after reloading

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add a save/continue feature
  • Make all levels free or reduce price
  • Add iCloud syncing
  • Add built-in video walkthroughs
  • Improve scrolling on iOS
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  • Adjust controls for Mac users
  • Fix text spacing issues
  • Provide clearer guides for puzzles

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Lost Items

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$0.99
1 purchases

Delete After Reading

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99

Questions

Is Lost Items free?
Lost Items is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Delete After Reading free?
Delete After Reading is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Lost Items or Delete After Reading?
Lost Items is rated higher. Lost Items averages 4.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Delete After Reading averages 4.2 from 73 ratings.
Do Lost Items or Delete After Reading have ads?
Lost Items shows ads; Delete After Reading does not.
Which is updated more often, Lost Items or Delete After Reading?
Lost Items ships an update fortnightly, and Delete After Reading every 4 weeks. Most recently, Lost Items was updated on October 5, 2026 and Delete After Reading on October 13, 2026.

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