Comparison

Crush Lab 3D vs What the Cubes

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

Head to head
About

Crush Lab 3D

Experience the oddly satisfying sensation of shredding objects in this puzzle game. Feed items into the grinder, fill containers with the resulting material, and manage the conveyor's limited capacity. It's a unique and engaging way to pass the time.

Highlights
  • Shredding objects
  • Filling containers
  • Conveyor belt management
  • Puzzle gameplay
  • Satisfying visuals
Features
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Don't you love watching things go into a shredder? It's oddly satisfying, isn't it? We took this feeling and built a puzzle game around it. Feed the things into the shredder Fill the containers with grinds Watch out for the conveyor: it's got a limited capacity! We're sure you'll love it! Start grinding today!

About

What the Cubes

Solve intricate cube puzzles by strategically deploying buses to collect colored blocks. Unravel complex sculptures by finding the correct order to free buried cubes and fill your transport.

Highlights
  • Shred cube sculptures
  • Figure out bus order
  • Watch freed cubes sprint
  • Outsmart special buses
  • Savor final send-off
Features
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What The Cubes turns everything into blocks, and every block into a puzzle. Chubby elephants and grinning robots, strawberries, lighthouses, UFOs, matryoshka dolls: a whole world built from colorful little bricks. Your job: take each sculpture apart until nothing is left. Your only tool: holes. Send out a hole, and every free block of its color pops off the sculpture and drops in, one after another, until the hole is full and closes up. Sounds easy, until you look closer. The color you need is buried under three others. Each hole only fits so many blocks. Space on the board is tight. Send the wrong hole and it sits there half-empty, taking up a spot while the blocks it wants stay trapped deep inside the sculpture. This is a real puzzle: somewhere in that pile of blocks is the right order, and you have to find it. Study the shape, work out what sits on top of what, send the hole that opens up the next one, and the whole sculpture comes apart in one glorious chain. That moment, when the plan clicks and the shape melts away, is what What The Cubes is all about. And the puzzles keep finding new ways to fight back. Colors hide deep inside, revealed only as the outer layers come off. Mystery holes keep their color secret. Frozen holes thaw only after enough other holes are sent. Linked holes insist on going together, and locked holes wait for a key. Every level is a fresh shape with a fresh knot to untangle, and once it's gone, another is always waiting. In What The Cubes, you will: - Take apart adorable block sculptures, from tiny cacti to fire trucks and pirate flags - Figure out the right hole order to free the blocks buried deepest - Watch freed blocks pour into their hole, the reward for every good move - Outsmart frozen, hidden, linked and locked holes as the puzzles get craftier - Savor the perfect finish when the last block drops in Every sculpture is a knot made of blocks. The holes are how you untie it. Can you clear them all? Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Crush Lab 3D4 screens
What the Cubes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Crush Lab 3D at none against What the Cubes's 10. Crush Lab 3D also leads on ads (none vs shown). What the Cubes's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs monthly) and ratings volume (36 vs 2). On price, rating, 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. What the Cubes sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Crush Lab 3D asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Crush Lab 3D holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What the Cubes has 36 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crush Lab 3D ships an update monthly, What the Cubes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Crush Lab 3D versus What the Cubes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrush Lab 3DWhat the Cubes
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.8 (36 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings236 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 10 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size168 MB415 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperBugbombFeel Games Yazilim Oyun ve Bilisim Teknolojileri Anonim Sirketi

In-app purchases

None

Crush Lab 3D

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

What the Cubes

One-time10
  • Offer 2$1.99
  • Offer 5$4.99
  • Offer 7$6.99
Show 7 more
  • No Ads$6.99
  • Offer 8$7.99
  • No Ads Bundle$9.99
  • Offer 15$14.99
  • Offer 30$29.99
  • Offer 55$54.99
  • Offer 100$99.99

Questions

Is Crush Lab 3D free?
Crush Lab 3D is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is What the Cubes free?
What the Cubes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crush Lab 3D or What the Cubes?
Crush Lab 3D is rated higher. Crush Lab 3D averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while What the Cubes averages 4.8 from 36 ratings.
Do Crush Lab 3D or What the Cubes have ads?
What the Cubes shows ads; Crush Lab 3D does not.
Which is updated more often, Crush Lab 3D or What the Cubes?
Crush Lab 3D ships an update monthly, and What the Cubes every 10 days. Most recently, Crush Lab 3D was updated on October 31, 2026 and What the Cubes on November 6, 2026.

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