Build A Squishy vs Squishbox
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Build A Squishy
Create and interact with unique virtual squishies. Customize their appearance, explore various textures and sounds, and even open them up to play with the internal slime. Save your creations to a personal collection and trade rare ones with others.
- Create custom squishies
- Interact with textures and sounds
- Open squishies to play with slime
- Collect and arrange squishies
- Trade rare squishies
- Send squishies as links
- Offline play
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Make a squishy, watch it magically form, and then squeeze, poke, stretch and jiggle it for as long as you like. Every one has its own sound. No ads. No coins. No tricks. Just squishies. A treat from somewhere in the world. Every player is given a World Treat — Dubai Chocolate, New York Cheesecake, Manila Ube Halo-Halo, Paris Macaron or Java Klepon — with a note on what it is and where it comes from. Send yours to a friend, and win the others through World Treat challenges. Make one that's yours. Pick a shape, a colour, a finish and what floats around inside — hundreds of combinations, from a plain jelly orb to something patterned, pearly or barely there. Then play with it. Twenty-three ways to touch it, each with its own material-aware sound: a soft squish, a slow stretch, a jiggle that settles. Slow it down to watch it move. Freeze one solid and crack it open again. Open it up. Cut a squishy open to see what's really inside, and let the slime out — then squeeze, fold, stir and pull that instead. Keep the ones you love. Saved squishies live in your collection and on your own shelf, where you can arrange them how you like. Some belong to sets, and a few combinations are hidden recipes waiting to be found. Trade for the rare ones. A crew of traders sets up shop with things you can't make yet. Trade what you have for what you want. Send one to someone. A squishy becomes a link, a card or a short video. The link carries the recipe — no names, nothing personal. Build A Squishy works completely offline once it's installed. There are no accounts, no chat, no ads, and nothing that expires. It is free, and the free app is a whole toy. For grown-ups: one optional one-time purchase, Squishy Deluxe, adds more to collect. It sits behind a grown-ups gate, it is handled entirely by Apple, and it never expires. No subscriptions, no currency, no loot boxes. Privacy policy: buildasquishy.com/app-privacy
Squishbox
Collect and trade squishy dumplings from virtual steamer baskets. Each box reveals its odds, and your collection is saved locally. A parent-controlled section allows for daily limits and disabling trades.
- Collect squishy dumplings
- Trade with friends
- View box odds
- Local collection saving
- Parental controls
- Daily coin rewards
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No ads. No in-app purchases. No accounts. Coins are free once a day and your collection stays on your device. Open steamer baskets, collect squishy dumplings, and trade spares with friends. Every box shows its odds before you open it. A Parent corner with a PIN lets grown-ups set a daily box limit and turn trading off.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Squishbox at none against Build A Squishy's 1. Squishbox also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). Build A Squishy's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks) and ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Build A Squishy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Squishbox asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Build A Squishy against 5.0 for Squishbox. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Build A Squishy has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Build A Squishy ships an update every 4 days, Squishbox every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Build A Squishy | Squishbox |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gladio LLC | KENDALL BARRY SORENSON |
Customer experience
Build A Squishy
Squishbox
In-app purchases
Build A Squishy
- Squishy Deluxe$6.99
Squishbox
No in-app purchases
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