Comparison

Hide Ball vs Gridlock

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

Head to head
About

Hide Ball

A logic puzzle game where players must strategically hide balls from monsters. It challenges your IQ and tactical thinking through engaging levels and brain-teasing challenges.

Highlights
  • Logic puzzle gameplay
  • Hide balls from monsters
  • Test IQ and logical skills
  • Plan tactical strategies
  • Solve interesting levels
Features
Currently charting
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Passionate about brain teasers? Want to challenge your logical skills? Then take a look at Hide Ball — a logic puzzle game in which you should hide good balls from dreadful and harmful monsters. Hide Ball is an amusing logic game that will test your IQ and raise your intellectual abilities to a new level. Plan every step, estimate a possible outcome and build tactical strategies. Solve logical puzzles, pass lots of interesting levels and win the game! What are you waiting for?! Download and play the game!

About

Gridlock

This block puzzle game ensures every move is playable, preventing unfair losses. Strategically place pieces to clear rows and columns, build combos, and achieve high scores in both endless and daily challenge modes. It offers a thoughtful, reflex-free puzzle experience.

Highlights
  • Guaranteed playable moves
  • Fill rows/columns to clear
  • Combo multiplier
  • Endless mode
  • Daily Challenge mode
  • Undo last moves
  • Offline play
Features
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You know the moment. Three pieces drop into the tray, none of them fit anywhere, and you realise the run ended two moves ago — not because you played badly, but because the game handed you a hand that was never playable. Gridlock doesn't do that. Every tray is checked before it reaches you. You will still lose, often. But you'll lose because you filled the board and ran out of room, which is your own doing and fixable next time. HOW IT PLAYS Drag three pieces onto an 8x8 grid. Fill a row or a column and it clears. Clear on back-to-back moves and the combo multiplier climbs. Pieces don't rotate, and the tray only refills once all three are gone. So each round is a small planning problem rather than a reflex test — which is why it works equally well in a two-minute gap or a long evening. That's the whole game. Nothing to unlock, no meters refilling in the background, nothing asking you to come back at six o'clock. TWO WAYS TO PLAY Endless — one board, one score, until nothing fits. Daily Challenge — the same board as every other player, every day. ABOUT THE ADS Gridlock is free and supported by advertising, so here is exactly what that means: never an ad before your first game, and never more than one between games. If you want three fresh pieces after a run ends, or more undos, you can choose to watch one. Nothing else. ALSO Undo your last moves, because everyone misclicks. Works offline. No account, no sign-in. Your scores stay on your phone.

Screenshots

Hide Ball4 screens
Gridlock4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hide Ball and Gridlock both sit at 4.8 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Gridlock's written reviews are positive against 40% of Hide Ball's. Gridlock also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). Hide Ball's advantage is ratings volume (14K vs 4) and chart position (#167 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Hide Ball against 4.8 for Gridlock. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hide Ball has 14K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 40% of Hide Ball's written reviews are positive against 100% of Gridlock's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hide Ball ships an update every 3 months, Gridlock every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Hide Ball versus Gridlock: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHide BallGridlock
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (14K ratings) — better4.8 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews40.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14K — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supportedAd-supported
Best chart rank#167 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size301 MB4 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperHYPERCELL SIARyan Lubbers

Customer experience

Hide Ball

All ratings12,934 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral1.8%
Negative3.8%
Written reviews280 reviews
Positive40.0%
Neutral7.5%
Negative52.5%

Gridlock

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Hide Ball

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inappropriate ads shown to children
  • Repeated levels after certain point

Requested features

3 requests
  • More challenging and diverse levels
  • Option to remove ads for a fee
  • Improved level progression

Gridlock

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Hide Ball

No in-app purchases

None

Gridlock

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Hide Ball free?
Hide Ball is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Gridlock free?
Gridlock is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Hide Ball or Gridlock?
Hide Ball is rated higher. Hide Ball averages 4.8 out of 5 from 14K ratings, while Gridlock averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Hide Ball or Gridlock have ads?
Both Hide Ball and Gridlock show ads.
Which is updated more often, Hide Ball or Gridlock?
Hide Ball ships an update every 3 months, and Gridlock every 3 days. Most recently, Hide Ball was updated on November 5, 2026 and Gridlock on October 31, 2026.

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