Peg Pals vs Crystal Cove
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Peg Pals
This game offers thousands of triangular peg solitaire puzzles with unique twists and unlimited hints. Learn to solve any puzzle, create your own, and enjoy a relaxing or challenging experience. The game state is always saved, allowing for seamless interruptions.
- Thousands of unique puzzles
- Unlimited hints and undo
- Custom puzzle creation
- Solvable indicator
- Optional timer
- Auto-save game state
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Peg Pals Pro brings a fresh twist to the classic triangular peg solitaire puzzle with thousands of unique challenges, unlimited hints, and step-by-step solutions. Whether you're learning the game or looking for a serious challenge, Peg Pals Pro helps you improve while having fun. Unlike traditional peg solitaire, puzzles aren't limited to removing a single peg. Peg Pals Pro creates carefully designed starting positions by removing multiple pegs while ensuring every puzzle has a solution. You can even create and solve your own custom puzzles. Need help? Peg Pals Pro can guide you through the complete solution one move at a time, making it easy to learn winning strategies instead of simply guessing. Features • Thousands of carefully designed puzzles • Every puzzle is guaranteed to be solvable • Generate your own custom puzzles • Learn with complete step-by-step solutions • Unlimited hints that always lead toward a solution • Optional solvability indicator that warns when you've taken a wrong turn • Unlimited Undo • Automatic game saving • Optional timer Whether you have a few spare minutes or want to tackle a challenging puzzle session, Peg Pals Pro lets you play at your own pace.
Crystal Cove
A unique puzzle game where you swipe a triangle to match three or more colors, clearing them from the board. Avoid being surrounded to win, utilizing power-ups and combos to boost your score. It offers simple yet deep gameplay for all ages.
- Swipe to move triangle
- Match three or more colors
- Avoid being surrounded
- Utilize power-ups and combos
- Score multipliers
- Simple and deep gameplay
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Swipe to move your triangle around the board match three or more colors together to make them disappear you lose when you are completely surrounded But don't fret, you have power-ups, combos, and multipliers to help you get out of jams and increase your score Crystal Cove is not a typical match three game children love it for its simplicity and adults love it for its depth I hope you enjoyed playing!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Crystal Cove at Free against Peg Pals's $0.99. Crystal Cove also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17). Peg Pals's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (88% vs 56%). On rating, ratings volume, update cadence and in-app purchases 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
Crystal Cove is free to download; Peg Pals costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Peg Pals holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 25 and 30 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 88% of Peg Pals's written reviews are positive against 56% of Crystal Cove's.
Peg Pals ships an update every 5 months, Crystal Cove every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Peg Pals | Crystal Cove |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (25 ratings) — better | 4.5 (30 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 25 | 30 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David P. Sumner | Andrey Spencer |
Customer experience
Peg Pals
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In-app purchases
Peg Pals
No in-app purchases
Crystal Cove
No in-app purchases









