Comparison

Minesweep+ vs Vela

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

Head to head
About

Minesweep+

Features
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Minesweep+ brings the classic Minesweeper game to your fingertips with an exciting twist — polygon boards! Features Polygon Boards Not just squares! Challenge yourself on hexagonal, Cairo pentagonal, and kite-shaped grids. Each shape offers unique neighbor patterns and strategic depth. Multiple Difficulty Levels From beginner to expert, choose your challenge: - Beginner: 9Ɨ9, 10 mines - Intermediate: 16Ɨ16, 40 mines - Expert: 30Ɨ16, 99 mines - Custom: Set your own rows, columns, and mines! First Click Safety Your first click will never hit a mine, ensuring a fair start every game. Smart Hint System Stuck? Use hints to get suggestions for your next move. Each hint adds a 10-second time penalty to keep things challenging. Game Center Leaderboards Compete with players worldwide! Track your best times for each difficulty and board shape, and climb the leaderboards. Best Times Records Track your top 3 times for every difficulty and shape combination. Clean, Modern Interface Minimalist design, smooth animations, optimized for iPhone and iPad. How to Play • Tap to reveal a cell • Long press to place/remove a flag • Tap the flag counter to toggle flag mode • Double tap a number to chord (reveal surrounding cells) Goal: Reveal all safe cells without hitting a mine. Numbers indicate how many mines are adjacent. Download now and discover your new favorite way to play Minesweeper!

About

Vela

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Vela is a game that teaches you to read candlestick charts. Every round shows a chart frozen right before it moves. You have a few seconds to call it: up, down or no signal. Then the next candles fall one by one and you see what really happened. PLAY • Quick games of five charts, with a clock that gets shorter as you level up. • A demo account with 10,000 in virtual money that moves with every call, like a practice account. • A Trading IQ that rises and falls with your reads, and 50 levels to climb. LEARN • 39 patterns in five units: price structure, volume, RSI, confluence and moving averages. • Every chart comes with its explanation drawn on top of it. • Market mode: real charts from eight cryptocurrencies, with the outcome that actually happened. • Point the camera at a chart to see how closely it matches a pattern. COMPETE • The daily challenge: ten charts a day, the same for everyone. • Leaderboards with your friends, your country and the world, through Game Center. • Challenge a friend with a chart, and share cards and clips of your best reads. Five home screen widgets and a Play button for Control Center keep your account one glance away. Vela is a game for learning to read charts. The money is virtual and can't be bought, sold or exchanged. Nothing in the app is financial advice.

Screenshots

Minesweep+4 screens
Vela4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Vela at none against Minesweep+'s 1. Vela also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 months). Minesweep+'s advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). On price and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Minesweep+ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Vela asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minesweep+ ships an update every 3 months, Vela every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 2 level
Minesweep+ versus Vela: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinesweep+Vela
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS14.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB8 MB
Age rating4+12+
Developer庾涛 沈Jose Manuel Pascual Jimenez

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Minesweep+

One-time1
  • Minesweep+ Pro$0.99
None

Vela

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minesweep+ free?
Minesweep+ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vela free?
Vela is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minesweep+ or Vela have ads?
Neither Minesweep+ nor Vela shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minesweep+ or Vela?
Minesweep+ ships an update every 3 months, and Vela every 2 days. Most recently, Minesweep+ was updated on October 30, 2026 and Vela on November 10, 2026.

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