Comparison

Pipes vs Wordactle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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

About

Wordactle

A word puzzle game where you decipher a secret five-letter word using other five-letter words as clues. Offers unlimited puzzles with varying difficulty and daily challenges, playable offline.

Highlights
  • Secret word guessing
  • Clue-based word puzzles
  • Unlimited puzzles
  • Daily challenges
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Offline play
Features
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Wordactle is a challenging word game that combines logic and vocabulary skills. Test your wit by finding a secret five-letter word using a series of clues. Each clue is another five-letter word that might share some, none, or all of the letters from the secret word. If you love word puzzles, you will love Wordactle. This app offers unlimited access to Wordactle puzzles on your device, with various levels of difficulty. You also get four fresh Wordactle puzzles every day, from easy to expert, that you can print and solve offline. To use this app, you don't need online access to play on your device, but you will need Internet access to retrieve your daily Wordactle puzzles, as well as a printer to print them out. Unlike other puzzle or game apps out there, the Wordactle app does not have any advertising, subscription fees, in-app purchases, or tracking. In other words, you can use this app every day with no surprises or extra costs. Think you can decipher the clues and uncover the secret word? Put your word skills to the test! Download the app and play Wordactle today!

Screenshots

Pipes3 screens
Wordactle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pipes at Free against Wordactle's $0.99. Pipes also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (155 vs 2). Wordactle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Pipes is free to download; Wordactle costs $0.99 up front. Pipes sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wordactle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pipes holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pipes has 155 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pipes versus Wordactle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPipesWordactle
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.7 (155 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews90.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings155 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMichael KerleyH Valeur

Customer experience

Pipes

All ratings155 ratings
Positive95.5%
Neutral1.9%
Negative2.6%
Written reviews102 reviews
Positive90.2%
Neutral4.9%
Negative4.9%

Wordactle

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

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

Wordactle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Pipes

One-time1
  • Unlock Full Game$0.99
None

Wordactle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pipes free?
Pipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wordactle free?
Wordactle costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pipes or Wordactle?
Pipes is rated higher. Pipes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 155 ratings, while Wordactle averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Pipes or Wordactle have ads?
Neither Pipes nor Wordactle shows ads.

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