Pipe Puzzle vs Flow Free
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pipe Puzzle
Arrange puzzle pipes and elbows to create a perfect connection between two points. This addictive game challenges your creativity to solve intricate piping challenges.
- Arrange puzzle pipes and elbows
- Create piping connections
- Solve piping challenges
- Addictive puzzle gameplay
- Creative problem-solving
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New addictive puzzle! Use your creativity to arrange the puzzle pipes and elbows to create a perfect piping connection between two points. See how much fun could be delivered by the pipes!
Flow Free
Connect matching colored pipes to create a flow across the board, ensuring no pipes cross or overlap. Solve hundreds of challenging puzzles, with new daily levels available. Enjoy a relaxing or time-trial experience with smooth controls and engaging graphics.
- Warp paths across the board
- Connect matching colors
- Cover the entire board
- Hundreds of free puzzles
- Daily puzzles
- Time Trial mode
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Warps: Discover a new dimension of Flow Free®! Warp paths across the board in this challenging new Flow Free game. Connect matching colors with pipe to create a Flow®. Pair all colors, and cover the entire board to solve each puzzle. But watch out, pipes will break if they cross or overlap! Free play through hundreds of levels, or race against the clock in Time Trial mode. Gameplay ranges from simple and relaxed, to challenging and frenetic, and everywhere in between. How you play is up to you. So, give Flow Free: Warps a try, and experience "mind like water"! Flow Free: Warps features: * Over 2,500 free, warping puzzles! * Daily puzzles: new levels every day, never run out * Carefully crafted, high-quality puzzles ranging from easy to extreme! * Optimized touch controls for smooth, satisfying play * Game Center achievements and cloud sync of your progress * Clean, colorful graphics and fun sound effects Enjoy!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pipe Puzzle at none against Flow Free's shown. Pipe Puzzle also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.0). Flow Free's advantage is ratings volume (5.2K vs 377). 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
Both are free to download. Pipe Puzzle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Flow Free sells 12 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Flow Free holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flow Free has 5.2K ratings behind it against 377, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 84% of Pipe Puzzle's written reviews are positive against 82% of Flow Free's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Pipe Puzzle ships an update monthly, Flow Free every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipe Puzzle | Flow Free |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (377 ratings) | 4.7 (5.2K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.9% of reviews — better | 81.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 377 | 5.2K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 150 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ECO Pawel Jarosz | Big Duck Games LLC |
Customer experience
Pipe Puzzle
Flow Free
User reviews
Pipe Puzzle
From 377 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🧠 Great brain exercise
- 🕰️ Good time waster
- 🎶 Relaxing background music
- 💡 Unique pipe configurations
- 🧩 Challenging puzzles
Room to improve
- 💢 Too many ads
- 🙄 Repetitive rating prompts
- 🔍 Difficult to see finished puzzle
- 🎨 Issues for colorblind users
Flow Free
From 5.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🎨 Enjoyable puzzles
- 🧠 Challenging gameplay
- 💎 Addictive and fun
- 🎨 Beautiful colors
- 🧩 Satisfying to solve
Room to improve
- 🔍 Puzzles can be too difficult
- 📺 Intrusive ads
- 🔇 Ads ignore sound settings
- 🔒 Progress not saved after reinstall
- 🔘 Confusing UI changes
Bugs and requests
Pipe Puzzle
Reported bugs
2 issues- Puzzle disappears after solving
- Crashes and freezes
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and puzzles
- Option to remove ads
- Ability to rotate/tap pieces
- Landscape mode
- Online currency for hints
Flow Free
Reported bugs
2 issues- Ads causing app freezes
- Inability to close ads or return to game
Requested features
5 requests- More levels and packs
- Ability to connect dots through warps
- Option to disable flashing/bouncing completion indicators
- Separate names for each Flow Free game
- Ability to share/compete puzzles with friends
In-app purchases
Pipe Puzzle
- Remove ads.$2.99
Flow Free
- 5 Hints$0.99
- Pastel Colors$0.99
- Neon Rainbow Colors$0.99
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- Fall Harvest Colors$0.99
- Winter Chill Colors$0.99
- Starter Bundle$1.99
- Unlock All Themes$1.99
- Comet Pack$1.99
- Kids Pack$1.99
- 20 Hints$2.99
- Unlock All Packs$4.99
- 100 Hints$9.99
