Spore Cubes vs Barred Crossword
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spore Cubes
A classic cube-popping puzzle game where players click matching colored cubes to clear the playfield. Offers 10 skill levels and saves high scores for each.
- Match and destroy colored cube groups
- Clear the entire playfield
- 10 skill levels
- Saves high scores per level
- Classic web game remake
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Spore Cubes (TM) is the classic web game that captivated millions of players with its addictive and deceptively simple gameplay in the early days of the web. You'll be instantly hooked with this remake of the original brain-training game from 25 years ago! ** Inducted into the Puzzles.com Hall of Fame and featured in the book "Flash 5 Cartoons and Games" ** Click colored cubes to match and destroy groups of the same color until the ENTIRE PLAYFIELD has been cleared! It's easy to play but difficult to master and will keep you coming back to the same game for "just one more try!" This version now has 10 skill levels to keep your brain trained and challenged and your best score is saved for each level. Can YOU clear ALL cubes off each playfield? It's harder than it looks. * * * Please help us improve the game by giving it 5 stars rating and give us suggestions in your review.
Barred Crossword
This app offers an unlimited supply of automatically generated crosswords with customizable grids and difficulty. It supports multiple languages and features aids to help you solve puzzles, making it ideal for crossword enthusiasts.
- Unlimited auto-generated crosswords
- Configurable grid size and difficulty
- Multiple crossword grid types (Barred, British, Arrow)
- Thousands of clues
- Multi-language support
- Zoom and pan grid functionality
- Save and reload games
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Barred crosswords are similar to traditional crosswords, but they use black lines instead of black squares to separate the words. Advantages of barred crosswords are: • More words in the grid • Larger number of cross-overs for the words • You do not lose half the screen with black squares Other features include: • Each new game is created by the app automatically. Therefore you can play an unlimited number of crosswords!! • Very configurable game generator. You decide the grid size, difficulty and many other things • Many 1000's of clues • You can choose from three different types of crossword grid: British, Barred and Arrow • Generate crosswords tailored to your interests, ability, nationality and device size • You can zoom in & out of the grid, and move around. Play with large grids on small screens! • Ability to save games and reload games. Play many games at once, just like a crossword book! • Many aids to help you complete the crossword • Play crosswords in these languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian Also known as compact crosswords and word maze.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Barred Crossword at Free against Spore Cubes's $1.99. Barred Crossword also leads on ratings volume (21 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 10 months). Spore Cubes's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On 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
Barred Crossword is free to download; Spore Cubes costs $1.99 up front. Barred Crossword sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Spore Cubes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spore Cubes holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Barred Crossword has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of Spore Cubes's written reviews are positive against 58% of Barred Crossword's.
Spore Cubes ships an update every 10 months, Barred Crossword every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spore Cubes | Barred Crossword |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.2 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 57.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 months | Every 3 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 99 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | SPORE Productions | Havos |
Customer experience
Spore Cubes
Barred Crossword
In-app purchases
Spore Cubes
No in-app purchases
Barred Crossword
- Supporter (no ads)$4.991 Year
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