Comparison

Delete After Reading vs Red Cap Must Cry

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

Head to head
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.

About

Red Cap Must Cry

Experience a cozy, painted world brought to life through augmented reality. Follow a teenage girl's everyday adventures and uncover her secret, blending childhood memories with your reality.

Highlights
  • Augmented reality integration
  • Story-driven gameplay
  • Cozy painted art style
  • Everyday teenage life narrative
  • Secret uncovering
Features
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Red Cap Must Cry is a mobile game with AR elements in which the painted cozy world of the main character is woven into our reality, reflected in the same way as childhood memories in adult life. The story becomes real, and comes to life at home or on the street (in any place, wherever you are), thanks to augmented reality (AR), a technology that, with the help of a smartphone camera, places characters of the game into the surrounding space. This is a story about a girl Malvina, a teenage girl, who is doing her usual stuff, what everybody is doing: going to school, arguing with her old sister, fighting with the boys, and hanging out with her best mate Lizzy. But she has a secret that only you and her grandfather know about…

Screenshots

Delete After Reading4 screens
Red Cap Must Cry4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Delete After Reading at 4.2 against Red Cap Must Cry's 2.0. Delete After Reading also leads on ratings volume (74 vs 1) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). Red Cap Must Cry's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (57% vs 49%). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Delete After Reading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Red Cap Must Cry asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Delete After Reading holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Delete After Reading has 74 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 49% of Delete After Reading's written reviews are positive against 57% of Red Cap Must Cry's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Delete After Reading ships an update every 4 weeks, Red Cap Must Cry every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Delete After Reading versus Red Cap Must Cry: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDelete After ReadingRed Cap Must Cry
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (74 ratings) — better2.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews48.6% of reviews57.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings74 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size393 MB656 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperPatrones y EsconditesArts KiT, OOO

Customer experience

Delete After Reading

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

Red Cap Must Cry

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral14.3%
Negative28.6%

Bugs and 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

Red Cap Must Cry

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Delete After Reading

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99
None

Red Cap Must Cry

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Delete After Reading free?
Delete After Reading is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Red Cap Must Cry free?
Red Cap Must Cry is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Delete After Reading or Red Cap Must Cry?
Delete After Reading is rated higher. Delete After Reading averages 4.2 out of 5 from 74 ratings, while Red Cap Must Cry averages 2.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Delete After Reading or Red Cap Must Cry have ads?
Neither Delete After Reading nor Red Cap Must Cry shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Delete After Reading or Red Cap Must Cry?
Delete After Reading ships an update every 4 weeks, and Red Cap Must Cry every 3 months. Most recently, Delete After Reading was updated on October 22, 2026 and Red Cap Must Cry on October 15, 2026.

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