Comparison

Pocket Clash vs Coldfront

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

Head to head
About

Pocket Clash

Features
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Start clash with some towers and stay the last one on the map!

About

Coldfront

Experience real-time strategy built for touchscreens. Build bases, command armies, and engage in epic battles against AI or up to seven other players. Enjoy a campaign, daily challenges, and offline skirmishes.

Highlights
  • Touch-optimized controls
  • Base building and army management
  • Multiplayer battles (1v1 to 8 players)
  • Offline campaign and skirmish modes
  • Daily challenges
  • Map editor
  • Replay system
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One drag, twenty tanks. One tap, and they roll. Built for touch: the real-time strategy you used to stay up far too late playing. Free to download. No ads, no timers, no energy bars. Harvesters roll out to the crystal fields. Your base rises under the cranes. Tanks, infantry and aircraft pour off the line. And somewhere across the map, someone else is doing exactly the same thing. TWO ARMIES. ONE WAR. EMBER digs in. FROST follows the money. EMBER is free, and it goes everywhere. Troopers and Maulers up front, Stormcaller rockets behind them, Skyjacks on jetpacks overhead, and the Titan, for when you're done being polite. FROST is a whole second army with its own units, buildings and economy. Its Glacier refinery drives out to the ore and sets up shop. Then the weather turns: Avalanches, Whiteout bombers and Hailstorm flak. Anyone can fight against FROST. Commanding it yourself is a one-time in-app purchase that also unlocks the rest of the campaign. That's the only thing we sell. BRING A FRIEND. OR BRING SEVEN. Real people, real time: online battles from 1v1 to 8 players. Host a room and send the code or an invite link, or tap QUICK MATCH. Sign in with Game Center to climb the ranked ladder, or skip it and just play. If a player has to step away, the match pauses for them instead of dropping them. FIFTEEN MISSIONS A campaign that teaches, then bites. Act 1 takes you from your first harvester to full-scale assaults across ten missions, and it is free. Act 2 takes the fight to FROST: five more missions against it, the first of them free to play. The rest come with the FROST purchase. A NEW FRONT EVERY DAY TODAY'S FRONT is one fresh battle a day, and the whole world gets the same one. Win it, then go again and beat your best time. SKIRMISH ANYWHERE Fight the AI on Easy, Normal or Hard. Go it alone, or team up with friends online. Campaign and skirmish work offline, so your commute counts. DRAW YOUR OWN WAR Lay out terrain, ore, starting positions and control points in the map editor, then host a room on it: everyone who joins plays your map. Ten built-in maps ship with the game too, from snowfields and desert to city blocks, wetlands and lava rifts. ON TAPE Every match you start saves itself as a replay. Relive the win. Scrub to the second the loss went wrong. IT SOUNDS LIKE A WAR Shells leave craters. Wrecks burn. The shots you hear started as real recordings. The crystal ore shrinks as you mine it, and you can watch your harvesters fill up. On newer iPhones and iPads, the water moves and the trees sway. No account to make, no third-party tracking, nothing between you and the next match.

Screenshots

Pocket Clash3 screens
Coldfront4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pocket Clash at none against Coldfront's 1. Pocket Clash also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). Coldfront's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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. Coldfront sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pocket Clash asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pocket Clash ships an update every 3 days, Coldfront every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Pocket Clash versus Coldfront: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPocket ClashColdfront
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 5 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size194 MB428 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperDmitriy SychevGurpreet Heer

In-app purchases

None

Pocket Clash

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Coldfront

One-time1
  • Frost + Campaign Act 2$0.99

Questions

Is Pocket Clash free?
Pocket Clash is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Coldfront free?
Coldfront is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Pocket Clash or Coldfront have ads?
Pocket Clash shows ads; Coldfront does not.
Which is updated more often, Pocket Clash or Coldfront?
Pocket Clash ships an update every 3 days, and Coldfront every 5 days. Most recently, Pocket Clash was updated on October 30, 2026 and Coldfront on October 31, 2026.

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