Apple Grapple vs Threadline
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!
Threadline
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Threadline is a game about one thing: keeping a steady hand. A sewing needle travels across an endless strip of fabric. Hold your finger anywhere on the screen and it dives. Let go and it rises. That is the whole control scheme, and you will understand it in about five seconds. The skill is in the timing. Stitch points drift past above and below the centre of the cloth, and you have to thread the needle through each one. Clip the edge and you get a stitch. Pass through dead centre and you get a Perfect — worth more score, more Thread Coins, and a noticeably crisper little tick under your thumb. Miss, and your combo takes the hit. Miss three times in quick succession and the thread snaps. HOW IT PLAYS • One touch. Hold to dive, release to rise. • Perfect stitches build a rising melody as your combo grows. • The fabric speeds up and the patterns tighten the longer you last. • Waves, zigzags, long sweeps and quick flurries — and every single pattern is generated to be physically possible. If you are precise enough, you can hit it. • Misses expire after a few seconds, so one bad patch never ruins a good run. • Restarting is instant. No loading, no waiting, straight back in. THREAD COINS AND SKINS Play well and you earn Thread Coins. Spend them in the shop on six hand-tuned cosmetic themes — warm Classic Cotton, deep Midnight Silk, Golden Thread, electric Neon Stitch, soft Sakura Fabric, and Cosmic Weave threaded with starlight. Every skin changes the needle, thread, fabric, stitch points and background. None of them changes the game. No pay-to-win, because there is nothing to pay. BUILT TO BE LEFT ALONE • No ads. • No in-app purchases. Thread Coins are earned by playing, and that is the only way to get them. • No account, no sign-in, no internet connection required. • No tracking and no data collection of any kind. Your high score never leaves your phone. Just a needle, a line of thread, and one finger.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Threadline at none against Apple Grapple's 21. Threadline also leads on ads (none vs shown). Apple Grapple's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price 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 21 one-off in-app purchases. Threadline asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Apple Grapple | Threadline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (6.6K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 32.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6.6K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 414 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Loop Games Oyun Teknolojileri Anonim Sirketi | ERKAN ISIK BACAK |
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
Threadline
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Apple Grapple
- Companion Offer$0.99
- Daily Offer 1$0.99
- Welcome Offer$0.99
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- Crystal Pack 1$0.99
- Energy Pack 1$0.99
- Crystal Pack 1$1.99
- Energy 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
- Energy Pack 3$9.99
- Legendary Offer$11.99
- Crystal Pack 4$19.99
- Energy Pack 4$19.99
- Mythic Offer$24.99
- Crystal Pack 5$49.99
- Energy Pack 5$49.99
- Crystal Pack 6$99.99
- Energy Pack 6$99.99
Threadline
No in-app purchases









