Comparison

Tiny TD vs Teach the Thief

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

Head to head
About

Tiny TD

Features
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Defend a tiny base as new houses grow and roads cut through your defenses. Build three tower types, adapt your plan, and tackle 75 campaign levels or a fresh daily survival challenge. Tiny TD is a small, calm tower defense with one twist: the map keeps growing. New houses appear mid-run, carving fresh corridors through your defenses. A tower that covered the road a minute ago may be staring at a garden now. Read the change, sell what no longer matters, and rebuild where the enemies will actually walk. THREE TOWERS, TWO UPGRADES • Needle: rapid single-target darts for fast runners. • Bloom: area shells for swarms and shielded tanks. • Frost: slows everything in reach so the others can finish the job. Upgrade twice, or sell for a partial refund and move on. Range is your biggest lever. A CAMPAIGN YOU CAN FINISH 75 hand-tuned levels across three environments. Same map and same assault on every retry, so improvement is skill, not luck. DAILY SURVIVAL One shared seed for everyone, every UTC day. Unlimited attempts. Longest survival wins the day. WEEKLY LEAGUES First clears and improved stars earn points on a weekly board. No grinding, no boosters: replays never farm points. QUIET BY DESIGN No energy meters, no waiting to play, no gameplay purchases. Works offline, with progress saved on your device. Occasional interstitial ads appear between runs; a single optional purchase removes them forever. Leaderboards need no registration or email, just a nickname. Designed for iPhone in portrait and iPad in any orientation.

About

Teach the Thief

Engage in a series of clever heists by matching treasures based on color or shape. Plan your moves carefully to collect valuable items while avoiding protected pieces. Customize your character with various outfits as you progress through challenging puzzles.

Highlights
  • Match treasures by color or shape
  • Plan heists to avoid protected items
  • 50 bite-sized puzzle levels
  • Character customization with outfits
  • No timers or account required
  • Undo, restart, and hint options
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Meet Pip: small paws, big plans, and a weakness for shiny things. In Teach the Thief, every heist starts with two choices. Pick two treasures that share a color, a shape, or both, then watch Pip scoop up everything that matches. The trick? Make every grab count—and leave the protected treasure alone. A LITTLE CHOICE. A BIG HAUL. Match different shapes of the same color to collect that color. Match the same shape in different colors to collect that shape. Match both to narrow the haul. Preview exactly what Pip will steal before you commit. 50 HEISTS TO OUTSMART Explore a playful museum map full of bite-sized puzzles. Plan around protected pieces, preserve useful pairs, and clear each board within your grabs. LEARN WITH PIP A hands-on Level Zero tutorial walks you through the basics. Experiment with free undo, restart, and hints as you find your way to the perfect heist. DRESS FOR THE JOB Earn Rose after Heist 4 and Midnight after Heist 15. Or give Pip a new look with optional King, Wizard, Pirate, Astronaut, Detective, and Chef outfits. Your equipped outfit follows Pip throughout the game, from peeking over the board to taking a well-earned nap. PLAY AT YOUR PACE No timers. No account required. Just you, Pip, and one more clever little heist. Teach the Thief is free to play with ads after Heist 3 and later heists. A one-time No Ads purchase removes ads. Additional outfits are optional one-time purchases.

Screenshots

Tiny TD4 screens
Teach the Thief4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Tiny TD at 3 against Teach the Thief's 1. Tiny TD also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads and in-app purchases 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. Tiny TD sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Teach the Thief sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Tiny TD versus Teach the Thief: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTiny TDTeach the Thief
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB38 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperAlejandro Jimenez RicoVinicios Cunha

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Tiny TD

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$9.99
7 purchases

Teach the Thief

One-time7
  • King Pip$0.99
  • Wizard Pip$0.99
  • Pirate Pip$0.99
Show 4 more
  • Astronaut Pip$0.99
  • Detective Pip$0.99
  • Chef Pip$0.99
  • No Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Tiny TD free?
Tiny TD is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Teach the Thief free?
Teach the Thief is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Tiny TD or Teach the Thief have ads?
Both Tiny TD and Teach the Thief show ads.

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