Deck Diner Pocket vs Thistledown Apiary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side β with what reviewers say about each.
Deck Diner Pocket
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Deck Diner Pocket is a landscape card puzzle collection set around a bright retro-futuristic food truck. Every order starts with a complete 52-card deck: ranks, suits and full pip layouts stay visible while you build hands, plot pantry routes, choose ingredient packs and finish daily kitchen shifts. Four connected modes ask for different kinds of planning: - Order Stack: build requested hand patterns and exact rank totals for a queue of customers. - Pantry Path: connect adjacent cards across a 24-tile prep grid while working around locks, one-way belts, suit gates and required spice cards. - Combo Lunch: choose an ingredient pack and three rule modules that change draw order, hand size, discards and scoring before a service run. - Chef Daily: play a local date-seeded challenge with fixed orders, restrictions and a personal best that stays on your device. The modes share one clear card language, but the decisions stay distinct. Ingredient packs shift suit and rank distribution. Rule modules reshape risk and reward. Route obstacles change how a finished hand is assembled. Early orders introduce ranks and suits; later shifts combine layered requirements, route planning and deck strategy. Designed for landscape play across iPhone and iPad, Deck Diner Pocket runs entirely offline. Progress, unlocks and best scores are stored locally. There are no purchases, chips, betting, cash prizes, sweepstakes, loot boxes or real-world rewards.
Thistledown Apiary
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Thistledown Apiary is a calm co-operative beekeeping game in a wildflower meadow. You keep the season's ledger for a small apiary, working with forager bees, bumblebees, the queen and the round-keeper to bring in honey and wax. Your home is the honeycomb ledger. Choose one of four co-op tasks, read the flower-source brief, then settle in for a single shift that runs forty to a hundred seconds. Nectar Blend Bar: taste the order, then tune three or four nectar taps until sweetness and colour both land inside the target band. Similar colours and pinned base blends make the later recipes tricky. Comb Cell Weave: pick wax tiles from the tray, rotate them and set each in its gap. Fill the frame, keep the passage to the queen open and waste as little wax as you can. Forager Flight Line: lay a path of relay points across the flowers so the crew can fill their baskets and return home, steering around sprinklers and stretches where the wind fights you. Hive Climate Fans: balance fans, wax caps and vents to hold every zone of the hive inside its comfort range. Big hives answer slowly, so plan each adjustment a beat ahead. Each shift is scored on accuracy, material care and time. Earn up to three Wax Seals, bank the honey, and set a new Comb Tile into the wall. Flower sources you sample are recorded by season with their honey colour, best blend and a short field note. Records stay on your device. There is no sign-in and nothing to purchase, and you can start a clean season from Settings at any time. Open the ledger for a few minutes or a whole evening; the meadow keeps a place for you.
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Verdict
Deck Diner Pocket and Thistledown Apiary are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters β price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them β neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Deck Diner Pocket | Thistledown Apiary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | β |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details β not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | The Alon Family Charitable Foundation | HARMEN POELMAN |
In-app purchases
Deck Diner Pocket
No in-app purchases
Thistledown Apiary
No in-app purchases





