Comparison

Bloons Blitz vs Grow!

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

Head to head
About

Bloons Blitz

Embark on a roguelike adventure battling waves of Bloons with iconic characters and strategic upgrades. Collect toys and stickers to power up your heroes and unlock new abilities in fast-paced, one-handed gameplay.

Highlights
  • Survivor-style gameplay
  • Iconic Bloons characters
  • Strategic upgrade selection
  • Endless replayability
  • Collect and upgrade heroes
  • One-handed controls
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Embark on the ultimate road trip adventure across the Bloons universe! Get ready to dive into exciting battles against hundreds of menacing Bloons and unleash your arsenal of attacks in action-packed, roguelike gameplay. Key Features: • Non-Stop Action: Engage in fast-paced, survivor-style gameplay against relentless waves of Bloons using intuitive, one-handed controls. • Iconic Bloons Characters: Play as powerful Heroes each with their own signature weapon and gameplay style. Recruit your favorite Monkeys to join your team and unlock their unique weapons and upgrades. • Strategic, Decision-Based Gameplay: Carefully select your upgrades each run and unlock different powers based on your choices. Make your Monkeys versatile generalists or dive deep into a single path to find powerful epic weapons. • Endless Replayability: Take on exciting, roguelike levels across an infinite map. Discover unique encounters, awesome power-ups, and epic boss fights. Replay levels with special rules and challenges for a new Bloon-popping experience every time. • Collect and Upgrade: Find rare collectible toys to level up your Heroes and unlock game-changing new upgrades. Collect gorgeous stickers to empower your team with special boosts.

About

Grow!

Embark on a cosmic journey from the atomic scale to the astronomical. Absorb matter, level up, and evolve into an unstoppable force. This survivor-like action game features deep progression and a unique art style.

Highlights
  • Progress through 20 tiers of reality
  • Deep meta-progression with permanent abilities
  • Loot gear and craft builds
  • Asynchronous multiplayer leaderboards
  • Striking minimalist art style
  • Unravel mysterious lore
Features
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You are the Entity. You don't know what you are. You don't know why you're here. All you know is one thing : GROW! Grow! is an incremental survivors-like with idle progression: every run makes you permanently stronger. Start at the atomic scale. Tear through particles, nucleons, and molecules. Absorb their matter. Level up. Get stronger. Then do it again, bigger. Molecules. Bacteria. Cells. A tardigrade. Tadpoles. Insects. Animals. Humans. Buildings. Satellites. Moons. Planets. Stars. Nothing is beyond your reach. Every run pushes you further up the cosmic ladder, from the subatomic to the astronomical. Grow! is a survivor-like action game where scale IS the progression. Fight through waves of enemies that grow as you grow, loot gear, unlock abilities, and build your Entity into an unstoppable force, across runs that span the entire known universe. CORE FEATURES ◈ SCALE BEYOND IMAGINATION Progress through 20 tiers of reality : from particle physics to astrophysics. Each tier brings new enemies, new challenges, and a mind-bending sense of scale. ◈ DEEP META-PROGRESSION Every run matters : Unlock permanent abilities, upgrade your Entity, and push further than ever before. The meta-progression is massive: there's always something new to chase. ◈ LOOT & EQUIP Enemies drop gear. Spend Matter, the universal currency, during or between runs. Craft your build, find synergies, dominate. ◈ COMPETE GLOBALLY Asynchronous multiplayer leaderboards : How far can you grow? Compare your highest tier reached against players worldwide. ◈ STRIKING MINIMALIST ART Black, white, grey, and yellow : Clean vector visuals with a bold, distinctive identity. No visual clutter: just you, the swarm, and the ever-expanding universe. ◈ MYSTERIOUS LORE What is the Entity? Why does it grow? Every death delivers the same cryptic message: GR0W. Piece together the mystery as you ascend through layers of reality. Free to play. No ads.

Screenshots

Bloons Blitz4 screens
Grow!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Grow! at none against Bloons Blitz's shown. Grow! also leads on review sentiment (94% vs 65%) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Bloons Blitz's advantage is ratings volume (2.6K vs 138) and chart position (#54 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Bloons Blitz sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Grow! sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Grow! holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bloons Blitz has 2.6K ratings behind it against 138, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Bloons Blitz's written reviews are positive against 94% of Grow!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 6 level
Bloons Blitz versus Grow!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBloons BlitzGrow!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (2.6K ratings)4.9 (138 ratings) — better
Positive reviews64.5% of reviews93.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.6K — better138
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank#54 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size378 MB117 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperNinja Kiwi LimitedThibault Brouardelle

Customer experience

Bloons Blitz

All ratings2,473 ratings
Positive93.4%
Neutral2.7%
Negative3.9%
Written reviews203 reviews
Positive64.5%
Neutral18.7%
Negative16.7%

Grow!

All ratings129 ratings
Positive99.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive93.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.0%

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Bloons Blitz

One-time12
  • Fighting Start$0.99
  • Monkey Fast Track$1.99
  • Bag of Bloonstones$1.99
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  • Hero Fast Track$2.99
  • Medium Bag of Bloonstones$4.99
  • Hero Starter Pack$4.99
  • Hero Fast Track$6.99
  • Hero Fast Track$9.99
  • Large Bag of Bloonstones$9.99
  • Hero Starter Pack$9.99
  • Hero Starter Pack$13.99
  • Huge Bag of Bloonstones$19.99
8 purchases

Grow!

One-time8
  • 100% of Endergy Page Cost$2.99
  • +1 Attack Slot$4.99
  • +1 Element Slot$4.99
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  • Endergy Boost x2$8.99
  • Full Bundle$8.99
  • 500% of Endergy Page Cost$8.99
  • Absolute Boost ×2$14.99
  • 5000% of Endergy Page Cost$44.99

Questions

Is Bloons Blitz free?
Bloons Blitz is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Grow! free?
Grow! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Bloons Blitz or Grow!?
Grow! is rated higher. Bloons Blitz averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.6K ratings, while Grow! averages 4.9 from 138 ratings.
Do Bloons Blitz or Grow! have ads?
Bloons Blitz shows ads; Grow! does not.
Which is updated more often, Bloons Blitz or Grow!?
Bloons Blitz ships an update weekly, and Grow! weekly. Most recently, Bloons Blitz was updated on November 1, 2026 and Grow! on October 31, 2026.

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