Pathways vs Sumthing
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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!
Sumthing
A daily logic puzzle game where you rearrange numbers in a grid to make every line sum to the same total. It offers a clean, calming experience designed to sharpen logical reasoning and focus.
- Daily magic square puzzles
- Rearrange numbers to match target sum
- Track time and moves
- Share results with friends
- Strengthens logic and focus
- Clean, calming design
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Sumthing is the daily puzzle game for people who love to think. If you enjoy Wordle, Sudoku, or logic puzzles, you’ll love solving magic squares in Sumthing. Every day, everyone around the world gets the same magic square puzzle. Your goal is simple: - Make every line add up to the same total How It Works - A partially filled magic square appears each day - Some numbers are locked - You swap the rest to solve - Finish with the fewest moves and fastest time Why You’ll Love Sumthing - One fresh puzzle every day - Clean, calming design - Easy to learn, hard to master - Track your time and moves - Share your result with friends - No ads. No distractions. Just puzzles. Daily Score & Sharing When you solve the puzzle, you’ll get a shareable card showing: - Time taken - Number of swaps - Daily puzzle number Post it, challenge friends, and compare strategies. Magic squares strengthen: - Logical reasoning - Pattern recognition - Mental math - Focus and patience Just a few minutes a day keeps your brain sharp. Whether you play during your morning coffee or before bed, Sumthing turns thinking into a daily habit. Download Sumthing and solve today’s square.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sumthing at none against Pathways's 9. Sumthing also leads on update cadence (daily vs every 2 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Pathways's advantage is ratings volume (26 vs 3). On price, ads, 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
Both are free to download. Pathways sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Sumthing asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sumthing holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pathways has 26 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 90% of Pathways's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sumthing's.
Pathways ships an update every 2 months, Sumthing daily. The most recent releases landed on October 8, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pathways | Sumthing |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (26 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 26 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | William Arbuckle | Nitishchandra Reddy Ramayyagari |
Customer experience
Pathways
Sumthing
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
Sumthing
No in-app purchases









