Comparison

Link Jewels™ vs Pipe Pathway

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

Head to head
About

Link Jewels™

Connect matching jewels by drawing lines between them on a grid. Enjoy a relaxing, timer-free puzzle experience with over 300,000 levels and beautiful graphics. Undo mistakes and use hints to solve challenging puzzles.

Highlights
  • Connect matching jewels
  • Timer-free gameplay
  • Over 300,000 levels
  • Beautiful graphics
  • Undo and hint options
  • Automatic progress saving
  • Game Center leaderboards
Features
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100% FREE! DOWNLOAD NOW and start having fun! Play the classic line-drawing game known as "Flow" or "NumberLink" with beautiful picture jewels! Endless variety with more than 450 beautiful "Emoji" images for you to match, and 300,000 levels included! Take your time finding the right path to connect the jewels - there's no timer to worry about! • Beautiful graphics! • Intuitive touch controls! • No timer, so you can take your time and relax... • 10 board sizes - 5x5 up to 9x9 for iPhone or iPad, 10x10 up to 14x14 recommended for iPad only • 300,000 levels for an endless challenge! (10,000 of each board size and difficulty) • 3 difficulty levels for each board size - Easy, Medium, or Hard • Harder difficulties have less jewels on the board to connect, which makes the paths long and twisty and challenging! • Made a wrong move? Use the Undo button to rewind and try again! • Hints are available if you get stuck! • Your progress is automatically saved, all the time, so go ahead and take that call or jump out to any other apps - you can come back and pick up playing right where you left off! • Compete against your friends and against everyone worldwide for the highest scores on Game Center! • Sounds can be disabled if you want a quiet game • You can even listen to your own music while you play Thanks for playing! Come see us at http://boyhowdytechnology.com LINK JEWELS is a trademark of Boy Howdy Technology LLC

About

Pipe Pathway

Connect rotating pipe pieces to form a complete path. This brain-training puzzle game offers daily challenges and a hint system to guide you through its 400 levels. Enjoy smooth performance and a small file size.

Highlights
  • Daily unique puzzles
  • 400 puzzles included
  • Step-by-step hint guide
  • Automatic connection recommendations
  • Optimized performance
  • Small file size
Features
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Pipe Pathway is the pipe connection puzzle game for brain training The puzzle are any part of pipe. There had set to be not a mess on the board. We have a target to make all pipe to be connected for the complete path. *** How To Play *** We tap on the pipe. That pipe will rotate clockwise for 90 degrees. Rotate the other pipe to be connected for the correct path and colour. *** Features *** * Daily Puzzles - unique from other packs and updated every day. * 400 puzzles. * Hint guide - Step by Step and Play/Pause. * Automatic recommend system - highlight cells for the pipe connect not complete. * Best performance. * Small file size - good for download, update version and save space. Enjoy.

Screenshots

Link Jewels™2 screens
Pipe Pathway4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Link Jewels™ at none against Pipe Pathway's 4. Link Jewels™ also leads on ratings volume (921 vs 70). Pipe Pathway's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 4 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). On price, review sentiment, ads and monetization model 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. Pipe Pathway sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Link Jewels™ asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Pipe Pathway holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Link Jewels™ has 921 ratings behind it against 70, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 97% of Link Jewels™'s written reviews are positive against 100% of Pipe Pathway's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Link Jewels™ ships an update every 4 months, Pipe Pathway every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Link Jewels™ versus Pipe Pathway: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLink Jewels™Pipe Pathway
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (921 ratings)4.9 (70 ratings) — better
Positive reviews97.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings921 — better70
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size84 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperBoy Howdy Technology LLCJirapong

Customer experience

Link Jewels™

All ratings918 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral4.5%
Negative3.5%
Written reviews111 reviews
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.9%
Negative1.8%

Pipe Pathway

All ratings65 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral1.5%
Negative1.5%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Link Jewels™

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Game freezing or locking up during gameplay
  • Levels not resetting properly when restarting

Requested features

2 requests
  • Ability to save progress and resume levels
  • Incentives or rewards for completing puzzles

Pipe Pathway

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Link Jewels™

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Pipe Pathway

One-time4
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • 10 Hints$0.99
  • 30 Hints$1.99
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  • 60 Hints$2.99

Questions

Is Link Jewels™ free?
Link Jewels™ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pipe Pathway free?
Pipe Pathway is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Link Jewels™ or Pipe Pathway?
Pipe Pathway is rated higher. Link Jewels™ averages 4.6 out of 5 from 921 ratings, while Pipe Pathway averages 4.9 from 70 ratings.
Do Link Jewels™ or Pipe Pathway have ads?
Both Link Jewels™ and Pipe Pathway show ads.
Which is updated more often, Link Jewels™ or Pipe Pathway?
Link Jewels™ ships an update every 4 months, and Pipe Pathway every 2 weeks. Most recently, Link Jewels™ was updated on November 1, 2026 and Pipe Pathway on November 2, 2026.

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