Lost Items vs Delete After Reading
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Manage a Lost and Found office
- Find various lost items
- Race against the clock
- Distinguish similar-looking items
- Help people recover belongings
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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!
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.
- Interactive reading and story gameplay
- Escape room style puzzles
- Unique storytelling format
- Adventure mission
- Stealth and puzzle mechanics
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Lost Items | Delete After Reading |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (2 ratings) — better | 4.2 (73 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 48.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 73 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 62 MB | 393 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | 502 Studios, Sociedad Anonima | Patrones y Escondites |
Customer experience
Lost Items
Delete After Reading
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
Lost Items
- Remove Ads$0.99
Delete After Reading
- Full Game$4.99









