ArcadeFlow vs DotMaze
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ArcadeFlow
This app offers a collection of six different logic puzzle games with over 1000 levels. Enjoy classic and new puzzle types, play offline, and compete with others. It's completely ad-free and focuses on providing a pure puzzle experience.
- Six distinct logic puzzle games
- Over 1000 levels across all games
- Offline play support
- Ad-free experience
- Daily puzzles and streaks
- Game Center leaderboards and achievements
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Six logic games and 1,300 levels in one app: connect colors, sort gems, solve Sudoku and Killer Sudoku, reveal pixel pictures, and match cards. Play fully offline, with no ads, and climb the Game Center leaderboards. SIX GAMES, 1,300 LEVELS - ColorFlow Classic: connect matching dots and fill every cell, across 155 levels from Easy to Grandmaster. - ColorFlow: Worlds: 240 levels in eight themed worlds. - GemFlow: sort the gems until every tube holds a single color, across 90 levels. - Sudoku: place 1–9 in every row, column and box, across 265 graded puzzles, plus 300 Killer puzzles where cages show their sums. - PixelFlow: solve number clues to reveal a picture, across 150 puzzles. - Mnemora: flip cards and find every matching pair, across 100 levels of beautifully illustrated decks. PLAY OFFLINE No connection needed. Play on a plane, on the subway, or anywhere else, and pick up right where you left off. COMPLETELY AD-FREE No ads, ever. No lives, no energy meters, no pressure. Just you and the puzzle. GAME CENTER RANKINGS Every game has its own Game Center leaderboards and achievements, so you can track your best scores and see how you rank against other ArcadeFlow players. A FREE PUZZLE EVERY DAY Every game has its own daily puzzle and its own streak. Play one, or all six. BEAUTIFUL ON iPAD Every game is designed for iPad, in portrait or landscape. WHAT WE BELIEVE - No ads, ever. - No data monetization. No accounts, no third-party SDKs, and your data is never sold. Your progress stays on your device. - From a studio of puzzle aficionados who believe games should be worth your time. FREE TO TRY Every game is free to try. Unlock all six games forever with the one-time Full Unlock, or choose the optional ArcadeFlow Pass. Fully localized in 12 languages, from English and Spanish to Japanese, Hindi, and Arabic. Questions or feedback? Visit jcy.studio. SUBSCRIPTION INFORMATION ArcadeFlow Pass (optional auto-renewable subscription): available monthly or annually — the exact price for your region is shown at purchase. Unlocks all six ArcadeFlow games while active. Renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; manage or cancel any time in your Account settings. Restore Purchases is available on the store screen. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://jcy.studio/privacy
DotMaze
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Two puzzles in one app, both about the same simple pleasure: drawing a line that ends up exactly where it should. FLOW Every colour on the board appears twice. Join each pair with one unbroken line — and cover every square while you do it. Joining the pairs is the easy half; leaving no square empty is the puzzle. Lines run up, down, left and right, never diagonally. Two lines may run side by side or meet corner to corner, but no two lines can ever share a square. Draw through a finished flow and it breaks, ready to be routed again — that is the normal way out of a tangle, not a mistake. 38 levels ship checked, from a gentle 5×5 up to a serious 8×9, across five packs that open as you go. And no pack ends: past the last checked level, new boards are built for you as you reach them, seeded so level 47 is always the same level 47. Every shipped board has exactly one solution, proved before release. CONNECT THE DOTS When you would rather trace than think: start at dot 1 and work upwards, tapping each dot or dragging straight through them, until a picture appears. Four hand-placed pictures across four difficulties — from ten fat, forgiving dots to a hundred-plus where only the next one is numbered. STARS THAT REWARD THINKING Three stars in Flow means one drag per flow. Redrawing costs a star before slowness does, because sitting and staring at a board is playing it well, not playing it badly. Hints never cost a star: you get three per level, and a hint prefers to point at a square where only one line can possibly go — so it shows you the reasoning instead of handing over the answer. BUILT TO BE COMFORTABLE • Number the pairs, so colour is never the only thing telling two flows apart • Four dot sizes, for when precise tapping is the hard part • Sound and haptics, each independently off • Light and dark, following your system • VoiceOver labelling throughout • iPhone and iPad QUIETLY OFFLINE No ads. No accounts. No sign-in, no subscription, no timers pushing you to come back. Nothing is uploaded, because there is nothing to upload — your progress, your best times and your stars live on your device and go nowhere else. The whole game works in aeroplane mode.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: DotMaze at none against ArcadeFlow's 8. 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. ArcadeFlow sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. DotMaze asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | ArcadeFlow | DotMaze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 65 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | JCY Advisors | Steven Koch |
In-app purchases
ArcadeFlow
- Puzzle Master Pass — Weekly$1.997 Days
- Puzzle Master Pass — Monthly$4.991 Month
- ArcadeFlow Pass$7.991 Month
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- ArcadeFlow Pass$49.991 Year
- Puzzle Master Pass — Yearly$49.991 Year
- Unlock All Levels$1.99
- Puzzle Master$12.99
- Unlock All Six Games$14.99
DotMaze
No in-app purchases









