Flow Free vs Dots Connect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Flow Free
Connect matching colored pipes to create a flow across the board, ensuring no pipes cross or overlap. Solve hundreds of challenging puzzles, with new daily levels available. Enjoy a relaxing or time-trial experience with smooth controls and engaging graphics.
- Warp paths across the board
- Connect matching colors
- Cover the entire board
- Hundreds of free puzzles
- Daily puzzles
- Time Trial mode
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Warps: Discover a new dimension of Flow Free®! Warp paths across the board in this challenging new Flow Free game. Connect matching colors with pipe to create a Flow®. Pair all colors, and cover the entire board to solve each puzzle. But watch out, pipes will break if they cross or overlap! Free play through hundreds of levels, or race against the clock in Time Trial mode. Gameplay ranges from simple and relaxed, to challenging and frenetic, and everywhere in between. How you play is up to you. So, give Flow Free: Warps a try, and experience "mind like water"! Flow Free: Warps features: * Over 2,500 free, warping puzzles! * Daily puzzles: new levels every day, never run out * Carefully crafted, high-quality puzzles ranging from easy to extreme! * Optimized touch controls for smooth, satisfying play * Game Center achievements and cloud sync of your progress * Clean, colorful graphics and fun sound effects Enjoy!
Dots Connect
A captivating puzzle game where you connect three or more dots of the same color. Strategically link dots in any direction to clear the board and generate power-ups. Enjoy endless gameplay with a smooth, colorful interface and fun sound effects.
- Connect 3 or more same-colored dots
- Generate power-ups by connecting 4+ dots
- Multiple boost types for clearing dots
- Dots with numbers recover moves
- Game Center integration
- Smooth touch controls
- Colorful UI and fun sound effects
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Dots Connect is a simple yet addictive puzzle game Explore the unique game play of joining 3 dots with the same colour together The game is endless play time and the moves are all dependant on how its strategically being used. The Game can be stroke in any direction as long its connected in a single direction line. Power boost are generated upon combining 4 or more dots together to allow faster clearing of the area. *** Dots Connect Features are below *** * Connecting 3 or more dots to clear it * Connecting more then 4 dots will help spawn power boost * Multiple boost to help clear the dots depending the type of boost * Dots with numbers are used to recover more moves if its life its used up * Game Centre Integration * Look & Feel - Smooth and polished touch - Colourful UI - Fun sound effects. Give Dots Connect a try.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Flow Free at 82% against Dots Connect's 39%. Flow Free also leads on rating (4.7 vs 2.6) and ratings volume (5.2K vs 25). Dots Connect's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 12) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 months). 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. Flow Free sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Dots Connect asks for nothing beyond the download.
Flow Free holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flow Free has 5.2K ratings behind it against 25, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Flow Free's written reviews are positive against 39% of Dots Connect's.
Flow Free ships an update every 5 months, Dots Connect every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 22, 2026.
| Parameter | Flow Free | Dots Connect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (5.2K ratings) — better | 2.6 (25 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better | 39.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5.2K — better | 25 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | 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 | 13.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Big Duck Games LLC | SikYi Chan |
Customer experience
Flow Free
Dots Connect
Bugs and requests
Flow Free
Reported bugs
2 issues- Ads causing app freezes
- Inability to close ads or return to game
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and packs
- Ability to connect dots through warps
- Option to disable flashing/bouncing completion indicators
- Separate names for each Flow Free game
- Ability to share/compete puzzles with friends
Dots Connect
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Flow Free
- 5 Hints$0.99
- Pastel Colors$0.99
- Neon Rainbow Colors$0.99
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- Fall Harvest Colors$0.99
- Winter Chill Colors$0.99
- Starter Bundle$1.99
- Unlock All Themes$1.99
- Comet Pack$1.99
- Kids Pack$1.99
- 20 Hints$2.99
- Unlock All Packs$4.99
- 100 Hints$9.99
Dots Connect
No in-app purchases
