Tiny Shop vs Craftbound
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Shop
Design and manage your own fantasy shop in a charming RPG world. Research, craft, and sell magical goods, complete quests, and expand your business. An assistant helps sell items even when you're offline.
- Personalize and design your shop
- Research, craft, and trade fantasy items
- Complete quests and missions
- Build and upgrade your city
- Grow and harvest plants for crafting
- Offline item sales with assistant
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YOU are a brand new member of the trading guild just stepping into this fantasy world. Personalize and design your own store, attract customers and sell magical and epic goods! Research, craft, trade, negotiate, buy and sell fantasy items and products from all over the world in this RPG simulation game and learn to manage your store to become the city’s best shop! Build, design and customize your very own cute fantasy shop with dozens of options! Making your store as outstanding as it can be will upgrade customers' satisfaction and boost your shop! Fortune awaits! With the help of your cute little assistant, discover a RPG world crafted with love. Meet mages and knights and send your heroes on epic adventures! Earn money and XP without doing anything as your assistant will sell your items for you while you are offline! Just fill your warehouse to the brim with goods and items and let the cash flow! Complete quests and missions for the trading guild and your customers and become the most beloved and reliable shopkeeper in town! Follow a cute and funny story, discover characters from your town and outside, build and upgrade your city to unlock more items and quests! Expand and upgrade your shop tile by tile. Buy beautiful and cute furniture and decoration to make your shop truly yours. Upgrade your shop’s statistics to boost your gold and xp! Plant and harvest exotic plants to craft powerful potions and other magic alchemy goods. From beautiful flowers to leafy vines you can become the best gardener around! Visit the botanist in the city center to buy new seeds and expand your garden. In this RPG fantasy shop adventure you will: RESEARCH, DISCOVER and CRAFT dozens of different items and goods to trade DESIGN and CUSTOMISE your tiny shop to improve your sales! COMPLETE STORY MISSIONS and QUESTS to help your city become prosperous EXPLORE and BUILD your city and world GROW and HARVEST cute plants and flowers ENJOY CUTE and CHARMING hand painted visuals HAVE A GOOD and RELAXING time Tiny Shop is a RPG store simulation game that will let you customize and design your own shop within a cute fantasy world. You can research, craft and sell: armor, potions, magic books, all kinds of gear and equipment as well as crafting materials such as plants, metals and gems. With your hard earned money you can expand and personalize your cute fantasy shop and explore the world to become the most prosperous shopkeeper in town! Install Tiny Shop for free NOW! Craft, trade, buy, sell, quest and customize in this fantasy RPG game! Music in our game is made by Kevin MacLeod at https://incompetech.com/ We're using the following tunes: * Carpe Diem * Porch Swing Days (slower) * Montauk Point Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Craftbound
Embark on an idle MMORPG adventure with charming pixel art and a player-driven economy. Enjoy deep mechanics and extensive customization without the time commitment of traditional MMOs. Progress is saved and new content is continuously added.
- Player-based economy and trading
- Deep mechanics for veterans, simple mode for casuals
- Hundreds of craftable items
- Customizable characters with cosmetics
- World map with unique locations
- Cloud saving and real-time notifications
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Craftbound is an MMORPG idle/incremental game with a clean interface and charming pixel art. Featuring many skills, combined with a player based economy, and in-depth mechanics. Enjoy everything you love about your favorite MMORPG’s —without the time investment. Craftbound is accessible to all players, with no pay-to-win or paywalled content. Rewarded video ads and in-app purchases are completely up-to you. Begin your idle adventure, and join the growing global community. FEATURES - Player based economy and trading market. - Advanced mechanics for idle veterans, and simple mode for casual players. - Travel across the beautifully crafted world map with unique locations. - Hundreds of items including rare’s, epics and legendaries. - Customisable character with unlock-able cosmetics. - Cloud saving, fast native performance, real-time notifications, and so much more! Craftbound is still in early access, and will evolve as you play, and give feedback. New updates and content will be continuously added. Your progress will never be reset. An internet connection is required to play, however idle progress continues while offline.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tiny Shop at 4.7 against Craftbound's 4.4. Tiny Shop also leads on review sentiment (79% vs 70%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Tiny Shop sells 18 one-off in-app purchases and Craftbound sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tiny Shop holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.3K and 1.2K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 79% of Tiny Shop's written reviews are positive against 70% of Craftbound's.
Tiny Shop ships an update fortnightly, Craftbound every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Tiny Shop | Craftbound |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.3K ratings) — better | 4.4 (1.2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.7% of reviews — better | 69.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | 1.2K |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 270 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Mateusz Lesinski | Polybit Studio Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Tiny Shop
Craftbound
User reviews
Tiny Shop
From 1.3K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Engaging gameplay
- 🚀 Generous with free rewards
- 🎨 Charming art style
- 💰 No pay-to-win mechanics
- 📺 Optional, non-intrusive ads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
- ⏱️ Slow progression at times
- 🔋 Battery-intensive
- 🔍 Lack of customization options
Craftbound
From 1.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Lots of potential
- 👍 Great concept
- 👍 Enjoyable idle gameplay
- 👍 Player-driven economy
- 👍 Minimal ads
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and unstable
- 🐛 Frequent crashes
- 🐛 UI/UX issues
- 🐛 Inventory management problems
- 🐛 Progression system unclear
Bugs and requests
Tiny Shop
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game freezes or gets stuck during loading
- Disappearing or malfunctioning shop displays
- Recipes or licenses getting reset unexpectedly
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to customize character/avatar
- More furniture and shop decorations
- Daily customer requests or challenges
- Improved balance for crafting materials
Craftbound
Reported bugs
4 issues- Frequent crashes and app refreshes
- Issues with gathering and crafting tasks
- Problems with Apple ID sign-in and account creation
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between activities
Requested features
6 requests- Expand the game world and content
- Add more character customization options
- Implement a chat system for player interaction
- Improve the player market and trading experience
- Introduce combat, quests, and other gameplay loops
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- Provide better onboarding and tutorials for new players
In-app purchases
Tiny Shop
- Small Gem pack$1.99
- Birthday bundle$1.99
- Adventurer bundle$1.99
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- Croissant Bundle$1.99
- Coral Crab Bundle$1.99
- Starting Pack$2.99
- Winter hat bundle$3.99
- Big Gem pack$4.99
- Bundle$4.99
- Botanist Furniture Bundle$4.99
- Blacksmith Furniture Bundle$4.99
- Home Furniture Bundle$4.99
- Kitchen Furniture Bundle$4.99
- Ad Tickets bundle$4.99
- Sunny festival$4.99
- Flooded Bundle$4.99
- Large Gem pack$9.99
- Enormous Gem pack$19.99
Craftbound
- Cup of Tea$0.99
- Cup of Coffee$2.99
- Triple Inventory Space$4.99
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- Double Offline Limit$4.99
- Double Shot Frappuccino$5.99
- All Bundle: Launch Offer$7.99
- All Bundle: Holiday Offer$7.99
- Double XP$9.99
- All Bundle$14.99









