Comparison

GameBox vs ArcadeOS

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

Head to head
About

GameBox

Discover a vast collection of challenging puzzle games designed for endless entertainment. With weekly updates, this app offers captivating mind-bending challenges to help you pass the time anywhere, anytime.

Highlights
  • Vast puzzle game collection
  • Challenging and mind-bending
  • Continuous weekly updates
  • Play anywhere, anytime
  • Hours of entertainment
Features
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Are you looking for an exciting entertainment experience? "GameBox – more Games" is your ultimate choice. It brings together a vast collection of puzzle games that are fun, highly challenging, and truly mind-bending. With continuous weekly updates, the fun never stops. Step into this "GameBox" to enjoy hours of entertainment; No matter where you are or what you're doing, these captivating challenges make it easy to pass the time.

About

ArcadeOS

Experience a full arcade with 65 original retro-style games on your iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch. Enjoy diverse genres from racing to RPGs, all playable offline with instant resume and authentic chip audio. New games are added seasonally.

Highlights
  • 65 original retro-style games
  • Playable on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch
  • Offline play with no internet required
  • Instant resume for all games
  • Authentic chip audio
  • New games added seasonally
  • No accounts, ads, or tracking
Features
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Welcome to ArcadeOS — a whole arcade in your pocket, and now on your wrist. 68 hand-picked original games, each one its own cartridge: full 3D open worlds, kart racers, ninja action, gothic pinball, paper-craft RPGs, sky shooters, momentum platformers, run-and-gun, belt brawlers, puzzle boxes and rhythm. Every game is an original creation in the spirit of the golden age of consoles — drawn in code, scored with real chip audio, and built to be picked up in seconds. HALLOW EDITION Worlds, not cartridges. LOOSE KEYS: HALLOW HOLLOW is a full 3D open city under an orange moon: take any car, hearse, helicopter, plane or boat, outrun a three-star heat system, fly a fast jet off a military airfield, land an airliner at the international airport, and work a phone full of jobs — in a city full of witches, skeletons, horsemen and the odd creature from an 1818 novel. At its heart is HOLLOWMERE, a haunted theme park with a graveyard coaster you can actually ride, a drop tower, and a lagoon parade with fireworks on the hour. MODS ship with it: god mode, every weapon, flight, moon gravity. IRONBARK is a heavyweight momentum platformer: an armored-bark brawler and a glider partner tag-teaming through an industrial jungle of barrel-cannon chains, mine-cart runs and hidden bonus rooms, drawn in fine-pixel art. GLIMMERGLASS KEEP rounds it out — a free-roam 3D collect-a-thon built over 25 nights of iteration. All three have original soundtracks synthesized live inside the app. CHERRY EDITION 23 games rated five stars by our testers before they shipped — look for the cherry on the cartridge. Highlights: Reefjack's lantern-tide run-and-gun, Thornhollow's gorge platforming, Quiet Falls' suburban-oddball RPG, Emberline's three-winter family saga, Cascabel's commedia brawler, Ironvane's vertical shooter, and Crestline GP's speedboat regatta. APPLE WATCH ArcadeOS ships with an Apple Watch app. Six games are built for the wrist and the Digital Crown: Redline Ridge (crown hops lanes, hold to burn), Sunstrip (crown steers, tap to shift), Ironvane (crown flies, hold to charge, tap to call your wingman), Truck Simulator (roll the crown and the truck drives itself — steer, hold to brake, deliver the cargo), Haywire (a horse loose in a farmyard full of physics: buck, jump, cause chaos) and Cairnglass (a crown-controlled falling-sigil puzzler). Runs on its own — no iPhone needed nearby. FEATURES 68 games — every one with its own hand-crafted cartridge art Home screen: your games as icons, with folders you make yourself Gold-star collection: beat a game, earn its golden seal. Collect them all Authentic chip sound in every game, and full synthesized soundtracks in the 3D worlds Instant resume — every game remembers exactly where you left off No accounts. No ads. No tracking. No internet required. Just games New games ship in seasonal editions — Cherry, and now Hallow ArcadeOS games are living software: they grow new levels, mechanics, and polish over time. Your shelf gets better while you sleep. Powered by RetroApps.

Screenshots

GameBox4 screens
ArcadeOS4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: GameBox at 4.8 against ArcadeOS's 3.0. GameBox also leads on ratings volume (19 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.5). ArcadeOS's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 10). On price, update cadence, ads 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. GameBox sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. ArcadeOS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GameBox holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GameBox has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

GameBox ships an update every 11 days, ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
GameBox versus ArcadeOS: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGameBoxArcadeOS
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (19 ratings) — better3.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 11 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size232 MB24 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperWuhan Weiguang Woods Technology Co., LtdRetroApps LLC

Customer experience

GameBox

All ratings21 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews20 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ArcadeOS

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

9 purchases

GameBox

One-time9
  • 100 Diamonds2 variants$0.99
  • 550 Diamonds$4.99
  • 1300 Diamonds$9.99
Show 6 more
  • 2500 Diamonds$19.99
  • 2800 Diamonds$19.99
  • 6000 Diamonds$49.99
  • 7500 Diamonds$49.99
  • 14000 Diamonds$99.99
  • 16000 Diamonds$99.99
None

ArcadeOS

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is GameBox free?
GameBox is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is ArcadeOS free?
ArcadeOS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, GameBox or ArcadeOS?
GameBox is rated higher. GameBox averages 4.8 out of 5 from 19 ratings, while ArcadeOS averages 3.0 from 2 ratings.
Do GameBox or ArcadeOS have ads?
Neither GameBox nor ArcadeOS shows ads.
Which is updated more often, GameBox or ArcadeOS?
GameBox ships an update every 11 days, and ArcadeOS every 3 weeks. Most recently, GameBox was updated on October 31, 2026 and ArcadeOS on October 19, 2026.

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