Tumble Tubes vs Flow By!
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side โ with what reviewers say about each.
Tumble Tubes
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Two glass tubes arc up either side of the board. A funnel sits at the top. And a winding track runs back down toward four stacks of holders that are never quite the color you need. Every level opens with a board of loaded cartridges. Most carry nine marbles. Some carry far more. Tap one and its marbles rush up through the side tube, over the arc, and spill out of the funnel onto the track below. From there they tumble down, lane by lane, toward the holders. A marble that reaches a holder in its own color clicks into place. Fill that holder and it pops away, and whatever color was buried under it rises up to take its turn. Marbles with no holder to go to keep riding. They queue up behind one another, and the track has an end. Pack it with marbles that have nowhere to click in and the run is finished. You'll see it coming a few moves out. Getting out of it is the hard part. And not every cartridge is ready to fire. Some sit frozen. Some are buried under stone. Some are bolted into a frame and won't move until you clear what's around them. Which one you open, and when, is the whole game. HOW TO PLAY - Tap a cartridge to send its marbles up the tube and through the funnel - Marbles pour onto the track and tumble down toward the holders - A marble clears when it clicks into a holder of its own color - Fill a holder and the next color in that stack rises up behind it - Marbles with no matching holder stay on the track and take up room - Fill the track with marbles that can't clear and the level ends - Empty the board and finish every stack to move on ON THE BOARD - Cartridges from three marbles up to a couple of hundred - Frozen cartridges that need a few clears before they open - Stone tiles hiding what sits underneath - Boosters for when the track is packed and you need a way out NO TIMER Open a cartridge when you're ready. Sit and read the board for a minute if you want. Nothing on screen is counting down.
Flow By!
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A pixel picture hangs above three roads. A lot full of vans waits underneath. Clear the picture and the level is yours. Tap a van and it pulls out the way its arrow points and joins the traffic. As it drives past the picture it rains balls of its own colour, and every pixel of that colour in its line breaks off and goes. The number on the roof is the ammo it carries. When the ammo runs out the van leaves the road and frees its place. So every tap asks two questions at once. Can this van get out of the jam, and does the picture still hold its colour where it is going? Three one way roads run past the picture: one up each side, one across the bottom. Each road holds three vans. A full road refuses you, and nothing brings a van back once it is out. Free them in the wrong order and the picture is still standing when the lot is empty. WHAT IS IN IT A picture to clear in every level, pixel by pixel, colour by colour. Vans that block each other in, so the order you free them is the whole puzzle. Grey vans in the harder levels, which hide their colour until the van in front of them leaves. A light at every road entrance: green for room, amber for one place, red for full. One tap control, one hand, no timer. Think as long as you like. If you like parking jam puzzles, colour matching, and a board that empties in a satisfying way, this is all of that in one screen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is device support: Flow By! at 3 against Tumble Tubes's โ. On price, in-app purchases and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Tumble Tubes | Flow By! |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | โ | Every 2 days |
| Ads | โ | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | โ | iPhone, iPad, iPod โ better |
| Requires iOS | 14.5 โ better | 15.0 |
| Further details โ not scored | ||
| Size | 184 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DIGITAL EDUCATION LAB PTY LTD | Fuat Can Koseoglu |
In-app purchases
Tumble Tubes
No in-app purchases
Flow By!
No in-app purchases









