Comparison

WAITER vs Lost Crate Co.

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

Head to head
About

WAITER

Features
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How good is your internal clock? WAITER is a dead-simple, oddly addictive timing game. You get a target - say 10 seconds — the screen goes dark, and you tap when you FEEL the time is up. No clock, no counting bar, no ticking. Just your gut. Then it shows exactly how far off you were, and whether you beat your best. HOW TO PLAY • See your target time. • Tap - the screen goes dark and a hidden timer starts. • Tap again the moment you think the time is up. • Get your error (+0.34s - too late!) and your score. Closer = more points, up to 1000 for a bullseye. THREE SOLO MODES • Classic-always 10 seconds. Build muscle memory and chase your best. • Random - a fresh target from 3 to 20 seconds every round. Keeps you honest. • Survival - random targets with a tolerance that shrinks each round. One miss ends the run. How far can you go? PARTY • Pass one phone around the table - 2 to 4 players, one screen. Closest tap takes the round. MORE • Session streaks and NEW BEST flashes • All-time stats: closest-ever tap, best score per mode, longest streak, perfect count, survival best • Satisfying haptics (toggleable) • A warm, hand-drawn paper look 100% on-device. No account, no ads, no network - nothing ever leaves your phone.

About

Lost Crate Co.

Features
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Franny drives a small delivery truck. One pothole later, her entire load is scattered along thirteen miles of country road, and every single crate has landed somewhere it should not be. Under a wheel. In a ditch. On a bus stop roof. Halfway up a tree, guarded by an annoyed kite. Your job is to bring them all home. Each mile is a small hand drawn scene with one thing gone wrong. You look at the mess, pick a tool from the tray at the bottom of the screen, and tap the spot where it should be used. A jack lifts a truck off a pinned crate. A rope pulls one out of the mud. A magnet knows what to do about a spilled box of bolts. Choose the right tool and the crate comes free. Choose the wrong one and Franny tries it anyway, usually with results worth watching. Solving a mile earns bolts and often a new tool, and tools can be combined at the workbench. Rope and hook make a grapple. A net on a pole becomes a sky net. A fan and an umbrella turn into something that lets Franny glide, more or less. There are twenty three tools in total and the later miles expect you to have built a few of them yourself. There is a shelf in the ledger for oddities, the strange leftovers a mile hands you when you solve it in an unexpected way. A soggy duck feather. A chrome bolt too shiny for the truck. Some of them only turn up if you try the tool that looks completely wrong for the job. You can also photograph odd things you find on your own roadside and pin them to the same shelf, with a name of your choosing. Every day the depot has something wedged under a crate for you. Pump the jack three times and see what falls out. No timers, no failure screens. A wrong tool costs you a star, not the level, and you can go back and replay any mile to earn all three. Thirteen miles, one truck, and a driver who refuses to leave a single crate behind.

Screenshots

WAITER4 screens
Lost Crate Co.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: WAITER at 13.0 against Lost Crate Co.'s 16.0. 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

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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 4 level
WAITER versus Lost Crate Co.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWAITERLost Crate Co.
PriceFreeFree
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size16 MB10 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperElchanan GershovitzFRENK NORAMA

In-app purchases

None

WAITER

No in-app purchases

None

Lost Crate Co.

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is WAITER free?
WAITER is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lost Crate Co. free?
Lost Crate Co. is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do WAITER or Lost Crate Co. have ads?
Neither WAITER nor Lost Crate Co. shows ads.

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