Comparison

Games Fair vs Cratebound

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

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About

Games Fair

A free, open-source collection of classic puzzle and arcade games. Enjoy timeless gameplay with features like haptic feedback, high score tracking, and auto-save. Play offline with a comfortable dark theme.

Highlights
  • Block Blast puzzle game
  • Classic falling-block gameplay
  • Tap-based arcade challenges
  • Brick-breaking action
  • Sudoku with multiple difficulties
  • Tile-merging number puzzles
  • Haptic feedback
  • Offline play
Features
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Games Fair is a free, open-source collection of classic puzzle and arcade games, in one app that never asks you for anything. SOLITAIRE Klondike, turning one card at a time or three. With Winnable Deals Only on, a solver plays every deal through to a win before it reaches the table, and Hint shows a move on the way. Once every card is face up, the rest fly home by themselves. BLOCK BLAST Drag pieces onto the board and fill rows and columns to clear them. Clear on back-to-back moves for a combo, or empty the whole board for a 5,000-point bonus. BREAKOUT Clear the bricks. Power-ups widen the paddle, slow the ball, or let it smash straight through. Levels get faster. FALLING BLOCKS The one you already know how to play. Lines clear, the level climbs, the pieces come quicker. SUDOKU Puzzles at several difficulties, with the number pad where your thumb already is. 2048 Slide the tiles, watch them merge, chase your best score. Reaching 2048 is not the end if you do not want it to be. CHARADES Hold the phone to your forehead while your friends give clues, nod when you guess right, and tip your head back to pass. Decks run from animals and movies to sayings and things to act out, and the screen stays on for the whole round. MINES The classic sweeper. Your first tap is always safe, holding a square plants a flag, and a number with all its flags opens the rest around it. Three board sizes, each shaped to fit your screen. LANGUAGES Menus, instructions and accessibility labels are in 13 languages. Charades has localized animal and food decks in each of them, and twenty-one themed decks in English. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO No advertising. No purchases. No account. No network access at all — every game runs entirely on your device. Your progress is saved when you leave a game and restored when you come back, including if the phone puts the app to sleep mid-round. Games Fair is published by the App Fair Project and is free software under the GNU Affero General Public License, with an exception for distribution through the app stores. It is built with the Day framework: one Rust codebase drawing itself with each platform's real native widgets. github.com/Games-Fair/Games-Fair

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Cratebound

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Most box-push games just want you to finish. Cratebound wants you to finish perfectly. Every warehouse is a Sokoban puzzle with one rule: push every crate onto a goal pad. You can only push, never pull — so one careless shove into a corner and that crate is lost for good. Think before you move, and the whole board opens up. TAP TO PLAN, THE FEATURE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING - Tap any crate and Cratebound lights up every single square it can be pushed to from where you stand - Dead corners, where a crate could never reach a goal again, are marked in red before you ruin your run - Tap a highlighted square and the keeper walks the route and makes the push for you — no fumbling one step at a time - It turns a game famous for fat-finger mistakes into pure, clean planning A REAL PAR, NOT A GUESS - Every level ships with its optimal push count, worked out by a solver built into the app - Match that number and you earn a Perfect Clear and three stars, so a win always means something - Watch your lifetime push efficiency climb as you stop wasting moves - The par is provable, because each board is generated in reverse from a solved state and then verified SIMPLE TO PLAY, HARD TO MASTER - Swipe to move the keeper; tap a floor tile to have him walk there on his own - Unlimited undo, one push at a time, so a mistake is never the end of a board - A hint that shows the next optimal push without ever moving a crate for you - No timers rushing you, no lives to run out, no move limit to fail 100 HAND-BUILT LEVELS ACROSS FIVE WAREHOUSES - Start in the Depot on small, friendly boards and finish in the Citadel on dense five-crate puzzles - Each warehouse ramps up gently: bigger floors, more crates, tighter walls - Every level is a fresh, solver-checked layout, never a reskin of the last one - An Endless shift keeps dealing new boards when you just want to keep playing, no stars, no pressure A DAILY SHIFT FOR EVERYONE - One shared board a day, identical for every player on earth, with its own certified par - Build a streak and watch your month fill in on the calendar - The board grows over the week, from a quick Monday to a meaty weekend - Share your pushes and streak with a single tap STATS THAT ACTUALLY MEAN SOMETHING - Lifetime push efficiency, wasted pushes and perfect clears, all from real play - An efficiency trend chart that shows whether you are genuinely improving - A consistency heatmap of the last 15 weeks - This week against last, your best day of the week, and personal records - 40 badges across 10 families, from your first clear to your hundredth streak day PERFECT FOR - Anyone who loves a logic puzzle with a right answer, not a lucky one - Sokoban and push-box fans who want a modern, forgiving take on the classic - Players who bounced off other warehouse puzzles because a single slip lost the level - People who want a calm brain workout for a coffee break or a commute - Anyone who prefers thinking to tapping, and patience to reflexes - Long flights, waiting rooms, the underground: it never needs a signal Cratebound is fully offline. No account, no sign-up, no subscription, and your progress never leaves your device. Push the first crate and see how few moves it really takes.

Screenshots

Games Fair4 screens
Cratebound4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Games Fair at none against Cratebound's shown. Cratebound's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Games Fair versus Cratebound: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGames FairCratebound
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days—
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperThe App Fair Project IncFerran Espuna

In-app purchases

None

Games Fair

No in-app purchases

None

Cratebound

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Games Fair free?
Games Fair is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Cratebound free?
Cratebound is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Games Fair or Cratebound have ads?
Cratebound shows ads; Games Fair does not.

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