Comparison

Minesweeper vs Kablink

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

Kablink

Connect tiles to a power source by rotating them in this classic puzzler. Enjoy endless variety with customizable grids and challenging modes. Play offline with no ads or interruptions.

Highlights
  • Tile rotation puzzle gameplay
  • Square or hexagonal grids
  • Adjustable grid sizes
  • Edge wrap and frozen tile modes
  • Shareable puzzle codes
  • Offline play
Features
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Every grid is a new puzzle. Can you light them all up? Kablink is back. Originally released over 15 years ago as "Cablink", this tile-rotation puzzle game has been rebuilt for modern iOS — and now runs on iPhone and iPad. The goal is simple: connect every tile back to the power source. Tap to rotate, think ahead, and watch the grid come alive as connections snap into place. EASY TO PICK UP, HARD TO PUT DOWN Each puzzle is a randomized grid of tiles with connectors on their edges. Rotate them until every tile links back to the power source. It sounds simple, but larger grids and advanced options will test even experienced puzzle solvers. ENDLESS VARIETY - Square or hexagonal grids - Sizes from 4x4 up to 15x15 - Edge wrap mode where opposite sides connect - Frozen mode that limits movable tiles to neighbors of powered tiles - Blackout mode that hides unpowered tiles until you connect them - Combine modes for a custom challenge CHALLENGE FRIENDS Every puzzle has a unique shareable code. Send it to a friend and see who can solve the same puzzle in fewer moves. NO ADS. NO INTERNET REQUIRED. Kablink works completely offline. No accounts, no sign-ups, no interruptions. Just puzzles.

Screenshots

Minesweeper4 screens
Kablink3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Minesweeper at Free against Kablink's $2.99. Minesweeper also leads on ratings volume (962 vs 1). Kablink's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On rating, ads, 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

Minesweeper is free to download; Kablink costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Minesweeper against 5.0 for Kablink. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minesweeper has 962 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, Kablink fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Minesweeper versus Kablink: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinesweeperKablink
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating4.9 (962 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings962 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperdevelopersBlissFoster Thomas Brereton

Customer experience

Minesweeper

All ratings962 ratings
Positive98.1%
Neutral0.7%
Negative1.1%
Written reviews200 reviews
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.5%
Negative2.5%

Kablink

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Kablink

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Minesweeper

No in-app purchases

None

Kablink

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minesweeper free?
Minesweeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kablink free?
Kablink costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minesweeper or Kablink?
Kablink is rated higher. Minesweeper averages 4.9 out of 5 from 962 ratings, while Kablink averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Minesweeper or Kablink have ads?
Neither Minesweeper nor Kablink shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minesweeper or Kablink?
Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, and Kablink fortnightly. Most recently, Minesweeper was updated on October 16, 2026 and Kablink on October 1, 2026.

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