Minesweeper vs Mine Field
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Ad-free classic gameplay
- Safe first tap
- Hints and Smart Undo
- Luck feature for guesses
- 3D Touch and customizable controls
- Custom difficulty levels
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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.
Mine Field
A classic puzzle game where players must locate all mines on a grid without detonating them. It offers seven difficulty levels and encourages players to beat their best times. The game is free to play and free of advertisements.
- Classic mine-clearing gameplay
- 7 difficulty levels
- Beat your best time
- Free to play
- Ad-free experience
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MineSweeper is a spin-off of the classic PC game. The objective is simple... locate all of the mines in the mine field without touching them. Challenge yourself in 7 levels of difficulty and try to beat your best time! Mine Field - MineSweeper is always free to play and free of ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Minesweeper at 4.9 against Mine Field's 4.2. Minesweeper also leads on ratings volume (1.2K vs 5) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). Mine Field's advantage is iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Minesweeper holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minesweeper has 1.2K ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 96% of Minesweeper's written reviews are positive against 100% of Mine Field's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, Mine Field every 7 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Minesweeper | Mine Field |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (1.2K ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 95.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.2K — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 7 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | developersBliss | Dustin Wiens |
Customer experience
Minesweeper
Mine Field
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
Mine Field
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Minesweeper
No in-app purchases
Mine Field
No in-app purchases
Questions
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