Comparison

CricSim vs 90 Minute Manager

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

Head to head
About

CricSim

Features
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CricSim puts you in charge of a cricket team and lets you take it as far as you can. Pick a franchise in the Indian T20 League, or lead a nation on the world stage. Draft your squad, work out your best eleven, and find out whether your plan survives contact with match day. THREE FORMATS, PLAYED PROPERLY T20, ODI and Test cricket, each with its own rhythm. Test matches run over five days and three sessions, so you can declare, enforce the follow on, or dig in and save the draw. ODIs give you the powerplay and the death overs. T20 brings the impact sub and the super over. TWO WAYS TO BUILD A CAREER Take a franchise through a full league season, fourteen rounds and into the playoffs. Or manage a national side through a world tournament, or a bilateral series of one, three or five matches against a single rival. DRAFT THE SQUAD YOU WANT Start with the current squads, or open the mega draft and build yours from scratch. Want something bigger? Draft from pools of all time greats in T20, ODI or Test cricket. Then name your captain, your vice captain and your keeper. CALL EVERY BALL, OR NONE OF THEM Step into the match hub and run it yourself. Set the aggression, choose your bowler, decide who walks in after a wicket. Or hand it to the engine and come back for the scorecard. MAKE THE NAMES YOUR OWN Export the player list, rename anyone you like in a spreadsheet, and bring it back in. Your squad, your names. KEEP THE DYNASTY GOING Follow the table, watch your net run rate, pore over the season stats. Decide who to keep between seasons and who to let go. Then go again. No ads. No pay to win. Just cricket.

About

90 Minute Manager

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The first bite-size football management game. A full season of transfers, tactics and big calls in about twelve minutes. Every challenge is a self-contained story. You walk into a club in trouble, or a title race, or a World Cup quarter-final, and the board sets your target the day you arrive. Six matches. Two transfer windows. A dressing room full of people with opinions. Around twelve minutes later you have either written a piece of the club's history or you are updating your CV. FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME: WORLD CUP - THREE LIONS England are in the quarter-finals of the 2026 World Cup. Harry Kane has six goals and the Golden Boot in his sights; Norway and Haaland stand between you and a semi-final against Argentina. Three ties. Sixty years of hurt. Bring it home. STORIES, NOT SAVES - Save Northbridge: 19th with six matches left, a furious crowd and one academy striker everyone keeps talking about. Free forever. - The Steel City Job: a sleeping giant, a legend chasing one last dance and a board with sticky fingers over the gate money. - Champions on a Shoestring: the smallest budget in the division against two wounded giants. Trust the model, sell your goals or dig in. - The Youth Project: a dressing room of teenagers, one grown-up left standing and a 4 million pound call from London. - After the King: the King wants one more game. The terraces want the fairytale. Your strikers want out of his shadow. - Administration Watch: a winding-up petition, circling vultures and a bucket collection on the terraces. Football is the easy part. - Ram City - Rock Bottom: docked points, an EFL inquiry and a striker eyeing the exit. Chapter one of a saga that follows one club all the way up. DAILY RANKED MODE One challenge a day, the same for every manager in the world. Same seed, same squad, same events. The only difference on the leaderboard is the decisions you made. Every ranked run is re-simulated on our servers, so the board only trusts a clean sheet: no pay-to-win, no dice loaded against you. MADE FOR A COFFEE BREAK Pick up, save a club, put it down. Morale, form, wages and reputation carry between decisions, and every choice leaves a mark. No twelve-hour save files. No spreadsheets. Just the parts of football management that make your heart rate climb. YOUR CAREER FOLLOWS YOU Sign in with Apple or email and your stories, scores and unlocks travel with you between iPhone and the web app. Individual stories are one-off purchases. Season One bundles all eight launch stories, and the Lifetime Pass unlocks every story forever, including everything we release next.

Screenshots

CricSim4 screens
90 Minute Manager4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: CricSim at none against 90 Minute Manager's 10. 90 Minute Manager's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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. 90 Minute Manager sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. CricSim asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

CricSim ships an update monthly, 90 Minute Manager every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences ยท 4 level
CricSim versus 90 Minute Manager: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCricSim90 Minute Manager
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 4 days โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo โ€” betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.416.4
Further details โ€” not scored
Size48 MB125 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAKSHAY RAJOneFiveNine LTD

In-app purchases

None

CricSim

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

90 Minute Manager

One-time10
  • Ram City Saga$1.99
  • After the King$1.99
  • The Youth Project$1.99
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  • Champions on a Shoestring$1.99
  • Administration Watch$1.99
  • The Full Season$1.99
  • The Steel City Job$1.99
  • Scout Pack$3.99
  • Season One$9.99
  • Lifetime Pass$19.99

Questions

Is CricSim free?
CricSim is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is 90 Minute Manager free?
90 Minute Manager is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do CricSim or 90 Minute Manager have ads?
Neither CricSim nor 90 Minute Manager shows ads.
Which is updated more often, CricSim or 90 Minute Manager?
CricSim ships an update monthly, and 90 Minute Manager every 4 days. Most recently, CricSim was updated on October 28, 2026 and 90 Minute Manager on October 31, 2026.

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