Pixel Crowd vs Hoodoku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pixel Crowd
A puzzle game where you tap to deploy buses and transport passengers of matching colors. Strategically manage lanes and overcome obstacles to clear the station before it overflows. Enjoy a satisfying brain-teaser with connected bus mechanics.
- Tap to deploy buses
- Match passenger colors
- Clear crowded stations
- Overcome blocked lanes
- Solve brain-teaser levels
- Connected bus mechanics
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Tap to roll out buses and whisk away matching-color passengers before the station overflows! Watch out for blocked lanes, parking jams, and connected buses that turn every level into a satisfying brain-teaser.
Hoodoku
This logic puzzle game challenges you to place owls on a grid, ensuring no two owls share a row, column, or grove. It offers daily puzzles, weekly competitions with prizes, and a social feature to compete with friends. Customize your owl with various cosmetic items.
- Daily shared puzzles
- Weekly leaderboard competitions
- Friend-based challenges
- Customizable owl cosmetics
- Offline play support
- Shape mode for colorblind accessibility
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One owl per row. One owl per column. One owl in every grove — and no two owls touching. Easy to learn, wonderfully stubborn to master. Hoodoku is a cozy logic puzzle. Every board has exactly one solution: swipe X's across the squares that can't work, and when only one perch remains, that's where the owl lives. No timers, no pressure — just you, a quiet grove, and a very patient owl named Otto. EVERY NIGHT, A NEW ROOST One shared puzzle drops each night. One try. Solve it fast and clean, then see where you land on tonight's leaderboard. A WEEKLY RACE WORTH WINNING Every grove you solve adds to your weekly total. When the week closes, the top three owls on the podium take gold, silver, and bronze — and a coin prize to match. Then the board wipes clean, and the race starts fresh. FLY WITH FRIENDS Every owl gets a shareable owl code. Add your friends' codes and your flock gets its own weekly board — see exactly who to beat before the week closes. No accounts, no contact lists, just codes. A GROVE THAT NEVER RUNS OUT Boards grow from 8×8 to 10×10 as you climb, and there's always another level waiting. Level 12 is the same level 12 for everyone — compare fair and square. COLLECT THE AVIARY Earn coins by solving and dress Otto up — snowy owl, barn owl, disco owl, neon owl, and more. Then open the Wardrobe: glasses, hats, outfits and earrings, worn proudly on every leaderboard row. Cosmetics only: in Hoodoku, skill is the only advantage. KEEP THE NIGHT STREAK Play one grove a night to keep your streak alive. Every seventh night, Otto brings a gift — and now you claim it yourself from the home screen. YOURS, QUIETLY • No account, no sign-up, no email address — ever • Play offline or online, anywhere • Shape mode gives every grove its own symbol, so colors are never a barrier • Cozy for a quiet evening, competitive when you want it to be Pull up a branch. The grove is waiting.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Hoodoku at 100% against Pixel Crowd's 60%. Hoodoku also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). Pixel Crowd's advantage is ratings volume (695 vs 3) and monetization model (ad-supported vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads 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
Both are free to download. Pixel Crowd sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Hoodoku sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Hoodoku holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Pixel Crowd has 695 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Pixel Crowd's written reviews are positive against 100% of Hoodoku's.
Pixel Crowd ships an update every 2 weeks, Hoodoku every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pixel Crowd | Hoodoku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (695 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 695 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 453 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Estoty | Robert Deckert |
Customer experience
Pixel Crowd
Hoodoku
In-app purchases
Pixel Crowd
- Coins Pack 1$1.99
- Fail Offer$6.99
- Coins Pack 2$8.99
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- No ads offer$9.99
- Small Pack$9.99
- Coins Pack 3$17.99
- Medium Pack$22.99
- Coins Pack 4$34.99
- Coins Pack 5$59.99
- Coins Pack 6$99.99
Hoodoku
- Hologram$0.99
- Aurora Veil$0.99
- Prism Burst$0.99
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- Magma$0.99
- Celestial Orbit$0.99
- Gilded$0.99
- Nebula$0.99
- Phantom$0.99
- Royal Radiance$0.99
- Crimson Checkers$0.99









