Comparison

Minesweeper vs Lock Rush

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

Lock Rush

This game challenges your reflexes and memory with a simple tap mechanic that evolves with increasingly complex rules. Progress through various modes, including reflex tests and memory puzzles, with a daily challenge for all players. Enjoy a pure, uninterrupted gaming experience with no ads or in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Tap-based reflex challenges
  • Memory grid and sequence puzzles
  • Progressive difficulty and rule changes
  • Daily challenge mode
  • Unlockable game modes
  • Offline play
Features
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One lock. One tap. Seventeen ways to get it wrong. A dot races around a lock. Tap when it crosses the target. Miss, and the lock resets. That is the whole game — and then it starts taking the rules away. REFLEX The dot reverses on every hit. The target shrinks to a sliver. The dot fades out before it arrives. Two dots orbit against each other and you have to catch the collision. The target burns down in real time. The dot stops orbiting and rebounds off walls instead. MEMORY A grid lights up, then goes dark — reproduce it. Numbered tiles flash, then vanish — tap them in order. Coloured pairs appear for a moment — find every match. Get it wrong and the board shows you exactly what you missed. TRACKING One card shows a key, every card turns face down, and then they trade places. Follow the key and tap it when they stop. More cards, more swaps, and feints that set out and come back. Not memory — you can watch the whole thing and still lose it. IRON MAN The daily event. One life, no checkpoint, no continues: one miss ends the run, however far you got. A different mode every day, identical for every player on earth. The top ten share the day's gold, and whoever leads holds the crown on the menu until somebody takes it. THE GAUNTLET Every mode you have unlocked, shuffled after every single lock. You never get to settle into a rhythm. GOLD Coins turn up on targets, and bonus rounds fill the board with coins and bombs. Every lock you crack pays, and the rate climbs the longer you survive. Bank enough and you can buy your way back into a run you were about to lose, or spend it on dot skins and colour schemes that take over the whole screen. BUILT TO BE PICKED UP Runs last seconds. Retry is a single tap. Checkpoints every five locks mean you never replay ground you have already covered. Memory modes have a speed setting, because the right amount of time to look at a board is not the same for everyone. NO NONSENSE No ads. No in-app purchases. Gold is earned, never bought. There is no account to create and nothing to sign up for — leaderboards use the Game Center already on your iPhone, and your scores are the only thing that ever leaves the device.

Screenshots

Minesweeper4 screens
Lock Rush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lock Rush at every 2 days against Minesweeper's every 3 months. Lock Rush also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). Minesweeper's advantage is ratings volume (1.2K vs 8). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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.

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 Lock Rush. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Minesweeper has 1.2K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 96% of Minesweeper's written reviews are positive against 100% of Lock Rush's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, Lock Rush every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Minesweeper versus Lock Rush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMinesweeperLock Rush
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (1.2K ratings)5.0 (8 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings1.2K — better8
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperdevelopersBlissZach Rustick

Customer experience

Minesweeper

All ratings1,152 ratings
Positive98.2%
Neutral0.8%
Negative1.0%
Written reviews200 reviews
Positive96.0%
Neutral1.5%
Negative2.5%

Lock Rush

All ratings8 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
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

Lock Rush

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Minesweeper

No in-app purchases

None

Lock Rush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Minesweeper free?
Minesweeper is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Lock Rush free?
Lock Rush is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Minesweeper or Lock Rush?
Lock Rush is rated higher. Minesweeper averages 4.9 out of 5 from 1.2K ratings, while Lock Rush averages 5.0 from 8 ratings.
Do Minesweeper or Lock Rush have ads?
Neither Minesweeper nor Lock Rush shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Minesweeper or Lock Rush?
Minesweeper ships an update every 3 months, and Lock Rush every 2 days. Most recently, Minesweeper was updated on October 22, 2026 and Lock Rush on October 16, 2026.

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