Comparison

Chinese Checkers Touch vs Bloom Cascade

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

Head to head
About

Chinese Checkers Touch

Experience the classic strategy board game of Chinese Checkers. Move your pieces across the board by selecting them and then choosing an adjacent empty space or jumping over opponents. The first player to move all their pieces to the opposite side wins.

Highlights
  • Classic Chinese Checkers gameplay
  • Intuitive touch controls
  • Strategic piece movement
  • Jump over opponent pieces
  • Race to the opposite side
Features
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Chinese Checkers is a well-known strategy board game. Click on a piece to select it and after that on a neighboring empty field to move, or jump over neighboring fields occupied by other pieces. At the end of a move click on the piece again. The player who first moves all of his pieces to the opposite side is the winner.

About

Bloom Cascade

A relaxing match-3 puzzle game where you grow a beautiful garden by swapping flowers. Discover rare blooms, customize your garden with decorative themes, and enjoy a gentle difficulty curve with satisfying cascades and no ads.

Highlights
  • Match-3 gameplay with chain reactions
  • Discover and collect 24 unique flowers
  • Customize garden with themes and decor
  • 60 handcrafted levels with gentle difficulty
  • Satisfying game feel with haptics
  • Colorblind-friendly design
  • No ads or tracking
Features
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Bloom Cascade is a cozy match-3 puzzle about growing a garden, one satisfying cascade at a time. Swap flowers to line up three or more, set off chain reactions, and build powerful blooms - a Vine that clears a whole row, a Pollen Bomb that bursts outward, and a Bloom Burst that clears an entire color in a storm of petals. Every level you clear plants a new flower in your very own garden. 24 FLOWERS TO DISCOVER Rare blooms shimmer on the board as you play. Match one and it joins your Collection - from the everyday Field Daisy to the Ghost Orchid, the Blue Rose, and the Moonflower. Every single one is found by playing. None are ever sold. MAKE THE GARDEN YOURS Spend coins you earn on garden themes and decor - a Zen Garden, an English Cottage, a stone lantern, a lily pond, a garden fox. All of it purely decorative, so it never buys an advantage. 60 LEVELS, HANDCRAFTED CURVE A gentle difficulty curve that keeps introducing new ideas - collect goals, moss to clear, tighter move budgets - without ever turning cruel. We built Bloom Cascade to be the match-3 that respects you: - Genuinely satisfying game feel: cascades, petals, and gentle haptics on every match. - Beautiful in light and dark, on iPhone and iPad. - Colorblind-friendly: every flower has a distinct shape, not just a color. - Fair by design: coins are never required to win, there is always a free retry, and hearts refill on their own. Prefer not to wait? A one-time Endless Blooms unlock removes the wait forever. No ads. No tracking. No dark patterns. - Your progress and garden sync privately through your own iCloud - no account, no sign-in. A calm, colorful puzzle to unwind with - and not a single nag screen.

Screenshots

Chinese Checkers Touch3 screens
Bloom Cascade4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Bloom Cascade at 5.0 against Chinese Checkers Touch's 1.7. Bloom Cascade also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (daily vs every 6 months). Chinese Checkers Touch's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ratings volume (63 vs 1). On price 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. Bloom Cascade sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Chinese Checkers Touch asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Bloom Cascade holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Chinese Checkers Touch has 63 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chinese Checkers Touch ships an update every 6 months, Bloom Cascade daily. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Chinese Checkers Touch versus Bloom Cascade: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChinese Checkers TouchBloom Cascade
PriceFreeFree
Rating1.7 (63 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings63 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 6 monthsDaily — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKevin WhiteJACOB SAWYER STARCKE

Customer experience

Chinese Checkers Touch

All ratings63 ratings
Positive9.5%
Neutral15.9%
Negative74.6%
Written reviews131 reviews
Positive42.0%
Neutral7.6%
Negative50.4%

Bloom Cascade

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

Bugs and requests

Chinese Checkers Touch

Reported bugs

26 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • App freezes
  • App does not open
  • Buttons are unresponsive
  • Game does not save progress
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  • Pieces are difficult to move
  • Game glitches
  • App closes mid-game
  • Red team sometimes quits playing
  • Game stops after a few moves
  • Screen goes black
  • Game board and buttons are off to the side
  • Game doesn't work on iPhone 7 (iOS 10)
  • Game is set up so you can't win in 6 player mode
  • App closes every time a game starts
  • Game quits after 11 moves
  • App crashes when playing in 6 people mode
  • Last update killed the app
  • Sensors are horrible
  • Pieces don't move as you want
  • App not working
  • App is frozen
  • No opportunity for person vs person
  • No trabaja
  • It is too frustrating to try to make the marbles move
  • Too small to move, not sensitive

Requested features

7 requests
  • Change marble colors
  • Multiplayer/human-versus-human option
  • More settings and options
  • Fix glitches and bugs
  • Improve touch sensitivity
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  • Add dark mode
  • Allow selection of marble color

Bloom Cascade

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Chinese Checkers Touch

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Bloom Cascade

One-time6
  • Handful of Coins$0.99
  • Booster Bundle$2.99
  • Pouch of Coins$3.99
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  • Endless Blooms$4.99
  • Chest of Coins$7.99
  • Vault of Coins$19.99

Questions

Is Chinese Checkers Touch free?
Chinese Checkers Touch is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Bloom Cascade free?
Bloom Cascade is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chinese Checkers Touch or Bloom Cascade?
Bloom Cascade is rated higher. Chinese Checkers Touch averages 1.7 out of 5 from 63 ratings, while Bloom Cascade averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Chinese Checkers Touch or Bloom Cascade have ads?
Chinese Checkers Touch shows ads; Bloom Cascade does not.
Which is updated more often, Chinese Checkers Touch or Bloom Cascade?
Chinese Checkers Touch ships an update every 6 months, and Bloom Cascade daily. Most recently, Chinese Checkers Touch was updated on October 24, 2026 and Bloom Cascade on October 23, 2026.

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