Snake FREE vs Snake
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Snake FREE
Experience the classic Snake game with a modern twist, featuring HD graphics and a new winter theme. Enjoy multiple difficulty levels, a quick play mode, and intuitive controls across all your devices.
- HD graphics
- Winter theme
- 3 difficulty settings
- 24 levels
- Quick Play mode
- Simple controls
- Universal app
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Play the classic Snake game with HD graphics. Features: • NEW! Winter theme! • Retina display HD graphics. • 3 difficulty settings. • 24 different levels. • Quick Play mode. • Simple and easy to use controls. • Universal app - download to all your devices! • Retina graphics for iPad.
Snake
A classic arcade game where players control a growing snake. The objective is to eat food blocks while avoiding collisions with walls and the snake's own body. Multiple game sizes and speeds are available for varied challenges.
- Eat food blocks
- Avoid walls
- Avoid own tail
- Three sizes
- Three speeds
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Very simple snake game. Eat food blocks. Avoid hitting walls and snake's tail. - three sizes (26x26, 26x15, 16x16) - three speeds
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snake at none against Snake FREE's 1. Snake also leads on ratings volume (121 vs 7) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 7 months). Snake FREE's advantage is iOS requirement (6.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Snake FREE sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Snake asks for nothing beyond the download.
Snake holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Snake has 121 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Snake FREE's written reviews are positive against 70% of Snake's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Snake FREE ships an update every 7 months, Snake every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snake FREE | Snake |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.1 (121 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.2% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 121 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 56 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Buckingham | FujiCubeSoft |
Customer experience
Snake FREE
Snake
Bugs and requests
Snake FREE
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Snake
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game sometimes freezes or crashes
- Revive feature doesn't work as expected
- Controls become unresponsive at higher scores
Requested features
4 requests- Add different speed/difficulty options
- Implement swipe controls
- Include a dark mode option
- Introduce new game modes and levels
In-app purchases
Snake FREE
- "UPGRADE: 24 extra levels and remove ads"$0.99
Snake
No in-app purchases
