Ice Crush vs Apprentice Witch Match 3
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ice Crush
Engage in a frozen adventure with this matching puzzle game. Swap and match ice crystals, raise snowmen, and overcome challenges with strategic gameplay. Enjoy hundreds of levels, daily bonuses, and rechargeable boosters.
- Match 3 ice crystals
- Adopt and raise snowman
- Challenge snow monsters
- Unlock summer adventure
- Daily bonuses and rewards
- Rechargeable boosters
- Hundreds of free levels
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Ice Crush is an all-new matching puzzle giving you a new way to play in the frozen adventure, you'll be addicted from the very first hit! Switch and swap, match 3 ice crystals, adopt and raise snowman, challenge snow monsters and elves, face puzzling levels, save bunnies and polar bears, collect coconuts- all with strategic matching! ====== Highlighted Features ====== - Unlock breezy Summer adventure as you crushing through the frozen puzzle! - Huge and brand new game play! It's time to show your matching skills! - Great rewards and daily bonuses prepared for you! - Eye-catching graphics, cute and adorable opponents and friends! - Rechargeable boosters, well-designed power-ups help with those challenging levels. - New way to win coins and snowballs for you to upgrade your equipment. - 800+ of well-designed free levels! Free levels and game modes added regularly! - Facebook connected, easy to sync progress on different devices. - Free & easy to pick up, yet challenging to fully master. ====== How to Play ====== - Switch and match 3 or more ice crystals, create combos to reach the target. - Unlock power-ups, collect coins and snowball, adopt snowman for the preparation of tough levels. - Less moves you pass a level, higher score you'll get. Can you score high enough to earn 3 stars on every level? - Ice Crush is completely free to play but some in-game items may require payment. Become a fan of Ezjoy on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ezjoygame
Apprentice Witch Match 3
Embark on a magical puzzle adventure as a beginner witch collecting enchanted ingredients. This game features unique match-3 mechanics with distinct rules for day, night, and graveyard levels, offering hundreds of challenging puzzles.
- Unique match-3 mechanics for different times of day
- Hundreds of unique puzzle levels
- Variety of boosters and powerups
- Challenging obstacles like frozen items and spellbooks
- Social features with Facebook connect and leaderboards
- Bewitched graphics and sounds
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Who said becoming a witch was easy? Abracadabra! Hocus Pocus! Let's go for the magic broom! Help Ursula, the beginner witch to pick up her witchery stuff before the supreme sorcerer notice the mess. It seems that Aura the cat messed up all the potions and ingredients! If Ursula does not find out what happened, she will not be able to win her magic broom. This is not another match 3 game. It has a lot of levels, with different game mechanics. Very... bewitched game modes! * The daylight levels run under the match3 classic rules. Match 3 or more stuff to collect it. Matching more than three will you a witchery booster. At night levels, you need to connect the witchcraft stuff to collect it, Connect more than seven stuff to collect all same color items at once. Finally, the graveyard has it's own rules, you need to touch a witchcraft piece to pick up this one and its same color adjacents. Collecting more than three will give you amazing powerups. Each game mode, has its own boosters and powerups: * Vertical and horizontal cleaners * Skull Bombs * Explosive Crystall balls * Toad, will paint stuff * Full moon, use as wildcard Also, these game modes have each one their own troubles: * Crystal slots you need to break * Frozen witchcraft stuff you need to defrost before collecting them. * Spellbooks you have to vanish * White spiders to collect Same way, you have some boosters to make it easier: * Magic Broom to sweep same color witchcraft stuff * Claws to pick up a single bewitched piece * Tornado to shuffle it all Win gems to get free lives, boosters and other additional witchery. FEATURES; * Very fun, very easy but hard to master * Bewitched graphics and sounds. * Witchcraft elements for a scary experience. * Hundreds of puzzle levels each one is very unique * Free, so download now * Multiple difficulty levels * Play with your friends & Family. * Facebook connect, so you can share your goals and scores. * Ranks for all levels, so you can check your friends scores and defeat them. * Fun for all ages What are you waiting for? Play this amazing match3 and give Ursula the chance to win her magic broom and become the best witch ever. Fun to play, you will love this bewitched adventure, collecting witchery. Each level is an amazing puzzle to solve.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Ice Crush at none against Apprentice Witch Match 3's shown. Ice Crush also leads on ratings volume (335 vs 89) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 13.0). Apprentice Witch Match 3's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Ice Crush sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Apprentice Witch Match 3 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Ice Crush against 4.6 for Apprentice Witch Match 3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 335 and 89 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Ice Crush's written reviews are positive against 75% of Apprentice Witch Match 3's.
Ice Crush ships an update every 5 weeks, Apprentice Witch Match 3 every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Ice Crush | Apprentice Witch Match 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (335 ratings) | 4.6 (89 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.5% of reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 335 — better | 89 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 257 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ezjoy | One Up Games Studio |
Customer experience
Ice Crush
Apprentice Witch Match 3
Bugs and requests
Ice Crush
Reported bugs
3 issues- Levels getting stuck and unable to progress
- Purchases not working as expected
- Sync issues between devices
Requested features
3 requests- More levels and challenges
- Ability to sync progress across devices
- Option to disable ads
Apprentice Witch Match 3
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Ice Crush
- 3,000 Coins$1.99
- Package 1$1.99
- 100 Snowballs$4.99
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- Package 2$4.99
- Package 3$7.99
- Penguin Gift Package$9.99
- 25,000 Coins$12.99
- Package 4$14.99
- 700 Snowballs$24.99
- 90,000 Coins$35.99
Apprentice Witch Match 3
- 30 Magic Gems$1.99
- 100 Magic Gems$3.99
- 300 Magic Gems$9.99
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- 1000 Magic Gems$25.99
Questions
Is Ice Crush free?
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