Hexa Drops vs Puzzlette
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hexa Drops
A calming 3D puzzle game where you rotate tiles to connect paths through vibrant mazes. Enjoy a stress-free experience with no time limits, allowing you to solve each challenge at your own pace.
- 3D tile rotation
- Colorful mazes
- Path creation puzzles
- Relaxing gameplay
- No time limits
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Unlock 3D is a relaxing puzzle game where your goal is to rotate the tiles and create a path for through dozens of colorful mazes. You have all the time in the world to solve each one of them, so sit back, relax and enjoy the experience!
Puzzlette
Fill palettes with colorful paint pieces to reveal classic masterpieces. This game offers a relaxing artistic experience with varying difficulty levels and randomly generated puzzles for endless replayability.
- Fill palettes with paint pieces
- Reveal classic paintings
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Randomly generated puzzles
- 100 stages
- Hints available
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Puzzlette is a puzzle game and yet an artistic experience as well. It’s simple. You just fill up the palette with paint pieces, and each time you do, colorful pieces are painted on the canvas. Eventually a complete classic painting appears. This game is designed for everyone from children to puzzle lovers. Number of pieces on each palette (4 to 8) determines difficulty like jigsaw puzzles, and each level requires different number of puzzles to complete a painting. 4 pieces - 16 puzzles (Easy) 5 pieces - 14 puzzles 6 pieces - 12 puzzles 7 pieces - 10 puzzles 8 pieces - 8 puzzles (Hard) Paintings to complete are classic works of Impressionism and other different styles. You will encounter familiar ones while playing. Puzzles are randomly generated at each play, so you can enjoy your favorite stages many times. Of course there are hints available for every puzzle. Let’s give it a try! - 100 stages (paintings) - 5 levels of difficulty (4/5/6/7/8 pieces) - 2 hints available for each puzzle - Adjustable paint speed - Different puzzles at each play
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Puzzlette at none against Hexa Drops's 1. Puzzlette also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Hexa Drops's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 months). On price 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. Hexa Drops sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Puzzlette asks for nothing beyond the download.
Puzzlette holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hexa Drops has 96 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Hexa Drops ships an update weekly, Puzzlette every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hexa Drops | Puzzlette |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (96 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 3 months |
| 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 | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 129 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | RadPirates | Naohiko Mogami |
Customer experience
Hexa Drops
Puzzlette
In-app purchases
Hexa Drops
- Remove Ads$2.99
Puzzlette
No in-app purchases
