Cargo vs WordBrain 2
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cargo
A brain-challenging puzzle game where players program a robot to move crates. It's designed to help users learn fundamental programming concepts through engaging gameplay and beautiful graphics.
- Robot programming puzzles
- Learn programming concepts
- Beautiful graphics
- Fiendish puzzles
- Record and share solutions
- Programmed on iPad
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Over one million people have enjoyed Cargo-Bot! The puzzle game that challenges your brain and helps you learn programming concepts. Cargo-Bot is the first game programmed entirely on iPad® using Codea It's a puzzle game where you teach a robot how to move crates. Sounds simple, right? Try it out! • Beautiful graphics • Fiendish puzzles • A game about programming, programmed entirely on iPad • Record your solutions and share them on YouTube • Learn more about how it was made by searching for Codea on the App Store
WordBrain 2
Engage your mind with themed word puzzles. Swipe to find hidden words, solve over 1000 levels, and progress through increasing difficulty. A fun brain workout with diverse themes.
- Themed word puzzles
- Over 1000 levels
- Swipe to find words
- Increasing difficulty
- 100+ unique themes
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Try out WordBrain 2 - a spin-off of the popular WordBrain, adding a theme to every puzzle! Find hidden words, swipe your finger over them, and see the puzzle collapse. Complete the levels with themed puzzles and advance from being a simple Word Newbie to a Super Word Mastermind! The increasing level of difficulty, with themes ranging from Food to Space, will challenge even the toughest Brainiacs out there. * 100+ unique Themes * 1130 brain twisting Levels We aren't promising it's going to be easy, but you'll have fun, and your brain will thank you for the workout! --- WordBrain 2 has been lovingly created by MAG Interactive, where we take fun seriously. Join a global audience of more than 250 million players and check out some of our other chart-topping hit games like Ruzzle, Word Domination or WordBrain! We really value your feedback, go to Wordbraingame on Facebook and say what's on your mind! More about MAG Interactive at our homepage Good Times!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: WordBrain 2 at 4.3 against Cargo's 3.6. WordBrain 2 also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 30 months) and ratings volume (1.5K vs 27). Cargo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and ads (none vs shown). On price 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. WordBrain 2 sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Cargo asks for nothing beyond the download.
WordBrain 2 holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: WordBrain 2 has 1.5K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Cargo's written reviews are positive against 71% of WordBrain 2's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cargo ships an update every 30 months, WordBrain 2 every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cargo | WordBrain 2 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (27 ratings) | 4.3 (1.5K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.1% of reviews — better | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 1.5K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #142 — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 276 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Two Lives Left | MAG Interactive |
Customer experience
Cargo
WordBrain 2
User reviews
Cargo
From 27 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Epic
- 👍 Tricky logical game
- 👍 Excellent game!
- 👍 Good accessible programming game
- 👍 Genius!
Room to improve
- 🐛 I AM SO MAD AT THE DEVELOPER AND THE GAME!!!!
- 🐛 The game is bad
- 🐛 The update deleted my save!
- 🐛 App Support
- 🐛 Teaches bad programming practices
WordBrain 2
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🤔 Challenging brain teasers
- 🧠 Helps improve vocabulary
- 🕰️ Good time-killer
- 👍 Enjoyable gameplay
- 🎨 Appealing themes and visuals
Room to improve
- 💸 Expensive in-app purchases
- 🔍 Difficult to progress without hints
- 🔋 Battery-draining
- 🐛 Glitches and bugs
- 🔍 Lack of difficulty options
Bugs and requests
Cargo
Reported bugs
4 issues- Come together 2 hard mode crashes when I complete it in 8 step... wants you to stack 7 blocks but stashes when you do!!
- App froze while I was doing the tutorial. Still frozen each time I open it.
- ERROR: Parameters dt = random numbers. (about 1.6) OUTPUT: TEST TEST error: [string " -- StagePhysics.lua..":97: attempt to index local 'info' (a nil value) Pausing playback
- Infinite loop issue, recursion does not work correctly
Requested features
13 requests- Add a prog 5?
- Create your own level thing added in
- Saving multiple solutions, version control of unsolved puzzles, & saving off a set of instructions for reuse (building libraries of moves that are easy to reference in other puzzles)
- Settings to disable the sounds/music while letting background music play
- A button to simply change the "best solution" criteria
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- Updating the game or downloading "content" updates when new solutions are found
- An option in Settings to include a link to the video with the best solution displayed
- More explications... Per exemple, why a left arrow on the last sqarre of prog2 bring the claw automaticly to the leftmost colum no matter where your claw is???
- A reset levels button so you can use it with other users in a school
- A break function to stop infinite loops
- A tutorial about how to do the tutorial?
- A way to see the best solution for a level
- Multiple player profiles or even reset the game
WordBrain 2
Reported bugs
4 issues- Incorrect word placements in some levels
- Missing daily puzzles and lost progress
- Crashing and freezing issues
- Inconsistent behavior with hints and rewards
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and new content
- Ability to reset progress
- Undo/redo functionality
- Support for additional languages
- Option to disable ads
In-app purchases
Cargo
No in-app purchases
WordBrain 2
- Hints Pack Small2 variants$0.99
- Hints Pack Medium2 variants$3.99
- Remove ads$4.99
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- Hints Pack Large2 variants$9.99
- Hints Pack Extra Large2 variants$14.99
