# Word Chums! — user reviews > 1,527 indexed App Store user reviews of Word Chums! by PeopleFun, Inc., rated 4.80/5 from 24,034 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-chums/id517840944/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-chums/id517840944.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 20,628 · 4★ 2,523 · 3★ 352 · 2★ 171 · 1★ 360 ## What do users think of Word Chums!? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 💖 Love the game - 👍 Fun to play - 🧠 Keeps mind active - 🤝 Ability to play with friends - 🎨 Customizable characters - 🔍 Helpful hints and features **Cons** - 🗣️ Censorship of chat messages - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 🔍 Dictionary issues - missing common words - 🔁 Too many ads that interrupt gameplay - 🔔 Notification issues **Commonly reported bugs** - Ads that cannot be closed - Incorrect game statistics and leaderboards - Crashes and freezes after updates **Most requested features** - Improved dictionary and word acceptance - More ways to earn in-game currency - Better matchmaking and opponent selection - Group chat/messaging features - Parental controls for younger players ## Newest reviews (18 of 1,527) ### 4/5 — Love This Game!!! *2026-08-21, version 2.18.0* I’ve said it. I love this game. Totally hooked. I play friends and the computer. Genius level. I win some and I lose some! The drawback, too many ads. Quite annoying! ### 5/5 — Fun *2026-08-18, version 2.18.0* I enjoy getting to play every chance I get. I am very competitive and like trying to get first place in word and game each week. ### 5/5 — Knasher *2026-08-17, version 2.18.0* Fantastic word game I even got my husband addicted 😀 ### 4/5 — Word chums review *2026-08-17, version 2.18.0* This game is great, overall really enjoy it. Only thing that needs fixing is the weeding out of the bots and scammers in the chats. ### 5/5 — Excellent word game! *2026-08-17, version 2.18.0* Cute characters, sounds and rewards. Scrabble presented in an attractive format My friends are transitioning away from other word games. ### 5/5 — Word chums *2026-08-17, version 2.18.0* Fantastic game Got to be the best nothing can beat it. Love the way you can chat with distant friends x ### 4/5 — Word Chums *2026-08-17, version 2.18.0* One of the best word games ! You can just play how you like without any Bells and whistles stuff to delay your playing enjoyment. Straightforward and challenging! ### 4/5 — Great game *2026-08-17, version 2.18.0* Love the game but why does the computer always get the best tiles and long words Wonder if it’s favouritism 😁 ### 5/5 — Great time *2026-08-17, version 2.18.0* Fun game to play ### 5/5 — Word Chums *2026-08-16, version 2.18.0* I just LOVE this game!! Have played others but this the only one that I’ve never stopped playing! ### 5/5 — Fun Like Scrabble Game *2026-08-16, version 2.18.0* Enjoy playing against family and other players at own pace. ### 5/5 — Wonderful game! *2026-08-16, version 2.18.0* I enjoy the challenge of playing against opponents ### 5/5 — Word Chums *2026-08-14, version 2.18.0* Brilliant game keeps mind active. ### 5/5 — Good game *2026-08-14, version 2.18.0* Endlessly captivating despite the fanciful explanation of the “words” that pass muster ### 5/5 — Soooo Fun *2026-08-13, version 2.18.0* This is the best scrabble type game!! So fun and cute!! ### 5/5 — 100kingy *2026-08-12, version 2.18.0* Fantastic ### 5/5 — Addictive! *2026-08-11, version 2.18.0* Word Chums is so much fun! We often have four games going at once! ### 5/5 — Great Game *2026-08-11, version 2.18.0* Love this game! Very challenging and fun! No complaints at all. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Annoying and no help given *2026-08-16, version 2.18.0* I’ve played this game for years with ads. Now this app puts up annoying ads while I’m trying to make my move and I cannot play. Bad enough I have to watch ads after play. I’ve text help and they have not helped. Guess it’s time to find another word game with less ads. ### 1/5 — Great Game *2026-08-14, version 2.18.0* Lose the ads! ### 1/5 — Kar *2026-08-06, version 2.18.0* I WANT THE ADDS TO STOP! EVERY SECOND! I WILL STOP PLAYING THIS GAME WHICH I ENJOYED FOR YEARS! ### 1/5 — Love it *2026-08-03, version 2.18.0* Love the game. However, recently ads featuring women in bras and scantily clad bikinis have been playing. This is offensive to me especially for young people. Make it stop. Please ### 1/5 — Impossible to play *2026-08-01, version 2.18.0* Ads pop up covering screen during play every few seconds. Game has really been messed up by this. ### 1/5 — Advertising Overload *2026-07-21, version 2.18.0* The game itself is fun but the ads are awful. They won't close, redirect you to their websites, and are never ending. A huge waste of time. ### 1/5 — Overwhelmed with Ads *2026-07-15, version 2.18.0* I am playing the game with ads and within the last couple of weeks the ads have appeared so frequently that they have impeded my ability to even play the game. Argh! ### 1/5 — Constant Unbearable, Full-Screen Ads *2026-07-14, version 2.18.0* In recent weeks, this game has become unbearable to play with banner ads that repeatedly fill the entire screen while playing. They are so frequent, you hardly have time to look at the puzzle and your tiles before most of the screen is blocked by an ad. Some of these banner ads are so large, you can only see part of them, so I’m not sure the products they are advertising are getting much business from them; you can’t even see what product they’re advertising. I’ve played this game for over 10 years, and this is new, but it’s made me reduce my playing frequency, so again how effective can the ads be. ### 1/5 — Annoying and disappointing *2026-07-11, version 2.18.0* We have been playing this game for years. Now we can’t even play a word because an ad takes up the whole page and it keeps coming back. It’s impossible to play like this. You want to charge $4.99 for ad free? Are you kidding me? We’re out! And I bet you losers are going to lose a lot of people. ### 1/5 — Pop up ads cover game so you cannot play *2026-07-11, version 2.18.0* Either the ads that pop up and totally cover the game and make it impossible to play STOP or I’ll stop playing. Isn’t it enough that there are ads in between each game?! ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — My fave!!!! *2026-08-24, version 2.18.0* Love this game!!! ### 5/5 — Black screen issue *2026-08-24, version 2.18.0* Game is fun but a black screen pops up for about 5 seconds while I am on the main screen. I have to wait for it to go away. ### 5/5 — Word chums *2026-08-24, version 2.18.0* Best game to play it is ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2026-08-23, version 2.18.0* I love this game. I play it every day. It forces you to expand your vocabulary and stimulates interest in various subjects. I could go on about it’s properties, because this game has it all. You learn from your opponent and yourself. This is my game. It is a blessing. ### 5/5 — Awesome *2026-08-23, version 2.18.0* Love it ### 5/5 — Great game but *2026-08-22, version 2.18.0* Annoying ads but most are short. ### 5/5 — NO CHAT AVAILABLE *2026-08-21, version 2.18.0* Getting really tired of my chat not working!!!!! ### 5/5 — Good *2026-08-20, version 2.18.0* Good fun, clever software. Dictionary sometimes weird, why will it not accept words like negro and Jew, perfectly respectable words. ### 5/5 — Wordchums *2026-08-19, version 2.18.0* Word chums Gerrrrrrrrate. ### 5/5 — Word chums *2026-08-19, version 2.18.0* Excellent game --- *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 2026-08-28.*