Comparison

Hedgemaze vs Pixel Pigeon

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

Head to head
About

Hedgemaze

A relaxing logic puzzle game where you use grid clues to create a single path through various serene environments. It offers over 2,000 puzzles with increasing difficulty and a daily challenge mode with leaderboards. Enjoy a pure puzzle experience with no ads or timers.

Highlights
  • Logic-based grid puzzles
  • Build a single perfect path
  • 2,000+ puzzles
  • Four difficulty levels
  • Daily challenges with leaderboards
  • No ads or timers
Features
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Hedgemaze is a relaxing logic puzzle inspired by nonograms, picross, and traditional paper puzzles. Use row and column clues to build a single perfect path through flowers, zen gardens, torii gates, and winding rivers. Each puzzle challenges you to determine exactly which cells become hedge and which become path. Every puzzle has one unique solution and can be solved with logic alone. No guessing required. Play 2,000+ puzzles across four difficulties. Start with 6×6 Easy grids and work your way up to challenging 12×12 Expert puzzles with rivers, bridges, and new twists to master. Take on a new Daily Challenge every day. Solve three puzzles that reset at midnight, compete on global leaderboards for the fastest times, and track your streaks and best solves while earning achievements. No ads. No energy timers. Just puzzles.

About

Pixel Pigeon

Play as a pigeon in a stealth game where you sneak, steal, and cause mischief in various urban environments. Enjoy offline play with no ads or subscriptions, and customize your bird.

Highlights
  • Stealth gameplay
  • Offline play
  • Customizable bird
  • Multiple environments
  • Mission-based objectives
  • Shareable mugshots
Features
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You are a pigeon. Everybody on the street would rather you were somewhere else. Pixel Pigeon is a stealth game about a small grey bird with a plan. Case a place from the wires above it. Watch a shopkeeper's back, count the seconds a cat keeps its eyes shut, then drop in, take what you came for, and be three roofs away before anyone works out where the noise came from. NO SIGNAL, NO PROBLEM Download it once and the whole game sits on your phone. Every city, every level, every crumb. It plays exactly the same in a plane seat, in a tunnel, on the tube, in a queue at the airport, with the phone in airplane mode and nothing at all in the bars. Nothing to stream, nothing to sign into, no account to make. Open it and it is there. WHERE YOU WORK A city rooftop at dusk. A Bangkok weekend market at full volume. A cliff above the sea, an Irish bog, the great stones of the Pyramids, a neon backstreet in Hong Kong, a night train running dark. Every place has its own crowd, its own weather and its own way of catching you. WHAT YOU DO Read a street before you cross it, then take your moment Slip past cats, work a crowd, mind the wires, ride the wind Peck, poop, topple, and generally make yourself the problem Take the day's jobs, one of which names the exact piece of mischief it wants Keep a case file of what you have pulled off in every place Get booked: pull your pigeon's mugshot and charge sheet, then share it Kit out your bird and make the nest your own Play the golf tour through Venice, the Pyramids and Bangkok THE STREET ANSWERS BACK Lamps, statues, market stalls, temple bowls: touch almost anything and something has a word to say about it. Knock one thing over and the street notices. Keep going and it starts looking for you. Some of the faces turn up again in the next city, and they remember you. BUY IT ONCE Start free. One purchase opens the rest of the game and it stays yours. No subscriptions, no ads, no timers counting down while you wait, nothing that needs a connection. A wry little story about making it through, one feather at a time. Privacy Policy: https://dro1d.org/pixelpigeon.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Hedgemaze4 screens
Pixel Pigeon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hedgemaze at 100% against Pixel Pigeon's 0%. Hedgemaze also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18). Pixel Pigeon's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, 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. Hedgemaze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Pixel Pigeon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hedgemaze ships an update every 3 weeks, Pixel Pigeon weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Hedgemaze versus Pixel Pigeon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHedgemazePixel Pigeon
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (24 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings24 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB25 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperDrew KoontzDRO1D LABS LIMITED

Customer experience

Hedgemaze

All ratings24 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews10 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Pixel Pigeon

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hedgemaze

One-time1
  • Hedgemaze Pro$4.99
1 purchases

Pixel Pigeon

One-time1
  • Pixel Pigeon Lifetime Access$1.99

Questions

Is Hedgemaze free?
Hedgemaze is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pixel Pigeon free?
Pixel Pigeon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hedgemaze or Pixel Pigeon have ads?
Neither Hedgemaze nor Pixel Pigeon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hedgemaze or Pixel Pigeon?
Hedgemaze ships an update every 3 weeks, and Pixel Pigeon weekly. Most recently, Hedgemaze was updated on November 5, 2026 and Pixel Pigeon on November 5, 2026.

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