Comparison

Ship It vs Blocklord

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

Head to head
About

Ship It

Build a virtual app development empire from a small studio to a large business. Manage tech debt, handle app store reviews, and hire advisors to optimize your growth. Make strategic exits to gain permanent benefits for future runs.

Highlights
  • Build and improve apps
  • Manage tech debt
  • Handle app store reviews and incidents
  • Hire and upgrade advisors
  • Automated builds and idle earnings
  • Make strategic studio exits
  • Unlock permanent legacy benefits
Features
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Turn taps into apps. Turn a tiny studio into your pocket empire. SHIP IT! is an incremental game about building apps, growing a studio, and making your next big exit. Start small, ship new versions, improve your apps, and put your earnings back into the business. BUILD SOMETHING BIGGER Write code, launch apps, and choose upgrades that move your studio forward. Build a portfolio a buyer wants, unlock automation, and keep shipping new versions. MIND YOUR TECH DEBT New features make an app earn more. Most also add tech debt, which slows its next builds. The Features screen shows exactly how much before you buy. When the debt piles up, refactor: pay a quarter of what those features cost, clear the debt, and keep every feature. THINGS BREAK From your second studio, App Review checks every 25th version. Ship a release with too much debt and it's rejected. The app goes off sale until the fix ships. Design Polish raises the limit, and each app warns you before a release would fail. Incidents keep you on your toes: servers go down, payments wobble, a Friday deploy goes wrong. Spend cash to fix it, send an adviser, or wait it out. Nothing random happens while you're idle or away, and your versions never go down. LEAVE WITH A PLAN Create a Build plan with app-version targets and let your automated builds get to work. Your studio keeps building and earning for up to 8 hours while you're away, and Night Shift stretches that to 24. Stay away longer and the overflow bank keeps earning at a quarter of the rate, for up to the same time again. MEET YOUR UNFAIR EDGE Discover 68 satirical advisers with different abilities. Choose a Power for a timely boost and seat a passive adviser at your Studio desk for an ongoing perk. Every card shows its effect at a glance, and you can swipe through your collection. Find combinations that suit your run, and collect duplicates to improve them. Rotate your team: lean on one adviser too often and they need a longer rest. A COLLECTION THAT GROWS WITH YOU Unlock CI to choose a free first passive adviser. Earn extra expansion cards as you recruit. For dedicated collectors, reaching Rank V with every adviser unlocks the road to Master VI. MAKE YOUR BIG EXIT Sell your studio and carry permanent benefits into the next run. Later, take on optional Exit Goal quests with distinct rules and rewards. Late in the game, their targets grow with your studio, so they stay a real challenge. Complete a quest to retire it from the board, or keep building a normal studio at your own pace. PLAY THE LONG GAME After 18 exits, each of your next 17 Legacy sales adds 13% code speed, compounding, so the late game keeps its pace. Old apps become classics: from v1000, an app earns ×1.5 for every newer app you've launched. Chase 8 badges and 23 tiers in the Hall of Fame, and keep every tier after every sale. Earn Feature Complete to unlock Max out, which buys every feature level you can afford on an app in one tap. Then see how your all-time revenue ranks on the Fortune leaderboard in Game Center. MAKE IT YOUR STUDIO Enjoy a lively pixel-art workspace with an original soundtrack that grows with your career, and big moments that land with stamps, bursts, and count-ups. Dress the studio with neon signs, window views, desk toys and pets, with a new drop every Monday, and fill a trophy cabinet with every exit. Watch your seated adviser join the crew. Play without an account or an internet connection. Optional purchases are available. One more version. One more upgrade. One more big idea. Ship it. Game Center wallet backup is optional. Optional in-app purchases and Founder Club subscriptions are available. All cash and earnings shown in the game are fictional in-game currency. Privacy: https://www.cleardays.co/ship-it/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Blocklord

Features
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Walk, run, or ride your bike to build your empire. Blocklord is a location-based strategy game where you capture real territory by walking, running, or riding your bike. Close a loop and everything inside becomes yours. Invade rivals' ground to steal their territory—first to close the loop keeps it all. Multiple Ways to Claim: Walk, run, or ride to trace your capture loop. Each activity counts toward your total empire. Take Rival Territory: Loop through someone else's claimed ground and it flips to your color the instant you close. No dice rolls—just pure geometry and speed. Compete Globally: Rank your territory against friends, your country, and the world. Every block you claim is measured in real ground. Track your stats, defend your holdings, and climb the leaderboard. Customize Your Identity: Choose your handle and color to make your empire instantly recognizable on the map. Your streets. Your rules. Your territory. Start claiming now.

Screenshots

Ship It4 screens
Blocklord4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Blocklord at none against Ship It's 4. Blocklord also leads on ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. Ship It sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Blocklord asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Ship It ships an update daily, Blocklord every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Ship It versus Blocklord: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShip ItBlocklord
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterEvery 2 days
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size190 MB6 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperHendrik HaandrikmanJORGIA ANNE BAYS

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Ship It

Subscriptions1
  • Founder Club$4.991 Month
One-time3
  • Pocket Chips — 30 Chips$0.99
  • Stack of Chips — 160 Chips$4.99
  • Crate of Chips — 350 Chips$9.99
None

Blocklord

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ship It free?
Ship It is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Blocklord free?
Blocklord is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ship It or Blocklord have ads?
Ship It shows ads; Blocklord does not.
Which is updated more often, Ship It or Blocklord?
Ship It ships an update daily, and Blocklord every 2 days. Most recently, Ship It was updated on October 24, 2026 and Blocklord on October 24, 2026.

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