Gear Fever vs LanternKeep
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Merge and upgrade gears
- Earn in-game currency
- Click for increased earnings
- Idle progression
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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 .
LanternKeep
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
| Parameter | Gear Fever | LanternKeep |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (949 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 31.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 949 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 265 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | SUPERSONIC 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
Gear Fever
- gem30$0.99
- gem100$2.99
- NOAD$2.99
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- NOAD2$3.99
- NOAD3$5.99
- gem450$9.99
LanternKeep
- Small Saisen$0.99
- Middle Saisen$3.99
- Omamori$4.99
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- Large Saisen$6.99
Questions
Is Gear Fever free?
Is LanternKeep free?
Do Gear Fever or LanternKeep have ads?
Which is updated more often, Gear Fever or LanternKeep?
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