Comparison

Shorthanded Gregg vs Spaghetti

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

Head to head
About

Shorthanded Gregg

Learn the Gregg shorthand system with interactive lessons and practice modes. Engage in story-driven challenges, matching exercises, and word construction to build your skills.

Highlights
  • Interactive lessons
  • Story-driven challenges
  • Matching exercises
  • Word construction
  • Word destruction
Features
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Shorthanded teaches you the basics of the Gregg shorthand system through interactive lessons and engaging practice modes. Build your skills with story‑driven challenges, matching exercises, word construction, and even word destruction.

About

Spaghetti

Build stable towers using spaghetti and marshmallows to reach goal rings while battling wind and environmental hazards. This physics-based puzzle game challenges your engineering skills with realistic structural principles and a variety of creative levels.

Highlights
  • Intuitive draw-and-tap building
  • Realistic physics engine
  • Challenging campaign with environmental hazards
  • Resource management for efficient designs
  • Built-in level creator and sharing
  • Weekly challenges
  • Multiple hand-drawn scenes
Features
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Spaghetti Marshmallow is a physics tower-building puzzle where dry spaghetti are your struts and marshmallows are the glue. Drag to draw a strand of spaghetti. Tap to drop a marshmallow that grips every strut it touches. Stack, brace, and triangulate your way up to the goal rings — but watch out: the wind never stops blowing, and a top-heavy or poorly-braced tower will sway, buckle, and collapse in a very satisfying heap. It's secretly a structural-engineering sandbox. Real truss rules apply: • Triangulate to resist racking — a plain square folds flat, one diagonal makes it rigid. • Every joint needs a load path down to a solid foundation. • Cantilevers snap at the root, right where the torque piles up. Hold a marshmallow on every target ring at the same time for 3 seconds and the level is yours. FEATURES • Intuitive draw-and-tap building — easy to pick up, tricky to master • Real physics: elastic spaghetti, plastic marshmallow grips, honest collapses • A full campaign that ramps from gentle breezes to howling gales • Hazards to build around: hungry frogs, fire pits, falling rocks, spinning windmills, moving obstacles, aliens and more • Resource limits that force clever, efficient designs • A built-in level creator — design your own levels and share them with friends by a simple code • A fresh Weekly Challenge for everyone • Thirteen hand-drawn scenes: day, night, beach, kitchen, space, volcano, castle, circus and more • Free to play, no ads Build tall. Brace smart. Beat the wind.

Screenshots

Shorthanded Gregg4 screens
Spaghetti4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spaghetti at Free against Shorthanded Gregg's $2.99. Spaghetti also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Shorthanded Gregg's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 3.5) and chart position (#20 vs unranked). On ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Spaghetti is free to download; Shorthanded Gregg costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Shorthanded Gregg holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shorthanded Gregg has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shorthanded Gregg ships an update every 3 weeks, Spaghetti weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Shorthanded Gregg versus Spaghetti: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShorthanded GreggSpaghetti
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (10 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
Best chart rank#20 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS14.0.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB46 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperDavid ClarkMediaSignage Inc

In-app purchases

None

Shorthanded Gregg

No in-app purchases

None

Spaghetti

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Shorthanded Gregg free?
Shorthanded Gregg costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spaghetti free?
Spaghetti is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Shorthanded Gregg or Spaghetti?
Shorthanded Gregg is rated higher. Shorthanded Gregg averages 4.7 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Spaghetti averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Shorthanded Gregg or Spaghetti have ads?
Neither Shorthanded Gregg nor Spaghetti shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shorthanded Gregg or Spaghetti?
Shorthanded Gregg ships an update every 3 weeks, and Spaghetti weekly. Most recently, Shorthanded Gregg was updated on October 30, 2026 and Spaghetti on October 31, 2026.

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