# Classic Words With Friends — user reviews > 3,029 indexed App Store user reviews of Classic Words With Friends by Zynga Inc., rated 4.50/5 from 85,106 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/classic-words-with-friends/id321916506/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/classic-words-with-friends/id321916506.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 63,029 · 4★ 11,843 · 3★ 3,304 · 2★ 2,007 · 1★ 4,923 ## What do users think of Classic Words With Friends? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 💎 Fun game when it was new - 🧠 Keeps the mind sharp **Cons** - 🤯 Bloated, spammy, and gimmicky - 🔈 Annoying ads and sounds - 🕰️ Slow performance and freezing issues - 🤖 Unfair computer opponents - 🔍 Inconsistent dictionary and word acceptance - 🚫 Loss of classic version **Commonly reported bugs** - Rewards not registering properly - Games freezing or crashing - Ads getting stuck or not closing **Most requested features** - Option to disable notifications and distractions - Ability to play classic version without ads - Improved dictionary and word acceptance consistency ## Newest reviews (18 of 3,029) ### 4/5 — Watch to play is broken. *2026-09-02, version 59.01.01* This is the 3rd time I’ve tried to add a review. Keep getting kicked off every time I get close to finishing. So, I’ll get straight to the point. The watch to play is broken. I click on that it opens a game, I play a little and there’s no way out except to close the game. Love the game and if that was fixed it would be 5 stars. Also, there are a lot of scammers out there. I’ll play anyone but when I do I check the profile. If they have little to no stats they are usually trying to scam. If the game would allow people to see the players stats before starting a game that would be a good way to thwart these scammers. In general I don’t mind wasting their time and will accept their messages just to mess with them and hopefully waste their time so they can’t scam others. ### 2/5 — Rampant Ads, cheating AI, and Scammers Galore *2026-08-27, version 59.01.01* The game used to be really fun. But now every time you make a move, there’s an ad. If you play the machine solo, it eventually starts just loading you up with all vowels or all consonants and cheats to win. If you do decide to play someone, they are probably just a scammer who immediately messages you and tries to get you to send them crypto. Zynga is just trying to feed you ads now and they don’t really care about user experience. Get it if you want, but you’ll quickly see what I’m talking about. I switched to the NYT version. Much better experience. ### 1/5 — Be careful *2026-08-20, version 57.01.01* My username, name and password were found on the dark web for this game ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-08-16, version 57.01.01* Used to be good but ads after every word is ridiculous! Deleting ### 2/5 — Errors *2026-08-15, version 57.01.01* Hopefully they fix glitches before it comes off Facebook. I tried starting playing on the app before the Facebook version went away. Playing against other real people seems to go fine. But if you try to play against the computer, after a few games it throws a failed to synchronize error. No matter what I tried I cannot get the error to clear. Rebooting game, reinstalling game, rebooting phone. If you like the quicker play against the computer, pass on this for now. ### 2/5 — Worse and worse *2026-08-11, version 57.01.01* Used to be a great game. Easy to play. Easy to chat with friends. Now it wastes a ton of time on cartoonish graphics and isn’t user-friendly. ### 2/5 — Unplayable thanks to ads *2026-08-10, version 57.01.01* Game is great but every time you make a move it brings up yet another ad. Makes it essentially unplayable. ### 2/5 — Ads ads ads galore *2026-08-10, version 57.01.01* I liked the game but there seems to be no way to actually connect with my friends on FB and after every game I have there’s a damn ad. Utter waste of time. ### 1/5 — Bugs galore *2026-08-08, version 57.01.01* Nice game. But devs getting greedy these days with way too many ads ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2026-08-05, version 57.01.01* Too many ads, that take too long… but also some glitches where you can’t get out of the ad.!!! I have switched to scrabble, as they have less frequent ads ### 1/5 — Too many Ads😡😡 *2026-08-05, version 57.01.01* Sucks! ### 1/5 — No coins months of playing *2026-08-03, version 57.01.01* They haven’t awarded me coins for months, months of playing and no coins. Fix it ### 1/5 — Poor Sports *2026-08-03, version 57.01.01* I play the daily puzzle and when I first started playing the points to score were fairly high, over 1,000. But now it's less than 200 and the game is over. I assume that it's because I will not pay any amount of money to play the game. Pretty pathetic. ### 4/5 — Ads *2026-07-27, version 57.01.01* I liked Words with Friends & have played it for a number of years. Since I updated though, there is nothing but problems with ads that will not close. I have to close my device & restart the game & so it goes on it’s like Groundhog Day & I don’t see a help page 👎 Now my problem is Ads not loading when I need to collect rewards. ### 2/5 — Back to ads *2026-07-25, version 57.01.01* Too many of them. ### 1/5 — App sucks *2026-07-23, version 57.01.01* Doesn’t allow me to play even though I have four games waiting a response, and I can’t add a single tile, much less play a word. Yes, my internet connection is strong. Game comes up, but doesn’t show the other players word and I can’t respond. Lame. ### 2/5 — Disappointed *2026-07-22, version 57.01.01* I kept getting temu ads and one was very inappropriate with nudity. I keep trying to block but there no way. Stop with the awful ads and this will be a fun game again. ### 2/5 — Good, but Annoying *2026-07-21, version 57.01.01* Great game, but I still get annoying pop-ups even with the paid version! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Adds containing adult themes *2026-09-02, version 59.01.01* I like playing this game but recently I keep getting adds saying that I have been hacked and because I have been looking at adult only sites. This is totally unacceptable by Zynga to have adds saying this. Your need to address this immediately. ### 1/5 — Too Many Ads *2026-08-31, version 59.01.01* I know you have to make money but the free version shouldn’t bombard you withs ads after every play. If you want me to enjoy the game please cut back the adware issue. ### 1/5 — Not very creative *2026-08-30, version 59.01.01* This game suffers from a complete lack of creativity. If it “randomly” selects letter for play, I see the same 7 letters appear much to often. Developers lack the skills to develop an improved game. ### 1/5 — Words with Friends sucks… *2026-08-30, version 59.01.01* …or, more accurately, the dictionary sucks. It seems that anyone can make up a word, submit it, and it gets added to the lexicon. On the flip side, perfectly valid words are excluded because one of the word’s dozen definitions can be construed by a tiny subset of the population as “offensive”. Gameplay is frequently place random tiles in a random location and see if it produces a “valid” word. ### 1/5 — Fake adverts *2026-08-30, version 59.01.01* The latest loser advert shows a window claiming that your account has been restricted because your device has been hacked and you need to download an app from “the store”. Zynga should be ashamed of themselves for allowing this kind of deception. ### 1/5 — The worst *2026-08-26, version 57.01.01* Overloaded with bots and scammers. No controls in place. ### 1/5 — A cesspit of scammers *2026-08-25, version 57.01.01* Do not get this app. In the first 24 hours I was messaged by 10 different obvious scammers. When I reached out to the gambling corporation responsible they banned each scammer from using the chat function for 1 day. What a joke. The game itself works ok but the ads after every single play are irritating to the nth degree and absolutely relentless. The pure money grubbing greed is something else. It could have been something really good. ### 1/5 — Excessive ads *2026-08-23, version 57.01.01* This app is plastered with ads. Horrible user experience. ### 1/5 — Too many adds *2026-08-21, version 57.01.01* Don’t download this one, you have to watch a 1-2 minute add after every single turn. There are plenty others out there with less adds and it’s the same thing. ### 1/5 — Awful support *2026-08-21, version 57.01.01* Twice now I have purchased a package and both times the ability to get 30 coins a day was removed. This means I cannot buy boosts to my team. When I messaged support, the first time my message was removed. Then I got a robot answer telling me they were ‘trialling’ things. This was the same response I got after it happened a year ago, but I found I could still get the coins videos in WWF classic. Since buying the ad-free package, I now cannot get the coins videos in WWF classic either. They claimed they’d credited me with 30 coins when they had not. I’d kept a record of my coins count. I messaged back and my my conversation was closed with no response when I asked for either my coins videos back or a refund for the package I purchased. I’m fed up. The ads are too numberoys and prohibitive. I only stay because of the friends I have in my team and I supported the team by buying boosts with my coins. Now I can’t even do that, so what IS the point? I’ve been a loyal player, have a Wordle streak of way over 500 and this is what they do. Do not spend money on this game is my advice! You get less than nothing back. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Excellent *2026-08-11, version 57.01.01* It’s actually the best ### 5/5 — Best word game *2026-07-21, version 57.01.01* Best game for those who enjoy a slower challenge. I wake up to it and go to sleep with it! ### 5/5 — My Go To App *2026-07-20, version 57.01.01* It is fun and relaxing but also has me using my brain. ### 5/5 — Requires using your brain. And thats a good thing *2026-07-19, version 57.01.01* Takes some thinking but its fun ### 5/5 — Word is great *2026-07-19, version 57.01.01* Obviously it makes you think and is entertaining and sometimes you meet very nice People ### 5/5 — Love this game *2026-07-19, version 57.01.01* The only compliant I have is the rewards are to small. It takes forever to collect enough cones. Other than that I Love the game. ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-07-18, version 57.01.01* Best wake up tool available. ### 5/5 — The best! *2026-07-18, version 57.01.01* This is the best word game, hands down. I’ve been playing 9 years and counting! ### 5/5 — Great *2026-07-18, version 57.01.01* Been playing for many years ### 5/5 — I love this app *2026-07-17, version 57.01.01* Five stars, it helps with my vocab skills, and just over all it is great --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-04.*