Comparison

Gear Fever vs LanternKeep

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

Head to head
About

Gear Fever

Merge and upgrade gears to earn in-game currency. Click to increase your earnings as you progress. This idle game offers a satisfying loop of merging and growing your gear collection for maximum profit.

Highlights
  • Merge and upgrade gears
  • Earn in-game currency
  • Click for increased earnings
  • Idle progression
Features
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Without gears there is no gain, place your gears and start getting money!!! Merge gears to upgrade them and gain more. - Merge and upgrade your gears . - Click more for more .

About

LanternKeep

Features
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Build a defense along a moonlit shrine path and keep the yokai from reaching the shrine. Choose between the Lantern, Ofuda, Bell, and Kagami towers, each with a distinct range and role. Adapt to armored, flying, splitting, and regenerating enemies by changing your placement and targeting priority. Call the next wave early for a larger reward, or take the time to prepare. Your ward can turn the tide once per wave. Each UTC day brings one deterministic Daily Omamori rule: yokai speed, enemy HP, kill gold, ward damage, or lantern damage changes. Hold all 15 waves for the daily reward; leak nothing to earn a perfect-clear record that can be reported to Game Center. Survive the story, then continue into endless defense to chase a higher record. Five maps offer one-route and forked layouts. An interactive tutorial teaches placement, wave starts, upgrades, and the ward; a checkpoint is saved after every cleared wave so you can resume. Read the yokai and tower codex, then choose a specialization branch after bringing a tower to 2/3 damage and rate. Calm Japanese-inspired audio, haptic feedback, and focused controls make each short session easy to start. Features: - Four tower types and four targeting modes - Armored, flying, splitting, and regenerating yokai - Risk-and-reward early wave calling - One full-field ward per wave - A 15-wave campaign plus endless mode - Daily Omamori: UTC rotation, five rules, clear rewards, and perfect clears - Game Center leaderboards for daily/endless waves plus six achievements - Five maps, a yokai/tower codex, interactive tutorial, and wave checkpoints - Two specialization branches for each tower after 2/3 upgrades - Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and English - Local save data; no account required Optional in-app purchases: - Saisen: a consumable item that grants in-game gold for a defense - Omamori: a non-consumable item that grants starting-life and starting-gold bonuses Payments are processed by Apple through the App Store. Consumables cannot be restored. The non-consumable Omamori can be checked with Restore Purchases. Prices are shown by the App Store. https://lantern-keep.pages.dev/privacy/

Screenshots

Gear Fever4 screens
LanternKeep2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: LanternKeep at none against Gear Fever's shown. LanternKeep also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 2 weeks). Gear Fever's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Gear Fever sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and LanternKeep sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gear Fever ships an update every 2 weeks, LanternKeep every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gear Fever versus LanternKeep: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGear FeverLanternKeep
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (949 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews31.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings949 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size265 MB8 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperSUPERSONIC STUDIOS LTD凯 邵

Bugs and requests

Gear Fever

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Game freezing and crashing
  • Incorrect gear and currency display
  • Progression blockers

Requested features

3 requests
  • More gears and home upgrades
  • Leaderboard for gear setups
  • Offline progress boost

LanternKeep

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Gear Fever

One-time6
  • gem30$0.99
  • gem100$2.99
  • NOAD$2.99
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  • NOAD2$3.99
  • NOAD3$5.99
  • gem450$9.99
4 purchases

LanternKeep

One-time4
  • Small Saisen$0.99
  • Middle Saisen$3.99
  • Omamori$4.99
Show 1 more
  • Large Saisen$6.99

Questions

Is Gear Fever free?
Gear Fever is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is LanternKeep free?
LanternKeep is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gear Fever or LanternKeep have ads?
Gear Fever shows ads; LanternKeep does not.
Which is updated more often, Gear Fever or LanternKeep?
Gear Fever ships an update every 2 weeks, and LanternKeep every 3 days. Most recently, Gear Fever was updated on October 24, 2026 and LanternKeep on October 16, 2026.

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