Puzzolo vs Hexiconic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Puzzolo
Engage your mind with challenging word puzzles. Rearrange and rotate pieces to uncover hidden words and solve increasingly difficult levels. Offers hundreds of puzzles, daily challenges, and the ability to create and share your own.
- Solve brain-twisting word puzzles
- Arrange and rotate puzzle pieces
- Hundreds of new puzzles
- Daily puzzle challenges
- Hints and clues provided
- Create custom puzzles
- Send puzzles with secret messages
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Solve brain twisting word puzzles with Puzzolo. Arrange puzzle pieces to solve each level. Puzzle pieces can be moved and rotated. Puzzolo starts out easy but quickly becomes very challenging. Can you solve them all? * NEW - Puzzolo Playground - 100s of new puzzles for you to solve. * 300+ Puzzles * Daily puzzle * Hints and Clues Help You Solve Puzzles * Rotate Puzzle Pieces to Find Hidden Words * Create Custom Puzzles * Send Puzzles with Secret Messages to Friends!
Hexiconic
A relaxing word puzzle game where you form words from a hexagonal grid. With thousands of levels and no timers, it offers a calming experience to sharpen your vocabulary and progress at your own pace.
- Hexagonal word building
- Thousands of handcrafted puzzles
- No timers or pressure
- Unlock new chapters
- Earn gems for hints
- Satisfying wordplay
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Hexiconic is a relaxing word puzzle where hexagons meet your lexicon. Build words from a 7-letter honeycomb, uncover hidden answers, and reach the score goal to complete each level. With 5,000+ handcrafted puzzles, Hexiconic is made for players who want more than a once-a-day challenge. Keep playing, keep progressing, and unlock new chapters at your own pace. There are no timers and no pressure. Just satisfying wordplay, steady progression, and a clean, calming experience you can enjoy anywhere. Find extra words to earn gems, then use them for hints when a puzzle has you stuck. Whether you love spelling games, anagrams, crosswords, or word searches, Hexiconic gives you a rewarding way to sharpen your vocabulary and stay in the flow.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Hexiconic at none against Puzzolo's 4. Hexiconic also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Puzzolo's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (35 vs 10). On price, review sentiment 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. Puzzolo sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Hexiconic asks for nothing beyond the download.
Hexiconic holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 35 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Puzzolo's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hexiconic's.
Puzzolo ships an update every 2 weeks, Hexiconic every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Puzzolo | Hexiconic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (35 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 96.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 35 — better | 10 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | EZOT, Inc. | Cameron Chandler |
Customer experience
Puzzolo
Hexiconic
Bugs and requests
Puzzolo
Reported bugs
3 issues- Hints not delivered after purchase
- Daily puzzles stuck on previous dates
- Lost progress after reinstalling app
Requested features
5 requests- More variety on subjects
- Allow music to play with the app open
- More hints available
- Update to add new puzzles
- Sign-in option to restore progress
Hexiconic
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Puzzolo
- Pack of 10 Hints$0.99
- Pack of 50 Hints$2.99
- Pack of 100 Hints$4.99
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- Pack of 250 hints$9.99
Hexiconic
No in-app purchases
