Join The Dots vs SherlockForms
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Join The Dots
Test your reaction time and strategic thinking in this mesmerizing connection game. Connect all the dots before they disappear, while avoiding obstacles, to earn a high score and unlock new themes.
- Connect all dots
- Avoid squares
- High score challenges
- Unlockable themes
- Star collection
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In Join The Dots, a simply mesmerizing game of connection, you’ll put your frantic reaction time and quick strategic thinking to the test. Join all the dots together before they leave the screen, while avoiding the squares. Simple, tension producing, and entrancing, work to earn a high score and unlock more themes as you go by collecting stars during gameplay.
SherlockForms
A simple game designed to help visually impaired children identify shapes. It progresses through levels with increasingly smaller shapes, aiding supervisors in assessing visual acuity while keeping children engaged.
- Shape identification challenges
- Progressive difficulty with smaller shapes
- Visual acuity assessment tool
- Engaging gameplay for children
- Designed for visually impaired users
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This little game is geared towards visually impaired children. The player is tasked to find a specific shape in a set of various other shapes. Over the course of the levels the shapes get smaller and smaller. The intention is to enable a supervisor to more easily asses the child's approximate visual acuity; all the while keeping the child entertained.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Join The Dots at 3.7 against SherlockForms's 1.0. Join The Dots also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 12 months) and ratings volume (12 vs 1). SherlockForms's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Join The Dots sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SherlockForms asks for nothing beyond the download.
Join The Dots holds the better App Store score, 3.7 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Join The Dots has 12 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Join The Dots ships an update fortnightly, SherlockForms every 12 months. The most recent releases landed on August 18, 2026 and June 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Join The Dots | SherlockForms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (12 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 94.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 12 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ezone.com | Amicale du Personel de l'institut pour Deficients Visuels |
Customer experience
Join The Dots
SherlockForms
In-app purchases
Join The Dots
- Star Doubler$1.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
SherlockForms
No in-app purchases
