Zen Pipe vs What's inside the box?
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zen Pipe
A simple yet addictive puzzle game where players rotate pipes to connect them. Enjoy an endless stream of randomly generated levels on all your devices for a relaxing gaming experience.
- Simple pipe rotation puzzles
- Addictive gameplay
- Infinite levels
- Randomly generated levels
- Universal device support
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Want to play a relaxing puzzle game? Don't look further; Zen Pipe is the game you were looking for. The rules are simple (you rotate the pipes to their correct position) but terribly addictive. You’ll be coming back for more, your money guaranty (wait a minute… the game is FREE). - Simple and relaxing puzzle game. - Infinite and randomly generated levels. - Universal (works on all your devices).
What's inside the box?
Engage in a series of challenging puzzles to uncover the contents of various boxes. Utilize hints to overcome difficult levels and unlock additional features for an enhanced experience.
- Solve 100+ puzzles
- Discover box contents
- Use hint system
- Premium unlock available
- Skip level option
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What's inside the box? A lot of puzzles! Can you solve all 100 and discover what's in the box? Need hints? Use the hint button at the bottom in each level. There are 2 hints for each level. With the premium unlock in-app you will not get ads before the hints and you will get a skip level button after asking the 2 hints in each level. (note: with the premium unlock the skip button will appear AFTER asking the 2 hints in each level) Enjoy! @BartBonte
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: What's inside the box? at 4.3 against Zen Pipe's 3.3. What's inside the box? also leads on ratings volume (111 vs 10). Zen Pipe's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 12.0). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Zen Pipe sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and What's inside the box? sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
What's inside the box? holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: What's inside the box? has 111 ratings behind it against 10, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 79% and 78% positive.
Zen Pipe ships an update every 2 months, What's inside the box? every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zen Pipe | What's inside the box? |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.3 (10 ratings) | 4.3 (111 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.6% of reviews — better | 77.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 111 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Ovogame | Bart BONTE |
Customer experience
Zen Pipe
What's inside the box?
Bugs and requests
Zen Pipe
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
What's inside the box?
Reported bugs
7 issues- Progress lost when switching apps or reopening application
- Level 43 button unresponsive after pressing question mark
- Level 7 layer movement not functioning correctly
- Level 45 resets progress to level 21
- Screen rendering issues making portions unviewable
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- Hints not unlocking next level despite correct solution
- Multiple levels appearing identical or too similar (52/72, 81/88)
Requested features
6 requests- Skip button for difficult levels
- Pause functionality during gameplay
- Improved hint system with clearer guidance
- Additional levels beyond 100
- Better progress save system
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- Sequel or expansion content
In-app purchases
Zen Pipe
- No Ads!$1.99
What's inside the box?
- premium unlock$2.49
Questions
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