Comparison

Word Cubes 3D vs Shadepix

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

Head to head
About

Word Cubes 3D

Rotate 3D letter cubes to discover hidden words in this unique brain-teasing puzzle game. Progress through hundreds of levels, tackle daily challenges, and customize your cubes with various skins. Earn rewards for quick word discovery and utilize hints when you get stuck.

Highlights
  • 3D letter cube rotation
  • Hundreds of handcrafted levels
  • Daily challenges with bonus rewards
  • Customizable cube skins
  • Smart hint system
  • Combo rewards for fast play
Features
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Word Cubes 3D is a word puzzle you play with your hands. Four to six letter cubes sit in front of you. Every face of every cube is shown below them, so you read the letters, plan a word, and rotate the cubes to build it. Each level gives you a board of words to find and a budget of moves to find them in. Spot a word that is not on the board and it still pays. A CUBE THAT PLAYS ALONG One of your letter cubes has come alive. It hops when you find a word, flips for the golden one, cheers your combos, sweats when moves run low, and rolls you on to the next level. Tap it on the home screen, or give it a spin. PLAN, THEN ROTATE The letter strips under the cubes show all six faces, laid out the way each cube turns, so you can plan every move before you make it. A BOARD, NOT A QUOTA Every level lists the words it wants, with a golden word worth extra. Bonus words count too. A DAILY WORD One hidden word a day, six tries, feedback on every guess, and a share grid for your friends. Keep your streak. THEMES YOU EARN Wood, marble, neon, galaxy, and more, unlocked as you play, never sold. A theme changes the cubes, the background, and the celebration when you find a word. HINTS WHEN YOU WANT THEM Hint shows the next hidden letter of a word, and your first hint on every level is free. Solve builds a whole word for you without spending a move. CLUES YOU EARN Every bonus word you find reveals a letter on the board. 200 levels across two phases, daily rewards, and a lucky spin. Free to play, no energy, no timers.

About

Shadepix

Features
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Fill the squares, reveal the picture. Shadepix is a classic nonogram (picross) game with a calm dark board, one-finger drag painting, and pictures worth finishing. Every number tells you the length of a run of filled squares — read the clues, mark what must stay empty, and a hidden pixel picture appears. A DAILY PUZZLE FOR EVERYONE One puzzle a day, the same board for every player in the world, generated from the calendar date itself — no server required. The daily is how you earn diamonds: it pays more for every consecutive day, and every seventh day of a streak refills your energy for free. 330 HAND-DRAWN PICTURES Ten picture packs — Starter, Animals, Everyday Icons, Food, Space, Music, Vehicles, Sports, Nature and Weather — plus five advanced packs: Landmarks, Dinosaurs, Mythical Creatures, Deep Sea and Retro Tech, where one giant 20x20 picture is solved as four boards in a row. STAGES, ONE PICTURE AT A TIME Every pack is a 30-stage journey: clear a stage to open the next. Boards grow from quick 5x5 warm-ups to 15x15, and the advanced packs push to 20x20 — pinch to zoom on the big ones. MISTAKES CANNOT RUIN THE PICTURE A wrongly filled square is corrected to an × for you, so the picture never comes out wrong. But three mistakes end the board: continue for 60 diamonds, or start over for free. MEDALS AND LEADERBOARDS Bronze, silver and gold medals for pictures solved, packs completed, daily streaks and flawless clears — earned as Game Center achievements, with worldwide leaderboards for pictures solved and best streak. ENERGY INSTEAD OF ADS Starting a puzzle costs 1 energy from a bar of 5, and the bar refills on its own, one point every 15 minutes. The Daily never costs energy, and replaying a picture you have already solved is free. If you would rather not wait, a full refill costs 100 diamonds. BUILT TO BE PLEASANT - Drag across a row or column to fill several squares at once - Haptic feedback you can switch off - Works completely offline, on a plane or underground - Fully localized in 30 languages NO ADS. EVER. No banners, no interstitials, no rewarded video, no account, no tracking. Diamonds come from the daily puzzle, and optional diamond packs exist only if you want hints, unlocks or a refill sooner.

Screenshots

Word Cubes 3D4 screens
Shadepix4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Shadepix at none against Word Cubes 3D's shown. Shadepix also leads on iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, in-app purchases 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. Word Cubes 3D sells 7 one-off in-app purchases and Shadepix sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
Word Cubes 3D versus Shadepix: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWord Cubes 3DShadepix
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperEsref GunaydinToru Kitajima

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Word Cubes 3D

One-time7
  • 240 Coins$0.99
  • Finish Pack$0.99
  • Starter Pack$1.99
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  • 1,100 Coins$2.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Premium$4.99
  • 3,000 Coins$6.99
5 purchases

Shadepix

One-time5
  • Handful of Diamonds$1.99
  • Pouch of Diamonds$4.99
  • Chest of Diamonds$9.99
Show 2 more
  • Vault of Diamonds$19.99
  • Diamond Mine$49.99

Questions

Is Word Cubes 3D free?
Word Cubes 3D is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Shadepix free?
Shadepix is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Word Cubes 3D or Shadepix have ads?
Word Cubes 3D shows ads; Shadepix does not.

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