Tricky Pipes vs Flappy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tricky Pipes
Navigate a challenging world filled with randomly generated traps. Control your character with simple arrow keys to move and jump through 30 perilous pipes. Your goal is to reach Princess Bird and escape the treacherous environment.
- Randomly generated traps
- 30 challenging pipes
- Simple arrow controls
- Jump and move mechanics
- Reach Princess Bird
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The world of Tricky Pipes is full of traps! Each time you die new traps are randomly generated. You need to pass 30 pipes to reach princess Bird! Can you do it? [Controls] Use left and right arrows to move. Use up arrow to jump.
Flappy
Experience classic arcade-style helicopter gameplay with new challenges. Navigate through obstacles in two distinct modes: a more difficult normal mode and a cave mode with added hazards. Relive the nostalgia of the original game with enhanced features.
- Tap and hold to ascend
- Release to descend
- Normal mode with increased difficulty
- Cave mode with obstacles
- Classic game mode
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FLAPPY RETURNS! Now with 2 new modes! NORMAL: Tap and hold to ascend. Let go to descend. Way harder than the original! CAVE: Tap and hold to ascend, let go to descend, while trying to avoid obstacles! CLASSIC: The classic is back and it's better than ever!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Flappy at none against Tricky Pipes's shown. Flappy also leads on update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 4 months) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). Tricky Pipes's advantage is rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and ratings volume (313 vs 46). On price, review sentiment, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tricky Pipes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tricky Pipes has 313 ratings behind it against 46, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 63% of Tricky Pipes's written reviews are positive against 71% of Flappy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tricky Pipes ships an update every 4 months, Flappy every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tricky Pipes | Flappy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (313 ratings) — better | 4.3 (46 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.3% of reviews | 70.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 313 — better | 46 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 6 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 151 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dan-ionut Chis | KILLERBIT LLC |
Customer experience
Tricky Pipes
Flappy
Bugs and requests
Tricky Pipes
Reported bugs
6 issues- Controls are not right
- Random stages can make progress impossible
- Textures block movement at level start
- Levels are impossible to beat
- Game has innumerable bugs
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- Glitch skips throughout every level
Requested features
5 requests- Add a timer for speedruns
- Way to save last game for speedruns
- Add a scoreboard for competition
- Create an easier mode
- Make more games like this, maybe with a dog
Flappy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tricky Pipes
No in-app purchases
Flappy
No in-app purchases
