Explode Bricks vs Picture Surprise Ball
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Explode Bricks
A classic arcade-style game where players must break all the bricks on the screen. This simple, old-fashioned experience offers straightforward, engaging gameplay.
- Brick breaking gameplay
- Classic arcade style
- Simple controls
- Old-fashioned design
- Free to play
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Very Simple Bricks game. FREE. Old fashioned game where to have to break all the bricks of the screen. (sometimes, also named Ping Pong)
Picture Surprise Ball
Break bricks to reveal hidden pictures and send personalized surprise emails to friends and family. This casual game offers various ball types, difficulty modes, and themed surprise packs for a unique gifting experience.
- Reveal hidden pictures by breaking bricks
- Send personalized photo surprises via email
- Upload personal, holiday, or birthday photos
- Multiple ball types and special balls
- Easy and Hard game modes
- Themed surprise packs (birthday, Valentine's)
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Breakout all bricks to reveal the hidden pictures in this casual game. Keep the ball alive and shoot the bricks away. You can also send your friends and family your personal or holiday photo or birthday surprise in this brick breaker game. Upload 3 pictures for free from your photo library and send them as a gift to your friends and family. Your friends and family will receive a surprise email with your personal message. By playing this brick ball crusher game your friends and family can receive your Picture Surprise. How? By clicking on the "Send Picture Surprise" button. This arcade game classic also contains surprise packs to send to friends or family. You can send Happy birthday packs, Valentine surprise pack or the default surprise pack with your selfie, holiday, birthday or family pictures from your photo album. Features: - Multi ball and big balls - New sports balls available like soccer, football, basketball, baseball, tennis, bowling, volleyball and billiard balls - Easy mode allows you to play and shoot the bricks without destroying your ball - Hard mode is made for the more experencied gamer. In this mode you have to watch out when shooting the bricks otherwise your ball will explode - Upload your selfie, holiday, happy birthday, love or valentine pictures into this classic arcade game - Restart from a previous completed level - Choice between 4 background sounds: Kurt's theme, Space theme, Enchanted theme and Happy Vibes theme - Send Halloween, holiday, love, valentine, happy holidays or birthday ecard as a gift to friends and family Breakout the amazing brick pictures and discover nice photos or nice gifts from your friends. Have fun with the balls, bricks and pictures!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Explode Bricks at none against Picture Surprise Ball's 1. Explode Bricks also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Picture Surprise Ball's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (monthly vs every 6 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. Picture Surprise Ball sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Explode Bricks asks for nothing beyond the download.
Explode Bricks ships an update every 6 months, Picture Surprise Ball monthly. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Explode Bricks | Picture Surprise Ball |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 456 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Sylvain Becker | Kurt Bruning |
Customer experience
Explode Bricks
Picture Surprise Ball
In-app purchases
Explode Bricks
No in-app purchases
Picture Surprise Ball
- 10 extra balls$0.99
Questions
Is Explode Bricks free?
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Do Explode Bricks or Picture Surprise Ball have ads?
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