Comparison

Boxy Pals vs What the Cubes

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

Head to head
About

Boxy Pals

Guide snakes across a grid, matching colors to clear them. Plan your moves carefully to escape each level without filling the rotating bar.

Highlights
  • Snake matching mechanic
  • Grid escape puzzles
  • Hundreds of handcrafted levels
  • No timers or stress
  • Offline play
  • Smart hints
Features
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A crowd of pals is waiting, and every one of them belongs somewhere. Boxy Pals is a color-matching queue game with a twist: the boxes you fill are the picture. Tap a line and the pals at its front march into the waiting room. Send every pal into a box of their own color, fill the open boxes from the ground up, and watch the mural above you come apart one box at a time. Empty the last box and the level is yours. HOW TO PLAY - Tap a line to send its front color group marching. - Only a few box colors are open at any moment. - Match every pal to a box of the same color. - Empty the boxes below to reach the ones above. - Leave breathing room for the colors still to come. - Stuck? Rescue pulls your pals back into a line. WHY PLAYERS KEEP TAPPING - One thumb, one tap, no tutorial needed - Every line you open changes your next ten moves - Crowds that shuffle, shove and squeeze into place - A picture that takes itself apart, box by box - No timer, no move limit — think as long as you like - Bright, chunky 3D worlds One wrong line and the room fills up. One right line and the whole board opens. Which line will you tap first?

About

What the Cubes

Solve intricate cube puzzles by strategically deploying buses to collect colored blocks. Unravel complex sculptures by finding the correct order to free buried cubes and fill your transport.

Highlights
  • Shred cube sculptures
  • Figure out bus order
  • Watch freed cubes sprint
  • Outsmart special buses
  • Savor final send-off
Features
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What The Cubes turns everything into blocks, and every block into a puzzle. Chubby elephants and grinning robots, strawberries, lighthouses, UFOs, matryoshka dolls: a whole world built from colorful little bricks. Your job: take each sculpture apart until nothing is left. Your only tool: holes. Send out a hole, and every free block of its color pops off the sculpture and drops in, one after another, until the hole is full and closes up. Sounds easy, until you look closer. The color you need is buried under three others. Each hole only fits so many blocks. Space on the board is tight. Send the wrong hole and it sits there half-empty, taking up a spot while the blocks it wants stay trapped deep inside the sculpture. This is a real puzzle: somewhere in that pile of blocks is the right order, and you have to find it. Study the shape, work out what sits on top of what, send the hole that opens up the next one, and the whole sculpture comes apart in one glorious chain. That moment, when the plan clicks and the shape melts away, is what What The Cubes is all about. And the puzzles keep finding new ways to fight back. Colors hide deep inside, revealed only as the outer layers come off. Mystery holes keep their color secret. Frozen holes thaw only after enough other holes are sent. Linked holes insist on going together, and locked holes wait for a key. Every level is a fresh shape with a fresh knot to untangle, and once it's gone, another is always waiting. In What The Cubes, you will: - Take apart adorable block sculptures, from tiny cacti to fire trucks and pirate flags - Figure out the right hole order to free the blocks buried deepest - Watch freed blocks pour into their hole, the reward for every good move - Outsmart frozen, hidden, linked and locked holes as the puzzles get craftier - Savor the perfect finish when the last block drops in Every sculpture is a knot made of blocks. The holes are how you untie it. Can you clear them all? Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Boxy Pals4 screens
What the Cubes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ratings volume: Boxy Pals at 166 against What the Cubes's 36. On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Boxy Pals sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and What the Cubes sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Boxy Pals against 4.8 for What the Cubes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 166 and 36 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Boxy Pals ships an update every 6 days, What the Cubes every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Boxy Pals versus What the Cubes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBoxy PalsWhat the Cubes
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (166 ratings)4.8 (36 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings166 — better36
Update frequencyEvery 6 days — betterEvery 10 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size378 MB415 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperLoop Games Oyun Teknolojileri Anonim SirketiFeel Games Yazilim Oyun ve Bilisim Teknolojileri Anonim Sirketi

Customer experience

Boxy Pals

All ratings166 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral3.6%
Negative1.8%

What the Cubes

All ratings28 ratings
Positive96.4%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.6%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Boxy Pals

One-time10
  • Coin Pack 1$1.99
  • End Game Offer$5.99
  • Remove Ads Bundle$7.99
Show 7 more
  • Coin Pack 2$7.99
  • Starter Pack$9.99
  • Value Pack$19.99
  • Treasure Pack$39.99
  • Coin Pack 5$59.99
  • Coin Pack 6$99.99
  • Ultimate Pack$99.99
10 purchases

What the Cubes

One-time10
  • Offer 2$1.99
  • Offer 5$4.99
  • Offer 7$6.99
Show 7 more
  • No Ads$6.99
  • Offer 8$7.99
  • No Ads Bundle$9.99
  • Offer 15$14.99
  • Offer 30$29.99
  • Offer 55$54.99
  • Offer 100$99.99

Questions

Is Boxy Pals free?
Boxy Pals is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is What the Cubes free?
What the Cubes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Boxy Pals or What the Cubes?
What the Cubes is rated higher. Boxy Pals averages 4.8 out of 5 from 166 ratings, while What the Cubes averages 4.8 from 36 ratings.
Do Boxy Pals or What the Cubes have ads?
Both Boxy Pals and What the Cubes show ads.
Which is updated more often, Boxy Pals or What the Cubes?
Boxy Pals ships an update every 6 days, and What the Cubes every 10 days. Most recently, Boxy Pals was updated on November 11, 2026 and What the Cubes on November 6, 2026.

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