Comparison

Catando vs Word Search Incremental Co.

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

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Catando

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Catando is a cozy logic puzzle about cats and dogs. Fill the grid so every row and column has the same number of cats and dogs, never three of the same in a row, and every = and × clue is respected. Simple rules, satisfying "aha!" moments, and every puzzle can be solved by pure logic. No guessing. DAILY PUZZLE A fresh puzzle every day, the same for every player. Solve it to build your daily streak, and if you miss a day you get one grace day to rescue it. The daily ramps through the week, from easiest on Monday to hardest on Sunday. Solving it also earns you a hint. DAILY RECAP Come back the next day and see how you did: your solve, which team won yesterday and whether your team won or lost, the Energy you contributed, the rewards you earned, and where you rank. A good day earns Energy and items, and you can watch a short ad to double your prize. STAGE MODE Work through an endless run of stages. Every 10 stages ramp from easy to hard, and the board grows from 6×6 up to 10×10 as you improve. Clear stages to earn Energy and milestone bonuses, plus a hint for every 3 stages you clear. Every puzzle shows its difficulty at a glance: green for easy, orange for medium, red for hard. Check how your stage ranks against other players worldwide. Stage 1 is a guided 6×6 tutorial that teaches every rule one step at a time. Stuck? Hints point to a useful tile and explain why. Made a mess? Clear the stage to restart it with all your hearts. CAT VS DOG POWER Pick a team, cat or dog, and pitch in your Energy to the daily team tally. Watch the power bar move and see which side wins the day. Every stage you clear adds its Energy to your team's power right away. Once you've joined a team, watch your Energy bolt into its mascot on Home after you clear a stage. WAR BOARD Every player joins the global War Board automatically. See how your country, continent and team stack up against players around the world, and watch your Energy count toward your country. Your name stays hidden unless you choose to show it in Profile. TRACK YOUR PROGRESS A login-streak dashboard with a 7-day paw row, a 14-day activity chart, best times for every board size, your worldwide rank, and 12 badges to collect, from your first solve to a clean no-hint daily. LOOKS Choose how the cats and dogs look on the puzzle grid. Each team has five looks: Classic and one more are free, and the other three are one-time purchases, one at a time or in a Meow Pack or Woof Pack. Pick one cat look and one dog look in Settings > Looks. With Catando Plus, every look is unlocked while you subscribe. WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • Relaxing brain training in short sessions • No account or sign-in required • No timers or pressure. Take all the time you want • Works offline • Soft, rounded pastel design with cute cat and dog mascots • Haptics (on/off) and sound effects with separate gameplay and celebration volume controls If you like binary puzzles, takuzu or sudoku-style logic games, you'll feel right at home. Download Catando and solve today's puzzle! Catando is free to play and supported by ads, or remove ads with a one-time purchase. Optional Remove Ads subscription: monthly, auto-renews until canceled in Settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Catando Plus (optional subscription): monthly, removes ads and unlocks every look while you subscribe; auto-renews until canceled in Settings. Looks can also be bought one at a time or in packs. Looks you buy separately stay yours.

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Word Search Incremental Co.

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Find one word. It is hidden once, somewhere in 65,536 letters, and the biggest board has 16,777,216. Find it yourself, or hire cows. Every other real word you swipe pays credits, and credits hire cow coworkers who clear the board while you look. They never take your word. The find is always yours. Word Search Incremental Co. is a word search and an incremental game in one. The Co. is for company. It is also for cow. FIND ONE WORD. Your goal word sits at the top of the screen. It is hidden in the board once: across, down or slanted, forwards or backwards. Swipe it and you win the board. FIND IT YOURSELF. OR HIRE COWS. Seven kinds of cow work for you, each with one job. - Cleaner: clears letters that no word can use. - Cashier: swipes words and pays you for each. It stops if one touches your word. - Labeler: tints a letter of your word everywhere it reads. - Sorter: picks one letter, never one from your word, and tints or erases it across its sector. - Recycler: clears like the Cleaner and turns letters into points. - Auditor: a desk that reads each sector and reports the words and letters left. - Moonager: a desk that sends your crew to the next sector worth reading. Credits hire the first three. Bells open the other four. Pause any cow, or the whole crew, when you want to look for yourself. WORDS IN FIVE LANGUAGES. Play the word search in English, Spanish (Español), French (Français), Portuguese (Português) or Japanese katakana (カタカナ). Or pick Places, where only the names of countries and cities count. The game itself speaks 20 languages. NOT THE GOAL WORD? IT STILL PAYS. Swipe any other real word of three letters or more for credits. Longer words pay more, and a wrong swipe costs nothing. Now and then a board also hides a rare long word that pays far more. CREDITS GO UP. LETTERS GO DOWN. Credits hire cows, level them up, and buy them AUTO so they walk on by themselves. A new cow reads half a letter a second. A level 100 cow reads over 800. Every letter the crew clears is gone for good, so your word gets easier to see. YOUR UPGRADES STAY. End a board whenever you like. Its credits and cows go with it. Your points and bells stay. Points buy permanent upgrades in the Workshop. Finding the goal word on size M or bigger pays bells, and bells take on more cows: a bigger crew, new kinds of coworker, the desks. UP TO 16,777,216 LETTERS. Five board sizes, from S with 65,536 letters to XL with 16,777,216. Each one hides one word. A new size opens when you find the word on your biggest size, or clean five of its sectors. PLAY AT YOUR OWN PACE. No timer, no energy, no lives. Plays offline. Your crew keeps working while the game is closed, at 15% of its speed. Night shift in the Workshop raises it, up to 50%. Come back after five minutes or more, and a receipt shows what the crew did while you were away. ADS, AND PREMIUM There is a banner, and a full-screen ad when you start a new board after scrapping one. A crew boost and a crate of points are offered for watching an ad. Premium is one purchase: no banner, no full-screen ads, and the extras without watching.

Screenshots

Catando4 screens
Word Search Incremental Co.4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Catando at none against Word Search Incremental Co.'s shown. Word Search Incremental Co.'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days) and device support (3 vs 1). On price 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. Catando sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Word Search Incremental Co. sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Catando ships an update every 5 days, Word Search Incremental Co. every 2 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 2 level
Catando versus Word Search Incremental Co.: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCatandoWord Search Incremental Co.
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB49 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKairos.ai Co., Ltd.Kiattisak Kalkumnerd

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Catando

Subscriptions1
  • Remove Ads (Monthly)$1.991 Month
One-time9
  • Golden Retriever Look$1.99
  • Husky Look$1.99
  • Calico Cat Look$1.99
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  • Corgi Look$1.99
  • White Cat Look$1.99
  • Orange Tabby Look$1.99
  • Woof Pack$3.99
  • Meow Pack$3.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
1 purchases

Word Search Incremental Co.

One-time1
  • Remove ads$4.99

Questions

Is Catando free?
Catando is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Word Search Incremental Co. free?
Word Search Incremental Co. is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Catando or Word Search Incremental Co. have ads?
Word Search Incremental Co. shows ads; Catando does not.
Which is updated more often, Catando or Word Search Incremental Co.?
Catando ships an update every 5 days, and Word Search Incremental Co. every 2 days. Most recently, Catando was updated on October 31, 2026 and Word Search Incremental Co. on October 31, 2026.

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