PuzPop vs Pathways
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PuzPop
Engage your mind daily with a variety of handcrafted word and logic puzzles. Explore crosswords, riddles, word association games, and classic Sudoku with fresh content released every day.
- Daily crossword puzzles
- Mini crossword
- Daily riddle game
- Themed word association
- Proximity word guessing
- Classic Sudoku (easy, medium, hard)
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PuzPop offers a collection of handcrafted puzzle and word games - with fresh content every day. Games include: Crossword: Test your knowledge with our standard crossword puzzle. Mini: Crossword, but on a compact 5x5 grid. Ridella: Solve the daily riddle as clues are revealed one line at a time. Clique: Fill in the blanks to form words all belonging to the same theme. Proximity: All nouns are sorted by similarity to a target word. Find the target word by guessing other words and seeing how close they rank. Sudoku: Enjoy the classic number-placement puzzle in easy, medium, and hard modes.
Pathways
A minimalist logic puzzle game where players guide a dot to its home space by drawing colored paths. It offers increasing difficulty levels and daily challenges, with an option for advanced features like custom level creation.
- Draw colored paths to guide a dot
- Solve spatial reasoning puzzles
- Progress through increasing grid sizes
- Daily timed puzzles with score sharing
- Create and share custom levels
- No ads, playable offline
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Pathways is a spatial reasoning logic puzzle with a clean, minimalist design. The goal is simple: move the dot home! How it works: -Each grid has one dot, and one home space -The dot can only move to colored spaces -Use tabs on the side of the grid to draw paths of color -Retract and redraw paths as necessary -Move that dot home! Easy to learn, difficult to master -Start with 3x4 grids to learn the ropes -Up the challenge with 4x4 grids -Put yourself to the real test with 4x5 grids Daily Puzzles -Timed puzzles, share your score with friends -Puzzles increase in difficulty throughout the week -Build your streak! Pathways PRO -Access all packs (375 puzzles + future packs) -Access Daily Puzzle archive to play old puzzles (100+ Daily Puzzles) -Create your own levels, share with friends and/or submit to Pathways to be featured Why Pathways? -Clean, minimalistic design -Simple rules, yet challenging solutions -No ads, no wifi required Up for the challenge? Download Pathways today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: PuzPop at none against Pathways's 9. PuzPop also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Pathways sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. PuzPop asks for nothing beyond the download.
PuzPop holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 26 and 26 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of PuzPop's written reviews are positive against 90% of Pathways's.
PuzPop ships an update every 6 days, Pathways every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on June 11, 2026 and July 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PuzPop | Pathways |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (26 ratings) — better | 4.8 (26 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 90.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 26 | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 47 MB | 36 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dylan Kapoor | William Arbuckle |
Customer experience
PuzPop
Pathways
In-app purchases
PuzPop
No in-app purchases
Pathways
- Support Developpment$0.99
- Support Developpment$1.99
- Support Developpment$4.99
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- Pathways PRO$7.99
- Support Developpment$7.99
- Support Developpment$9.99
- Support Developpment$14.99
- Support Developpment$19.99
- Support Developpment$29.99









