Comparison

Fizzy Factory vs Arrow Puzzle Wave

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

Head to head
About

Fizzy Factory

Transport soda from geysers to color-coded bottles by dragging your finger. Mix colors to fill specific bottles, using stations and splitters to create new hues. Offers hundreds of levels with increasing difficulty and helpful tutorials.

Highlights
  • 384 challenging levels
  • Intuitive touch controls
  • Color mixing mechanics
  • Soda splitting and station features
  • Tutorials and hints
  • Game Center leaderboards and achievements
Features
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"Ingenious new mechanics completely change the way the genre is played." - Gamezebo "One of the best and most addictive puzzlers I've played in a while!" 5/5 - GamerSpy Step into the soda factory to play the most addictive puzzle game on the market. You are faced with the tasty task of transporting soda from our naturally flowing soda geysers to color-coded soda bottles. The gameplay is simple. Just drag your finger to move soda around the board. Red soda goes in the red bottle. Easy enough, right? Sure. At least until you have to mix the blue and yellow soda to fill the green bottle. This factory is outfitted with the latest in soda making technology. Slide that blue soda through the red Color Station, and we’ve got purple soda! We can even run that orange soda through a Splitter for more red and yellow soda! We’ll teach you the basics with some simple levels. Brush up on your color mixing facts, learn the intricacies of Splitters, and you’ll be an old soda pro in no time! But rest assured, we’ve got challenges for even the most seasoned soda veterans! *** Fizzy Factory Features*** -384 Challenging Levels! -Intuitive, smooth touch controls -Multiple board sizes to ratchet up the difficulty -Tutorials to help ease you into gameplay -Hints available to help get you through some of the more dastardly levels -Awesome music and sound effects -Game Center leaderboard and achievements that allow you to compete against friends and strangers for mixing supremacy -Charming colorful graphics and animations—especially beautiful on the iPad -Real soda factory feel -Fun messages at the end of every level ***There's More!*** Beat the Fizzy Factory Secret Password Challenge and have your name immortalized! Details at HangZone.com. Fizzy Factory takes color-dragging puzzles to a new level. It’s free, so you’ve probably started downloading it by now. Good luck!

About

Arrow Puzzle Wave

Tap arrows to fire them and clear the grid in this tense puzzle game. Solve challenging levels, play community-created puzzles, or build and share your own unique grids. Enjoy a clean design with dark and light modes, playable offline.

Highlights
  • Tap to fire arrows
  • Clear grids by lining up moves
  • Classic hand-built levels
  • Community-created levels
  • Build and share custom levels
  • Offline play
  • Dark and light modes
Features
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Fire arrows. Clear the grid. Escape every trap. Arrow Puzzle Wave is a fast, tense puzzle game built on one simple rule: tap an arrow and it flies. Line up the right moves and the board clears. Get it wrong and arrows collide — costing you a heart. Three hearts, one grid, countless ways to outsmart it. CLASSIC LEVELS A growing set of hand-built puzzles that start gentle and turn genuinely brutal. COMMUNITY LEVELS Play a steady stream of levels created by players around the world — there's always something new to solve. BUILD YOUR OWN Design your own grids in the level editor, then publish them for everyone to play. Found one you love? Share it with a single link and your friends jump straight in. PLAY YOUR WAY • Dark and light modes — play whichever suits your eyes • Works fully offline, anywhere • Quick to learn, hard to master • Clean, distraction-free design Download Arrow Puzzle Wave and see how far you can go. - Terms of Use - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy - https://www.floridainnovationfactory.com/privacy

Screenshots

Fizzy Factory4 screens
Arrow Puzzle Wave3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Arrow Puzzle Wave at none against Fizzy Factory's 9. Arrow Puzzle Wave also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). Fizzy Factory's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 16.4). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume 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. Fizzy Factory sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Arrow Puzzle Wave asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Arrow Puzzle Wave holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 96% of Fizzy Factory's written reviews are positive against 100% of Arrow Puzzle Wave's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fizzy Factory ships an update every 3 weeks, Arrow Puzzle Wave every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Fizzy Factory versus Arrow Puzzle Wave: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFizzy FactoryArrow Puzzle Wave
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (7 ratings)4.6 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews96.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings7 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS6.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB50 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHangZoneRodrigo dos Santos Silva

Customer experience

Fizzy Factory

All ratings6 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral16.7%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews77 reviews
Positive96.1%
Neutral3.9%
Negative0.0%

Arrow Puzzle Wave

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Fizzy Factory

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • Cannot pass level 16 on Cola Connect

Requested features

5 requests
  • Colorblind option
  • Earn hints based on levels completed or time
  • Explain how levels work
  • Add more levels
  • Allow skipping levels without penalty

Arrow Puzzle Wave

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Fizzy Factory

One-time9
  • 5 Hints$0.99
  • Drink Doctor puzzle pack--48 new 7x7 levels$0.99
  • Tonic Tussle puzzle pack--48 new 6x6 levels$0.99
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  • Mix Master puzzle pack--48 new 8x8 levels$1.99
  • 20 Hints$2.99
  • Tonic Tussle, Drink Doctor, and Mix Master puzzle packs$2.99
  • Starter Pack - 20 Hints and Drink Doctor Puzzle Pack$2.99
  • 40 Hints$4.99
  • 100 Hints$9.99
None

Arrow Puzzle Wave

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Fizzy Factory free?
Fizzy Factory is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Arrow Puzzle Wave free?
Arrow Puzzle Wave is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Fizzy Factory or Arrow Puzzle Wave?
Arrow Puzzle Wave is rated higher. Fizzy Factory averages 4.3 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while Arrow Puzzle Wave averages 4.6 from 5 ratings.
Do Fizzy Factory or Arrow Puzzle Wave have ads?
Arrow Puzzle Wave shows ads; Fizzy Factory does not.
Which is updated more often, Fizzy Factory or Arrow Puzzle Wave?
Fizzy Factory ships an update every 3 weeks, and Arrow Puzzle Wave every 5 days. Most recently, Fizzy Factory was updated on October 23, 2026 and Arrow Puzzle Wave on October 24, 2026.

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