Comparison

Item Shop Tracker vs SlatesArcade

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

Head to head
About

Item Shop Tracker

Features
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Item Shop Tracker puts the live game item shop on your Apple Watch - glance at today's rotation from your wrist, and get a tap the moment it changes. GLANCE AT TODAY'S SHOP See the full current rotation, organized exactly the way it appears in-game: featured items, sets, bundles, jam tracks, cars, instruments, and more. Artwork and prices at a glance - designed for the watch, not squeezed onto it.

About

SlatesArcade

Features
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Forty-two games for Apple Watch. Cards, board games, puzzles, arcade action and a few things that just look good on your wrist โ€” all of them built for a small screen and a spare minute. Nothing here needs the internet. No accounts, no ads, no purchases, and nothing leaves your watch. Open a game and play. THE GAMES Cards โ€” Aces Up, Crazy Eights, Cribbage, Go Fish, Pyramid Board โ€” Backgammon, Checkers, Dominoes, Dots & Boxes, Four in a Row, Reversi, Salvo, Yacht Puzzle โ€” 2048, Blackout, Bulls & Cows, Crates, Mines, Peg Solitaire, Sliding, Sudoku Action โ€” Blocks, Bricks, Chomp, Glide, Hopper, Pinball, Runner, Snake Aim โ€” 9-Ball, Bowling, Darts, Dogfight, Drift, Flick, Golf, Tilt Maze Eye Candy โ€” Automata, Fractal, Langton's Ant, Life, Pendulum BUILT FOR THE WATCH, NOT SHRUNK TO FIT Tap and drag do most of it. Eleven games take the Digital Crown, where it is the better control โ€” aiming a cue, putting spin on a bowling ball, changing the speed of a simulation โ€” and two are steered by leaning your wrist. EVERY GAME EXPLAINS ITSELF How to Play sits in every game's menu: what winning means, and which control the game is actually listening for. No game leaves you guessing. IT REMEMBERS WHERE YOU WERE A dropped wrist or a notification does not cost you a game. The long ones keep their position โ€” the sudoku grid, the cribbage hand, the crate you were pushing โ€” and hand it back when you return. IT KEEPS SCORE Best scores where a score makes sense, fewest moves where that is the better measure, and a win-loss record against Otto, the opponent in ten of the games.

Screenshots

SlatesArcade1 screens

Verdict

The call

Item Shop Tracker and SlatesArcade are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters โ€” price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them โ€” neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Item Shop Tracker versus SlatesArcade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterItem Shop TrackerSlatesArcade
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyโ€”Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.0 โ€” better18.0
Further details โ€” not scored
Size7 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGelottoJAMES LEE SLATE

In-app purchases

None

Item Shop Tracker

No in-app purchases

None

SlatesArcade

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Item Shop Tracker free?
Item Shop Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SlatesArcade free?
SlatesArcade is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Item Shop Tracker or SlatesArcade have ads?
Neither Item Shop Tracker nor SlatesArcade shows ads.

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