Color Flood vs CRANE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Flood
Engage in a skill-based puzzle game where the goal is to fill the board with a single color. Achieve higher scores by completing puzzles quickly and efficiently. Earn points to unlock multipliers and climb the global leaderboard.
- Color-filling puzzles
- Skill-based scoring
- Global leaderboard
- Unlockable multipliers
- Fast-paced gameplay
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Color Flood: World Challenge - Relaxing Color Flood Puzzle Color Flood: World Challenge is a simple, beautiful color flood puzzle game. Start from the corner and flood the board by choosing colors — try to capture every cell in the fewest moves! HOW TO PLAY - Tap a color to flood outward from the top-left corner - Match neighboring colors to grow your territory - Capture the entire board in as few moves as possible - Faster times and fewer moves earn higher scores FEATURES - Simple, relaxing gameplay anyone can enjoy - Global leaderboard — compete with players worldwide - Power-ups — spend points on score multipliers - Multiple color themes to customize your experience - Offline mode — play without internet, scores sync when you reconnect - Beautiful, clean design Play a quick game in a minute, or chase the leaderboard for hours. Color Flood: World Challenge is the perfect puzzle for your commute, your break, or your couch.
CRANE
A simple puzzle game where players must strategically drop colored boxes onto matching colored floors. Test your timing and precision to keep the boxes stable and progress through various stages.
- Match colored boxes to colored floors
- Drop boxes from a crane
- Test timing and precision
- Progress through multiple stages
- Simple, intuitive gameplay
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Red box on the red floor. Blue box on blue floor. Green box on the green floor. Drop the box and stop it on the floor. Drop from crane. Drop box three times. Keep to stay boxes on the table. How many stages will you achieve? · Contact Mail: smartphone.games.apps@gmail.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CRANE at none against Color Flood's 3. CRANE also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.4). Color Flood's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (16 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and monetization model 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. Color Flood sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. CRANE asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Color Flood against 5.0 for CRANE. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Color Flood has 16 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Color Flood ships an update weekly, CRANE every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Flood | CRANE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (16 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 16 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hampton Lintorn-Catlin | Jun Hotta |
Customer experience
Color Flood
CRANE
In-app purchases
Color Flood
- 10 Boost Credits$1.99
- 25 Boost Credits$4.99
- 100 Boost Credits$9.99
CRANE
No in-app purchases
