Comparison

Nodes vs Emoji Bee

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

Head to head
About

Nodes

Connect dots to reveal beautiful, handcrafted images in a relaxing puzzle game. Enjoy a calming experience at your own pace, perfect for listening to podcasts or music. Pick up where you left off anytime.

Highlights
  • Connect dots to form art
  • Handcrafted puzzles
  • Relaxing gameplay
  • Save progress
  • No time limits
  • Clear incorrect connections
Features
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Looking for a calm daily triangle puzzle? Nodes is a relaxing vertex puzzle where you connect dots, form triangles, and reveal beautiful low-poly art. Play a new hand-crafted puzzle every day and enjoy a simple visual logic game designed for focus, calm, and unwind moments. Each puzzle blends satisfying dot connections, triangle strategy, and artistic reveals into a peaceful daily ritual. Why players love Nodes: - A new daily triangle puzzle every day - Connect dots to reveal beautiful low-poly artwork - Relaxing vertex puzzles with no timers or pressure - Satisfying visual reveals and calm progression - Archive, collections, and extra puzzles to explore How to Play: - Connect vertices to create triangles - Each number shows how many connections a vertex still needs - Complete the right triangle pattern to reveal the image - Double tap a vertex to remove incorrect connections Nodes is a calm and elegant puzzle game you can return to every day. If you enjoy connect dots games, triangle puzzles, visual logic, and relaxing art reveals, Nodes offers a satisfying way to unwind at your own pace. Privacy Policy: https://www.nodes-game.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Emoji Bee

Engage your mind with daily emoji puzzles that combine wordplay and logic. Solve five unique rebus challenges each day, building your vocabulary and solving instincts. Enjoy a free, ad-free experience with optional features for enhanced play.

Highlights
  • Five daily emoji rebus puzzles
  • Logic puzzles (Emoji Melds)
  • Streak tracking and bee ranks
  • Archived games for more play
  • Cross-device progress syncing
  • Friend invitations and comparisons
Features
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Not emoji charades. Not another loose rebus. Emoji Bee is the daily emoji puzzle that takes the puzzle seriously — emoji combine in predictable (though not always obvious) ways, and every answer is a common phrase, idiom or reference that can be worked out instead of guessed. Five puzzles a day. Each a familiar (or not so familiar) phrase hiding in plain sight — reveal it with the emoji in your honeycomb and by doing a little emoji math: add them, subtract them, multiply and divide them; play on what they mean, how they sound, and the words they make. You’ll even delight in solving mini-logic puzzles called Emoji Melds, which ask the player what one emoji is as a function of another. (What does fire do to bread? It makes toast!) Each daily game will tickle your left brain and right brain at the same time! Like a good daily crossword, Emoji Bee calls on — and builds — your knowledge and your solving instincts, not just your emoji fluency. Come back each day and grow your emoji vocabulary, one puzzle at a time. HOW IT WORKS • Five a day, easy to hard — no timer. • Every puzzle starts with a cup of honey. Lock in a word and it pours a drop; a miss or a hint spills one. Run dry and the answer shows, so every day ends with a result. • Emoji mean what they are — no slang, no in-jokes. • Finish all five to keep your streak. • 40+ archived games for when you want more. MELDS AND MORE • Every Emoji Meld you solve is vocabulary you keep in your Comb. Collecting them from the archive is a game of its own. • Solving earns EQ and climbs you through the bee ranks — every game moves you up. PLAY YOUR WAY • No account needed — play anonymously if you like. • Sign in with Apple or Google to keep your streak, stats, and Comb across devices. • Invite friends to your Hive and compare days, streaks, and ranks. • Everyone plays the same five each day. The archive is there when you want more. FREE, HONESTLY • The daily is free — no ads, no tracking, no selling your data. • Optional reminders so you never miss a day. Five new puzzles land every day. Part wordplay, part math, all emoji — and right at home in your daily puzzle lineup. Terms of Use (EULA): https://emojibee.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://emojibee.com/privacy Emoji Bee+ is a one-time purchase, not a subscription. Nothing auto-renews.

Screenshots

Nodes4 screens
Emoji Bee4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Emoji Bee at none against Nodes's shown. Emoji Bee also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). Nodes's advantage is ratings volume (398 vs 6). On price, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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. Nodes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Emoji Bee sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Emoji Bee holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nodes has 398 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Nodes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Emoji Bee's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nodes ships an update every 3 weeks, Emoji Bee every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Nodes versus Emoji Bee: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNodesEmoji Bee
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (398 ratings)5.0 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings398 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB39 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNUR NURIYE ERSAHINMichael Pugh

Customer experience

Nodes

All ratings392 ratings
Positive90.3%
Neutral4.8%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral13.8%
Negative20.7%

Emoji Bee

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Nodes

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Lines connecting to unintended dots
  • App crashes requiring restart
  • Progress deletion mid-puzzle
  • Puzzles not saving completion status
  • Touch controls directing swipes to wrong anchors
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  • Settings not persisting (red line toggle)
  • Occasional freezing and unresponsiveness
  • Graphics rendering issues when zoomed

Requested features

15 requests
  • Undo or delete line functionality
  • Ability to replay completed puzzles
  • More frequent puzzle updates and releases
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Portrait mode support
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  • Ability to clear all node attachments
  • Prevent line overlap feature
  • Adjustable touch sensitivity settings
  • Longer time to appreciate completed puzzles before animation
  • Ability to access previous month's daily puzzles
  • Theme-based puzzle grouping
  • More airplane-themed puzzles
  • Improved comment feature with replies and notifications
  • More sophisticated and complex puzzle designs
  • Multiple daily puzzles instead of just one

Emoji Bee

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Nodes

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$24.991 Year
2 purchases

Emoji Bee

One-time2
  • Emoji Bee+$4.99
  • Emoji Bee+ Original Colony$9.99

Questions

Is Nodes free?
Nodes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Emoji Bee free?
Emoji Bee is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Nodes or Emoji Bee?
Emoji Bee is rated higher. Nodes averages 4.6 out of 5 from 398 ratings, while Emoji Bee averages 5.0 from 6 ratings.
Do Nodes or Emoji Bee have ads?
Nodes shows ads; Emoji Bee does not.
Which is updated more often, Nodes or Emoji Bee?
Nodes ships an update every 3 weeks, and Emoji Bee every 2 days. Most recently, Nodes was updated on November 4, 2026 and Emoji Bee on November 5, 2026.

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