Code Busters vs Mitten
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Code Busters
Engage your mind with a variety of puzzles including cryptograms, anagrams, crosswords, and Sudoku. This game offers over 500 levels and 10,000 quotes for an enriching intellectual adventure.
- Cryptogram puzzles
- Anagrams
- Crossword puzzles
- Sudoku
- Over 500 levels
- Famous quotes
- Code deciphering
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Welcome to Code Busters: Word Puzzle Game Challenge your mind with Code Busters: Word Puzzle Game, an exciting puzzle adventure where logic, deduction, and word-solving skills come together. Decode hidden messages, connect numbers to letters, and uncover meaningful phrases as you work through hundreds of engaging challenges. Discover Hidden Messages Every puzzle is a unique challenge waiting to be solved. Use logic, recognize patterns, and follow clues to reveal secret messages and complete missing words. As you progress, puzzles become more complex, rewarding careful thinking and attention to detail. Train Your Brain with Logic Puzzles Designed for players of all skill levels, Code Busters: Word Puzzle Game combines word puzzles, brain teasers, and reasoning challenges into one enjoyable experience. Improve your vocabulary, strengthen your problem-solving abilities, and sharpen your critical thinking skills while having fun. Hundreds of Levels to Explore Enjoy hundreds of carefully crafted levels filled with clues, hidden phrases, and mind-bending challenges. Whether you enjoy word games, logic puzzles, riddles, or deduction-based gameplay, there is always a new puzzle ready to test your skills. A Fun and Rewarding Learning Experience Every puzzle encourages logical thinking and mental focus. Connect letters, solve patterns, and uncover complete messages using the information provided. With intuitive gameplay and satisfying progression, every solved puzzle feels rewarding. Features • Hundreds of challenging levels • Hidden messages and secret phrases to uncover • Logic puzzles, riddles, and brain teasers • Number and letter-based challenges • Helpful hints when you need assistance • Vocabulary and reasoning skill development • Suitable for beginners and puzzle experts alike If you enjoy word games, logic puzzles, hidden messages, and brain-training challenges, Code Busters: Word Puzzle Game is the perfect adventure for you. Follow the clues, solve the puzzles, and discover the satisfaction of cracking every challenge.
Mitten
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Mitten turns whatever your child is into right now — dinosaurs, space, baking, football — into a real game they can play, with the learning hidden inside the fun. HOW IT WORKS Tell Mitten what your child likes, what you'd like them to practise, and how old they are. Mitten builds a complete, playable game around it in about a minute. No two children get the same game. MANY KINDS OF GAME • Adventure — explore a world, meet its people, collect words as you go • Word Rush — a bright lane-runner where the right answer is the road you steer into • Mystery — a gentle detective case with clues to find, suspects to question and a puzzle to solve • Plus arcade-style worlds — fruit storms, sky labs, temple runs — where every move practises a word or a number BUILT FOR AGES 3-8 Every game is read aloud, so a child who cannot read yet can still play on their own. Big touch targets, no timers that punish, no losing streaks, no scary sounds. LEARNING THAT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE LEARNING There are no quizzes in Mitten. Children learn words by using them to do something — unlocking a gate, questioning a suspect, choosing a lane. Practise is woven into the story, and Mitten quietly notices which words a child finds hard and brings them back later. VOCABULARY OR MATHS, IN YOUR LANGUAGE Practise English vocabulary, a second language, or number work — times tables, adding up, counting. Mitten supports many languages, so a child can learn Spanish, Malayalam, French or Hindi words inside a game about the things they already love. FOR PARENTS • A parental gate guards settings, sign-in and anything you pay for • Your child never signs in and is never sent a notification • Add a profile for each child, with their own progress • See what each child has learned • Delete your family's data whenever you want, from inside the app SUBSCRIPTION Mitten is free to try: every ready-made game plays free, and you can generate your first language game free. Mitten Premium lets you create up to 10 new worlds a month, for words or maths. It is billed monthly through your Apple ID and renews automatically until cancelled; cancel any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Made by a parent, for the stretch of childhood where everything is interesting. MITTEN PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Mitten Premium is an auto-renewing monthly subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel any time in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://mitten-app.netlify.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mitten at none against Code Busters's shown. Mitten also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Code Busters's advantage is chart position (#18 vs unranked). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Code Busters sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Mitten sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Code Busters ships an update every 3 weeks, Mitten weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Code Busters | Mitten |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (9.8K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 13.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 9.8K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Best chart rank | #18 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 205 MB | 80 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Smartronic | Minu Maria |
Bugs and requests
Code Busters
Reported bugs
3 issues- Freezes before starting
- Unable to play levels
- Daily challenge calendar incorrect
Requested features
2 requests- Improve gameplay mechanics
- Enlarge keyboard letters
Mitten
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Code Busters
- 100 Coins$1.99
- 5 Magic Wand Mascot Offer$1.99
- 100 Coins1$1.99
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- Beginners Bundle$3.99
- 5 Magic Wand$4.99
- 500 Coins$6.99
- Crypto Bundle$7.99
- Crypto Bundle1$9.99
- Choose One All In One Bundle$13.99
- Super Bundle$29.99
Mitten
- Mitten Premium$6.991 Month
Questions
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