RECTPACK vs DotMaze
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
RECTPACK
A minimalist puzzle game where you fit colorful rectangles into a grid without gaps or overlaps. Offers multiple game modes, from a curated journey to infinite procedural challenges and timed rushes.
- Fit rectangles into a grid
- No gaps or overlaps
- 75 hand-crafted levels
- Infinite procedural puzzles
- Daily challenges
- Timed blitz mode
- Tactile feedback and audio
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Fill the rectangle. No gaps. No overlaps. RectPack is a minimalist spatial puzzle game designed for those who find beauty in perfect fits. Your goal is simple: take a collection of colorful rectangles and pack them perfectly into the grid. Every level in RectPack is "Solver-Verified"—engineered by a custom brute-force algorithm to ensure there are no impossible boards and just enough "dead-ends" to keep your brain engaged. Whether you’re looking for a five-minute zen break or a high-stakes blitz, RectPack offers four distinct ways to play: JOURNEY: Progress through 75 hand-crafted levels across three themed worlds—Mondrian Gardens, Chromatic Heights, and Neon Flux. ZEN: Infinite procedural puzzles. No timers, no pressure—just you and the grid. DAILY PACK: Join players worldwide in solving the same three seeded puzzles every day to build your streak. RUSH: A 60-second blitz. How many puzzles can you solve before the clock hits zero? Crafted with Care: Tactile Feedback: Feel the satisfying "snap" of a perfect placement with custom haptic and procedural audio. Strategic Tension: A unique move-counting system where lifting a piece has a cost, encouraging you to think twice before you place. Premium Aesthetic: Clean lines, vibrant palettes, and smooth animations that look stunning on retina displays. No fluff, no filler—just pure geometric satisfaction.
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 RECTPACK's 2. 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. RECTPACK sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. DotMaze asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | RECTPACK | DotMaze |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 46 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Adam Nash | Steven Koch |
In-app purchases
RECTPACK
- Tip Jar Small$1.99
- Tip Jar Large$4.99
DotMaze
No in-app purchases









