Comparison

Monster Catch 3D vs Toehold

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

Head to head
About

Monster Catch 3D

Collect balls quickly to catch powerful monsters and outmaneuver opponents. Customize your character with skins and accessories while unlocking over 30 unique monsters. Become a legendary monster master.

Highlights
  • Collect balls rapidly
  • Catch strong monsters
  • Battle opponents
  • Unlock 30+ monsters
  • Customize character appearance
  • Acquire skins and accessories
Features
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Collect as many balls as possible in a very short amount of time! Be fast and agile! Catch the strongest monsters possible and take them away from your opponents! Defeat your enemies and prevent them from catching the strongest monsters - Change your look and get amazing skins & accessories - Unlock new monsters! There are more than 30+ different monsters in this game

About

Toehold

Features
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Every other sudoku app has a hint button. You get stuck, you tap it, it fills in a square, and you have learned nothing. Toehold does the opposite. A panel sits beside your board and keeps a live inventory of the techniques that are available right now — "Hidden single ×2 · Pointing pair ×1 · X-Wing ×1" — updating on every digit and every pencil mark. It tells you what to look for. It does not tell you where. Tap a technique and it shows you the cells that make it true, and one plain sentence explaining why: "The only spots for 6 in box 2 — r1c5 and r3c5 — share column 5, so 6 leaves r4c5 and r6c5." Placing the digit is then a separate, deliberate tap. The toehold is yours; the climb is still yours too. DIFFICULTY THAT MEANS SOMETHING • Most apps grade by counting clues, which tells you nothing about how hard a puzzle is • Toehold grades by the hardest technique a puzzle actually requires • Gentle needs only singles. Steady adds locked candidates. Tricky adds pairs and triples. Tough needs X-Wing, Swordfish, or Y-Wing • Every puzzle is checked before you see it: exactly one solution, and solvable by named logic from start to finish. You will never be asked to guess ELEVEN TECHNIQUES, ALL EXPLAINED Naked and hidden singles · pointing pairs · box/line reduction · naked and hidden pairs and triples · X-Wing · Y-Wing · Swordfish. Each one names itself when it appears, so you learn the vocabulary by meeting it on your own board. BUILT FOR THE GRID • Pencil marks in a fixed 3x3 lattice, so a digit is always in the same spot • Fill all candidates in one tap, or place them yourself • Every key shows how many of that digit are left • Full undo • Optional mistake checking, off by default ON iPAD The technique panel stays open beside the board in a real two-column layout — not a stretched phone screen. PRIVATE AND OFFLINE Puzzles are generated on your device. No accounts, no ads, no analytics, no tracking, no network access of any kind. Free. Toehold is for anyone who has finished a sudoku and still could not say how they did it.

Screenshots

Monster Catch 3D4 screens
Toehold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Toehold at none against Monster Catch 3D's 1. Toehold also leads on ads (none vs shown). Monster Catch 3D's advantage is iOS requirement (12.5 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Monster Catch 3D sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Toehold asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Monster Catch 3D versus Toehold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonster Catch 3DToehold
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (10K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews71.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings10K — better—
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.5 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size213 MB0 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHOMA GAMESJohn Doan

Bugs and requests

Monster Catch 3D

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Freezing during bonus levels
  • Music continues to play after exiting the game
  • Charizard's tail not lit up properly

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add more Pokémon and monsters
  • Introduce a storyline
  • Allow character customization
  • Add multiplayer functionality

Toehold

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Monster Catch 3D

One-time1
  • Remove ads$2.99
None

Toehold

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Monster Catch 3D free?
Monster Catch 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Toehold free?
Toehold is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Monster Catch 3D or Toehold have ads?
Monster Catch 3D shows ads; Toehold does not.

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