Pricing
Everything in GameJar is free right now.
Every game in the jar, every daily puzzle, the two-player games, the family scoreboard and the home-screen install. No subscription, no in-app purchase, no ads, and nothing anywhere in the app that asks a kid for money.
What free covers
8 games- Free
Mini Crossword
A 5x5 grid, a new one every day. Check a letter when you get stuck.
- Free
Guess the Word
One word a day, six tries. Then practise as long as you like.
- Free
Picture Logic
The numbers say what to fill in. Get it right and a picture turns up.
- Free
Connect Four
Two players on one phone, or take on the computer. Four in a row wins.
- Free
Dots & Boxes
Draw a line, close a box, go again. Pass-and-play or vs. the computer.
- Free
Salvo
Hide four ships. Find theirs first. No peeking when you pass it over.
- Free
2048
Slide, merge, chase a high score. No timer, nothing to buy.
- Free
Mini Sudoku
4x4 for a quick win, 9x9 when someone wants a real fight.
If a paid shelf ever happens
More games will be added to the jar over time, and some of the later ones may end up on a second, paid shelf - bigger games that take real work to build. It would be new games and only new games: one would arrive as its own cartridge, locked and labelled, next to the free ones. Nothing would start charging quietly, and nothing your family already plays would move behind it.
The six games GameJar launched with stay free. That is not a launch promise with an expiry date on it: those six are named in the code, and a test fails the build if one of them is moved off the free tier.
Everything added since is free as well, including Picture Logic and Salvo. That one is a statement about today rather than a promise about always - which is the honest way round, and why it is written separately.
What free does not mean here
It does not mean ads, and it does not mean your family is the product. There are no adverts, no advertising identifiers and no third-party trackers on any screen. Player profiles and scores stay on the device unless a parent signs in to sync them, and nothing about a child is sold, rented or handed to anyone. The privacy page sets out exactly what that covers.
Today
There is nothing to buy, and no way to pay for anything even if you wanted to. No cart, no plan picker, no card details to enter, no trial that turns into a charge, and nowhere on this site to leave an email address. This page is the whole of the pricing.
The terms say the same thing in the language a lawyer would use.