Comparison

Cube Loop Puzzle 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
About

Cube Loop Puzzle

A smart puzzle game where you connect cubes of the same color by swiping. It offers easy levels for casual fun and challenging ones to test your intellect. An optional in-app purchase unlocks more games and unlimited hints.

Highlights
  • Connect same-colored cubes
  • Swipe to turn cubes
  • Color other cubes by swiping
  • Easy and hard levels
  • Unlimited hints (in-app purchase)
  • Additional games (in-app purchase)
Features
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Cube Loop is a smart puzzle game. Easy levels for pure fun, hard levels to tease your brain. Connect all the cubes of the same color. Swipe over the screen to turn the cube. Swipe over a colored cube to color other cubes. Only one in app purchase for more games and unlimited hints.

About

Connect the Dots by Joyce

Features
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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

Cube Loop Puzzle4 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 Cube Loop Puzzle's 5. Cube Loop Puzzle's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 26.5). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Cube Loop Puzzle sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Connect the Dots by Joyce asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Cube Loop Puzzle versus Connect the Dots by Joyce: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCube Loop PuzzleConnect the Dots by Joyce
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better26.5
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMarcelo ParsJoyce Sherman

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Cube Loop Puzzle

One-time5
  • Games Hints No Ads$1.99
  • Donate a coffee$1.99
  • 150 EXTRA LEVELS + UNLIMITED HINTS$1.99
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  • Donate an ice cream$2.99
  • Donate a muffin$6.99
None

Connect the Dots by Joyce

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cube Loop Puzzle free?
Cube Loop Puzzle 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 Cube Loop Puzzle or Connect the Dots by Joyce have ads?
Neither Cube Loop Puzzle nor Connect the Dots by Joyce shows ads.

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