Cargo vs AlgoRun
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
AlgoRun
This game teaches fundamental coding concepts through interactive puzzles. It uses game mechanics inspired by programming principles like functions, loops, and conditionals to build algorithmic thinking skills in a fun and engaging way.
- Algorithmic thinking puzzles
- Sequential instruction execution
- Functions and recursive loops
- Conditionals
- Step-by-step debugging
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A puzzle game for learning, practicing and improving algorithmic thinking. AlgoRun features puzzles that will teach you the basics of coding in a fun interactive way by using game mechanics derived from programming concepts such as: • Sequential Instruction Execution • Functions • Recursive Loops • Conditionals • Step-by-Step Debugging
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: AlgoRun at 4.8 against Cargo's 3.6. AlgoRun also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 30 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Cargo's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and review sentiment (84% vs 57%). On price, ratings volume, ads and iOS requirement 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. AlgoRun sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cargo asks for nothing beyond the download.
AlgoRun holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 27 and 65 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Cargo's written reviews are positive against 57% of AlgoRun'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, AlgoRun every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cargo | AlgoRun |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (27 ratings) | 4.8 (65 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.1% of reviews — better | 57.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 27 | 65 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 30 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.4 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 140 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Two Lives Left | bitcrumbs s.r.l. |
Customer experience
Cargo
AlgoRun
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
AlgoRun
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cargo
No in-app purchases
AlgoRun
- Algorun Premium$1.99
