Comparison

Nerd Leagues vs Ad

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

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About

Nerd Leagues

This app is a comprehensive companion for Magic: The Gathering players. It allows you to track life totals, manage leagues with friends, build and rate decks, and stay updated on new card spoilers. It offers features for both in-person and online play across various formats.

Highlights
  • Life total tracking (pass-and-play, online multiplayer)
  • League creation and management with ELO rankings
  • Deck building and rating
  • New card spoiler hub with filtering
  • In-game dice roller
  • Combo Finder powered by Commander Spellbook
Features
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Nerd Leagues — Your Magic: The Gathering Companion Track life totals, run leagues with your playgroup, build and rate your decks, and follow every new spoiler — all in one beautifully designed app made for Magic: The Gathering players. Whether you're hosting a 4-player Commander night at the kitchen table, climbing the ELO ladder in a friends-only league, or following every newly revealed card as the next set hits previews, Nerd Leagues is built for the way you actually play. Play the Way You Want • Quick Play — Pass-and-play life tracking for in-person games. Drop in up to 8 players, pick a format, and go. Auto-saves so you can resume mid-game. • Online Multiplayer — Spin up a private lobby, share an invite code, and run your entire pod from separate devices in real time. • Every Format — EDH, Standard, Modern, Pioneer, Pauper, Brawl, Historic Brawl, Legacy, Vintage, Draft, Sealed, Pack War, and Pauper EDH. Leagues & Rankings • Create a private league for your playgroup or join one with a code. • Per-league ELO, win/loss records, and standings — settle every "who's the best" argument with data. • Track your performance over time across multiple groups and formats. Spoilers Hub (new) • Live countdown to every upcoming set release. • Browse freshly revealed cards day by day with full art, mana cost, rules text, and rarity. • Filter every Magic set ever printed — Standard, Commander, Masters, Draft Innovation, and more. • Dedicated section for preconstructed decks. • Universal search across cards and sets. • Add any spoiler card straight to one of your decks. Stats That Tell Your Story • Personal player profile with full game history. • Per-deck win/loss records and ELO. • See your recent games at a glance. Extras for Every Game • In-game dice roller for d2, d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20, and d100 — for first-player rolls, coin flips, or anything else. • Combo Finder — Powered by Commander Spellbook, it scans your decklist for infinite combos, win cons, and synergy lines, complete with prerequisites and bracket tags. • Player notifications and friend connections. • Apple, Google, and email sign-in, plus guest mode. Built by Magic players, for Magic players. No ads, no clutter, just the tools your pod actually needs. Got feedback or want to suggest a feature? Join our Discord straight from the app.

About

Ad

This app offers a curated collection of fun games designed for children, completely free of ads, tracking, and internet requirements. It features a variety of engaging titles, including a city-swallowing hole game and an arcade pack with coloring, space shooting, and snake games. Parents appreciate the ad-free, private, and offline experience.

Highlights
  • No ads or tracking
  • Offline play
  • Multiple game modes
  • Coloring and drawing pad
  • Space shooter with power-ups
  • Snake game with leaderboards
  • One-time purchase for arcade pack
Features
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Ad-Free Games is an ever expanding library of games in one app, made for kids with absolutely NO ads, NO tracking, and NO internet required. Pick a tile on the main menu: HOLE (free) — You are a hole. Swallow a living 3D world — a night city, a forest full of animals, or a snowfield — and gulp down rival holes. Four modes, including Infinite. ARCADE PACK (one-time purchase, shared with your family) • TOWER STACK (NEW) — tap to drop the sliding block and build as high as you can. Overhangs get sliced off; land it dead centre for a Perfect. Chill and Normal modes. • POCKET PET — adopt a pixel-art pal: a puppy, kitten, bunny, turtle, dragon or fox. Feed it, give it a bubble bath, play Bounce and Peekaboo for coins, and spend them on toys, homes and garden decor. Your pal naps while you're away and is happy to see you when you come back. • GEM SWAP — a match-3 with a hundred levels. Swap gems to line up three; four makes a blaster, five a rainbow gem, an L a bomb. Score targets, colours to collect and ice to melt, three stars each, plus a Zen mode with no moves and no clock. • ROAD HOP — tap to hop, swipe to dodge. Cross roads, railways and rivers in a bright 3D world, and spend the coins you pick up on thirteen characters, from a frog to a penguin. Chill mode for little ones, Normal for the brave. • BLOCK BURST — drag pieces onto the board and fill rows or columns to burst them. Classic mode is endless and autosaves; Levels mode has a hundred boards of gem blocks to clear, three stars each. • MANCALA — the classic stone-sowing game with glowing glass gems. Land your last stone in your store for another turn, capture across the board, and outsmart the computer on Easy, Normal or Hard, or pass the phone to a friend. • STACK SMASH — a carnival knock-down. Fire the cannon and topple every tower of cans before your balls run out. Earn coins for boosters as you climb. Nothing to buy with money, ever. • TINY TOWN — your own pocket farm. Sweep a sickle across ripe fields, drag seeds to sow whole rows, bake bread, milk the cow and deliver orders to level up. Crops keep growing while you're away. • FRUIT MERGE — Drop glowing fruit into the well and match two of a kind to grow the next one. Merge all the way up to the melon to win. Three difficulties. • COLORING — A coloring book and drawing pad: 55 pages in 9 themes, crayons, markers, a paint bucket, stickers, and your own photos turned into coloring pages. • SPACE SHOOTER — Drag to fly, fire automatically, grab power-ups, and unlock new ships in the hangar with the coins you earn. • SNAKE — Slither around a bright arena, eat orbs to grow, slice smaller snakes, and climb the leaderboard. Three difficulties, eight colors. • CONNECT 4 — drop glowing discs and line up four against a computer that plans ahead, or two players on one device. • TIC TAC TOE — three in a row on a neon board. Easy, Normal or Hard, or pass the phone in 2 player mode! • NEW GAMES — any new games we add to the library will automatically be included if you already purchased the Arcade Pack. WHY PARENTS LOVE IT • No ads. No pop-ups. No "watch a video to continue." Ever! • No tracking, no analytics, no accounts, no sign-ups. • Works fully offline and private. • One optional purchase through Apple, with Ask to Buy for kids' accounts. No subscriptions, no coins. • One sound switch for the whole app, for quiet time. Made by a parent who was tired of their kid getting blasted with ads. TEN calm, fun, ad-free games. That's it.

Screenshots

Nerd Leagues4 screens
Ad4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Nerd Leagues at 5.0 against Ad's 3.8. Nerd Leagues also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Ad's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Nerd Leagues holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Nerd Leagues's written reviews are positive against 63% of Ad's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nerd Leagues ships an update every 6 weeks, Ad every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Nerd Leagues versus Ad: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNerd LeaguesAd
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better3.8 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings38 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 3 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size41 MB64 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAdam LisciaOne Light Media LLC

Customer experience

Nerd Leagues

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ad

All ratings6 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

None

Nerd Leagues

No in-app purchases

None

Ad

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Nerd Leagues free?
Nerd Leagues is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ad free?
Ad is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Nerd Leagues or Ad?
Nerd Leagues is rated higher. Nerd Leagues averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Ad averages 3.8 from 8 ratings.
Do Nerd Leagues or Ad have ads?
Neither Nerd Leagues nor Ad shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Nerd Leagues or Ad?
Nerd Leagues ships an update every 6 weeks, and Ad every 3 days. Most recently, Nerd Leagues was updated on October 11, 2026 and Ad on October 25, 2026.

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