Pipes vs Arcs
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
Arcs
Engage your mind with a unique circular puzzle experience. Rotate and slide arcs to complete intricate designs, starting simple and progressing to complex challenges. This highly-rated game offers a fun and relaxing way to unwind.
- 100 circular puzzles
- Rotate circles and slide arcs
- Progressive difficulty
- Zen and relaxing gameplay
- Assist for colorblind people
- New levels added
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Arcs is a spin on the classic sliding tile puzzle game! Use your brain power to solve 100 circular puzzles by rotating circles and sliding arcs. The puzzles begin with simple designs and grow more complex as the levels progress. Arcs is a highly rated puzzle game that is challenging and fun for all ages! Love This Exercise by Ginger Peachy "This game is very Zen. I play all the levels and then start over. Beautiful colors." Cool game by CancaoDeDeus "I love this game! It starts easy but progresses through more complex levels but not at a frustrating pace. I love the fact I can skip levels and then come back if I want to try later. I even started the whole thing over. Excellent." Love this game! by Dee215 "I am addicted! I have to hide from people when the game updates because I can't be bothered until I clear all the levels. Nice way to unwind after a stressful day." Great mind game by Kantokahsdid "I love to play this right before bed to get my mind off things... Great mind game :-)" Love it!!! by KriSk0DiSk0 "The ultimate puzzle game! I cant find anything else like it. Im hooked." Love it! by cdctx "Fun and challenging, and addicting. Can't wait for more levels!" Arcs! by FransCronje "Great fun! Awesome challenge without any frustrations. Love it!" One of my all time favorites... by KZZZZZB "...simple & beautiful." Great sliding blocks variant by rspoonts "This game is very appealing to puzzle fans. And I love it even more now that it has an assist for color blind people. Thanks for adding this feature!" Great game by DQE "Love this app, never tire if playing it yet it is not stressful to play." Beautiful and Fun by Julesthebee "Great app - thanks for the new levels!" Finally! by Peggy59372 "I love this app and have been doing the same puzzles over and over again! Thank you for finally adding more!! Keep adding! " Awesome by Navajo "It's a tongue twister for your brain." Serious fun by Mary "This is the best puzzle app I have found! It was a fun and enjoyable challenge to learn how to rotate the discs to solve the puzzles. Please make more levels asap! Also more types of puzzles like this!" Excellent game by R.Edd "This is one of the few games I have on my iPhone and iPad. A "quick" game you can pick up and come back to anytime. The touch interface is excellent, and while the graphics are basic, the game itself is excellent." Really fun!!! by Li3303 "A great game! Copy the color pattern in the sample circle by turning the rings. There's one black empty space. You push the arc you want to move onto into the empty space then turn the rings to reposition it. It's like one of those number 15 puzzle games only with a circle, arcs and pretty colors." Great game by XterryX "Really a great game I didn't think it was hard enough but I was wrong. After the first puzzle it started to drive me nuts I LOVE this game." Arcs Puts New Spin On Puzzling by AppSmile "The game truly meets it's goal of becoming a quick and yet immersive puzzle game. Overall Pomegranate Apps really impressed us by their adaption of the tile game as well as the precision and yet simplicity of the game." More levels please! by Boggle Fan "This is an awesome app! I am on my second run thru the puzzles and I love the simplicity and bright colors."
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Pipes at Free against Arcs's $2.99. Pipes also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Arcs's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.0). On rating, review sentiment, ratings volume 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
Pipes is free to download; Arcs costs $2.99 up front. Pipes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Arcs asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Pipes against 4.8 for Arcs. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 155 and 56 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 90% of Pipes's written reviews are positive against 85% of Arcs's.
Pipes ships an update every 3 weeks, Arcs every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipes | Arcs |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 4.7 (155 ratings) | 4.8 (56 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.2% of reviews — better | 85.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 155 — better | 56 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Kerley | Pomegranate Apps LLC |
Customer experience
Pipes
Arcs
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
Arcs
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Pipes
- Unlock Full Game$0.99
Arcs
No in-app purchases









