Comparison

Minesweeper vs Minesweeper Classic Puzzles

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

Head to head
About

Minesweeper

This classic logic puzzle game offers an ad-free Minesweeper experience on modern touch devices. It features original rules, intuitive gameplay, and advanced tools like hints and smart undo to enhance the challenge.

Highlights
  • Ad-free classic gameplay
  • Safe first tap
  • Hints and Smart Undo
  • Luck feature for guesses
  • 3D Touch and customizable controls
  • Custom difficulty levels
Features
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No ads. No distractions. Just classic Minesweeper, rebuilt for iPhone and iPad. Minesweeper brings the classic familiar logic puzzle to modern touch screens with intuitive controls, clean graphics, advanced algorithms, and the classic rules you expect: a safe first tap, flags, question marks, chording, and the original difficulty levels. Stuck? Use Hints that prioritize simple deductions so you can learn the logic instead of blindly guessing. Hit an unavoidable 50/50? Luck helps prevent forced guess losses when you choose one of the safest mathematically available squares. Made a mistake? Smart Undo lets you rewind a loss while shuffling hidden mines so the puzzle stays interesting. Features: • Classic Minesweeper rules and difficulty levels • Custom boards • Safe first tap • Flags, question marks, and chording • Hints that teach logical deductions • Luck for unavoidable guesses • Smart Undo after a loss • Statistics by difficulty • Winning streak, win rate, best time, and median time tracking • iPhone and iPad support • Mouse, trackpad, and Apple Pencil support • No ads or in app purchases. This is my gift to you :) How to play: Reveal every safe square without tapping a mine. Numbers show how many adjacent squares contain mines. Tap to reveal, press and hold to flag, and tap a completed number to open ("chord") nearby squares. Start a new board at any time with the smiley button. Built for classic Minesweeper players, speed solvers, logic puzzle fans, and anyone who wants a clean, fast puzzle game without ads. Having trouble or have a feature request? Contact me directly from the app.

About

Minesweeper Classic Puzzles

A classic single-player puzzle game where players must locate hidden mines on a grid. Use number clues to deduce mine locations and clear the board without detonation. Mark suspected mines with flags to aid your strategy.

Highlights
  • Single-player puzzle gameplay
  • Locate hidden mines
  • Use number clues
  • Mark mines with flags
  • Clear the board
Features
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Minesweeper is a single-player puzzle game. The objective of the game is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden "mines" or bombs without detonating any of them, with help from clues about the number of neighboring mines in each field. To win you need to determine the location of all mines. To achieve this goal, you have to click a square and if it is empty all adjacent empty squares will open up. If you ever click on a box containing a mine, it will explode and you'll lose. It is possible to plant a flag to mark the alleged location of a mine, using the button corresponding to the flag. If the clicked box is empty, all adjacent empty boxes will open recursively. To win, there must be no mines incorrectly marked with a flag. On the other hand, it is not necessary to mark all the mines to finish; you just need to determine all the empty boxes.

Screenshots

Minesweeper4 screens
Minesweeper Classic Puzzles2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Minesweeper at 96% against Minesweeper Classic Puzzles's 27%. Minesweeper also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Minesweeper Classic Puzzles's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, Minesweeper Classic Puzzles every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Minesweeper versus Minesweeper Classic Puzzles: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinesweeperMinesweeper Classic Puzzles
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews95.7% of reviews — better26.7% of reviews
Number of ratings1.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterAd-supported
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS26.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperdevelopersBlissWALABOK LLC

Customer experience

Minesweeper

All ratings1,152 ratings
Positive98.2%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews211 reviews
Positive95.7%
Neutral1.4%
Negative2.8%

Minesweeper Classic Puzzles

Written reviews15 reviews
Positive26.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative60.0%

Bugs and requests

Minesweeper

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent bomb placement logic
  • Game sometimes doesn't recognize cleared board

Requested features

4 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to change background
  • Leaderboard/stats tracking
  • Ability to toggle flag mode

Minesweeper Classic Puzzles

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Minesweeper

No in-app purchases

None

Minesweeper Classic Puzzles

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minesweeper free?
Minesweeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Minesweeper Classic Puzzles free?
Minesweeper Classic Puzzles is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Minesweeper or Minesweeper Classic Puzzles have ads?
Minesweeper Classic Puzzles shows ads; Minesweeper does not.
Which is updated more often, Minesweeper or Minesweeper Classic Puzzles?
Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, and Minesweeper Classic Puzzles every 2 months. Most recently, Minesweeper was updated on November 6, 2026 and Minesweeper Classic Puzzles on November 2, 2026.

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