FiddleBrix vs Hive Order
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FiddleBrix
Engage your mind with a daily word puzzle that blends elements of crosswords and Sudoku. Solve intricate puzzles with increasing difficulty, including daily challenges and an archive of past puzzles.
- Daily word puzzles
- Crossword and Sudoku inspiration
- 100 built-in levels
- Increasing daily difficulty
- Daily Brix Archive
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FiddleBrix is a colorful daily word puzzle inspired by crosswords, Sudoku, and our shared love of letters. CHALLENGE YOUR MIND FiddleBrix puzzles are elegant, intricate, and devilishly difficult. Cruciverbalists, members of the Spelling Bee Hive, and casual word gamers can all find common ground as they fiddle with brix to give their brains an anagrammatical workout. LEVELS Develop your fiddling prowess by solving 100 built-in levels of increasing difficulty. DAILY BRIX Hone your wits and stimulate your mind by solving the Daily Brix. Daily Brix difficulty increases throughout the week. ARCHIVE Enjoy unlimited access to the Daily Brix Archive.
Hive Order
A hexagon-based puzzle game where players match numbers to clear cells and advance through levels. Offers both a challenging regular mode with a final boss and an endless arcade mode for high scores.
- Hexagon board matching
- Number merge puzzles
- Regular mode with final level
- Arcade mode for high scores
- Progressive difficulty
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A game of matching numbers on a hexagon board. Win all the cells and overcome the final level to beat the game in regular mode! Then try for as many points in arcade mode!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FiddleBrix at none against Hive Order's 2. FiddleBrix also leads on ratings volume (44 vs 14). Hive Order's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 24 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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. Hive Order sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. FiddleBrix asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FiddleBrix against 5.0 for Hive Order. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 44 and 14 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
FiddleBrix ships an update every 24 months, Hive Order every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and September 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FiddleBrix | Hive Order |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (14 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 14 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FiddleBrix LLC | Jin Chen |
Customer experience
FiddleBrix
Hive Order
In-app purchases
FiddleBrix
No in-app purchases
Hive Order
- Premium Version Unlock$1.99
- Tip Developer$2.99
