Smart Marbles vs HexT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Smart Marbles
A classic marble solitaire puzzle game where the goal is to remove all marbles except one. Jump marbles over each other to clear the board. Offers a simple reset function to restart the game.
- Marble jumping mechanics
- Clear marbles to solve puzzles
- Single-player gameplay
- Reset game function
- Simple grid-based puzzles
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Smart Marbles is an iPhone6 app for marble solitaire. The game is simple: select a marble and then select an empty space in the grid that is two spaces over. Another marble must be placed between the selected marble and the destination space. Once the marble has jumped over the middle marble, the middle marble will be taken off the board. The object of the game is to remove all marbles except the last. Use the reset button to return the game to the original marble positions.
HexT
A vibrant number-matching puzzle game where players swipe to combine hexagonal tiles and achieve higher numbers. Rotate the board to strategically align tiles for optimal combinations. Aim to reach the highest tile possible before running out of moves.
- Hexagonal tile matching
- Swipe to combine numbers
- Rotate the hex board
- Addictive gameplay
- Colorful design
- One-handed play
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HexT is a colorful number matching game with a twist, easy to play and addictive! Nineteen small hexagon tiles are arranged in one big hexagon. Swiping down collapses and combines like tiles into the next biggest number. A new random numbered tile appears with every slide down. The twist is that you can rotate the large hex left or right as much as you want, changing the lineup of tiles. Keep combining tiles until you get to the 13 tile or have no more moves. If you like Tetris or 2048 you'll love this. Directions: SWIPE DOWN to collapse the tiles down to combine tiles with the same number (Two "5"s become a "6" for example). Tiles will combine if they are adjacent or if there are only empty tiles in between. SWIPE LEFT or RIGHT to rotate the hex and change the alignment of tiles. Your score will increase each time tiles are combined. The goal is to get the "16" tile. Good luck! "Very cool and addictive game. My kids love it too." - Oldacer "Better than 2048 and really hard!" - Jbboyz "This game has the right amount of strategy to get you through a spat of boredom." - Battosaimom
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Verdict
Smart Marbles and HexT both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of HexT's written reviews are positive against 83% of Smart Marbles's. HexT also leads on ratings volume (29 vs 2) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Smart Marbles against 4.9 for HexT. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HexT has 29 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Smart Marbles's written reviews are positive against 100% of HexT's.
Smart Marbles ships an update every 3 months, HexT every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 18, 2026.
| Parameter | Smart Marbles | HexT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better | 4.9 (29 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 29 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 169 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David Johnson | Golby Systems LLC |
Customer experience
Smart Marbles
HexT
In-app purchases
Smart Marbles
No in-app purchases
HexT
No in-app purchases
