Screw Machine vs Grab the Cheese
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Screw Machine
This game challenges you to sort colored screws onto a spinning machine. Tap panels to release screws onto a rail, where they thread into matching plates. Fill all plates to win, but avoid jamming the machine by overloading the rail.
- Color-sorting screw puzzle
- Spinning machine mechanic
- Tap-to-release screws
- Level-based progression
- Offline play
- Mystery plates, gates, tunnels, arrows
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Screw Machine is a color-sorting screw puzzle with a moving twist. Instead of stacking screws onto a bolt, you spill screws onto a spinning machine and let timing do the sorting. Tap a panel drop its screws onto the rail, and watch each color thread itself into its matching plate as the ring carries it around. Fill every plate to win. Overload the rail and the whole machine seizes up. HOW THE MACHINE WORKS • Tap a panel to loosen its screws onto the spinning rail • Four color plates sit around the ring — each one takes three screws of its color • As the machine turns, every screw passing its matching plate drives itself in • Fill a plate and it locks shut; the next color rolls up behind it • Clear all the plates to finish the level KEEP IT TURNING • The rail only holds so many screws, release colors with nowhere to go and it jams solid • Read the machine before you tap: open the panels whose colors have an open plate • No move counter, no timer, you only lose if the rail jams for good • Every level is a small sorting puzzle built to be untangled PARTS THAT CHANGE THE GAME • Mystery plates: The next color stays hidden behind a "?" until it rolls into place • Gates: Run a screw through and it splits into more • Tunnels: Feed a whole extra run of panels onto the board • Arrows: Panels that you can only unlock from a certain direction WHY IT'S HARD TO PUT DOWN • A fresh, tactile spin on the nuts and bolts puzzles you already love • One-tap, simple, with real timing and planning underneath • Hand-built levels that stay clever without ever feeling like work • Oddly satisfying to watch, screws driving home, plates locking in sequence • Play offline, anywhere, no wifi needed • Free to play, with lives that refill over time Loosen the screws. Run the machine. Sort every color.
Grab the Cheese
Draw a path to guide a mouse past sleeping and patrolling cats to reach the cheese. Utilize the environment and clever tactics to outsmart your feline pursuers across hundreds of handcrafted levels.
- Draw paths with finger
- Avoid cats with different behaviors
- Use environmental elements
- Hundreds of handcrafted levels
- Offline play
- No timers or paywalls
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Every cat in the house is between you and the cheese. Draw your way past them. You are the quietest mouse in the business. Trace a path with your finger and he follows it exactly — around the sleeping tabby's ears, behind the patrolling ginger's back, over the rug that swallows your footsteps. One clean line, one perfect heist. DRAW THE PERFECT LINE Tap and drag. That's the whole control scheme. The hard part is deciding where the line goes. READ EVERY THREAT BEFORE YOU MOVE • Sleeping cats hear footsteps inside their ring — go wide, or cross a rug to muffle your steps • Patrol cats sweep a vision cone — learn the rhythm and slip in behind • Ghost cats drift straight through walls, always toward you — a mouse hole sends them home • Mousetraps do not forgive. Watch every step USE THE HOUSE AGAINST THEM Duck into a mouse hole to vanish mid-chase and watch the cats give up. Dive into a secret tunnel and pop out across the room. Wind up a clockwork decoy mouse and let it clatter off while you walk the other way. HUNDREDS of HANDCRAFTED LEVELS Thirteen acts, each one teaching a new trick before it tests you on it. Field Training to The Grand Vault. Every level is built by hand, timed for three stars, and beatable without spending a thing. BUILT TO BE FAIR • Plays fully offline — no wifi, no account, no login • Every level is solvable on your first try if you read the room • No timers on your progress, no paywall between you and hundreds of levels Cute cartoon art, tiny satisfying sound, and one very determined mouse. Draw the line. Get the cheese.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Grab the Cheese at 100% against Screw Machine's 57%. Screw Machine's advantage is rating (4.9 vs 4.7). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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
Both are free to download. Screw Machine sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Grab the Cheese sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Screw Machine holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 736 and 376 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Screw Machine's written reviews are positive against 100% of Grab the Cheese's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Screw Machine ships an update every 4 days, Grab the Cheese every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Screw Machine | Grab the Cheese |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (736 ratings) — better | 4.7 (376 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 736 — better | 376 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 6 days |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 428 MB | 235 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Twist Games | Whalo Games LTD |
Customer experience
Screw Machine
Grab the Cheese
In-app purchases
Screw Machine
- 1000 Coins$1.99
- Fail Offer$4.99
- 5000 Coins$7.99
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- No Ads$7.99
- Small Bundle$9.99
- No Ads Bundle$12.99
- 10000 Coins$14.99
- Medium Bundle$19.99
- Large Bundle$29.99
- Mega Bundle$49.99
Grab the Cheese
- XS Coins Package$0.99
- S Coins Package$1.99
- Remove Ads$4.99
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- Remove Ads$6.99
- Remove Ads$10.99
- Remove Ads$11.99
- Remove Ads$13.99
- Remove Ads$14.99
- Mega Coins Package$19.99
- Ultimate Coins Package$49.99
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