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The full editorial archive — every review and roundup the App Comrade desk has published, newest first.
Idle Miner Tycoon still runs the genre it helped define.
Kolibri's 2016 mine-shaft incremental is older than most of its imitators and tighter than most of its successors — the loops still hook, the ad prompts still grate.
MAY 10, 2026
Credit One's app is better than the cards it manages.
A genuinely well-built mobile banking client wrapped around a subprime credit product whose fees are the actual story.
MAY 10, 2026
Toon Blast is the casual puzzle Peak Games tuned into a cash register.
A bright tap-match puzzler whose mechanics are sharp and whose monetisation is sharper. Free to start, expensive to keep playing on a bad night.
MAY 10, 2026
Dave makes payday advances feel almost civilized.
A $1 monthly membership unlocks ExtraCash advances up to $500 with no interest. The marketing implies a bank — Dave is a fintech, and the difference matters when something goes wrong.
MAY 10, 2026
Solitaire Grand Harvest dresses up tripeaks with a farm and a meter.
Playtika's free-to-play tripeaks variant wraps a competent card engine in a farming meta-layer. The cards are fine. The energy timer is the actual game.
MAY 10, 2026
Google Opinion Rewards pays you in spare change for being honest.
Short surveys from one of the largest market-research operations on earth, with a payout model on iOS that is meaningfully worse than the Android version it grew up as.
MAY 10, 2026
Brawl Stars spent a year reinventing itself and it worked.
Supercell's three-minute MOBA-shooter has more than 60 brawlers, a serious esports league, and a 2024 overhaul that pulled lapsed players back. The monetisation is still the catch.
MAY 10, 2026
Call of Duty: Mobile is the rare phone shooter that respects your thumbs.
Six years in, the TiMi-built spin-off is still the most generous free shooter on iPhone — provided you can ignore the slot machine bolted to the side.
MAY 10, 2026
Mario Kart Tour is a frozen museum of a mobile racer.
Nintendo and DeNA's pocket kart racer outgrew its gacha sins, then stopped getting new content entirely. What's left is a playable archive with thumb controls.
MAY 10, 2026
Dragon Ball Legends still wins the real-time fight, eight years in.
Bandai Namco's swipe-and-tap PvP card brawler keeps the franchise's biggest roster on a phone screen, and the live one-on-ones remain the only reason it matters.
MAY 10, 2026
BitLife turns the choose-your-own-adventure into a casual-game empire.
Candywriter's text-only life simulator keeps adding careers, royalty arcs, and crime ladders without ever pretending to be more than a list of buttons. That restraint is the point.
MAY 10, 2026
AFK Arena turns idle-RPG progression into a long, patient grind.
Lilith's hero-collector keeps earning while you sleep, but the auto-battler ceiling and gacha pulls eventually decide how far the free path goes.
MAY 10, 2026
Cash Frenzy dresses up a coin-treadmill in Vegas neon.
SpinX Games' social-casino hit nails the slot-machine sheen, but the loop underneath is built to ask you for money more than to entertain.
MAY 10, 2026
Hooked Inc turns idle fishing into a tidy little tycoon loop.
Lion Studios' free-to-play trawler sim is structured, generous in its early hours, and frank about where the wallet door lives.
MAY 10, 2026
Line-3 turns a centuries-old board game into a ray-traced pocket puzzle.
Nicolas Schulz's tiny indie reskins Picaria — the Native American ancestor of Tic-Tac-Toe — as a 15-round score chase rendered with realtime ray tracing on iOS.
MAY 10, 2026
WISH-TV's app is the rare local-news client that earns its install.
Indianapolis viewers rate Circle City Broadcasting's standalone news app well above the local-TV-app average, and the reasons hold up.
MAY 10, 2026
Episode: Reality Stars turns the franchise's tap-to-choose formula toward red-carpet melodrama.
Pocket Gems' interactive-fiction spin-off keeps the gem-and-ticket model intact and bets that fame fantasies still pull harder than haunted mansions.
MAY 10, 2026
MONOPOLY GO! turns the family board game into a slot machine you can't put down.
Scopely's mobile reskin keeps the colors and the cat token, then routes everything else through dice timers, sticker albums, and rotating events designed to keep your thumb moving.
MAY 10, 2026
Temu turned shopping into a slot machine you keep losing track of.
PDD Holdings' export app has the catalogue and the prices. It also has the spinning wheels, the countdowns, and a notification cadence that treats your lock screen as inventory.
MAY 10, 2026
Temple Run: Legends is the endless runner without the begging.
Imangi's Apple Arcade-only sequel strips out the ads, the gem shops, and the energy meters — what's left is the running, which was always the good part.
MAY 10, 2026
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