Comparison

Span vs Spaghetti

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

Head to head
About

Span

Features
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Span is a calm, physics-driven bridge builder. Draw a bridge across the gap, choose your materials, then press Test and watch it carry the load — or buckle in glorious slow motion. Every beam glows with the forces running through it: a live X-ray of tension and compression, so you can see exactly why it held, or why it snapped. Rewind, move one strut, try again. • 57 hand-built levels across eight worlds — timber valleys to ocean straits • Timber, steel, stone, cables and road & rail decks • Real hazards: wind, earthquakes, thermal stress and floods • Drawbridges, canal locks, trains and passing ships • God-mode Sandbox: unlimited budget, every material, every disaster • Level editor: sculpt terrain, place anchors, schedule the traffic • One-tap replay export — share your best holds and worst fails No ads. No timers. No subscription. Buy once, build forever. Free through Chapter 1 — unlock the full game (all worlds, the sandbox and the editor) with a single purchase. Road vehicle models by Daniel Zhabotinsky (CC BY 4.0). Full credits in-app.

About

Spaghetti

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Spaghetti Marshmallow is a physics tower-building puzzle where dry spaghetti are your struts and marshmallows are the glue. Drag to draw a strand of spaghetti. Tap to drop a marshmallow that grips every strut it touches. Stack, brace, and triangulate your way up to the goal rings — but watch out: the wind never stops blowing, and a top-heavy or poorly-braced tower will sway, buckle, and collapse in a very satisfying heap. It's secretly a structural-engineering sandbox. Real truss rules apply: • Triangulate to resist racking — a plain square folds flat, one diagonal makes it rigid. • Every joint needs a load path down to a solid foundation. • Cantilevers snap at the root, right where the torque piles up. Hold a marshmallow on every target ring at the same time for 3 seconds and the level is yours. FEATURES • Intuitive draw-and-tap building — easy to pick up, tricky to master • Real physics: elastic spaghetti, plastic marshmallow grips, honest collapses • A full campaign that ramps from gentle breezes to howling gales • Hazards to build around: hungry frogs, fire pits, falling rocks, spinning windmills, moving obstacles, aliens and more • Resource limits that force clever, efficient designs • A built-in level creator — design your own levels and share them with friends by a simple code • A fresh Weekly Challenge for everyone • Thirteen hand-drawn scenes: day, night, beach, kitchen, space, volcano, castle, circus and more • Free to play, no ads Build tall. Brace smart. Beat the wind.

Screenshots

Span4 screens
Spaghetti4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spaghetti at none against Span's 1. Spaghetti also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Span sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spaghetti asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Span ships an update every 5 days, Spaghetti weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences Ā· 4 level
Span versus Spaghetti: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpanSpaghetti
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 days — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size60 MB46 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDodecki LabsMediaSignage Inc

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Span

One-time1
  • Span Complete$7.99
None

Spaghetti

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Span free?
Span is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spaghetti free?
Spaghetti is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Span or Spaghetti have ads?
Neither Span nor Spaghetti shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Span or Spaghetti?
Span ships an update every 5 days, and Spaghetti weekly. Most recently, Span was updated on October 4, 2026 and Spaghetti on October 2, 2026.

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