# Word Search :Find Hidden Words — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Word Search by 凤娇 徐, rated 4.60/5 from 573 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-search-find-hidden-words/id1280978689/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/word-search-find-hidden-words/id1280978689.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 434 · 4★ 85 · 3★ 31 · 2★ 10 · 1★ 13 ## What do users think of Word Search? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Engaging and relaxing - 👍 Helps learn words and think fast - 👍 Great pastime - 👍 Terrific game that gets the brain cells working **Cons** - 🐛 Launching issues with iOS 15.8.2 - 🔊 Noisy ads - 🐛 Rows around the edge missing, preventing completion - 🐛 Mistakes in the game that affect scores - 📱 Only allows portrait configuration, not landscape - 🔊 Too many ads - 🔊 Ads are a pain - 🔊 Too many ads, making the game annoying - 🔊 Ads galore **Commonly reported bugs** - Words missing from the grid, preventing completion - Categories not matching the content - Words misspelled - Game doesn't save progress when in the middle of a game **Most requested features** - Ability to swipe words in any direction - Add night mode - Add a timer mode to beat - Add a kids mode - Ability to play music over the top ## Newest reviews (15 of 50) ### 3/5 — Good but has launching issues as of 2.4.0 *2024-05-23, version 2.4.0* Good game, but no longer launches as of version 2.4.0 with iOS 15.8.2. Shows a black screen which immediately closes. Reinstalling makes no difference. ### 3/5 — Noisy Ads *2024-03-21, version 2.2.0* I have the sound turned off but when an ad comes it blasts away. I don’t mind the ads but should be silent unless sound on ### 2/5 — It keeps crashing. *2022-05-21, version 1.7.0* Love this game but about 2 weeks ago it started crashing. Freezing, black screen, & closing out the game completely. 😒 ### 4/5 — Pretty good *2022-01-21, version 1.6.5* Not bad, I actually enjoyed it. It’s really fun to! ### 2/5 — Too many messages *2022-01-14, version 1.6.5* I enjoy the game and tolerate the adds as I only play every so often however the all too frequent reminder messages are infuriating because there doesn’t seem to be a way of turning them off., so looks like I’ll be deleting the game just to stop the incessant reminders to play. Good game but messages are far too annoying ### 4/5 — Love it Hard to see. *2021-08-01* My only complaint is the darkness of the colors you use mark off words. There are so many that get so dark that I as an older person have trouble seeing the letters marked off and words are already lined through on the list so I can’t use them for reference. So please please use light see through colors. There is no need to come up with no colors every game. I really do prefer your app to others and have played it for hours!!!! Thank you! **Developer response:** Hi pattykayl: I'll optimize it next version. Thank you for your feedback! ### 3/5 — Great game *2021-05-07, version 1.6.4* This would get 5 stars but unfortunately in two of the games so far there has been mistakes..for instance Dogs..3..you can’t get it out as the first letter is not there, seems a whole row on two sides are missing. ### 4/5 — Ads are a PAIN *2021-04-23, version 1.6.4* This is a great game! I would happily pay to remove ads but alas... they are so annoying. Also, music can’t be played in the background which is also annoying. No ads + music = 5 stars ### 2/5 — Too many ads *2020-11-26, version 1.6.3* Great game but the ads are unbearable ### 2/5 — Ads galore *2020-09-27, version 1.6.3* I don’t like ads and will pay to remove them. This game is mostly ads. ### 3/5 — Room for improvement *2020-09-06, version 1.6.3* 1. Be able to swipe words in any direction 2. Add night mode ### 4/5 — Too many ads *2020-06-09, version 1.6.2* Good game but too many ads😡 ### 5/5 — Rating of word search *2020-05-14, version 1.6.2* Very nice to play. I love it! ### 5/5 — Love *2020-04-08, version 1.6.2* Awsome my child loves it she loves word search my child loves to time her self she loves it ### 3/5 — Categories not matched *2020-02-28* I like the difficulty and variety of this game but...the categories do not match the content. As an example: category title is “ kids” and the answers to find are faucet, shower, carpenter....etc. what does that have to do with kids? There have also been words misspelled so I assume this game originates in Great Britain. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Disgusting *2024-01-10, version 2.1.0* This is disgusting, the word “retard” Is in this latest game & yes it was one of the games words & year I took a screenshot of it ### 1/5 — Dreadful *2023-01-05, version 1.7.1* Only allows play in portrait configuration, not landscape. What’s the point of having an iPad? ### 1/5 — This is stupid *2020-08-02, version 1.6.3* This is very frustrating when I want to relax my brain from politics, u put Biden campaign 2/2 minutes, I don’t think is fear. If you want to have a commercial put something to relax people not politics. ### 1/5 — The game doesn’t save when in the middle of it *2019-04-10, version 1.5.0* Just returned to my game and there are new words (which are in the grid) and not the game with missing words I was playing! Frustrating ### 1/5 — Too many ads *2019-03-08, version 1.5.0* Way too many ads make for an annoying game ### 1/5 — Frustrating *2018-12-08, version 1.5.0* No adds would be great ### 1/5 — Text *2018-11-24, version 1.5.0* Stop texting phone to say you miss me or how to use free time it’s annoying how ### 1/5 — Langue *2017-09-23* Mettais le jeux en français . ### 2/5 — Annoying *2023-05-25, version 1.7.1* Great game BUT it has been happening to often. I can't finish the board because a row around the edge is missing, can't finish the particular word ### 2/5 — Mistake *2023-04-13, version 1.7.1* I like it enough until I discovered two ( so far) with mistakes, which one has no way to fix and it changes your scores, as they cannot be completed. It is also frustrating to waste time on games that cannot be finished. Disappointed. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Engaging and relaxing *2025-07-09, version 2.8.0* Love this puzzle. Play every morning before work. It’s become a challenge to complete trying to beat my best time. ### 5/5 — So good *2024-04-27, version 2.2.1* Soooooo good because it reallax my brain ### 5/5 — ADD’S !!!!!!!👎🏿😢😭😤😠😡🤬 *2022-08-15, version 1.7.0* I love this game but why is there adds ### 5/5 — I love this game *2022-05-06, version 1.7.0* My child loves this because I helps her learn words and think fast ### 5/5 — Awsome! *2022-04-06, version 1.7.0* I’ve won many word search compition’s and they are awsome, I got books about them and a library in my house full of them, my house is massive, as you know, like i said I’m good at them, can u make them harder? Thanks! ### 5/5 — Word Search *2022-04-03, version 1.7.0* I like Word Search, because it is fun and there is a timer on so you say to yourself I want to beat the quickest I’ve done before if you do it twice and it is colourful. I also like that you can choose the topic and you just want to keep doing the word searches so you can unlock a new topic. ### 5/5 — Omg I love this *2021-06-24, version 1.6.4* This is a game that I know will keep you busy when you are board ### 5/5 — Great game *2021-05-24, version 1.6.4* Love it ### 5/5 — Keep going! *2020-11-08, version 1.6.3* This game is so so fun and amazing! If you could make more games like this one I would really appreciate it! Many thanks, Aaliyah. ### 5/5 — Word Search *2020-07-25, version 1.6.3* Best game ever I can’t stop playing By salima Punja Nice colours --- *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.*