Comparison

PathPix Wild vs Flow Free

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

Head to head
About

PathPix Wild

This game offers 150 large-scale puzzles with varying difficulty levels, featuring beautiful imagery and engaging quotes. Designed for experienced players, it provides hours of challenging gameplay.

Highlights
  • 150 giant puzzles
  • Easy, Medium, and Hard areas
  • Beautiful images
  • Wise or witty quotes
  • Puzzles up to 27,000 squares
  • Designed for experienced solvers
Features
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Want more PathPix? Love to explore? PathPix Wild will keep you wandering in a wilderness of paths for a LONG time! 150 GIANT puzzles offer Easy, Medium and Hard areas in every puzzle. All kinds of wild - not just wild animals. Beautiful images and wise or witty quotes will reward your correct solutions.  These puzzles are BIG!!! Puzzles range in size from 7488 squares (64x117) to 27,000 squares (200x135), with an average size of over 10,000 squares (100x100). Each puzzle is a giant canvas - puzzle your way through it to paint the finished picture. Needless to say, PathPix Wild is for experienced solvers ONLY!!! New to PathPix? Not sure which PathPix to buy? All puzzles are different. Here's the lineup: ---PATHPIX LITE: Wondering if PathPix is for you? Start here. It's free! ---PATHPIX: Hooked? This is the next step, with 189 graduated levels, ranging from small, easy puzzles to large, advanced level puzzles. ---PATHPIX PRO: Are you an expert? Looking for a LOT of puzzles? Then PathPix Pro is for you, with 320 puzzles ranging from Medium difficulty to Extreme. ---PATHPIX ZEN: Relaxing and addictive! 99 beautiful puzzles, including an Advanced section with 12 special challengers. ---PATHPIX JOY: Keep smiling! 99 puzzles = many happy hours of PathPix fun. Small to large, easy to advanced - you'll find it all here. ---PATHPIX MAGIC: Magic of all kinds! 99 puzzles, small to huge, easy to advanced. ---PATHPIX LAUGH: Lots more puzzles to tickle your funnybone. 202 puzzles, each with a silly joke or quote related to the puzzle picture. Small to large, easy to extreme. ---PATHPIX BOO: Silly - spooky - scary - fun! 99 puzzles for Halloween and other dark nights. ---PATHPIX XMAS: 99 puzzles with a Christmas theme to get you in the mood for the holidays. Whether you are looking for sentiment or silliness, you will find it here. ---PATHPIX LOVE: All you need is love! 99 puzzles, easy to advanced. ---PATHPIX MAX: Some of the biggest PathPix puzzles ever. 114 GIANT-sized puzzles, over a million squares total! ---PATHPIX ART: MAXimum fun - 150 HUGE puzzles based on famous paintings, including the biggest PathPix puzzles ever made. ---PATHPIX THANKS: 99 puzzles for Thanks Giving. Easy to Expert. ---PATHPIX EDGE: Live on the edge! None of these puzzles are rectangular. 180 puzzles, all different shapes, from teeny to gigantic, easy to expert. ---PATHPIX ALICE: The original Alice comes to life as you puzzle your way through 42 truly gigantic, colorful, and FUN illustrations for Lewis Carroll's masterpiece novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puzzles are based on the classic Tenniel illustrations. Complete book included. ---PATHPIX TIME: 99 forward-looking puzzles to welcome the New Year and beyond. Small to large, easy to expert. ---PATHPIX COLOR: 150 HUGE puzzles in all the colors of the rainbow. Easy, medium, and hard sections in every puzzle. ---PATHPIX OZ: Bring Dorothy and her friends to life as you solve 148 huge and colorful puzzles based on the classic illustrations for 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'. More than 1 million squares to solve. Complete book included. ---PATHPIX HEX: PathPix with a difference: the paths wander about on a grid of 6-sided cells (hexagons) . Warning: twisty paths make for tricky puzzles! 179 puzzles, easy to extreme. ---PATHPIX BUBBLE: PathPix with a difference: wild and wacky paths on a special grid with squares and rectangles of different sizes. 160 puzzles, easy to challenging. ---PATHPIX WILD: 150 GIANT puzzles - a wilderness for you to explore. Can you tame these puzzles? Or will they tame YOU? PathPix Wild is based on the PC game "PathPix" by Kris Pixton and KpixGames.

About

Flow Free

Connect matching colored pipes to fill the board and solve puzzles. Avoid crossing pipes to complete each level. Offers hundreds of free puzzles with varying difficulty, plus daily challenges and a timed mode.

Highlights
  • Connect matching colors
  • Cover the entire board
  • Hundreds of shaped puzzles
  • Daily new levels
  • Time Trial mode
  • Game Center achievements
  • Cloud sync
Features
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Flow Free® reimagined: Infinite possibilities! If you like Flow Free, you'll love Flow Free: Shapes! 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: Shapes a try, and experience "mind like water"! Flow Free: Shapes features: * Over 4,000 free, shaped 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!

Screenshots

PathPix Wild4 screens
Flow Free4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Flow Free at Free against PathPix Wild's $3.99. Flow Free also leads on ratings volume (14K vs 95). PathPix Wild's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 18) and ads (none vs shown). On rating 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

Flow Free is free to download; PathPix Wild costs $3.99 up front. Flow Free sells 18 one-off in-app purchases. PathPix Wild asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for PathPix Wild against 4.8 for Flow Free. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flow Free has 14K ratings behind it against 95, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of PathPix Wild's written reviews are positive against 82% of Flow Free's.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PathPix Wild versus Flow Free: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPathPix WildFlow Free
Price$3.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (95 ratings) — better4.8 (14K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better81.8% of reviews
Number of ratings9514K — better
Update frequency—Every 7 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB79 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKris PixtonBig Duck Games LLC

Customer experience

PathPix Wild

All ratings93 ratings
Positive98.9%
Neutral1.1%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Flow Free

All ratings13,103 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral1.9%
Negative1.4%
Written reviews395 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral5.8%
Negative12.4%

Bugs and requests

PathPix Wild

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Flow Free

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Accidental hint usage due to button placement
  • Visibility issues with overlapping paths in 3D levels

Requested features

3 requests
  • Restore original UI layout from previous Flow Free games
  • Option to disable in-app purchase prompts
  • Forward/backward level navigation

In-app purchases

None

PathPix Wild

No in-app purchases

18 purchases

Flow Free

One-time18
  • 5 Hints$0.99
  • Spring Greens Colors$0.99
  • Fall Harvest Colors$0.99
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  • Pastel Colors$0.99
  • Neon Rainbow Colors$0.99
  • Winter Chill Colors$0.99
  • Jumbo Oval 2$1.99
  • Circle Pack 2$1.99
  • 8x8 Cube Mania$1.99
  • Kids Pack$1.99
  • Starter Bundle$1.99
  • Unlock All Themes$1.99
  • Extreme Alley 2$1.99
  • 5x5 Cube Mania$1.99
  • Cube Pack 2$1.99
  • 20 Hints$2.99
  • Unlock All Packs & Remove Ads$4.99
  • 100 Hints$9.99

Questions

Is PathPix Wild free?
PathPix Wild costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flow Free free?
Flow Free is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PathPix Wild or Flow Free?
PathPix Wild is rated higher. PathPix Wild averages 5.0 out of 5 from 95 ratings, while Flow Free averages 4.8 from 14K ratings.
Do PathPix Wild or Flow Free have ads?
Flow Free shows ads; PathPix Wild does not.

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