Apple Grapple vs Hex Defense!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Apple Grapple
Defend your apple from waves of cute but dangerous worms. Collect gold to unlock and upgrade a variety of weapons and enhance your abilities to survive increasingly challenging attacks. Become the ultimate survivor in this action-packed defense game.
- Defend apple from worm invasion
- Collect gold for upgrades
- Unlock and combine weapons
- Enhance player abilities
- Progress through levels
- Survivor Zone challenge
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Survive the Worm Attack and Protect Your Apple! Defend your apple from a relentless invasion of dangerous yet cute green worms! Stay vigilant as these cunning worms can strike from anywhere. Your mission is clear: survive, run, and eliminate them all to save your apple. Game Objective: Survive and Protect Your Apple Ensure your apple survives within the given time. Progress through levels and collect gold to unlock powerful new weapons. Find the best combination of melee and ranged weapons to easily survive the attack and defeat your enemies. Face off against hordes of worms and crush them with your warrior and survivor apple! Collect Gold and Upgrade Your Gun Gather gold from the battlefield to enhance your weapons and armor. Equip up to six different weapons per level and dominate the worms. Upgrade countless unique weapon combinations to outmatch your enemies, survive longer, and increase your damage output. Enhance Your Abilities Fill your experience bar and choose beneficial stats to gain an edge over the worms. Boost your health, damage, attack speed, and more. These upgrades will give you the critical power needed as the worms grow stronger, ensuring your survival. Enter the Survivor Zone This is the ultimate survival challenge where only the strongest survive. Enjoy thrilling moments with addictive gameplay mechanics. Can you protect your apple, survive the chaos, and become the ultimate survivor? Survive and thrive in this battle for your apple!
Hex Defense!
Strategically place and merge weapons to defend a vibrant cube world. Demolish waves of incoming enemies by upgrading your arsenal with powerful skills. Protect the world from the encroaching evil hexes.
- Defeat enemy waves
- Merge weapons
- Demolish enemy stacks
- Upgrade skills
- Save the cube world
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Defeat waves of enemies! Use your weapons to demolish the enemies' stacks! Choose the best skills to upgrade your power! Save the cube world from the evil hexes!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Apple Grapple at 4.8 against Hex Defense!'s 4.5. Apple Grapple also leads on review sentiment (32% vs 16%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Apple Grapple sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hex Defense! sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Apple Grapple holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6.6K and 4.6K respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Apple Grapple's written reviews are positive against 16% of Hex Defense!'s.
Apple Grapple ships an update every 9 days, Hex Defense! fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 8, 2026.
| Parameter | Apple Grapple | Hex Defense! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6.6K ratings) — better | 4.5 (4.6K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 32.4% of reviews — better | 16.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 6.6K — better | 4.6K |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 414 MB | 392 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Loop Games Oyun Teknolojileri Anonim Sirketi | Voodoo |
Customer experience
Apple Grapple
Hex Defense!
User reviews
Apple Grapple
From 6.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Awesome game
- 👍 No ads
- 👍 Very good to play
Room to improve
- 🐛 Progression issues
- 🐛 Difficulty spikes
- 💰 Pay-to-win elements
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 🤔 Misrepresented gameplay
Hex Defense!
From 4.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and wholesome gameplay
- 🚀 Smooth performance
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches (e.g. stage progression issues, tower upgrades not working)
- 💰 Monetization concerns (e.g. ads, paid features removed)
- 🔍 Incomplete/unfinished content (e.g. missing levels, towers, features)
Bugs and requests
Apple Grapple
Reported bugs
3 issues- Game progress loss
- Rewards tracking issues
- Compatibility problems
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to replay previous levels
- Endless mode for farming
- Improved balance and progression
Hex Defense!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inability to progress past certain levels
- Towers not unlocking as expected
- Game crashes and freezes
Requested features
3 requests- More maps and levels
- Additional tower types and upgrades
- Offline play option
In-app purchases
Apple Grapple
- Companion Offer$0.99
- Welcome Offer$0.99
- Crystal Pack 1$0.99
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- Crystal Pack 1$1.99
- Welcome Offer$2.99
- Crystal Pack 2$4.99
- Epic Offer$5.99
- Season Pass$9.99
- Crystal Pack 3$9.99
- Legendary Offer$11.99
Hex Defense!
- Tiny Gems Pack$0.99
- Small Gems Pack$4.99
- Speed Up$4.99
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- Golden Pass$6.99
- No Ads$7.99
- Auto Blessings$7.99
- Medium Gems Pack$9.99
- Special Offer: Minigun$12.99
- Special Offer: Tesla$19.99
- Large Gems Pack$19.99
Questions
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