# Short & Plain — Also, Concise & Direct!

> Also, Concise & Direct! (iPhone/iPad app by Srinivasan Vasudevan.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/short-and-plain/id6818942234 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Srinivasan Vasudevan](https://appshunter.io/developer/1895505879)
- Category: Games, Education, Trivia, Word
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 30 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-22
- Data updated: 2026-10-23

## What is Short & Plain?

Explain a big idea in ten words or fewer.

The Encoder sees a prompt, an idea from the sciences or the law: Tragedy of the commons, Speed of light, Pleading the Fifth. The Encoder writes a Code of ten real words or fewer, with no word from the prompt and no articles, prepositions or conjunctions. The Decoder names the idea. A Code that lands scores a point for both.

On-device dictionary checks every word. A typo or a made-up word costs the Encoder a point.

Two to eight players pass one phone. Three Outlets set the difficulty: Twitter, Reddit and ArXiv/SSRN. Seven fields: Social Sciences, Physical Sciences, Biological Sciences, Technology, Management, Law and Finance. Commence, play as long as you like, then Terminate and anoint the Winner.

## Is Short & Plain safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Short & Plain.

## Is Short & Plain legit?

Short & Plain has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Short & Plain is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0 — 2026-10-22

No release notes.

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