Comparison

Griddle News vs Keepsweeper

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

Head to head
About

Griddle News

This game transforms daily news headlines into engaging word search puzzles. Solve puzzles to uncover stories and compete with others on leaderboards. Track your progress and build win streaks with new puzzles released three times a day.

Highlights
  • Daily news-themed word search puzzles
  • Unlock news stories by finding words
  • Compete on daily leaderboards
  • Track win streaks and achievements
  • Share custom score cards
  • Multiple puzzle sizes and styles
Features
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Griddle turns today's headlines into word search puzzles. Three times a day — Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner — a fresh puzzle drops with words pulled straight from the news. Find a word, reveal the story behind it. Solve the whole grid, share your time. HOW IT WORKS • Swipe across the grid to find hidden words • Each word unlocks a real news headline • Solve all words to complete the puzzle • Three new puzzles every day at 6:45 AM, 12 PM, and 5 PM ET COMPETE & SHARE • Race the clock — your solve time is your score • Climb the daily leaderboard • Share custom score cards in Classic, Bold, or Minimal styles • Choose Square or Story size for any platform • Challenge friends to beat your time TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Build daily win streaks • Unlock achievements • View your complete puzzle history Play once and you'll be hooked. Play daily and you'll never miss a headline.

About

Keepsweeper

Engage in strategic kingdom building combined with Minesweeper-style deduction. Uncover tiles, develop your settlement, and explore hidden treasures. Choose from multiple quest paths or compete with friends in multiplayer modes.

Highlights
  • Minesweeper-style tile deduction
  • Real-time kingdom building
  • Economic simulation
  • Multiple quest paths
  • Offline play
  • Online multiplayer
  • Map editor
Features
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It starts with a grid. Then you build a kingdom. Keepsweeper mixes Minesweeper-style deduction with a living, real-time fantasy kingdom. Read the number clues. Send workers to uncover tiles. Turn a small clearing into farms, homes and defenses. Then decide whether you're ready to wake the dragon. A LITTLE KINGDOM. BIG POSSIBILITIES. Build an economy that works together. Windmills support farms. Blacksmiths equip your soldiers. Chapels keep the army fighting. Discover combinations that turn a modest settlement into something wonderfully overpowered. EVERY SQUARE HAS A STORY Hidden gold, treasure chests, goblin lairs, crypts and sleeping dragons wait beneath the grid. Explore forests, cross lakes and settle mountain country. Dig carefully. The numbers are trying to tell you something. CHOOSE YOUR ADVENTURE Follow four quest paths: Dragon Hunt, Royal Treasury, Reclaim the Realm and Rival Kingdoms. The full game adds two twenty-level campaigns: Into the Badlands, with ruined roads, buried archives and Ancient Gates, and Beyond the Pines, where outlaw strongholds and dragon-summoning wizards hide in the northern forests. Head into the Wilds for a larger expedition, or see how long you can survive endless Siege. A NEW REALM EVERY DAY Explore a shared Daily Realm with special objectives. Record your victories in the Realm Journal and earn Royal Seals for first completions. MAKE THE NEXT RUN YOURS Earn Royal Seals and spend them in Research. Unlock new buildings, upgrades and permanent Passives for future runs. Discover treasures that change the rules: sunbeam-firing towers, floating settlements, unlikely allies and creatures you probably shouldn't have disturbed. FRIENDS, RIVALS AND YOUR OWN WORLDS Play online with two to four players. Fight for the last Keep standing, form teams, face AI kingdoms together or hold the line in Co-op Siege. Share an invitation link and friends join your game for free. Build and play your own scenarios in the Map Editor. OLD-SCHOOL WINDOWS. LIVING PIXELS. A familiar beveled interface opens onto busy little worlds. Workers harvest. Soldiers march. Dragons breathe fire. An adaptive fantasy soundtrack follows the action. Pause solo play whenever you need a moment to think. TRY IT. KEEP IT. Play the first two levels of Dragon Hunt, Royal Treasury, Reclaim the Realm and Rival Kingdoms for free, with unlimited randomized replays. Try one Daily Realm for free, with unlimited retries of that selected realm. One optional purchase unlocks the full game, including the remaining quest levels, Into the Badlands, Beyond the Pines, Daily Realm, Wilds, Siege, hosting multiplayer games and Map Editor. Solo quests, Wilds, Siege and local custom maps can be played offline. Daily calendar updates, optional reminders, online multiplayer, community maps, purchases and restoring purchases need an internet connection. Progress is saved on your device.

Screenshots

Griddle News3 screens
Keepsweeper4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Griddle News at none against Keepsweeper's 1. Griddle News also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and review sentiment (100% vs 88%). Keepsweeper's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 3 days) and ratings volume (44 vs 8). On price and ads 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. Keepsweeper sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Griddle News asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Griddle News holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Keepsweeper has 44 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Griddle News's written reviews are positive against 88% of Keepsweeper's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Griddle News ships an update every 3 days, Keepsweeper daily. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 2 level
Griddle News versus Keepsweeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGriddle NewsKeepsweeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (8 ratings) — better4.8 (44 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better87.9% of reviews
Number of ratings844 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 daysDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB39 MB
Age rating9+9+
Developer3sparks labs llcFlarup Industries

Customer experience

Griddle News

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Keepsweeper

All ratings44 ratings
Positive93.2%
Neutral2.3%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive87.9%
Neutral6.1%
Negative6.1%

In-app purchases

None

Griddle News

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Keepsweeper

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99

Questions

Is Griddle News free?
Griddle News is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Keepsweeper free?
Keepsweeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Griddle News or Keepsweeper?
Griddle News is rated higher. Griddle News averages 5.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Keepsweeper averages 4.8 from 44 ratings.
Do Griddle News or Keepsweeper have ads?
Neither Griddle News nor Keepsweeper shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Griddle News or Keepsweeper?
Griddle News ships an update every 3 days, and Keepsweeper daily. Most recently, Griddle News was updated on October 31, 2026 and Keepsweeper on November 6, 2026.

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