Comparison

Chroma Gate vs Crate Pop

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

Head to head
About

Chroma Gate

Features
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Chroma Gate is a sliding puzzle where the board itself is a drawing. Every level past the tutorial is built on its own silhouette. An apple. A key. A zipper. An arch. The bricks fill that shape and nothing else, so each board arrives as a picture before it becomes a problem. There are 250 of them and no two repeat. HOW IT PLAYS Push a brick and it slides until something stops it. Line it up with the gate that matches its colour and it leaves the board. Clear them all, free the hero, open the gate. The difficulty is the order, not the speed. Clear the wrong brick first and the one behind it has nowhere to go. WHY THESE BOARDS ARE DIFFERENT Chroma Gate's levels are not generated at random and they are not hand-placed by eye. Each one is built by injecting bricks backwards along the exact path they will later take to escape, which is what makes the silhouette and the solution possible at the same time. Every board is then proved solvable three separate times — once while being built, once as a shipped file, and once by a solver that plays it through the real game engine with simulated touches. A level that looks impossible never is. Each level also carries its own time budget, calculated by actually solving the board and measuring how much searching it demands — not by counting bricks. Tight boards get more time. Loose ones get less. FIVE MECHANICS THAT SHARE ONE BOARD - Ice: a frozen brick waits for an entire colour to leave before it moves. The colour it is waiting for is drawn on its frame, so it is always readable. - Split: a brick lying across a gate gets bitten in half. One problem becomes two. - Chains: two bricks tied together, usually different colours. Free one end and the other slides. - Portals: step on the pad, come out somewhere else. - Walls: the cell that will not move. The first nine levels teach all five, one at a time, with a finger showing the exact move. After that they blend, and the boards get tighter rather than bigger. BUILT TO RESPECT YOU - No lives, no energy bar, no wait timers. - Fully offline. All 250 levels ship inside the app. - Progress is saved on your device, not on a server. No account, ever. - Colour-blind mode puts a distinct symbol on every brick and every gate, so matching never depends on hue. - Stars come from the clock: finish with half your time left for three. Free, with ads between levels and an optional ad for extra time. The tutorial is never interrupted.

About

Crate Pop

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Can you clear every cube before your buffer fills up? Crate Pop is a relaxing 3D color sorting puzzle that tests your logic and planning. Rotate a colorful block structure, tap the right cube and send it flying into the crate of its color. Watch it arc through the air and pop right in! HOW TO PLAY - The crates at the top show which color they need - Tap cubes of that color to send them to their crate - Cubes with no matching crate wait in your buffer. If it fills up, the level ends - Swipe to rotate the block, press and hold to see through a cube FEATURES - Hundreds of levels: stairs, pyramids, cubes and giant towers - 10 tutorial levels, then HARD LEVELS that come more and more often - Magnet, Light Bulb and Shuffle boosters - Bright 3D visuals and satisfying animations - 7-day gift streaks, chest rewards and a piggy bank - Play offline - Available in English, Turkish, French and Spanish Crate Pop is free to play with optional in-app purchases: - Coin packs, Starter Pack and Piggy Bank (consumable) - No Ads and Unlimited Lives packs for 7 or 30 days (one-time purchases, they do NOT renew) - VIP membership: weekly or monthly auto-renewing subscription. Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://gameofesa.github.io/cratepop-privacy/

Screenshots

Chroma Gate4 screens
Crate Pop4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chroma Gate at none against Crate Pop's 10. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Crate Pop sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Chroma Gate asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Chroma Gate versus Crate Pop: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChroma GateCrate Pop
PriceFreeFree
Update frequency—Weekly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size106 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperUnique Game Studio Bilisim hizmetleri sanayi ve ticaret limited sirketiENES KOMU

In-app purchases

None

Chroma Gate

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Crate Pop

Subscriptions2
  • VIP Weekly$4.997 Days
  • VIP Monthly$14.991 Month
One-time8
  • No Ads · 7 Days$1.99
  • Unlimited Lives · 7 Days$2.99
  • 1,000 Coins$3.99
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  • No Ads · 30 Days$5.99
  • Unlimited Lives · 30 Days$8.99
  • 2,800 Coins$9.99
  • 6,000 Coins$19.99
  • 13,000 Coins$39.99

Questions

Is Chroma Gate free?
Chroma Gate is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Crate Pop free?
Crate Pop is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Chroma Gate or Crate Pop have ads?
Both Chroma Gate and Crate Pop show ads.

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