100 Squares vs Catchup
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
100 Squares
Fill a 100-box grid by strategically placing numbers, leaving specific gaps horizontally, vertically, and diagonally. Compete with others by checking and adding your scores to a network leaderboard. Enjoy a simple yet challenging puzzle experience.
- Fill 100 boxes
- Strategic placement rules
- Help mode available
- Undo moves
- Network scores and comments
- Leaderboard functionality
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Rule of the game Your goal : To fill the 100 boxes! - Begin with a box of your choice - You have to fill the grid leaving 2 boxes for horizontal and vertical, and 1 for diagonals. Help mode is available. - You can cancel a play many times, but not twice. Good luck! - Check out the scores on the network and add yours with a breif comment. Warning don't shake too hard ! © JF Pautex 2010-2017
Catchup
Master a beautiful abstract strategy game by connecting hexes to create the largest group. Features include a challenging AI, online multiplayer, and pass-and-play options. Learn the simple rules and strive for difficult mastery.
- Interactive tutorial
- Challenging AI opponent
- Online turn-based multiplayer
- Two-player pass-and-play
- Minimalist graphics
- Customizable colors
- Leaderboards & Achievements
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Catchup is a simple game of surprising turnarounds. "Catchup is as elegant as a game can reasonably be, presented in a marvelously user-friendly way.” -Pocket Tactics (5-star review) "If you're even a little bit into strategy games, you need to get some Catchup all over your mobile device." -Touch Arcade (4 & 1/2 star review) Can you have the largest group at the end of the game? Connect your hexes to master this beautiful abstract strategy game. Features: - an interactive tutorial to teach you how to play - a challenging AI opponent whose difficulty changes as you play - online turn-based multiplayer via Game Center - two-player pass-and-play on the same device - beautiful and haunting music by Tori Kamal - minimalist graphics with customizable colors - Game Center Leaderboards & Achievements - simple and easy to learn rules and gameplay - difficult to master strategy Here are all the rules: 1. One player plays all the hexes of one color and the other player plays all the hexes of the other color. The first player begins by claiming 1 empty hex for their color. 2. Starting with the second player, each player must claim 1 or 2 hexes on their turn. 3. If the largest group of hexes at the end of a turn is larger than the largest group of hexes at the beginning of that turn (regardless of color), the next player may claim up to 3 hexes on their turn. (This does not apply after the first player claims a single hex in step 1 above.) 4. The game ends when the board is full. The player with the largest group wins. If the players’ largest groups are the same size, compare their second-largest groups, and so on, until you come to a pair which aren’t the same size. Whoever owns the larger of the two wins. Catchup is an original Board Game designed by Nick Bentley.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Catchup at 4.7 against 100 Squares's 3.0. Catchup also leads on ratings volume (11 vs 1). 100 Squares's advantage is update cadence (every 21 months vs every 101 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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.
Catchup holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Catchup has 11 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of 100 Squares's written reviews are positive against 88% of Catchup's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
100 Squares ships an update every 21 months, Catchup every 101 months. Both last shipped on October 19, 2026.
| Parameter | 100 Squares | Catchup |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (1 ratings) | 4.7 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 88.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 11 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months — better | Every 101 months |
| Ads | No | — |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.1 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jean-Francois Pautex | Martin Grider |
Customer experience
100 Squares
Catchup
In-app purchases
100 Squares
No in-app purchases
Catchup
No in-app purchases
