Spell the Hive vs Block Blast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Spell the Hive
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Find words, fill the hive, and see how far your vocabulary can take you. Spell the Hive is a polished, multilingual spelling bee word game with unlimited puzzles and no ads. Create words from seven letters, always include the center letter, and hunt for special pangrams that use every letter in the hive. PLAY WITHOUT LIMITS Start a new puzzle whenever you want. There are no daily limits, energy systems, or waiting periods. FIND EVERY WORD Track everything you discover, review the words you missed, and check definitions as you play. GET A HELPING HAND Use board hints to uncover useful letter patterns. Spend earned nectar to reveal additional clues when you need them. CLIMB THE RANKS Every valid word earns points. Find longer words and pangrams to advance from Larvae all the way to Pure Honey. FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS Revisit completed puzzles, continue games in progress, track personal statistics, and collect achievements as you master the hive. PLAY IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES Switch between English, Spanish, and Portuguese from one app. Download each language pack once for offline play. MADE FOR WORD GAME LOVERS ⢠Unlimited spelling puzzles ⢠English, Spanish, and Portuguese ⢠Curated word lists ⢠Pangrams and bonus scoring ⢠Board hints and word clues ⢠Definitions and word breakdowns ⢠Ranks, statistics, history, and badges ⢠Multiple visual themes ⢠Haptic feedback ⢠Offline-friendly language packs ⢠No ads ⢠No tracking ⢠Free to play How many words can you find?
Block Blast
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A block puzzle built so that every piece of information reaches you three ways at once - visual, audio and haptic. Lose any one of those channels and the board is still fully readable, and still fully playable. Eight by eight grid. Three pieces at a time. Fill a row or a column to clear it. THE IDEA ⢠Colour is never the only signal. All seven block colours carry a distinct pattern - dots, horizontal stripes, vertical stripes, crosshatch, diagonals, checkerboard, waves - and the pattern is always drawn, never an opt-in extra. ⢠The board can be heard. Every cell has a pitch from its row and a place in space from its column, rendered through a spatial audio environment. Scan by ear and build a map of the board. ⢠Nothing requires dragging. Drag, tap-tap and dwell all drive the same game state, so you can switch between them in the middle of a run. ⢠Mistakes are cheap. Undo is earned as you play, near-misses snap to a legal spot, and Zen mode has no game over at all. BLIND AND LOW VISION Every cell and every tray slot is a labelled VoiceOver element: "Row 3, column 5, red with dots, fits here, clears 2 lines." Piece descriptions lead with size, because size is what decides whether a piece still fits. Audio explore turns the board into a direct-touch surface: drag a finger to hear each cell as you cross it, lift to hear it described, triple-tap to place the piece in hand. This is the mode for playing with Screen Curtain on. Every sound is synthesised on your device as it plays, so the pitch mapping used for navigation stays exact. COLOUR BLIND Seven colours, seven patterns, always drawn. Deuteranopia, protanopia, tritanopia and achromatopsia simulation can be switched on for the whole game rather than a preview swatch, so you can check a palette in the situation you actually play in. Block borders thicken automatically under Increase Contrast, and a block key lists every colour with its pattern name. MOTOR AND SWITCH CONTROL ⢠Drag and drop - the piece floats above your finger and a near-miss snaps to a legal spot. ⢠Sticky drag - tap a piece, every legal landing spot lights up, tap one. ⢠Dwell control - tap a piece, rest on a cell, and it places itself. Works with Switch Control, adjustable from 0.4 to 4 seconds. Plus optional confirm-before-placing, full Reduce Motion support, and a one-tap maximum accessibility preset that sets high contrast, patterns, tap-to-place, spatial audio, haptics and verbose speech together. HAPTICS A looping heartbeat while a piece is in hand, a sharp tick when it crosses a cell where it fits, a dull thud where it does not, and a burst that grows with the number of lines cleared. MAKE IT YOURS ⢠Six themes: Classic, Neon Glow, Pastel Soft, High Contrast, Nature, and Minimal - which paints every block the same white, because pattern carries all the identity a block needs. ⢠Four sound packs: Synthetic, Organic, Retro and Nature. ⢠Four clear effects, three levels of speech detail, and score announcements on or off. TWO MODES Classic keeps score, grows a combo up to five times over, and ends when nothing fits. Zen never ends - when no piece fits, the fullest rows dissolve and play carries on. PRIVACY No accounts. No ads. No analytics. No network calls of any kind. Your settings and your best score stay on your device, and nothing else is ever collected. English and Indonesian throughout, including VoiceOver labels and spoken feedback. Siri knows both: "Start Block Blast" and "Mulai Block Blast". I kept the app's British spelling ("colour") since that's what the UI strings use. If you'd rather match US storefront convention, swap to "color" in the description ā the keyword field already uses "colorblind".
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Spell the Hive at 16.4 against Block Blast's 18.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Spell the Hive | Block Blast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | ā |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 ā better | 18.0 |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 61 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Diogo De Souza Castro | Muhammad Fadhil Abidin |
In-app purchases
Spell the Hive
No in-app purchases
Block Blast
No in-app purchases
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