CubePlay vs Magic Cube Puzzle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CubePlay
This 3x3 puzzle cube game offers intuitive controls for rotating and shuffling. Track your progress with elapsed time and save your best records. Enjoy a flexible gaming experience with portrait and landscape support on iOS devices.
- 3x3 puzzle cube gameplay
- Rotate and drag controls
- Shuffle puzzle function
- Elapsed time tracking
- Save best records
- Portrait/Landscape support
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CubePlay is a 3x3 puzzle cube game. The app supports: • Rotating & dragging the cube • Shuffling the puzzle • Showing elapsed time • Saving your best records • Portrait/Landscape support on iPhone and iPad Enjoy solving the puzzle, and stay tuned for the next version!
Magic Cube Puzzle
Experience the classic magic cube puzzle on your mobile device. This app offers various cube sizes, practice modes, and a solver to help you learn and master the puzzle. Enjoy realistic graphics, customizable skins, and ambient sounds for a relaxing cubing experience.
- Multiple cube sizes (2x2 to 5x5)
- Cube solver and learning modes
- Practice modes and cube timer
- Customizable cube and background skins
- Realistic 3D graphics and animations
- Ambient sounds and fun sound effects
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The popular magic cube puzzle on your phone, Magicube! Play with this cube as you solve the puzzle with logic, concentration and patience. Play this game, which features magic cubes puzzles scrambled and waiting to be solved. Magicube - Cube Solver Features; - Cubes featuring the 2x2, to 5x5x5 cube. - Solve and Learn with new modes. - Game Modes to practice cubing, a standalone cube timer, a tutorial as well as a pattern-matching game mode. Learn exciting cool patterns. - Skins for cubes and backgrounds. - Ambient Sounds to give a relaxing environment for cubing. - Realistic 3D graphics and animation - Fun sound effects to boost the gameplay - Simple swipe controls to control the cube - Solve and Learn to solve the cube with the cube solver.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Magic Cube Puzzle at 4.0 against CubePlay's 2.3. Magic Cube Puzzle also leads on review sentiment (27% vs 0%) and ratings volume (323 vs 4). CubePlay's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11). 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. Magic Cube Puzzle sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. CubePlay asks for nothing beyond the download.
Magic Cube Puzzle holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 2.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Magic Cube Puzzle has 323 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of CubePlay's written reviews are positive against 27% of Magic Cube Puzzle's.
CubePlay ships an update every 3 months, Magic Cube Puzzle every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on August 13, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CubePlay | Magic Cube Puzzle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.3 (4 ratings) | 4.0 (323 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 27.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 323 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 183 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | CHUL HYUN LEE | Kofi Austin |
Customer experience
CubePlay
Magic Cube Puzzle
Bugs and requests
CubePlay
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Magic Cube Puzzle
Reported bugs
10 issues- Cube glitches and distorts during rotations
- Pieces fly outside cube boundaries
- Colors get messed up when moving cube
- Pattern recognition fails despite correct input
- Cube breaks or becomes scrambled after solving
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- Turning system only rotates front face
- Spots disappear when rotating cube
- App crashes or shows black screen
- Cube gets squashed during fast solving
- Cube rotates without user input
Requested features
8 requests- Implement cube scanning feature instead of manual color input
- Add ability to rotate/view all sides of cube freely
- Reduce or remove ads from experience
- Make all cube sizes (2x2, 4x4, 5x5) free
- Improve turning system mechanics
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- Add more gameplay modes and variations
- Fix timer functionality
- Provide digital cube solving option
In-app purchases
CubePlay
No in-app purchases
Magic Cube Puzzle
- Unlimited Monthly$0.991 Month
- No Ads$2.99
- Skin Pack$2.99
- Ambience Pack$2.99
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- Solver Pack$3.99
- Pro Pack$3.99
- Puzzle Pack$3.99
- Master Pack$5.99
- Super Pack$5.99
- Ultimate Pack$7.99
- Lifetime Access$9.99
Questions
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