Rubik's Connected vs Plotline
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rubik's Connected
This app transforms the classic cube into a smart, connected experience. It offers interactive tutorials for beginners, advanced analytics for experienced players, and competitive online leagues. Enjoy casual games using the cube as a controller, making it accessible and fun for everyone.
- Interactive solving tutorials
- Advanced performance statistics
- Online cubing league and competitions
- Casual games using cube as controller
- Real-time feedback and guidance
- Multiplayer matches and leaderboards
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Rubik's Connected is the classic cube reimagined and redesigned for the 21st century - a Smart and Connected Cube. With its new technology, the Smart Cube offers a new and exciting playing experience for all levels of players, all ages and all capabilities. Including fun interactive tutorials for beginners, statistics and challenges for players who wish to level up their game, and the world's first online cubing league and competition, turning the Rubik's Cube into a social connected world. More than that, Rubik's Connected offers casual games that use the cube as a controller, enabling anyone to enjoy the classic toy, even if they are not interested in learning how to solve it. Learn (for beginners) - A fun interactive tutorial will safely guide you through the world's most known puzzles secrets. The tutorials breaks the complex solving challenge into small fun mini-steps, and includes videos, tips and real time feedback (from the Rubik's in your hands, to the virtual one on your screen). Improve (for intermediates & pros) - Practice and monitor your progress with advanced stats and analytics. The App measures your play down to the milliseconds. It provides accurate data for your solve time, speed, and moves. The App will automatically identify your solving algorithm, and will provide you the relevant measurement for each individual step in it. Compete (for all levels) - The App matches include various playing modes, from fun scrambling competitions (spaceship racing for all levels) to pro's versus battle matches. Get into the world's first leaderboard, and join live competitions. Play against your friends or vs strangers. To ensure a fair match, The App recognizes the starting position of each player and guides them through a unique set of moves to reach a common starting position. Play- Mini-games, missions and third party games incorporate various aspects of cubing in order to improve handling skills, instincts, or simple games for pure fun. Rubik's Connected is a one-of-a-kind smart connected speed cube, for many hours of fun! Connect your Smart Rubik's to your iPhone or iPad, and start cubing NOW! * Be sure that your device meets the following minimum requirements: iPhone 6s or higher Bluetooth version 4.1 or higher.
Plotline
A collaborative storytelling game where friends write parts of a story without seeing each other's contributions. The result is often absurd and hilarious fiction, inspired by a classic parlor game. It's best played in person with a group.
- Blind collaborative writing
- Absurd and hilarious fiction creation
- Inspired by parlor games
- Host shares room code
- Join from any browser
- Competitive mode with voting
- Awards ceremony for top creators
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Nobody knows what anyone else is writing. That's the whole point. Plotline is a collaborative storytelling game where you and your friends each write one piece of a story — without seeing what anyone else wrote. The result? Absurd, hilarious, completely unhinged fiction that somehow holds together. Inspired by the Victorian parlor game Consequences, Plotline turns a group of friends into unwitting co-authors. One person writes the characters. Someone else sets the scene. Another adds the action. A fourth writes the dialogue. Nobody sees what came before — until it's all read aloud. -- How it works: One player hosts and shares a room code. Everyone joins from their phone. Guests join from any browser — only the host needs the app. Each round, you write one prompt for one story. Seven rounds later, players take turns reading the assembled stories aloud while everyone tries not to lose it. Free for up to 10 players. -- Upgrade to Producer and take the show further: Competitive Mode — vote on the best line from each story, deploy your one Standing Ovation per game for something truly exceptional, and play a 3 or 5-game series with persistent standings Awards Ceremony — after the final game, crown your group's most twisted creative genius across seven categories: Casting Director, Scene Stealer, Speechwriter, Closer, Fan Favorite, Popularity, and Line of the Series Every great show needs a producer. -- Best played in person. Even better with drinks.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Plotline at 5.0 against Rubik's Connected's 4.4. Plotline also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 65%) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months). Rubik's Connected's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 2). 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. Plotline sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Rubik's Connected asks for nothing beyond the download.
Plotline holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Rubik's Connected has 1.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 65% of Rubik's Connected's written reviews are positive against 100% of Plotline's.
Rubik's Connected ships an update every 4 months, Plotline every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rubik's Connected | Plotline |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 484 MB | 40 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Particula Ltd | BRANDON KEITH MOON |
Customer experience
Rubik's Connected
Plotline
Bugs and requests
Rubik's Connected
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when low battery notification appears
- Incorrect solve detection even when the cube is solved
- Scramble mismatch between physical cube and app
- Sync issues causing the app to show the wrong cube state
Requested features
5 requests- Add tutorials for advanced solving methods (e.g. CFOP)
- Improve the matching system to pair players of similar skill levels
- Implement a landscape mode for better visibility on tablets
- Allow users to view and practice specific algorithms
- Provide an offline mode for solo practice
Plotline
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Rubik's Connected
No in-app purchases
Plotline
- Producer$3.99
Questions
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