Caverna vs Podium
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Caverna
Lead a dwarf tribe to expand their cavern home and cultivate the surrounding forest. Dig deeper for resources, furnish rooms to grow your tribe, and forge weapons for adventures. Cultivate fields, breed animals, and increase your wealth to become the strongest tribe leader.
- Dwarf tribe management
- Cavern expansion and furnishing
- Resource cultivation and mining
- Animal breeding and farming
- Weapon forging and adventures
- Worker action system
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Caverna by Uwe Rosenberg makes you the head of a dwarf tribe, living in a small cavern. You cultivate the forest in front of your cavern and dig deeper into the mountain throughout the game. By furnishing rooms in your caverns you make space to grow your tribe and and create new goods from your resources. Deeper into the mountain you will find fountains as well as ore and gem mines. It's on you to decide how much ore and gems you want to mine, giving you the opportunity to forge weapons and go on adventures; a new way to do things in the game instead of using actions with your workers. Outside your cavern you can clear the forest, cultivate fields, fence pastures and grow crops or breed animals. All this in order to increase your wealth and become the strongest and best tribe leader of them all!
Podium
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Bring your Commander games to life. Podium is a beautifully simple life tracker for Magic: The Gathering, designed to make every game feel a little more magical. No accounts. No complicated setup. Just open Podium, gather your friends, and start playing. BUILT FOR THE TABLE Track life totals for 2–6 players with a fast, intuitive interface designed for Commander nights.Rearrange players, choose your commanders, and manage life totals and damage as the game unfolds. MAKE EVERY ATTACK COUNT Bring your games to life with satisfying, interactive combat. Send attacks between player cards and watch them react with playful motion and impact. Tracking damage feels like part of the game, not just another number to update. YOUR COMMANDER, YOUR GAME Choose your commander and keep them close throughout the match. Podium makes it easy to see who's leading each deck while keeping the focus on the game. YOUR GAMES, REMEMBERED Keep a simple history of your games, saved locally on your device. Revisit previous matches without creating an account or managing a playgroup. STEP INTO THE VOID Play against an atmospheric, animated backdrop designed to bring a little extra life to your table. Subtle motion and a clean, immersive interface keep the focus where it belongs — on your game. LESS SETUP. MORE MAGIC. Podium is built for players who want to spend less time managing an app and more time enjoying the game. Free to play. Made for the table.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Podium at Free against Caverna's $11.99. Podium also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 days). Caverna's advantage is chart position (#94 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On ads, 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
Podium is free to download; Caverna costs $11.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Caverna ships an update every 6 days, Podium every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Caverna | Podium |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $11.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (12 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 61.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Best chart rank | #94 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 450 MB | 129 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | DIGIDICED | JUSTIN RICHARD KENNA |
In-app purchases
Caverna
No in-app purchases
Podium
No in-app purchases








