Comparison

Cake5 vs Mind the Signal

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Cake5

Embark on a cosmic baking adventure to recover a stolen sweet taste. Explore magical ovens across the universe, solve puzzles, and help a team of bakers complete their mission. Compete with friends and unlock new challenges.

Highlights
  • Simple and intuitive cake-baking gameplay
  • Hundreds of challenging levels
  • Special Devil Levels for skilled players
  • Compete with Facebook friends
  • Send power-ups and gifts to friends
  • Mission mode with progress tracking
Features
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Get Ready to Challenge Your Limits of Reflexes with a Both Sweet and Enjoyable Cake Baking Game 〈Cake 5〉! Cake5 team members need your help! CC, GBM, Taro, Brownie, and Rainbow - have been sent on a mission far from home by the Sweet Queen and Dr. Puff to find the lost sweet taste that's gone missing from the Sweet Planet. Help the Cake5 team explore the Universe and visit magic ovens on distant worlds, asking them for clues and fragments of the magic recipe stolen from Sweet Planet by the Crystal Fox. Help Cakes complete their mission and find the sweet taste. ---------------------------------------------------------- FEATURES: •Simple game play and new-player friendly •Hundreds of challenging levels in Cake5 Space Adventure •Extra Devil Levels to challenge skillful players •Compete with your Facebook friends •Send Cake5 powerups to friends and family ---------------------------------------------------------- EASY TO PLAY: Tap to bake cakes! Gather cakes in the correct boxes when they're done baking. Drag to dress cakes or put them in the right boxes. Swipe to join three cakes in a row to make an angel cake. The more angel cakes you make, the higher the score. MISSION MODE: 100 levels with more to come. Help Cakes complete their mission requirements and face each oven's dangers. Track your progress on the mission map. MUSIC & DEVIL LEVELS: Hardcore players can win more power-ups and coins in the Devil Levels Forest or Deep Space Music Challenge. USE YOUR SOCIAL NETWORK: Invite your Facebook friends and send gifts to your existing social network. Ask friends for extra life or power-ups by using the "ask" feature. Send them power-ups and gifts when they need them. ;) RANKING: Compete and share your progress with friends on the mission map and on your Facebook wall. ---------------------------------------------------------- USEFUL TIPS: •Angel cakes give you power-ups to help you on difficult levels. •Make angel cakes quickly. More wings = higher score. •Sorting cakes of the same type first makes it easier to make more angel cakes. •On space levels, summoning Alien Dog's ship will turn all cakes in the oven into angel cakes. ---------------------------------------------------------- Official Website: www.cake-5.com Facebook Club: https://www.facebook.com/Cake5.fans.US.Canada

About

Mind the Signal

A word puzzle game where you repair damaged words by selecting glyphs before a signal fades. Offers timed challenges, untimed practice, and daily puzzles with leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Repair damaged words with glyphs
  • Timed signal loss challenges
  • Untimed practice mode
  • Daily shared puzzles
  • Ranked leaderboards
  • Visual customization options
Features
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Four damaged words. Seven glyphs. One signal rapidly disappearing into static. Mind the Signal is a tactile word puzzle built into a pocket-sized communications receiver inspired by the wonderfully overcomplicated technology of the 1980s. Select a glyph. Patch a missing letter. Lock the word. Complete three five-lock segments before the transmission is lost. Simple in theory. So was setting the clock on a VCR. INTERCEPT The carrier is fading and signal strength is always falling. Correctly completed words recover it. Wrong placements add interference. Let the signal reach 0% and the transmission is lost! OPEN CHANNEL The same word-repair system without signal loss. Work at your own pace, recover themed transmissions, and operate an unreasonable number of illuminated controls without an immediate communications emergency. DAILY One shared 15-lock transmission every day. One ranked attempt. No hints. No signal restores. Completion time posts to Game Center, where the permanent record of your radio-operating competence is available for public inspection. RECEIVER SPECIFICATIONS - Four damaged words displayed simultaneously - A seven-glyph repair tray containing answers and decoys - Themed transmissions to recover - Three archive fidelity levels: Recovered, Verified, and Mastered - Ranked Daily play, followed by unranked practice - A persistent archive tracking every recovered signal - Tons of visual customization to fine-tune the receiver to your specifications Mind the Signal is free to play. Optional rewarded ads can bank hints or restore a failed signal. Occasional interstitials appear between rounds. Turns out that communications infrastructure is not free. The one-time Operator Upgrade removes every ad, starts each new Intercept or Open Channel with up to four hints, makes the once-per-run Intercept restore immediate, and expands receiver customization to 100 style combinations The words are incomplete. The carrier is fading. You are now on shift.

Screenshots

Cake54 screens
Mind the Signal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Cake5 at none against Mind the Signal's shown. Cake5 also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). Mind the Signal's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 74%). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cake5 sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Mind the Signal sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cake5 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 6 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 74% of Cake5's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mind the Signal's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Cake5 versus Mind the Signal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCake5Mind the Signal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (3 ratings) — better4.3 (6 ratings)
Positive reviews74.2% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings36 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 months—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size80 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWHALE PARTY CO., LTD.Mind Wasted, LLC

Customer experience

Cake5

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews31 reviews
Positive74.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.8%

Mind the Signal

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Cake5

One-time10
  • Big Basket Pack$0.99
  • Time Extend Pack$0.99
  • Rainbow Gliding in the Clouds$0.99
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  • Cupcake Fast Ver.$0.99
  • Cupcake$0.99
  • Pile of Coins$1.99
  • Burn Shield$1.99
  • Bag of Coins$2.99
  • Ruby x 10$2.99
  • Rubies x 25$5.99
1 purchases

Mind the Signal

One-time1
  • Operator Upgrade$2.99

Questions

Is Cake5 free?
Cake5 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mind the Signal free?
Mind the Signal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Cake5 or Mind the Signal?
Cake5 is rated higher. Cake5 averages 4.7 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Mind the Signal averages 4.3 from 6 ratings.
Do Cake5 or Mind the Signal have ads?
Mind the Signal shows ads; Cake5 does not.

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