hocus. vs Plumber
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
hocus.
Engage with a collection of mind-bending puzzles featuring impossible shapes. Create and share your own levels, or get assistance from AI when you're stuck. Explore both handcrafted challenges and an endless mode.
- 120 mind-bending handcrafted levels
- Create and share custom levels
- Load levels from pictures
- Endless mode
- AI-assisted gameplay
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hocus. is celebrating 10th year; Let artificial intelligence design new levels for you. You can even get help from her if you get stuck. Best Games on iPhone; Russia, South Africa, Turkey, Middle East New, polished, mind-bending, impossible shapes. Features: • 120 mind-bending hand-craft levels • Create/share your own levels • Load / take picture of levels cards • Endless mode • Shortest path algorithm
Plumber
Connect pipes to guide water to a thirsty flower in this free puzzle game. Strategically rotate pipe pieces to create a complete path and solve increasingly challenging levels. Enjoy HD graphics and intuitive gameplay with a helpful hint system.
- Connect pipes to deliver water
- Rotate pipe pieces
- 120 levels
- Intuitive gameplay
- Hint system
- HD graphics
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Plumber: Pipe Classic is a free puzzle game with really nice graphics in which you will have to save a nice little flower which needs water in the desert. Simply turn the different pipe pieces by touching them and connect all of them to make a complete pipe make the water reach the flower ! HOW TO PLAY • Use all pipe on the board to connect them. • Touch to move. FEATURES - 120 levels - Intuitive gameplay - Hint system - HD graphics - New Item on Each Land This game is really fun and requires strategy to fix the pipeline in as few movements as possible to become the best Plumber in the desert!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Plumber at Free against hocus.'s $1.99. Plumber also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.3). hocus.'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 8) and chart position (#56 vs unranked). On ads 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
Plumber is free to download; hocus. costs $1.99 up front. Plumber sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. hocus. asks for nothing beyond the download.
Plumber holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 234 and 56 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 87% of hocus.'s written reviews are positive against 76% of Plumber's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
hocus. ships an update every 5 weeks, Plumber every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 30, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | hocus. | Plumber |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.3 (234 ratings) | 4.7 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews — better | 75.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 234 — better | 56 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #56 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 109 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GAMEBRAIN YAZILIM TEKNOLOJILERI ANONIM SIRKETI | Flowriz LLC |
Customer experience
hocus.
Plumber
In-app purchases
hocus.
No in-app purchases
Plumber
- Pack 1$0.99
- Purchase Chicago$0.99
- Purchase New York$0.99
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- pack 2$1.99
- pack3$2.99
- pack4$9.99
- Remove Ads$9.99
- English$9.99
