Comparison

Break The Blocks vs Giga

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

Head to head
About

Break The Blocks

Experience a classic arcade game with a simple premise: use a paddle to bounce a ball and break all the blocks. Test your reflexes and clear levels efficiently in this throwback to Arkanoid and Breakout.

Highlights
  • Classic Arkanoid/Breakout gameplay
  • Paddle and ball mechanics
  • Block breaking challenges
  • Fast-paced reflex testing
  • Level clearing objectives
Features
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Break The Blocks is a throwback to the classics Arkanoid and Breakout. You already know the story: a paddle, ball and blocks. Use your fast reflexes to ricochet the ball against the blocks and clear them as efficiently as possible.

About

Giga

Experience classic arcade brick-breaking action with a modern twist. Navigate through numerous levels, collect power-ups, and customize your game. Enjoy a retro soundtrack and compete with friends on leaderboards.

Highlights
  • 110 levels across 11 themed packs
  • Endless Mode for survival
  • 28 unlockable power-ups
  • Customizable themes for paddle and ball
  • Retro arcade-inspired soundtrack
  • Game Center leaderboards
  • iCloud sync for progress
Features
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Classic arcade brick-breaking fun. Use your paddle to keep the ball in play, collect power-ups and destroy bricks. Work through 110 levels across 11 themed packs in Classic Mode, see how high you can climb in Endless Mode, test your limits in Endless Mayhem, and take on the world in the Daily Challenge. Giga-Ball is a casual yet challenging game you can play for minutes or hours, and keep coming back to year after year. Progress through the levels, collect every power-up and sharpen your skills to beat your high score. With so many brick and power-up combinations, no two games are ever the same. Key Features: • 110 curated levels across 11 themed level packs. • Endless Mode: see how far you can go with continuously falling bricks, one ball and ever-increasing difficulty. • NEW Endless Mayhem: 37 more power-ups, including portals, new ball types, paddle modifiers, multi-balls and many, many more, plus new brick types and combinations. • NEW Daily Challenge: a fresh challenge every day, each with its own twists. Everyone plays the same one, so see where you rank on the global leaderboard. • Collect or avoid 28 classic power-ups to help your progress or increase the challenge. Bonuses include a larger paddle, points boost or the help of lasers, while penalties include a super-speed ball, bricks hiding from view or the activation of a gravity field. • Customise your paddle, ball, background and app icon, choosing from 12 unlockable themes and icon designs. • Enjoy the original retro arcade-inspired soundtrack composed exclusively for Giga-Ball. • Track your progress with comprehensive gameplay statistics, and see how you compare across the globe on the Game Center leaderboards. • Complete 98 achievements to track your progress and show off your skills. • Keep game progress and statistics synchronised across your devices with iCloud. • Resume games on launch to pick up where you left off. • Adapted for one-handed play, so it's easy to pick up and play any time, any place. • Entirely free to play, with no content locked behind a paywall and no ads.

Screenshots

Break The Blocks4 screens
Giga4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Giga at 100% against Break The Blocks's 33%. Giga also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (15 vs 2). Break The Blocks's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Giga holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Giga has 15 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Break The Blocks's written reviews are positive against 100% of Giga's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Break The Blocks ships an update every 5 months, Giga every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Break The Blocks versus Giga: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBreak The BlocksGiga
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (2 ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews33.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings215 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS9.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB208 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlan BezzantJames Harding

Customer experience

Break The Blocks

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral33.3%
Negative33.3%

Giga

All ratings15 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Break The Blocks

No in-app purchases

None

Giga

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Break The Blocks free?
Break The Blocks is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Giga free?
Giga is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Break The Blocks or Giga?
Giga is rated higher. Break The Blocks averages 4.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Giga averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Break The Blocks or Giga have ads?
Neither Break The Blocks nor Giga shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Break The Blocks or Giga?
Break The Blocks ships an update every 5 months, and Giga every 2 months. Most recently, Break The Blocks was updated on November 1, 2026 and Giga on November 3, 2026.

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