Comparison

Human Castles vs Ship It

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

Head to head
About

Human Castles

Features
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Build breathtaking human towers in this fast and charming puzzle game inspired by the Catalan tradition of castells. Drag, place, and balance castellers as you climb toward increasingly challenging formations. Each casteller has unique strengths and climbing speeds—plan your strategy, avoid collisions, manage stability, and complete the tower before time runs out! Features: • Authentic castell formations (pilares, torres, 3d7, 4d8…) • Castellers with different abilities, sizes, and endurance • Real-time wobble & stability system • Bystanders crossing the plaza — move them before they interrupt climbers • Power-ups to stabilize or reinforce the tower • Vintage, hand-drawn Catalan plaza visuals • Light & dark mode • Unlockable colla colors and customization • Designed for quick sessions or long strategic play Força, Equilibri, Valor i Seny — can you complete the castell in time? Privacy Policy: https://polmiro.github.io/castellers/privacy-policy.html Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Ship It

Build a virtual app development empire from a small studio to a large business. Manage tech debt, handle app store reviews, and hire advisors to optimize your growth. Make strategic exits to gain permanent benefits for future runs.

Highlights
  • Build and improve apps
  • Manage tech debt
  • Handle app store reviews and incidents
  • Hire and upgrade advisors
  • Automated builds and idle earnings
  • Make strategic studio exits
  • Unlock permanent legacy benefits
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Turn taps into apps. Turn a tiny studio into your pocket empire. SHIP IT! is an incremental game about building apps, growing a studio, and making your next big exit. Start small, ship new versions, improve your apps, and put your earnings back into the business. BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER Write code, launch apps, and choose upgrades that move your studio forward. Build a portfolio a buyer wants, unlock automation, and keep shipping new versions. MIND YOUR TECH DEBT New features make an app earn more. Most also add tech debt, which slows its next builds. The Features screen shows exactly how much before you buy. When the debt piles up, refactor: pay a quarter of what those features cost, clear the debt, and keep every feature. THINGS BREAK From your second studio, App Review checks every 25th version. Ship a release with too much debt and it's rejected. The app goes off sale until the fix ships. Design Polish raises the limit, and each app warns you before a release would fail. Incidents keep you on your toes: servers go down, payments wobble, a Friday deploy goes wrong. Spend cash to fix it, send an adviser, or wait it out. Nothing random happens while you're idle or away, and your versions never go down. LEAVE WITH A PLAN Create a Build plan with app-version targets and let your automated builds get to work. Your studio keeps building and earning for up to 8 hours while you're away, and Night Shift stretches that to 24. Stay away longer and the overflow bank keeps earning at a quarter of the rate, for up to the same time again. MEET YOUR UNFAIR EDGE Discover 68 satirical advisers with different abilities. Choose a Power for a timely boost and seat a passive adviser at your Studio desk for an ongoing perk. Every card shows its effect at a glance, and you can swipe through your collection. Find combinations that suit your run, and collect duplicates to improve them. Rotate your team: lean on one adviser too often and they need a longer rest. A COLLECTION THAT GROWS WITH YOU Unlock CI to choose a free first passive adviser. Earn extra expansion cards as you recruit. For dedicated collectors, reaching Rank V with every adviser unlocks the road to Master VI. MAKE YOUR BIG EXIT Sell your studio and carry permanent benefits into the next run. Later, take on optional Exit Goal quests with distinct rules and rewards. Late in the game, their targets grow with your studio, so they stay a real challenge. Complete a quest to retire it from the board, or keep building a normal studio at your own pace. PLAY THE LONG GAME After 18 exits, each of your next 17 Legacy sales adds 13% code speed, compounding, so the late game keeps its pace. Old apps become classics: from v1000, an app earns ×1.5 for every newer app you've launched. Chase 8 badges and 23 tiers in the Hall of Fame, and keep every tier after every sale. Earn Feature Complete to unlock Max out, which buys every feature level you can afford on an app in one tap. Then see how your all-time revenue ranks on the Fortune leaderboard in Game Center. MAKE IT YOUR STUDIO Enjoy a lively pixel-art workspace with an original soundtrack that grows with your career, and big moments that land with stamps, bursts, and count-ups. Dress the studio with neon signs, window views, desk toys and pets, with a new drop every Monday, and fill a trophy cabinet with every exit. Watch your seated adviser join the crew. Play without an account or an internet connection. Optional purchases are available. One more version. One more upgrade. One more big idea. Ship it. Game Center wallet backup is optional. Optional in-app purchases and Founder Club subscriptions are available. All cash and earnings shown in the game are fictional in-game currency. Privacy: https://www.cleardays.co/ship-it/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Human Castles4 screens
Ship It4 screens

Verdict

The call

Human Castles and Ship It are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Human Castles sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Ship It sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Human Castles ships an update every 2 days, Ship It daily. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Human Castles versus Ship It: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHuman CastlesShip It
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—6 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 daysDaily — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB190 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPol Miro OmellaHendrik Haandrikman

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Human Castles

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly$4.991 Month
One-time4
  • Gray Shirt$0.99
  • Teal Shirt$0.99
  • Sage Shirt$0.99
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  • Lifetime$9.99
4 purchases

Ship It

Subscriptions1
  • Founder Club$4.991 Month
One-time3
  • Pocket Chips — 30 Chips$0.99
  • Stack of Chips — 160 Chips$4.99
  • Crate of Chips — 350 Chips$9.99

Questions

Is Human Castles free?
Human Castles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Ship It free?
Ship It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Human Castles or Ship It have ads?
Both Human Castles and Ship It show ads.
Which is updated more often, Human Castles or Ship It?
Human Castles ships an update every 2 days, and Ship It daily. Most recently, Human Castles was updated on October 7, 2026 and Ship It on October 10, 2026.

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