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REVIEW
Trivia Crack is still the spinner that kicked off async-trivia.
Etermax's 2014 charts-topper has survived a decade of clones by keeping the wheel, the mascots, and the seven-minute multiplayer loop largely intact.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 4 MIN READ
Trivia Crack: Brain Quiz Games
ETERMAX
OUR SCORE
7.4
APPLE
★ 4.6
PRICE
Free
Trivia Crack hit the top of the U.S. App Store in early 2015 and stayed there long enough to make Etermax — a Buenos Aires studio nobody outside Argentina had heard of — briefly one of the most-downloaded developers on iOS. The hook was a wheel, six cartoon mascots, and an async-multiplayer pacing model that let you keep a dozen matches running with friends without ever sitting down to a “session.”
A decade later, that same loop is still there. The wheel still spins, Tina still wants you to identify a Klimt, and the seven-minute turn structure that made the game work on a commute still does. What’s changed is everything around it: more ads, more bundles, a battle-pass-shaped event calendar, and a subscription tier that didn’t exist when the app went viral.
The wheel, the mascots, the steal-a-crown finish — none of it has aged, because none of it was ever fashionable.
The wheel, the mascots, the steal-a-crown finish — none of it has aged, because none of it was ever fashionable.
FEATURES
The core loop is unchanged from 2014. Spin a wheel, land on one of six category mascots — Tina for Art, Bonzo for Entertainment, Hector for History, Pop for Sports, Tito for Geography, Albert for Science — and answer a multiple-choice question against an opponent. Get it right, keep spinning; get it wrong, hand the turn over. First to collect all six character crowns wins the match.
Matches are asynchronous by default. You take your turn, the app waits for the other player to come back, and a finished round can stretch over a couple of days without breaking. Push notifications nudge the silent side. Live one-on-one games exist in a separate mode for players who want a fixed sitting.
Lives gate how many rounds you can start at once; coins buy boosters (extra time, 50/50, swap question) and cosmetic packs. There's a daily free spin, an event ladder of seasonal tournaments, and the long-running side modes — Triviathon, Classic, and the team-based Trivia Crack Kingdoms.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The questions are still the strongest thing in the genre. The pool is enormous, crowd-sourced and editor-vetted, and rotates fast enough that you don't see the same item twice in a week of casual play. Translations across the supported languages are clean, which most trivia clones still get badly wrong.
The async pacing is the other thing that's aged well. You can keep a dozen matches running with friends in three countries and never feel like you owe anyone an immediate response. Few mobile games respect a player's time the way Trivia Crack's seven-minute turns do.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Monetisation has crept up since the original release. Interstitial ads between rounds are aggressive on the free tier, the lives system pushes harder toward the no-ads subscription than it used to, and the cosmetic store now stacks limited-time bundles in a way that reads more like a slot machine than a quiz game.
The question pool also shows its centre of gravity. Sports, Entertainment, and Geography lean U.S.- and Latin America-heavy; History and Science are stronger but still skew toward the kind of fact a 2014 quizmaster would have written. Players outside those reference frames hit the same dozen rotating questions faster than they should.
CONCLUSION
Anyone who played the original in 2014 will find the 2026 build instantly familiar — which is both the appeal and the limit. If you want a trivia game you can dip into for three minutes between meetings, this is still the cleanest version of that shape on iOS. If you want a quiz that respects an adult's attention span without a coin economy in front of it, look at QuizUp's successors or a paid pub-quiz app instead.