Comparison

Tile Five vs Hexpair

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

Head to head
About

Tile Five

Place numbered tiles on a grid, with each tile occupying a specific number of spaces based on its value and position. Master thousands of levels with increasing difficulty, daily challenges, and unique board shapes. Earn rewards and enjoy a visually pleasing and tactile puzzle experience.

Highlights
  • Numbered tile placement logic
  • Thousands of campaign levels
  • Daily puzzles with leaderboards
  • Silhouette and free play modes
  • In-game rewards and hints
  • Smooth animations and haptics
Features
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Every tile has a rule. Every placement has consequences. Get it wrong and the whole board falls apart. Place numbered tiles on a grid — each one fills a specific number of spaces around it. Odd tiles claim the corners. Even tiles take the sides. Tile 5 does both. Every tile must be placed perfectly to win. One wrong move and the board stays unsolved. Simple to learn. Incredibly hard to master. CAMPAIGN MODE Take on thousands of levels across dozens of phases. Boards grow larger, tile counts climb higher, and the challenge deepens with every phase you unlock. Earn XP, climb reward tiers, and collect resource drops as you go. There's always a harder board ahead. DAILY PUZZLE A fresh puzzle every day. Race the clock, post your score, and see how you rank on the global leaderboard. The built-in calendar lets you replay any past puzzle whenever you want. SILHOUETTE MODE The board is shaped like an object. Your job is to fill it perfectly. Same rules, a completely different kind of challenge. FREE PLAY Your board, your rules. Pick your tile count, play as many rounds as you want, and track your wins across every configuration. EARN AS YOU PLAY Complete levels to earn hints, undos, and restarts. Hit milestones for bonus rewards. Play clean — no hints, no undos, no restarts — for extra XP. BUILT TO FEEL GREAT Smooth animations. Warm wood aesthetics. Satisfying sounds and haptics. Designed to feel as good as it plays. Tile Five. One more round always makes sense.

About

Hexpair

Engage your mind with a hexagonal logic puzzle game featuring over a thousand levels. Solve daily challenges, compare scores, and enjoy a calming, interruption-free experience. Progress syncs across devices.

Highlights
  • Hexagonal grid logic puzzles
  • Over 1000 levels
  • Daily challenges
  • Game Center leaderboards
  • Offline play
  • iCloud progress sync
  • Free hints and undo
Features
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Two shaded cells in every region. Pairs never touch. That is the whole rulebook, and it stays fresh for a thousand levels. Hexpair is the Norinori logic puzzle on a hexagonal board. Calm, tactile, and nothing on the puzzle screen but the puzzle. THE RULES • Every region gets exactly two shaded cells • Shaded cells form pairs, and a pair may cross region borders • Two pairs never touch edge to edge Hex makes the rules purer than the classic square version. No diagonals, no exceptions, no fine print. THREE LADDERS • 6×6, 8×8 and 10×10 boards, each with its own ladder • Over a thousand levels per size • A gentle ramp to start, then difficulty that rises and falls so no stretch becomes a grind • Everyone plays the same levels in the same order, so you can compare notes DAILY CHALLENGE • One new puzzle per size every day, the same for everyone in the world • One attempt, timed, ranked on Game Center leaderboards • Unlocks after 20 solved levels of that size, so you arrive ready BUILT FOR THINKING • Tap to mark a cell empty, double tap to shade it, drag to mark many at once • Free hints and unlimited undo on ladder levels • Learn the game in four guided levels • Progress syncs over iCloud between iPhone and iPad • The ladder plays offline NO INTERRUPTIONS No banners. No interstitials. No timers pushing you along. Take as long as you like. FREE AND PRO The first 100 levels on 6×6, 50 on 8×8 and 25 on 10×10 are free. The daily challenge and hints are free for everyone. To go further, buy Pro once and every level on every ladder opens for good, or watch an optional ad now and then to unlock the next batch. Nothing you unlock ever locks again. Download Hexpair and solve your first pair in under a minute. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Tile Five4 screens
Hexpair4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Tile Five at none against Hexpair's shown. Tile Five also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (6 vs 2). Hexpair's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. Tile Five sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hexpair sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. 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 — 5.0 for Tile Five against 5.0 for Hexpair. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tile Five ships an update every 10 days, Hexpair every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tile Five versus Hexpair: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTile FiveHexpair
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings6 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS17.6 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJonathan TuckerINNCODER AS

Customer experience

Tile Five

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hexpair

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Tile Five

One-time10
  • 10 Hints$0.99
  • 10 Undos$0.99
  • 10 Restarts$0.99
Show 7 more
  • 50 Hints$2.99
  • 50 Undos$2.99
  • 50 Restarts$2.99
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • 100 Hints$4.99
  • 100 Undos$4.99
  • 100 Restarts$4.99
1 purchases

Hexpair

One-time1
  • Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Tile Five free?
Tile Five is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Hexpair free?
Hexpair is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Tile Five or Hexpair?
Tile Five and Hexpair are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 6 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do Tile Five or Hexpair have ads?
Hexpair shows ads; Tile Five does not.
Which is updated more often, Tile Five or Hexpair?
Tile Five ships an update every 10 days, and Hexpair every 4 days. Most recently, Tile Five was updated on October 2, 2026 and Hexpair on October 8, 2026.

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