PowerBall vs CryptoQuote
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PowerBall
Experience a unique gravity-based single-player maze challenge collecting stars, then switch to a competitive pool-like game. Employ tricky moves and avoid hazards to outsmart opponents.
- Gravity-based single-player levels
- Star collection in mazes
- Competitive pool-like multiplayer
- Trick shot mechanics
- Hazard avoidance (fire holes, devils)
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A brand new game, or better, two games in one. Enjoy yourself with a gravity based single player levels, where you have to save your powerball in a dangerous maze, collecting stars during your journey, and later try to challenge others player in a pool like game. Not a regular pool game, but a powerball pool game. Use tricks to annoy your enemy, avoid the fire holes and the devils in the play area. Be ready, be quick!
CryptoQuote
Decode encrypted quotes where each letter is replaced by another. Solve puzzles at your own pace or compete in daily challenges. Features include a custom keyboard, letter frequency tools, and the ability to create your own puzzles.
- Over 2000 quotes
- Daily Challenge Puzzle
- Custom keyboard
- Letter frequency tool
- Create your own puzzle
- Share puzzles
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If you love it in the newspaper, you’ll love it even more in a format you can access any place, any time. In this popular game, each letter is replaced with a different one. Your challenge is to decode the puzzle and figure out the quote. You can work at your own pace or compete against other players in a Daily Speed Challenge. CryptoQuote will show you conflicts such as attempting to use the same solution letter twice. Features: * More than 2000 carefully selected quotes, plus a new Daily Challenge Puzzle each day * Custom keyboard to see the entire puzzle * Share puzzles or quotes with others * Quote of the Day widget * Create your own puzzle or enter one from a newspaper * Letter frequency tool * Word search tool * Physical keyboard support Great if you like: Sudoku, Crossword puzzles, word search, cipher, encryption, code solving and decoding.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CryptoQuote at none against PowerBall's 7. CryptoQuote also leads on ratings volume (41 vs 2). PowerBall's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 33%) and iOS requirement (13.1 vs 15.3). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. PowerBall sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. CryptoQuote asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 2.5 for PowerBall against 2.6 for CryptoQuote. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CryptoQuote has 41 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of PowerBall's written reviews are positive against 33% of CryptoQuote's.
PowerBall ships an update every 4 months, CryptoQuote every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 5, 2026 and September 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PowerBall | CryptoQuote |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.5 (2 ratings) | 2.6 (41 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 33.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 41 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 15.3 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 40 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lorenzo Malaguti | Apps From Outer Space, LLC |
Customer experience
PowerBall
CryptoQuote
Bugs and requests
PowerBall
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
CryptoQuote
Reported bugs
27 issues- Keyboard does not fit screen
- Daily challenge button is grayed out or inaccessible
- App crashes upon opening or during gameplay
- Unable to see time vs. others in daily challenge
- Game freezes on a blank screen
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- Interface is wonky and doesn't fit screen
- Letters are squeezed together, keyboard too tiny
- Saved puzzles are gone after updates
- App reads clipboard content on startup
- Stuck on a level, keeps returning to the same one
- Sound cuts out during ads and puzzle transitions
- Letters don't get replaced correctly
- App crashes when trying to play new puzzle
- Custom puzzle feature does not work on iPad
- Letters are huge and screen won't turn
- Daily Time Challenge is unreliable (no puzzles, already completed message)
- Spelling/grammatical errors and weird symbols
- App locks up after completing daily challenge on newer iPhones
- Interface is clunky
- Keyboard lags badly during challenges
- Leaderboard scores seem impossible (cheating)
- Custom puzzle input screen is unusable (stuck, no solve button)
- Game freezes on a blank screen
- Constant crashes after updates
- Surnames of quoted individuals are cut off
- App no longer works after OS updates
- Lost purchased version after OS update, now has ads
Requested features
13 requests- Fix keyboard display issues
- Ensure daily challenge is always accessible and functional
- Restore ability to input puzzles from newspapers
- Add more quotes/puzzles
- Improve typography and interface aesthetics
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- Add dark mode
- Allow disabling spelling corrector
- Add OCR for newspaper cryptograms
- Add frequency table and dictionary search (like Mac version)
- Add an 'expert' level
- More variety of quote topics
- Fix sound cutting out during ads/transitions
- Allow giving up on daily puzzle to see solution
In-app purchases
PowerBall
- 5000 Coins$0.99
- 20000 Coins$1.99
- 50000 Coins$2.99
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- 100000 Coins$3.99
- Remove Ads$3.99
- 250000 Coins$4.99
- 500000 Coins$6.99
CryptoQuote
No in-app purchases
