Minesweeper vs Minesweeper.org
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Minesweeper
Clear a minefield by tapping tiles and using numbered clues to locate hidden explosives. Achieve your best score by clearing the board as quickly as possible. Customize your gameplay with a variety of grid sizes.
- Flag hidden landmines
- Use numbered clues
- Customize grid sizes
- Achieve best scores
- Fast-paced gameplay
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The goal of Minesweeper is to flag all the landmines on the board as quickly as possible. Tap tiles to flip them, use the numbers on the tiles to figure out where the mines are. Clear the board quickly to achieve your best score. Want to play on a 3 x 3 grid? Or a 24 x 24 grid? Or a 13 x 22 grid? No problem. This version is totally customizable.
Minesweeper.org
Experience classic Minesweeper with a focus on uninterrupted gameplay. Enjoy multiple difficulty levels, a no-guess mode for pure logic, and compete on a global leaderboard. The app offers a banner ad at the bottom, ensuring no full-screen interruptions.
- Classic Minesweeper gameplay
- Three difficulty levels
- No-Guess mode for pure logic
- Global leaderboard
- No full-screen ads
- Offline play
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Classic Minesweeper on iPhone and iPad. Ad-supported with a single banner — no full-screen ads ever interrupt your game. Just the timer, the board, and the global leaderboard. This is Minesweeper.org, clearing landmines since 1999, now built natively for iOS. Three classic difficulties, No-Guess mode for pure-logic puzzles, and the same global leaderboard players compete on at minesweeper.org. WHY PLAYERS LOVE IT • No subscription. No in-app purchases. No pay-to-win. No Interstitials! • No full-screen ads. We're ad-supported, but we never interrupt your game with interstitials. The banner stays at the bottom and your flow stays unbroken. • Three classic difficulties. Beginner (9×9, 10 mines), Intermediate (16×16, 40 mines), and Expert (16×30, 99 mines) — the same board sizes used in competitive Minesweeper worldwide. • No-Guess mode. Tired of losing to a 50/50 coin flip? No-Guess mode guarantees every board is solvable with pure logic. No guessing required. • New Game on Lose and New Game on Win with High Score Autosubmit. Play more games without ads interrupting or having to click restart. • Global leaderboard. Submit your time and compete worldwide — daily, by season, or all-time. Every score includes timer, 3BV, 3BV/s, and click efficiency. • Auto Light/Dark theme. Follows your iPhone or iPad system settings. • Universal app. Optimized for both iPhone and iPad. • Plays offline. Your local high scores keep working even without a connection. DEDICATED TO DIANA, PRINCESS OF WALES Minesweeper.org is dedicated to Diana, Princess of Wales, and her work to ban landmines. In January 1997, her advocacy helped build the political momentum behind the Mine Ban Treaty, signed by 122 nations that December. The HALO Trust — the world's largest humanitarian mine-clearance organization — is still clearing minefields today. MORE AT MINESWEEPER.ORG This app is part of minesweeper.org. The site offers additional game modes — PvP, Tentaizu, Mosaic, Hexsweeper, Cylinder, and several 3D variants — all free to play in your browser.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Minesweeper.org at monthly against Minesweeper's every 3 months. Minesweeper.org also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Minesweeper's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 3) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Minesweeper.org holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 9 and 3 respectively.
Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, Minesweeper.org monthly. The most recent releases landed on June 8, 2026 and September 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minesweeper | Minesweeper.org |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 32 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | fishdog.net | Karching |
Customer experience
Minesweeper
Minesweeper.org
In-app purchases
Minesweeper
No in-app purchases
Minesweeper.org
No in-app purchases
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