Comparison

Crime Spot Hidden Objects vs Connect the Dots by Joyce

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
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Crime Spot Hidden Objects

Features
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Mystery Crime Spot Hidden Objects is a game for all hidden friends! Test your observation skills and let's see you can find all hidden objects from the scenes! Features: => Each level you have to find out 10 hidden objects,which is challenging for you! => Hint is available for your help,if You can't find objects! Here we give You 2 hints for free! => Magnifier for zoom function to find objects quickly, you can unlocked through In-App Purchase. => Play carefully don't touch anywhere,every wrong touch you lose score and time! => Game Center is available to challenge your friends! => Share your score on social media like Facebook, twitter, email,etc.. This app is available for iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch! If you like our app, please take a time & rate it! Note: -> Internet Connection is required to play game! -> You can also buy hints from shop by real money!

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Connect the Dots by Joyce

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Connect the matching symbols, fill every square, and don't cross your own lines. That's the whole game. Easy to learn, calming to play. Over 4,700 hand-checked puzzles across 13 board sizes, from a quick 3x3 to a brain-bending 15x15. A fresh batch of 10 each day and 30 each week, so you never run out. Choose "Pick my level" for the sizes you want, or "Surprise me" for any size of random board. Cost? Free. Ads? None. Subscription? None How many boards until I need to upgrade? You get all of them. There is no upgrade. Your data? None of my business. This is a gift to the community. Requested by G.I. at Laney College in Oakland, California: "I always get ads for these games but it's click bait/bail and switch because it's never the game you want to play or as advertised. Essentially you're connecting the color dots or balls and you can't cross lines. Would it be possible to create this game that maybe has different levels? -G.I." Here you go G.I. -- my gift to you and the rest of the community. Happy Father's Day. As usual: No cost. No ads. No data collection. No need for Wi-Fi or cellular data once downloaded. Full privacy as it should be. Thanks for being you and making the world a better place. Enjoy, with my compliments. Joyce Feedback and user experience welcome -- or if you'd like me to pass along a thank-you to G.I. for requesting this: Joyce@Success4ttitude.com It lives in your pocket and asks for so little: a grid and some dots and a path through the middle. Each dot wants its match, marooned on the board -- draw the line that will reach it, taut as a cord. No crossing, no kinking; no cell left bare-- each color a thread drawn home to its pair. A few crack at a touch--half solved as you start; some seize up and hold you and won't come apart, a knot you'd swear hopeless--and then something gives: the whole tangle loosens, and suddenly lives. A plane over ocean. A train underground. A blackout at midnight with no one around. The deck never empties, and won't make you stay, so wherever you wander, there's one more to play. And that certain click when the last dot lands true-- the door's standing open. When you want to, you do. Maybe one more. Or not. Nothing here to be won. A quiet grid, solved clean. A quiet mind. Done.

Screenshots

Crime Spot Hidden Objects4 screens
Connect the Dots by Joyce4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Connect the Dots by Joyce at none against Crime Spot Hidden Objects's 10. Connect the Dots by Joyce also leads on ads (none vs shown). Crime Spot Hidden Objects's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.5). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Crime Spot Hidden Objects sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Connect the Dots by Joyce asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 3 level
Crime Spot Hidden Objects versus Connect the Dots by Joyce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrime Spot Hidden ObjectsConnect the Dots by Joyce
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 19 months—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size49 MB4 MB
Age rating+124+
DeveloperKrunal BhavsarJoyce Sherman

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Crime Spot Hidden Objects

One-time10
  • buy pack-1$0.99
  • buy pack-2$0.99
  • remove Ads$0.99
Show 7 more
  • buy magnifier$0.99
  • buy 10 hints$0.99
  • buy 30 hints$1.99
  • full version (all packs + magnifier + 150 hints)$2.99
  • buy 50 hints$2.99
  • buy 100 hints$3.99
  • buy 200 hints$4.99
None

Connect the Dots by Joyce

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Crime Spot Hidden Objects free?
Crime Spot Hidden Objects is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Connect the Dots by Joyce free?
Connect the Dots by Joyce is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Crime Spot Hidden Objects or Connect the Dots by Joyce have ads?
Crime Spot Hidden Objects shows ads; Connect the Dots by Joyce does not.

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