# Spellr - competitive word game — The best competitive word game

> The best competitive word game (iPhone/iPad app by Matthew Cody.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spellr-competitive-word-game/id6746287141 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Matthew Cody](https://appshunter.io/developer/1816052409)
- Category: Games, Word
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.6 · 24 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2025-06-15
- Data updated: 2026-08-04
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spellr-competitive-word-game/id6746287141/reviews.md

## What is Spellr?

Challenge your friends, family, and colleagues to see who can find the 9-Letter word quickest, who can find the most words, and who can get the highest score - in the daily time-challenge in Spellr.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.1 — 2026-07-29

Faster, cleaner leaderboards — your scores load from cache right away, and duplicate same-day entries (anonymous vs Game Center) are cleaned up automatically when you sign in.

Private leaderboards refresh more reliably.

### 4.0 — 2026-07-18

Significant upgrade to private leaderboard functionality - improved operation, avatars, and player nicknames.
Accuracy bonus for not just randomly bashing at the keyboard.
Increased points achieved from longer word combinations to support accuracy bonus.
Added background music options.
Added options for toggling background music and sound effects on or off, in game play and in global settings.

### 3.05 — 2026-01-29

Improved private leaderboards with easier membership management.
New completion level added for those that find all words in a daily challenge.
Ability to re-visit the day's daily challenge and view the solution. 
Improved archive game tracking.

### 3.04 — 2026-01-22

Improved private leaderboards - with faster score loading and bug fixes.
Optimised explicit word filter.
Clearer distinction between US vs UK languages for word grids.
Archive now showing all played games.

### 3.03 — 2026-01-20

Fixed bug re: UK/US spellings

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## More apps by Matthew Cody

- [StarBoxed](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/starboxed/id6776692927)

All apps by Matthew Cody: https://appshunter.io/developer/1816052409

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