Comparison

SEQ vs Pipes

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

Head to head
About

SEQ

Engage in a challenging puzzle game featuring a unique concept. Test your skills with this mentally stimulating experience.

Highlights
  • Unique puzzle concept
  • Serious challenge
  • Mentally stimulating
  • New puzzle game
Features
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Are you ready for a serious challenge? Get SEQ and discover a great new puzzle game with a unique concept!

About

Pipes

Cultivate a tranquil digital garden by connecting water sources to plants. Rotate pipes to create efficient irrigation systems within a limited number of moves. This minimalist puzzle game offers a calming experience to reduce anxiety and boost concentration.

Highlights
  • Connect pipes to water plants
  • Rotate pipes to create irrigation loops
  • Limited moves for strategic gameplay
  • Minimalist design
  • Anxiety and OCD relief
  • Boosts concentration and logic skills
Features
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You are the cultivator of this relaxed zen garden. Close the divide and link the water source to the plants. Focus, relax, and allow your garden to grow. The gardening process is easily an endless loop of satisfaction, seed, water, grow and repeat. Pipes aims to replicate this relaxation experience. You just need to tap the pipe to rotate it and manage to direct the water flow across all the pipes. Make sure to reach the whole garden, every water source should feed into at least one plant, as to use water in the most efficient ways possible. Water waste isn’t the only issue here; you also don’t want to drain your moves because the garden is fragile and as such, we can’t endlessly rotate the pipe system, as such you have limited moves to install the perfect irrigation system to allow your zen garden to thrive. Do this perfectly and your zen garden will soar and receive the best qualification. Pipes is part of the famous Infinity Loop franchise. This calm, minimalist, and intelligent game will help you deal with anxiety and OCD, just as gardening would. Once you tap the first pipe, you will boost your concentration and reduce any symptoms of anxiety or OCD. Achieve a full relaxation experience in your own personal zen garden. Try to connect as many pipes as many times as you can and recharge your soul with positive ideas. Nurture your mind as if it is your own garden. Features: Simple gameplay: Just tap the pipes to rotate and create irrigation loops. The water will flow through as you create links to their final destinations. Relaxing: Players with OCD issues mention this game as a great way to get better. Pipes gameplay is very calm – “just tap the pipe” – and a couple of levels per day are enough to fight OCD and anxiety issues. It’s like your personal zen garden. Smart brain-teasers: Pipes features endless minimalist brain-teasers that will boost your logic skills, relax your soul and improve your concentration. Grow your logical skills. Classic game: Highly compared with other logic games due to its simplicity, Pipes is very satisfying and will cultivate the creative side of your brain. Play everywhere: You will take less than 20 seconds to irrigate a garden. That’s perfect to play on the bus or while you wait for your flight at the airport. Start playing and relax wherever you are. Concept and Development: Hezartoo and Infinity Games.

Screenshots

SEQ3 screens
Pipes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pipes at Free against SEQ's $1.99. SEQ's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (94% vs 63%). On rating, in-app purchases, monetization model 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; SEQ costs $1.99 up front. SEQ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pipes sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pipes holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: SEQ has 2.6K ratings behind it against 55, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 94% of SEQ's written reviews are positive against 63% of Pipes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SEQ ships an update every 6 weeks, Pipes every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
SEQ versus Pipes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSEQPipes
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (2.6K ratings)4.9 (55 ratings) — better
Positive reviews94.3% of reviews — better63.3% of reviews
Number of ratings2.6K — better55
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeks — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB154 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer1Button SARLINFINITY GAMES, LDA

Customer experience

SEQ

All ratings2,583 ratings
Positive94.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative2.1%
Written reviews348 reviews
Positive94.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative1.4%

Pipes

All ratings55 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews49 reviews
Positive63.3%
Neutral16.3%
Negative20.4%

Bugs and requests

SEQ

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Freezing on login screen
  • Compatibility issues with older devices

Requested features

4 requests
  • Add ability to save progress
  • Provide more difficult puzzles
  • Improve difficulty labeling
  • Introduce new game worlds

Pipes

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SEQ

One-time1
  • 5-Key Pack$0.99
10 purchases

Pipes

One-time10
  • Bundle 1$1.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Coin Package 2$4.99
Show 7 more
  • Bundle 2$6.99
  • Bundle 3$12.99
  • Coin Package 4$19.99
  • Bundle 4$24.99
  • Bundle 5$49.99
  • Coin Package 6$79.99
  • Bundle 6$99.99

Questions

Is SEQ free?
SEQ costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is Pipes free?
Pipes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SEQ or Pipes?
Pipes is rated higher. SEQ averages 4.7 out of 5 from 2.6K ratings, while Pipes averages 4.9 from 55 ratings.
Do SEQ or Pipes have ads?
Pipes shows ads; SEQ does not.
Which is updated more often, SEQ or Pipes?
SEQ ships an update every 6 weeks, and Pipes every 4 months. Most recently, SEQ was updated on October 21, 2026 and Pipes on October 22, 2026.

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