CROSSUP vs OVERRIPE
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
CROSSUP
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CROSSUP is the elegant crossword app to relax and keep your mind sharp โ with thousands of handcrafted puzzles in large, easy-to-read type. โข A new crossword every day โ five difficulty levels from Beginner to Expert โข More daily puzzles: arrowword (Swedish style), word search and anagrams โข 40 themed categories: animals, nature, food, sport, music, film and many more โข Collect coins and unlock hints whenever you get stuck โข Earn badges, complete missions, keep your daily streak and level up โข Choose from 15 refined premium themes and 10 colour worlds โข Four languages: English, German, Spanish, French โข Large cells and clear type โ easy on the eyes Perfect for anyone who loves a good puzzle โ with your coffee, on the train or on the sofa. Enjoy!
OVERRIPE
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Here is the secret other match 3 games keep from you: three in a row was never the prize. In OVERRIPE, three in a row is the fuse. Light it and every fruit touching that line goes with it, and every fruit touching those, out and out until the board runs out of ways to say yes. You will make a small match in a corner and watch it eat half the screen. You will spend four patient moves growing one enormous, ugly, magnificent blob, swap once, and take the lot. That moment is the whole game. We built 1,000 levels of it. And when the board falls and new fruit lands, any line that forms fires on its own while your finger hovers over nothing. You did not earn that cascade. Take it anyway. YOUR BOARD IS EVERYBODY'S BOARD Level 400 deals you the exact board it deals every other player on earth. Same fruit, same spawns, same clock. So when a level beats you, it did not cheat you. And when you come back tomorrow and break it open, that was not luck. That was you, seeing what you could not see yesterday. FIFTY WORLDS THAT KEEP THEIR PROMISES 25 FRUIT worlds. Each one hands you a new fruit, and it is yours for good. 18 SET worlds. The fruit steps out entirely and a whole new deck deals in: arcade cabinets, sushi, gemstones, fireworks. 7 SALAD worlds. One ends each act, and no level number opens it. It opens when you hold everything the act handed you. Bring the harvest or stay out. Start in the Apple Orchard. Finish in the Midnight Market, at level 1,000, if you get there. GET PAID FOR THE MOVES YOU DID NOT NEED Clear a level on three stars and your spare moves become jackpot pulls. Two to five of them. Grab the lever. The reels spin, everything that lines up pops with the flood right behind it, and every tile pays 10 points. Nothing is staked and nothing can be lost. Winning is worth points. Winning brilliantly is worth more. FOURTEEN SPECIALS, AND YOU BUY THEM LIKE A PERSON OF TASTE A HAMMER for the one tile that ruined your morning. A BEE that robs the board of a whole fruit at once. A VOLCANO that erupts in a widening V. A DISCO that takes 8 tiles nobody asked it to. Fourteen in the shop, priced in points you already scored, and dropping one costs you no move at all. THREE STARS, HONESTLY GRADED One star says you cleared it, and nothing ever takes that away. Two says you did it inside three quarters of the clock. Three says you did it inside half. Three is what opens the jackpot. No account. No sign in. Your progress lives on your phone and nowhere else. Nobody has cleared level 1,000 yet. Somebody is going to be first.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OVERRIPE at none against CROSSUP's 10. OVERRIPE also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 6 weeks). CROSSUP's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, 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
Both are free to download. CROSSUP sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. OVERRIPE asks for nothing beyond the download.
CROSSUP ships an update every 6 weeks, OVERRIPE every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CROSSUP | OVERRIPE |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 days โ better |
| Ads | No โ better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No โ better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 334 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nikolai Schramenko | Local Marketing Group Pty Ltd |
In-app purchases
CROSSUP
- Ocean Breeze$1.99
- Royal Library$1.99
- Emerald Palace$1.99
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- Lavender Fields$1.99
- Sunset Coast$1.99
- Midnight Black$1.99
- Japanese Zen$1.99
- Arctic Blue$1.99
- Vintage Newspaper$1.99
- Luxury Gold$1.99
OVERRIPE
No in-app purchases









