Pipes vs Pipes plumber
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pipes
Connect pipe segments by rotating them to form a continuous flow. This addictive puzzle game offers a variety of board sizes and challenging options. Features like piece locking and auto-save enhance the gameplay experience.
- Randomly generated puzzles
- Multiple board sizes
- Wraparound option
- Piece locking feature
- Auto save and resume
- Online leaderboard
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Rotate the pipe segments to connect all the pieces. Easy to learn and very addictive. Features: - Randomly generated puzzles - never the same game twice - Multiple board sizes ranging from "Training Wheels" (4x4) to "Mega Insane" (56x70) * - Introductory tutorial - Wraparound option (also known as "without walls" or "endless") * - "One color" option - when enabled, all pipes are blue, making it harder to tell which ones are connected * - Piece locking feature to help with large boards - Zoom and scroll using familiar pinch and drag gestures - Auto save and resume - never lose your place, even if someone calls in the middle of your game - Timer (can be disabled if you want a more relaxing game) - Online leaderboard - compare your best times to other players around the world * - Offline "personal best times" - try to beat your best times - Introductory tutorial - Piece locking feature to help with large boards - Every puzzle can be solved - Wraparound option (also known as "without walls" or "endless") - "One color" option - when enabled, all pipes are blue, making it harder to tell which ones are connected - Online leaderboard - compare your best times to other players around the world * Requires in-app purchase, or previous app purchase from 1.0 or 2.0 versions
Pipes plumber
Connect pipes of the correct colors to allow water to flow and seal all exits. This logic puzzle game offers numerous levels, from easy to difficult, challenging your thinking abilities and IQ.
- Connect colored pipes
- Water flow puzzles
- Logic challenges
- Multiple difficulty levels
- IQ and thinking enhancement
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Water pipe - logic puzzles. Where's my water? asks the plumber. like the plumber game, the purpose is to connect the pipes. like a plumber you need to connect the pipes to the right colors so the water will flow. the plumber need to close all the water exits with the pipes. there are many levels, from easy levels to difficult levels. solving several pipes colors in one level. this is a great logic puzzles game to increase your IQ and thinking abilities. we have other logic puzzles games, so check them out.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pipes plumber at none against Pipes's 1. Pipes plumber also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). Pipes's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 38 months). On price, ratings volume 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. Pipes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Pipes plumber asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pipes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 186 and 191 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Pipes's written reviews are positive against 70% of Pipes plumber's.
Pipes ships an update every 3 weeks, Pipes plumber every 38 months. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipes | Pipes plumber |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (186 ratings) — better | 4.5 (191 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews — better | 70.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 186 | 191 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 38 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 97 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Kerley | Avraham Shlomo Ofir |
Customer experience
Pipes
Pipes plumber
User reviews
Pipes
From 186 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and addictive gameplay
- 👍 No ads, pure gameplay
- 👍 Good for passing time
- 👍 Offline functionality
- 👍 Low battery usage
Room to improve
- 🐛 Not very responsive
- 🐛 Occasional crashes
- 🐛 Game freezes on larger phones
- 🐛 Screen sensitivity issues on larger phones
- 🐛 Rotating animation is annoying
Pipes plumber
From 191 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🧠 Makes you think and challenges logic
- 👍 Highly recommended for strategy lovers
- 😌 Good for passing time
- ✨ No intrusive ads
- 💯 Rewarding and enjoyable gameplay
Room to improve
- 📉 Limited number of levels
- 🤔 Graphics could be better
- 😵 Can be frustrating when it glitches
- 👴 Outdated graphics
Bugs and requests
Pipes
Reported bugs
9 issues- Not very responsive
- Game crashes to Home Screen with recent updates
- Newest version fails to complete correctly
- No longer comes up with the “complete ok” prompt
- No longer has the “new game prompt immediately available to start a new game with the same parameters as the last one
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- Rotating animation is annoying and slows gameplay
- Game won't launch anymore with latest iOS update
- Game freezes on the outside tiles on bigger phones
- Screen is too sensitive on larger phones, turning one tile accidentally turns more
Requested features
10 requests- Add more levels for gameplay
- Ability to change pipe color
- Remove timer option
- HD version
- Support for Retina display
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- Support for extra screen size of iPhone 5 and iPad
- Option to change color from blue
- Counter for remaining leaks
- Different way of seeing leaks
- Update with super insane levels
Pipes plumber
Reported bugs
6 issues- Music setting does not stick
- Puzzle sometimes incorrectly marked as solved
- Freezes at level 31
- Shuts down in the middle of a game
- Crashes a lot
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- Ads play sound even with sound off and phone on silent
Requested features
10 requests- Add more levels
- Consider adding more levels
- Make a paid version with hundreds of levels
- Please consider adding more levels!
- Keep adding those levels
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- Needs more levels to keep things going
- needs more levels though.
- Wish there were more levels though!
- Needs more levels.
- maybe you could make another version where there are at least 100 levels
In-app purchases
Pipes
- Unlock Full Game$0.99
Pipes plumber
No in-app purchases
