Comparison

Magic Color Tubes vs Color Elixir

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

Head to head
About

Magic Color Tubes

Engage your mind with a unique puzzle game set in a magic laboratory. Manipulate liquids and light through four distinct crafting mechanics, each with its own challenges and controls. Solve intricate trials and grand brew chains to master the art of potion-making.

Highlights
  • Tube Resonance liquid tuning
  • Spin Split pigment balancing
  • Siphon Relay hose linking
  • Lumen Blend light overlapping
  • Multiple game modes
  • Grand Brew challenge chains
Features
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Magic Color Tubes Magic Color Tubes is a puzzle game about a magic laboratory bench. Nothing is poured from one glass into another. Every potion is coaxed forward with four different crafts, and each craft has its own controls and its own way of going wrong. Tube Resonance asks you to tune liquid levels until each tube sings the right note, then strike the chant in order. Tap high for a bright voice, charge a blow to crack hard crystal, and use two fingers for a chord. Spin Split mounts a mixed tube on a drum: loosen the clump in reverse, hold each pigment in its own speed window, balance the counterweight, and latch the bands before they drift. Siphon Relay is about hoses. Link a source to a target, purge the air, set the intake depth to avoid sediment, then clamp the flow at the exact millilitre. Lumen Blend shines a lamp through coloured draughts so their beams overlap into violet, cyan, or white on a rune canvas. Twenty trials each for Lumen Blend and Siphon Relay, fifteen for Resonance and Spin Split, plus five Grand Brew chains that run all four benches back to back.

About

Color Elixir

Features
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Color Elixir Step into a quiet alchemy workshop where every potion is made of light, pigment and patience. Color Elixir turns colour theory into four hands on crafts that feed one another, so a single vial can travel through the whole pipeline before it is sealed. Chase living pigments across a glowing basin. Red matter flees your lure ring, blue matter chases the frost dome, yellow swarms move as a flock, and only the right catch belongs in the bottle. Trap them in bubbles, ride the currents and ferry them home without dragging murk along. Split raw light through a prism you swing by hand. Fan the spectrum wide or squeeze it tight, drop shade cloth over the bands you do not want, and feed clean colour into crystals before they overheat. Race the clock as fresh liquid decays hue by hue. Chill one vial, warm another, seal a third with a rune, and land every colour on its target at the same moment. Finish by pouring viscous drops into a spinning dish. Thin liquid races outward, heavy liquid sinks inward, and a sudden brake pulls the swirl into petals. Match rings, spirals and blossoms, then seal the result into your codex. Play game, just colour.

Screenshots

Magic Color Tubes4 screens
Color Elixir4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Magic Color Tubes at 2.3 against Color Elixir's 2.0. On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Magic Color Tubes holds the better App Store score, 2.3 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Magic Color Tubes ships an update every 2 weeks, Color Elixir every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Magic Color Tubes versus Color Elixir: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMagic Color TubesColor Elixir
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (3 ratings) — better2.0 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 10 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size283 MB400 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer恭俊 张富豪 孙

In-app purchases

None

Magic Color Tubes

No in-app purchases

None

Color Elixir

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Magic Color Tubes free?
Magic Color Tubes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Color Elixir free?
Color Elixir is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Magic Color Tubes or Color Elixir?
Magic Color Tubes is rated higher. Magic Color Tubes averages 2.3 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Color Elixir averages 2.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Magic Color Tubes or Color Elixir have ads?
Both Magic Color Tubes and Color Elixir show ads.
Which is updated more often, Magic Color Tubes or Color Elixir?
Magic Color Tubes ships an update every 2 weeks, and Color Elixir every 10 days. Most recently, Magic Color Tubes was updated on November 6, 2026 and Color Elixir on November 13, 2026.

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