Snake vs au
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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
au
A challenging puzzle game where players control speed by touching and lifting off the screen. Navigate through levels, collect dots, and avoid collisions. Compete for high scores and unlock new levels.
- Touch and hold to control speed
- Collect all dots
- Avoid collisions
- 150 challenging levels
- Leaderboard and medals
- Replay past levels
- Skip difficult levels
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au - 4th in "focus" (aa, uu, ff, au, rr, ao, rl, sp, th, ki, ci, sn, lo, ba, ov, sh, fi, do, ru & ti) Touch down to increase speed, lift off to decrease. If you loved some of our touch and hold games in the past, you'll love au. 150 Awesome levels to start it off, touch and hold to increase speed, lift off to decrease. Avoid collisions to pass each level, get all the dots in safely. You can also top the leaderboard and earn medals! (bronze, silver and gold). There's 150 levels to solve right now, intertwined with all sorts of tweaks and surprises. You can also go back and replay any level you've already passed, at any time (Choose Level). If you're stuck on a really tricky level, skip it! (Tap Skip on the Fail Screen) If you can't wait, unlock all 150 levels and replay at your own pace! (Choose Level > Unlock All Levels) Thanks for all your support, I hope you're enjoying the "focus" series thus far. Handmade in Australia, General Adaptive
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Snake at none against au's 3. Snake also leads on rating (4.1 vs 3.7) and review sentiment (70% vs 57%). au's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 5 weeks vs every 2 months). On price 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. au sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Snake asks for nothing beyond the download.
Snake holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 121 and 36 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 70% of Snake's written reviews are positive against 57% of au's.
Snake ships an update every 2 months, au every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Snake | au |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (121 ratings) — better | 3.7 (36 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 70.0% of reviews — better | 57.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 121 — better | 36 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FujiCubeSoft | General Adaptive Apps Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
Snake
au
Bugs and 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
au
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Snake
No in-app purchases
au
- Skip au Level$0.99
- Remove au Ads$1.99
- Unlock All of au$3.99
