Comparison

PathPix Lite vs Dot

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

Head to head
About

PathPix Lite

Connect pairs of colored numbers by drawing paths of specific lengths to reveal miniature pictures. Each solved puzzle offers a related quote for reflection. This free version is the perfect starting point to explore the puzzle world.

Highlights
  • Draw colored paths
  • Connect numbered pairs
  • Paths match number length
  • Reveal hidden pictures
  • Receive related quotes
  • Free to start
Features
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Discover PathPix! Draw bright, bold lines of color to make paths connecting pairs of colored numbers. The length of each path must equal the numbers you are connecting. Finish solving to see the miniature picture that you have created. As an extra reward you get a quote related in some way to the picture. Witty or wise, it will give you a little something to think about as you go on to the next puzzle. New to PathPix? Not sure which PathPix to buy?  Here's the lineup: There are many different PathPix apps for your iPhone and iPad. All puzzles are different.  ---PATHPIX LITE: Wondering if PathPix is for you? Start here. It's free! ---PATHPIX: Hooked? This is the next step, with 189 graduated levels, ranging from small, easy puzzles to large, advanced level puzzles. ---PATHPIX PRO: Are you an expert? Looking for a LOT of puzzles? Then PathPix Pro is for you, with 320 puzzles ranging from Medium difficulty to Extreme. ---PATHPIX ZEN: Relaxing and addictive! 99 beautiful puzzles, including an Advanced Levels section with 12 special challengers. ---PATHPIX JOY: Keep smiling! 99 puzzles = many happy hours of PathPix fun. Small to large, easy to advanced - you'll find it all here. ---PATHPIX MAGIC: Magic of all kinds! 99 puzzles, small to huge, easy to advanced.  ---PATHPIX LAUGH: Lots more puzzles to tickle your funnybone. 202 puzzles, each with a silly joke or quote related to the puzzle picture. Small to large, easy to extreme. ---PATHPIX BOO: Silly - spooky - scary - fun! 99 puzzles for Halloween and other dark nights.  ---PATHPIX XMAS: 99 puzzles with a Christmas theme to get you in the mood for the holidays. Whether you are looking for sentiment or silliness, you will find it here. ---PATHPIX LOVE: All you need is love! 99 puzzles, easy to advanced. ---PATHPIX MAX: Some of the biggest PathPix puzzles ever. 114 GIANT-sized puzzles, over a million squares total! ---PATHPIX ART: MAXimum fun - 150 HUGE puzzles based on famous paintings, including the biggest PathPix puzzles ever made. ---PATHPIX THANKS: 99 puzzles for Thanks Giving. Easy to Expert. ---PATHPIX EDGE: Live on the edge! None of these puzzles are rectangular. 180 puzzles, all different shapes, from teeny to gigantic, easy to expert. ---PATHPIX ALICE: The original Alice comes to life as you puzzle your way through 42 truly gigantic, colorful, and FUN illustrations for Lewis Carroll's masterpiece novel, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Puzzles are based on the classic Tenniel illustrations. Complete book included.  ---PATHPIX TIME: 99 forward-looking puzzles to welcome the New Year and beyond. Small to large, easy to expert. ---PATHPIX HEX: PathPix with a difference: the paths wander about on a grid of 6-sided cells (hexagons) . Warning: twisty paths make for tricky puzzles! 179 puzzles, easy to extreme. ---PATHPIX BUBBLE: Classic PathPix on special grids with squares and rectangles of different sizes. Paths can be wild and wacky. The theme is Water, oceans to raindrops. 160 puzzles, easy to expert. Simple rules - complex puzzles - hidden pictures! ******************** Draw bright, bold lines of color, connecting pairs of colored numbers. The length of each path must match the numbers on the two endpoints. Draw backwards or double tap to correct mistakes. There's only one way to do it, and all squares will contain a piece of a path when the puzzle is solved.  Stuck? Use the check button and remove incorrect paths. Finish solving to see the miniature picture that you have created.  Two ways to navigate while solving:  ---Tap the zoom button for an overview, then touch the screen where you want to play next.  ---Pan to show another area of the board. Put your finger down any place WITHOUT A NUMBER and move it around. Simple, intuitive, fast.  PathPix Lite is based on the PC game "PathPix" by Kris Pixton and KpixGames.

About

Dot

Connect numbered dots in ascending order to reveal intricate, colorful images. This advanced adaptation of classic dot-to-dot puzzles offers hundreds of dots per image and includes helpful tools for a satisfying artistic experience.

Highlights
  • Connect numbered dots to reveal pictures
  • High-quality color images
  • Puzzles up to 1200 dots
  • Weekly bonus puzzles
  • Zoom, pan, and undo/redo
  • Progress previews
Features
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Connect all dots to reveal a beautiful color picture! Each puzzle consists of a collection of color dots with clues next to each dot. The object is to reveal a hidden picture by connecting the dots in ascending order and according to their color starting with 1 and ending with the highest number. Dot-a-Pix are an advanced adaptation of the classic dot-to-dot puzzles which provide high quality color pictures when solved. Starting with dozens and going up to several hundreds of dots, Dot-a-Pix puzzles create beautiful detailed pictures and provide the satisfaction as if you drew them yourself. The game features a Bring to Focus button to help locate the active dot, and an option to instantly move the active dot to any number for faster solving. To help see the puzzle progress, graphic previews in the puzzle list show the progress of all puzzles in a volume as they are being solved. A Gallery view option provides these previews in a larger format. For more fun, Dot-a-Pix includes a Weekly Bonus section providing an extra free puzzle each week. PUZZLE FEATURES • 56 free Dot-a-Pix puzzles in color • Extra bonus puzzle published free each week • Puzzle library continuously updates with new content • Manually created by artists, top quality puzzles • Up to 1200 dots per puzzle • Hours of creativity and fun GAMING FEATURES • No ads • Zoom, reduce, move puzzle for easy viewing • Unlimited Undo and Redo • Bring to Focus button to help locate active dot • Moving active dot to any number for faster solving • Concurrently playing and saving multiple puzzles • Puzzle filtering, sorting and archiving options • Graphic previews showing puzzles progress as they are being solved • Dark Mode support • Portrait and landscape screen support (iPad only) • Track puzzle solving times • Backup & restore puzzle progress to iCloud ABOUT Dot-a-Pix have also become popular under other names such as Picture Dots, Dot-to-Dot, Join the Dots and Connect the Dots. All puzzles in this app are produced by Conceptis Ltd. - the leading supplier of logic puzzles to printed and electronic gaming media all over the world. On average, more than 20 million Conceptis puzzles are solved each day in newspapers, magazines, books and online as well as on smartphones and tablets across the world. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.conceptispuzzles.com/index.aspx?uri=info/doc/220

Screenshots

PathPix Lite4 screens
Dot4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PathPix Lite at none against Dot's 19. PathPix Lite also leads on review sentiment (85% vs 76%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). Dot's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 4 months vs every 17 months). On price, 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

Both are free to download. Dot sells 19 one-off in-app purchases. PathPix Lite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dot holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Dot has 368 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of PathPix Lite's written reviews are positive against 76% of Dot's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

PathPix Lite ships an update every 17 months, Dot every 4 months. Both last shipped on October 21, 2026.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
PathPix Lite versus Dot: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPathPix LiteDot
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (13 ratings)4.8 (368 ratings) — better
Positive reviews84.6% of reviews — better76.0% of reviews
Number of ratings13368 — better
Update frequencyEvery 17 monthsEvery 4 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size4 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKris PixtonConceptis Ltd.

Customer experience

PathPix Lite

All ratings13 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral15.4%
Negative7.7%
Written reviews65 reviews
Positive84.6%
Neutral6.2%
Negative9.2%

Dot

All ratings353 ratings
Positive95.2%
Neutral3.1%
Negative1.7%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive76.0%
Neutral8.0%
Negative16.0%

User reviews

PathPix Lite

From 13 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Addictive puzzles
  • 💡 Unique concept
  • ✨ Rewarding quotes
  • 🚀 Smooth controls
  • 🎨 Colorful visuals

Room to improve

  • 🤏 Limited free puzzles
  • 😩 Controls can be tricky
  • 💸 Expansions costly
  • 🤔 Instructions unclear
  • 📱 No landscape mode

Dot

From 368 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Fun and entertaining
  • 👍 Relaxing pastime
  • 👍 Good for killing time
  • 👍 Nostalgic connection
  • 👍 Easy to use controls

Room to improve

  • 👎 Not challenging enough
  • 👎 Pictures too babyish
  • 👎 Limited free content
  • 👎 Expensive extra puzzles
  • 👎 Technical issues

Bugs and requests

PathPix Lite

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • 🐛 Inconsistent path drawing
  • 🐛 Accidental line drawing/erasing
  • 🐛 Difficulty panning on large puzzles
  • 🐛 Volume control issues
  • 🐛 iPhone 5 support needed

Requested features

6 requests
  • More puzzles in free version
  • iPad support/universal app
  • Landscape mode
  • Audio feedback
  • Option to turn off double-tap erasure
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  • Option to turn off touch-screen navigation

Dot

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Game crashes mid-puzzle
  • Game stops working after rating
  • Cannot start second line in multi-line
  • Screen disappears and restarts
  • Game crashes when connecting distant dots
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  • Dragging line doesn't work

Requested features

8 requests
  • More free puzzles
  • Landscape mode option
  • Larger puzzles with more dots
  • Option to change colors
  • Easier way to restart puzzles
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  • Option to make numbers bigger
  • Shortcut to zoom to next dot
  • More weekly bonus options

In-app purchases

None

PathPix Lite

No in-app purchases

19 purchases

Dot

One-time19
  • SingleLine - Snacks 1$0.99
  • MultiLine - Snacks 1$0.99
  • MixedLine - Snacks 1$0.99
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  • SingleLine - Snacks 2$0.99
  • MixedLine - Snacks 2$0.99
  • MultiLine - Snacks 2$0.99
  • SingleLine - Variety 1$1.99
  • MultiLine - Variety 1$1.99
  • MixedLine - Variety 1$1.99
  • SingleLine - Jumbo Pack 1$1.99
  • MultiLine - Jumbo Pack 1$1.99
  • SingleLine - Jumbo Pack 3$1.99
  • MixedLine - Jumbo Pack 1$1.99
  • SingleLine - Variety Large 1$2.99
  • MultiLine - Variety Large 1$2.99
  • MixedLine - Variety Large 1$2.99
  • SingleLine - Mega Pack 1$2.99
  • MultiLine - Mega Pack 1$2.99
  • MixedLine - Mega Pack 1$2.99

Questions

Is PathPix Lite free?
PathPix Lite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Dot free?
Dot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, PathPix Lite or Dot?
Dot is rated higher. PathPix Lite averages 4.3 out of 5 from 13 ratings, while Dot averages 4.8 from 368 ratings.
Do PathPix Lite or Dot have ads?
Neither PathPix Lite nor Dot shows ads.
Which is updated more often, PathPix Lite or Dot?
PathPix Lite ships an update every 17 months, and Dot every 4 months. Most recently, PathPix Lite was updated on October 21, 2026 and Dot on October 21, 2026.

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