Shop Craft！ vs Pass the Pen
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Shop Craft！
Manage your own store and serve customers by verifying their age and identity. Avoid mistakes to maintain your reputation while engaging in various mini-games like catching shoplifters and cleaning. This casual simulation game is perfect for quick play sessions.
- Manage your own store
- Serve customers and verify identity
- Catch shoplifters
- Clean the store
- Make correct choices
- Adapt to different game systems
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Can you be a management master! Run your own store and bring in more customers! Customers line up to buy products. Sell your products to those who try to buy them by falsifying their age or name! Be careful not to hit the wrong person or your reputation will be ruined! Features of the game: 1. make the right choice! What are your observation skills? Can you sell correctly? 2. Can you adapt to different game systems? Not only selling products, but also catching shoplifters, cleaning up, and many other unique and wonderful games to play flexibly! 3. fun for the whole family It's a leisure time shit game that anyone can enjoy playing. Because after all, everyone likes to make a lot of money, right? 4. suitable for your spare time! You can progress little by little, or you can go into a mode where you develop your own store! Let's play in our spare time to kill some time! If you are a fan of puzzles, word games, trivia games, quiz games, brain games and collecting items, Shop Craft is the game for you! EU / California users can opt-out under GDPR / CCPA. Please respond from the pop-up displayed when starting in the app or within the settings in the app.
Pass the Pen
A collaborative storytelling game where friends take turns adding sentences to a story based on the previous player's input. Choose a theme and turn count to create unpredictable and hilarious tales perfect for parties and gatherings.
- Collaborative storytelling
- Theme selection
- Turn-based gameplay
- Unpredictable story outcomes
- Party and gathering game
- Creative fun
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Pass the Penn - A Collaborative Storytelling Game Gather your friends and get ready for some creative fun with Pass the Pen! In this simple but entertaining game, the group will first choose a theme, then decide how many turns the story will take. When you press start, you'll pass the phone around and the story will begin to unfold. Each player will add a sentence to the story on their turn, based only on what the previous player wrote. The result is an unpredictable tale that will have everyone laughing. Pass the Penn is perfect for parties and family gatherings, and everyone will get to participate in the fun.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Pass the Pen at 100% against Shop Craft！'s 17%. Pass the Pen also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.1) and ads (none vs shown). Shop Craft！'s advantage is ratings volume (65 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.5). On price, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Pass the Pen holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shop Craft！ has 65 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 17% of Shop Craft！'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Pass the Pen's.
Shop Craft！ ships an update every 7 months, Pass the Pen every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Shop Craft！ | Pass the Pen |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.1 (65 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 16.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 622 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 9+ |
| Developer | FTY LLC. | Charles Von Kleeck |
Customer experience
Shop Craft！
Pass the Pen
Bugs and requests
Shop Craft！
Reported bugs
8 issues- Barcode scanning not working
- Discount tag placement issues
- Game freezes after scanning one item
- Colors change too quickly during gameplay
- Cannot sell certain items
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- Ad pop-ups prevent gameplay
- Music continues after closing the game
- Game crashes or becomes unplayable
Requested features
7 requests- Add more updates and improvements
- Add more to shopping mall levels
- Add in-app purchases instead of ads
- Option to disable ads
- Add more ideas for ad placement
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- Add more characters
- Add more interior designs for the store
Pass the Pen
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Shop Craft！
No in-app purchases
Pass the Pen
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Shop Craft！ free?
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