iCave vs SHREDD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iCave
Navigate a progressively shrinking cave, dodging obstacles to survive. Control your flight by touching and holding the screen to ascend, releasing to descend. Test your reflexes across three distinct difficulty levels.
- Endless cave navigation
- Touch and hold flight control
- Obstacle avoidance
- Three difficulty levels
- High score tracking
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Fly through an ever decreasing cave avoiding the obsticles in your way. How long can you last? To fly, touch and hold the screen to fly up, release and gravity will take its hold. Three levels of difficulty.
SHREDD
Navigate a challenging obstacle course by controlling a shape that can split into two. Dodge spikes and other hazards by scraping the sides, hovering, or squeezing through tight gaps at the last moment.
- Ambidextrous gameplay
- Split-in-two mechanic
- Spike avoidance challenges
- Scrape, hover, and squeeze maneuvers
- Fast-paced action
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The original ambidextrous dodge'm up! AVOID THE SPIKES! Scrape along the sides, hover through the middle, or squeeze by at the last millisecond by splitting in two :o
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: iCave at none against SHREDD's 3. iCave also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). SHREDD's advantage is update cadence (every 5 months vs every 64 months) and ratings volume (897 vs 2). 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
Both are free to download. SHREDD sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. iCave asks for nothing beyond the download.
iCave holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SHREDD has 897 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 79% of iCave's written reviews are positive against 92% of SHREDD's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
iCave ships an update every 64 months, SHREDD every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iCave | SHREDD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.7 (897 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.8% of reviews | 92.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 897 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 64 months | Every 5 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Andy Qua | Chaotic Box |
Customer experience
iCave
SHREDD
Bugs and requests
iCave
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
SHREDD
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game crashing or not opening
- Inconsistent high score tracking
- Lag or performance issues
Requested features
4 requests- Difficulty settings or modes
- Ability to customize blocks and backgrounds
- Multiplayer or competitive features
- Save high scores across sessions
In-app purchases
iCave
No in-app purchases
SHREDD
- Ad Removal$1.99
- All Themes Unlock plus Bonus Themes$1.99
- All Themes Unlock, Bonus Themes, plus Ad Removal$3.99
