Canvas Run vs Era Force
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Canvas Run
Navigate through levels by expanding your canvas. Enjoy addictive gameplay with simple, intuitive controls.
- Expand canvas to clear levels
- Easy slide controls
- Addictive gameplay mechanic
- Progress through levels
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Make your way through level by creating bigger canvas! Slide easy-to-learn controls with addictive gameplay mechanic!
Era Force
Answer trivia questions to earn points and contribute to planting trees worldwide. Ads fund the planting efforts, with points accumulating globally to purchase and plant trees through a partner organization. Join the movement to help save the environment.
- Answer trivia questions
- Earn points for correct answers
- Plant trees worldwide
- Ads fund tree planting
- Global point accumulation
- Partner with Tree Nation
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We're pretty fed up with the current state of affairs: wars, internal conflicts, and massive wealth disparity. And the environment is being left behind. These are some of the toughest challenges we face as a civilization - our existential crisis, if you will. But we believe we've found a solution. How about playing trivia and planting trees? In Era Force, when you answer a question correctly, you earn points. You can use these points to plant trees worldwide. Ads fund your trees. We'll use the financial equivalent of those ads, matched with your earned points, to contribute towards planting a portion of a tree. As points accumulate globally, we'll eventually gather enough to purchase a full tree from our partner planting organization, Tree Nation. At that point, we pay them, and they plant the tree. And that’s how we save the planet. It's really that simple. Keep answering trivia correctly, and we'll keep buying trees. Once we've mastered that, we'll move on to the next big thing. If you want to be part of the movement to help save our environment, now is the time. Join us. James Downing August 4, 2024
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Era Force at 100% against Canvas Run's 29%. Era Force also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Canvas Run's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (35K vs 1). On price, ads and device support 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. Canvas Run sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Era Force asks for nothing beyond the download.
Era Force holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Canvas Run has 35K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 29% of Canvas Run's written reviews are positive against 100% of Era Force's.
Canvas Run ships an update fortnightly, Era Force every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Canvas Run | Era Force |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (35K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 29.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 12.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 263 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Voodoo | James Downing |
Customer experience
Canvas Run
Era Force
Bugs and requests
Canvas Run
Reported bugs
3 issues- Camera glitches and falls through the map
- Game freezes and crashes
- Inconsistent ball count reductions
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to spend gems on upgrades or customization
- Offline play mode
- More obstacles and challenges
- Clearer progression and scoring system
Era Force
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Canvas Run
- No Ads$2.99
Era Force
No in-app purchases









