Comparison

Flow Free vs Tether

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

Head to head
About

Flow Free

Connect matching colored pipes to fill the board, using new bridge mechanics to cross over existing pipes. Offers hundreds of levels with varying difficulty, from relaxed to challenging, and a time trial mode for speed enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Connect matching colored pipes
  • Create a Flow to cover the entire board
  • Use new bridge mechanics
  • Over 2,500 levels in Free Play
  • Daily Puzzles
  • Time Trial mode
  • 10 board sizes
Features
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From the makers of the hit app Flow Free®, comes a fun and challenging new twist: Bridges! If you like Flow Free, you'll love Flow Free: Bridges®! Connect matching colors with pipe to create a Flow®. Pair all colors and cover the entire board. Use the new Bridges to cross two pipes and solve each puzzle! Free play through hundreds of levels, or race against the clock in Time Trial mode. Gameplay ranges from simple and relaxed, to challenging and frenetic, and everywhere in between. How you play is up to you. So, give Flow Free: Bridges a try, and experience "mind like water"! *** Flow Free: Bridges features *** * Content - Over 2,500 levels available in Free Play mode, and new Daily Puzzles every day! - 10 different board sizes - Starter, Challenge, Bonus, Classic, Mania, and Jumbo level packs - Bridges! * Challenge - Game Center achievements as you solve levels and complete packs - Track your completion of each level in Free Play mode - Strive for accuracy in Free Play using the fewest, most efficient moves - Strive for speed in Time Trial for the most and fastest solves - 20 scored Time Trial variants to choose from by board size and duration * Look & Feel - Smooth, polished touch interaction - Colorful UI - Fun sound effects - Clean vector graphics and animations - Labels available for color impaired players Enjoy.

About

Tether

Features
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Tap to throw out a rope. Swing. Let go at exactly the right moment and fly. That is it. That is the whole game. You will understand it in ten seconds and still be arguing with it six hundred caves later. TETHER is a one-tap rope physics game about a fragile ball of plasma in a cave full of things that want it dead. There is no run button, no jump, no second chance. There is a rope, a swing, and the instant you let go. ◆ ONE TAP IS THE WHOLE CONTROL SCHEME Hold near an anchor and a rope snaps out. Your core swings on real pendulum physics momentum you build is momentum you keep. Drag to re-aim mid-flight. Release to fling. Release clean, on a true tangent, and the swing pays you double speed. Every cave is one question: where do you let go? ◆ 600 HAND-TUNED CAVES Not randomly generated mush. Every cave is built and then machine-verified to be genuinely beatable before it ever reaches you no impossible rooms, no lucky-bounce nonsense. Pure skill, from the first swing to the last. The deeper you go, the more the world stops playing fair: - Gravity flips, twists, and dies completely - Anchors that crumble the instant you grab them - Boost pads, tractor beams, winches and slingshots - Lasers on a clock, spinning blades, drifting mines, dark matter - Phase walls that are not there until they are - Wormholes, quantum gates and rooms that rewind - Heavy liquid, molten slag, moving wind, orbiting planets - Twin ropes one tap, two anchors, one very small window ◆ FIVE ERAS, FIVE WORLDS Cyber Cyan. Molten Core. Neon Abyss. Electric Slag. Aurora Nebula. The cave does not just get harder as you descend it changes colour, changes rules, and changes what your rope even means. ◆ BUILT TO FEEL GOOD IN YOUR HANDS Every swing has weight. Time slows when you scrape past a blade. The screen kicks when you land a perfect release. Sixty frames a second of glowing, humming, high-contrast neon running smoothly on your iPhone and iPad. ◆ PLAY IN THIRTY SECONDS OR THREE HOURS Caves are short. Deaths are instant tap once and you are straight back in, no menus, no waiting. Five hearts, and they refill on their own while you are away. Perfect for a quick break, dangerous for an evening. Chase your best score. Collect coins. Thread the void. One tap. One rope. Miss, and you are dust. Download TETHER and take the swing! ======================================================== Official Links & Community: - Privacy Policy: https://abtrivix.com/privacy/ - Terms & Conditions: https://abtrivix.com/terms/ - Official Website: https://abtrivix.com/ Follow us for updates, tips & new levels: - X (Twitter): https://x.com/abtrivix - Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/abtrivix - Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61591684252933 - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyx5hC2B_pry52u6T-oBnTw

Screenshots

Flow Free4 screens
Tether4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tether at none against Flow Free's 10. Flow Free's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). 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. Flow Free sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Tether asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Flow Free versus Tether: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFlow FreeTether
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (10K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews89.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings10K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size65 MB82 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBig Duck Games LLCAtul Tripathi

Bugs and requests

Flow Free

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Crashes when viewing ads
  • Inability to exit or skip ads
  • Inconsistent button placements across updates
  • Daily puzzle progress not saving correctly

Requested features

6 requests
  • More challenging puzzle packs or levels
  • Ability to reset progress on specific packs
  • Option to disable animations or reduce visual effects
  • Improved ad placement and control
  • Syncing progress across devices
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  • Customizable UI elements and settings

Tether

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Flow Free

One-time10
  • 5 Hints$0.99
  • 9x9 Mania$1.99
  • Rainbow Pack$1.99
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  • 8x8 Mania$1.99
  • Jumbo Pack$1.99
  • Blue Pack$1.99
  • Unlock All Themes$1.99
  • 20 Hints$2.99
  • Unlock All Packs and Remove Ads$4.99
  • 100 Hints$9.99
None

Tether

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Flow Free free?
Flow Free is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tether free?
Tether is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Flow Free or Tether have ads?
Both Flow Free and Tether show ads.

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