Pipes vs Pipe Pathway
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
Pipe Pathway
Connect rotating pipe pieces to form a complete path. This brain-training puzzle game offers daily challenges and a hint system to guide you through its 400 levels. Enjoy smooth performance and a small file size.
- Daily unique puzzles
- 400 puzzles included
- Step-by-step hint guide
- Automatic connection recommendations
- Optimized performance
- Small file size
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Pipe Pathway is the pipe connection puzzle game for brain training The puzzle are any part of pipe. There had set to be not a mess on the board. We have a target to make all pipe to be connected for the complete path. *** How To Play *** We tap on the pipe. That pipe will rotate clockwise for 90 degrees. Rotate the other pipe to be connected for the correct path and colour. *** Features *** * Daily Puzzles - unique from other packs and updated every day. * 400 puzzles. * Hint guide - Step by Step and Play/Pause. * Automatic recommend system - highlight cells for the pipe connect not complete. * Best performance. * Small file size - good for download, update version and save space. Enjoy.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pipes at none against Pipe Pathway's shown. Pipe Pathway's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 90%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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 and Pipe Pathway sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pipe Pathway holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 155 and 65 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Pipes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pipe Pathway's.
Pipes ships an update every 3 weeks, Pipe Pathway every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipes | Pipe Pathway |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (155 ratings) | 4.9 (65 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 65 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Kerley | Jirapong |
Customer experience
Pipes
Pipe Pathway
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
Pipe Pathway
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pipes
- Unlock Full Game$0.99
Pipe Pathway
- Remove Ads$0.99
- 10 Hints$0.99
- 30 Hints$1.99
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- 60 Hints$2.99









