Hexo vs Flowduct
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hexo
This app offers a suite of four unique board games blending wordplay, cards, and dice. Enjoy word-building challenges, card-based scoring, dice matching, and straight runs. Play with friends globally or against AI opponents with customizable difficulty.
- Hex-N-Spell word game
- Words-N-Suits card game
- Runaway Straights card game
- Tumbling Dice game
- Multiplayer via Game Center
- Four AI personalities
- Configurable game options
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There is something for everyone in this unique four game suite! A magical blend of wordplay, cards and dice... Hexo is the board game redefined! You get the crown jewel of the Hexo suite, Hex-N-Spell, totally for Free! Challenge up to four of your friends or family, anywhere around the globe, to a unique take on a familiar word-game experience. • HEX-N-SPELL: If you like crosswords, you'll love Hex-n-Spell, a new twist on an old favorite. Take your wordplay to a new dimension and spell words in three fun directions. Overlay existing tiles to form new words. Discover hidden, magic multipliers and take your score to the next level! Get definitions on all words played*. When you're ready for even greater challenges (or to remove ads), purchase one of the other games in the Hexo suite, and discover new a take on the core Hexo experience from Hex-n-Spell! • WORDS-N-SUITS: Words and Suits is Hex-n-Spell taken to the next level! Use it's unique blend of letters with the suits from a deck of cards to form two pairs, three of a kind, four of a kind or a full house for up to a 5x word score. Like Hex-n-Spell, overlay existing tiles to form new words and get definitions on all words played*. • RUNAWAY STRAIGHTS: An unusual take on everyone's favorite game of cards, lay down straight runs like 2, 3, 4 or Jack, Queen, King on a hex board to score it big. Aces play either high or low and Jokers are wild! Discover why the Joker's Wild and the Courts Gone Mad, play Runaway Straights today! • TUMBLING DICE: It's dominoes taken to the next dimension! Match three sides of dice played on the unique hexagonal board to send your score into the stratosphere! Special "bunny" dice are wildcats and will play anywhere. Easy to learn, devilish to master, Tumbling Dice will push you to the limits the longer you play! Additionally, when you make a one-time in-app purchase any of the other games in the Hexo suite, and get extra bonus features (such as Options and Solo play) in the core Hex-n-Spell game, totally for Free! AMAZINGLY CONFIGURABLE: Using our unique option system, each of the four games inside of the Hexo suite are amazingly configurable! Adjust everything from the way redraws are handled to the smarts of the AI players, make it your Hexo, your way! Adjust the games for infinite replayability§! FOUR CHALLENGING AI PERSONALITIES: No one to play with? Compete against one or more challenging AI personalities: the Queen of Hearts, the Queen of Diamonds, the Queen of Clubs or the Queen of Spades! Adjust their smarts to fit your needs§. FEATURES: * Integrated with Game Center! Report your scores and shoot to the top of our leader boards. Win challenging Achievements. * Multi Player - Play against other people around the world via Game Center or one of our four AI personalities§ on a single iPhone, iPad, Apple TV or Mac. * Learn to play each game with built in quick help. * Save each game type separately. * 180,000 word dictionary, most all words with definition. * Overlay existing tiles on the board to form new plays. * Can have up to two tiles touching that don't form a word (in some games). * Hidden or card suit bonuses. * Joker's Wild and special Wildcard "Bunny" Dice. * User defined options to modify game play for endless playability§. Step into a Magical world of Board Games and download Hexo today! * - Hexo includes a 180,000 plus word dictionary, most words with definitions. § - Requires a one-time in-app purchase.
Flowduct
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Most pipe games only ask you to finish. Flowduct asks you to finish perfectly. Every board is built with a solution the game can prove, so Flowduct knows the exact minimum number of turns it takes — and dares you to match it. Beat that number and you earn a Perfect Flow. THE PAR THAT MAKES IT A PUZZLE, NOT A CHORE - See the exact minimum number of turns for your board, live, before you make a single move - Earn three stars only by matching it, so a win always means something - Watch your lifetime turn efficiency climb as you stop wasting moves - Track how many turns you have thrown away, and shrink the number SIMPLE TO PICK UP, HARD TO PERFECT - Tap a pipe to rotate it right, hold it to rotate it left - Water fills the pipes the instant they line up, so you always see your progress - A live leak counter tells you how many open ends are still spilling - Elbows, straights, tees, crosses and end caps, and every one of them matters - No timers pushing you, no lives to run out, no move limit to fail - Undo nothing and restart anything: a board is never lost, only unfinished 100 HAND-TUNED LEVELS ACROSS FIVE DISTRICTS - Start in Wellspring on gentle 3x3 grids and finish in Skyline on sprawling 8x9 networks - Deepwater and Skyline add wrap-around boards, where pipes leaving one edge reappear on the other and your sense of direction stops helping you - Every level is a fresh layout, never a reskin of the last one - Endless Zen flow when you want to solve without stars or scores A DAILY PIPELINE FOR EVERYONE - One board a day, identical for every player on earth - Build a streak and watch your month fill in on the calendar - Sundays turn into wrap-around boards, so the week has a rhythm - Share your turns and streak with one tap STATS THAT ACTUALLY TELL YOU SOMETHING - Lifetime turn efficiency, wasted turns and perfect solves, all from real play - An efficiency trend chart that shows whether you are genuinely improving - A consistency heatmap of the last 15 weeks - This week against last week, your best day of the week, and personal records - 40 badges across 10 families, from your first solve to your hundredth streak day PERFECT FOR - Anyone who likes a logic puzzle with a right answer, not a lucky one - Players who want a calm game for a coffee break or a commute - People who left other pipe games because winning felt like an accident - Anyone looking for a daily brain workout that takes five quiet minutes - Players who prefer thinking to tapping, and patience to reflexes - Long flights, waiting rooms, the underground: it never needs a signal YOURS, AND ONLY YOURS - Works fully offline, every level, every day, forever - No account, no login, no sign-up, nothing to remember - No subscription and no paywall between you and level 100 - Your progress, streak and stats stay on this device and are never uploaded - Available in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian and Portuguese Flowduct is the pipe puzzle for people who want to know they solved it, not just that they got through it. Rotate the pipes, fill the network, chase the par. The first boards take a few seconds and teach you to read the shapes. By the fifth district you are holding half a network in your head, working out which corner has to be wrong before you touch anything. The rules never change. Only you get better at them, and the efficiency chart is there to prove it. Download Flowduct and find out how few turns you really need.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flowduct at none against Hexo's 3. Flowduct also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Hexo's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price 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. Hexo sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Flowduct asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Hexo | Flowduct |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple TV | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Appracatappra, LLC | Ferran Espuna |
In-app purchases
Hexo
- Words-n-Suits$0.99
- Tumbling Dice$0.99
- Runaway Straights$0.99
Flowduct
No in-app purchases









