Comparison

Flow Free vs Polychoron Explorer

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Warp paths across the board
  • Connect matching colors
  • Cover the entire board
  • Hundreds of free puzzles
  • Daily puzzles
  • Time Trial mode
Features
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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!

About

Polychoron Explorer

Features
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Introducing Magic Manycell - a puzzle game inspired by Magic Cube but in 4D. Rotate 4D slices of a Tesseract or 16-Cell to match colors. Comprehend and feel 4D space by watching 4D objects projected into 3D by brand new 4D projection-based rendering engine. Magic Manycell puzzle can be played on 3 different 4D figures -- Tesseract with its Cells divided into 8 cubes 2*2*2, tesseract with cells divided into 3*3*3=27 smaller cubes each, and a 16-cell, which is a regular polychoron with 16 tetrahedral cells, where you have to match colors in 4 cells aligned together. If Magic Manycell puzzle seems too hard at first, you can adjust difficulty by selecting amount of moves (called shuffles) that game creates from the state with all colors perfectly aligned. So as you master elementary 1, 2 and 3 shuffles, you can move on to more challenging puzzles. In addition to starting with less shuffles, with Tesseract based figures players can select to utilize rotations that affects less cells that actual rotation would which makes this puzzle playable to even most casual players (this is the default mode - for only "realistic" rotations select "IRON AN" mode). In addition to Magic Manycell, this game contains Explorer mode without game goal where you can take your time to explore all 6 regular 4D polytopes (called polychorons). You can also customize how polychoron looks by selecting colors for each Cell of it. In Premium version, you can even create your own polychorons by scanning and splitting existing ones into 2 parts. Even though right now there're only 2 modes, more fun games on the same engine are planned to be added in the future into this same app. Game uses Freemium model where free (Demo) functionality is limited. Full functionality is unlockable with one-time purchases, only one for each mode. Demo mode is indicated by watermark so you know that there are some limitations to be expected. However in each mode there is a fully unlocked free functionality - for Magic Manycell, this is 2*2*2 tesseract board, for Explorer it's the 5-cell and Tesseract.

Screenshots

Flow Free4 screens
Polychoron Explorer4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Polychoron Explorer at none against Flow Free's shown. Polychoron Explorer also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 5 months). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Flow Free sells 12 one-off in-app purchases and Polychoron Explorer sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Flow Free ships an update every 5 months, Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flow Free versus Polychoron Explorer: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlow FreePolychoron Explorer
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (5.2K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings5.2K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size64 MB65 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBig Duck Games LLCOLEG LESHCHEV

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

Polychoron Explorer

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

12 purchases

Flow Free

One-time12
  • 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
3 purchases

Polychoron Explorer

One-time3
  • Unlock Explorer$4.99
  • Unlock Magic Manycell$4.99
  • Full Lifetime Unlock$14.99

Questions

Is Flow Free free?
Flow Free is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Polychoron Explorer free?
Polychoron Explorer is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Flow Free or Polychoron Explorer have ads?
Flow Free shows ads; Polychoron Explorer does not.
Which is updated more often, Flow Free or Polychoron Explorer?
Flow Free ships an update every 5 months, and Polychoron Explorer every 3 weeks. Most recently, Flow Free was updated on October 19, 2026 and Polychoron Explorer on October 5, 2026.

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