# Words With Friends – Word Game — Play Crossword Puzzle Game > Popular mobile word game for connecting, vocabulary building, and competitive play. (iPhone/iPad app by Zynga Inc..) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/words-with-friends-word-game/id804379658 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Zynga Inc.](https://appshunter.io/developer/295913422) - Category: Games, Entertainment, Board, Word - Price: Free with in-app purchases - Rating: 4.60/5 from 151,261 App Store ratings · 50 written reviews indexed - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 13.0 · 202 MB - Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish - Released: 2014-10-09 - Data updated: 2026-06-10 - Monetization: free with in-app purchases - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/words-with-friends-word-game/id804379658/reviews.md ## What is Words With Friends? The World’s Most Popular Mobile Word Game now has even more ways to play! Try new rewards and boosts to help you play smarter and faster! Words With Friends is the fun, free word game that lets you connect with friends and family while expanding your vocabulary and sharpening your wit. Test your brain power and spell your way to victory. May the Best Friend Win.™ Game Features: • WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Play the weekly challenge and earn fun, themed badges • BEAT THE CLOCK: Challenge friends to beat the clock in fast play! • SOLO PLAY: Play offline and sharpen your skills with solo play • HINDSIGHT: Uncover the best word you could have played after each turn • WORD RADAR: Heat map reveals the location of all possible moves before you take a turn • PROFILE FRAMES: Show off your unique style with custom profile frames • SMART MATCH: Connect with players of a similar skill with Smart Match • 6 LANGUAGES: Choose to play in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese and British English *Play Words With Friends without third party ads between moves if you previously purchased Words With Friends Pro on iOS or any other mobile device. Be sure to login with Facebook or the email account you used to make the previous purchase to continue to play without third party ads between moves. Already an accomplished Wordie? 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For more information, see our Terms of Service: https://www.zynga.com/legal/terms-of-service and Privacy Policy: https://www.zynga.com/privacy/policy" “The game is free to play; however, in-app purchases are available for additional content and in-game currency.” Just another title from Zynga’s Games With Friends™ ## Key features - Weekly challenges with themed badges - Fast-paced 'Beat the Clock' mode - Offline solo play for skill improvement - Hindsight feature to review best moves - Word Radar for identifying possible moves - Smart Match for finding players of similar skill - Supports 6 languages ## Pricing and in-app purchases Base price: Free. **One-time purchases** | Purchase | Price | Type | | --- | --- | --- | | Pack of Coins | $0.99 | one-time | | Handful of Coins | $4.99 | one-time | | Stack of Coins | $9.99 | one-time | | Pile of Coins | $19.99 | one-time | | Bag of Coins | $49.99 | one-time | | Vault of Coins | $99.99 | one-time | | Ad Free Bundle | $9.99 | one-time | | Power Up Bundle | $9.99 | one-time | | Basic Season Pass Offer 10 | $9.99 | one-time | | AdsFree Season Pass Offer 13 | $12.99 | one-time | | Basic Season Pass 10 | $9.99 | one-time | | AdsFree Season Pass 13 | $12.99 | one-time | ## What do users think of Words With Friends? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🧠 Challenging and engaging word game - 🤝 Allows playing with friends and family - 🎮 Enjoyable solo challenges **Cons** - 🚨 Excessive ads and pop-ups - 🤑 Aggressive monetization tactics - 🐛 Frequent app crashes and glitches - 🤯 Cluttered UI with unnecessary features - 🤔 Questionable dictionary and word acceptance **Commonly reported bugs** - Game ending prematurely with valid moves remaining - Incorrect game results and statistics - Persistent notification badges not clearing **Most requested features** - Option to disable unnecessary features and notifications - Improved dictionary and word acceptance - Consistent and fair gameplay across all modes ## Recent user reviews (10 of 50) All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/words-with-friends-word-game/id804379658/reviews.md ### 3/5 — STOP IT! *2023-02-02, version 19.00.1* 2023 Review: Stop trying to trick us into paying for “passes” or whatever! You put these stupid pop-ups in the game where we can accidentally click on them. Almost happened again this morning; I promptly canceled out of “Pay Now”. Also, the waving key at the top drives me nuts! The WWF game itself is fun and enjoyable to play. STOP THE GREED!! Previous review: I used to love this word game; however, with each update it gets more bloated and annoying to play. Pure greed on the part of the developers, trying now to push a "points" subscription. I could care less about points, social stuff, or whether I win or lose. I only wish to play a fun word game! Please allow us to opt out of all the other juvenile fluff (exception being playing the AI character, which is cute and fun). Here is a major gripe: Lose the flashing "key" and all the rest of that junk! Some of us actually have a physical condition which makes it super-stressful to have to see this flashing nonsense. It's purely to get us to subscribe, I know. You've been losing stars for several years, Zynga. Next update it'll be down to one? ### 1/5 — TONS of Ads and Pop-Ups *2023-01-24, version 19.00.1* The number of ads and pop-up notifications this game wastes your time with is disgusting, the owner of this is like a slumlord but in the app industry. I’m just trying to spend some time with my Grandma playing scrabble. Each turn you have ads you have to try waiting and clicking through, but most of the time it hits a dead end with an inability to exit out of an ad, and you have to fully close the app in order to make it go away, HUGE time waste relative to any other app I’ve used. So now I usually just end up closing and swiping away the app the moment the ads start. Then in order to see pop-up notifications of your grandma having played her turn, you have to be subjected to about 6 other pop-up notifications per turn, and you can’t select which type of notification to allow. And then you wanna basically allow people to cheat if they pay you enough money (extra no-skip tile swaps, word hints, etc.)? Owners of this app a bunch of moneygrubber dirtbags. But what else am I gonna play with my grandma other than scrapple? ### 1/5 — Glitching & Scamming with $99 charges! *2022-12-15, version 18.80.1* I have 9999+ because I accidentally hit a pop up costing $99 twice in the past 3 years. The very second I hit it (because picking up an iPhone8 is an easy way to touch the hone button) its done with no way out, I actually enjoy ‘earning coins’ & cant imagine why anyone would want 9999+ coins. I try to reverse/undo the tranaction immediately & report it to Apple & my Apple Pay credit card. My card company credits me the $110, and the following month its back on my card. I am a retired teacher on a fixed, no COLA pension. I have enjoyed playing daily since 2011. The pop ups are a sneaky way to charge us for crap we don't need or want & making it so hard to reverse is a scam! Its nefarious & a bad business model. Offer all the extras you want, but please make it a 2 step verification to purchase. Simply take back the coins!! The game is fun, but the pop up traps make it a pain. And in the last month its GLITCHING. Its stuck so I cant go back to replay solo challenges. In speed challenges, the screen moves around keeping us from moving tiles. Fix the bugs & quit stealing my $$$. ### 2/5 — Truly ruined a good thing! *2022-07-21, version 18.20.1* 1.) All of the in-app goals and achievements are new and give you NO WAY to opt out of these! They are a nuisance, they slow the game down, and I would venture a guess that these slow down the game so much they are part or all of the cause of the app frequently crashing! 2.) even with the app updated and the latest IOS, the game still frequently crashes. It’ll open for about 5 seconds and then close! This happens with regularity and NEEDS A FIX!!! Every couple of months this happens, and won’t stay open long enough to even contact their customer service to report the problem! 3.) There are all kinds of other annoying little glitches inside the game that I’ve reported many times and they have yet to be fixed! Chat feature is totally useless and messes up all the time! People who request a game and I deny them, they then show up in my friends list even though I never accepted their game! Red indicator numbers don’t disappear after whatever section is checked and scrolled through! And numerous other issues!!! ZYNGA, GET IT TOGETHER AND FIX ALL THE GLITCHES, COME UP WITH A PERMANENT SOLUTION FOR APP CRASHING ALL THE TIME, AND FOR GOD SAKE MAKE THE IN-GAME ACHIEVEMENTS AND GOALS OPTIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ### 2/5 — Ads are really bugging me *2022-05-09, version 17.61.1* I love this game, and played it for years, and I’ve put up with ads after EVERY turn on my IPad. But the recent addition of the two page ads is quickly changing my mind about the game. First an ad page with multiple products appears and there is a tiny “x” in the upper right hand corner, so I tap it to close the ad and it takes me to google, so I go back to the game and tap it again, same thing. It is so sensitive, if you don’t touch it just right, it takes you google for further info about the product beneath the “x.” If I’m lucky enough to hit that “x” correctly, then it displays a second ad page with a tiny “x” in upper left corner! I know they have to make money, but this is pushing the limits with me. I don’t want these type ads anymore, and if I’m stuck with them, make the darn X bigger so I can close them out! I’ve never bought a thing from any of these ads anyways! Ok, I’m done. The game is great, but I hesitate upgrading to Words 2 in fear of finding there’s even more of these frustrating advertisements. Enjoy the game, not the ads. ### 2/5 — Gone downhill *2022-04-19, version 17.61.1* I have played this game for years and HAD enjoyed it. Now, it has gotten unbearable to play. The ads are more and more frequent. You used to be able to X out of them. Not any more! You cannot get out of them. They lock up your screen and you have to close the app and reopen in order to continue. During play the screen will lock up suddenly and AGAIN you have to exit the app and start again. The updates have ruined the game. They are constantly trying to trick you into purchasing “upgrades” that help you cheat, otherwise you can’t compete with other players who have bought into it. What happened to the coins you used to win? Now all you get for bonuses is useless badges and frames! Lately I’ve been spending more time watching and trying to exit ads than playing the game! The only reason I didn’t give it a 1 is that there are actually other apps that have gotten even worse with the ads and money grubbing. I rated those a 1 (lowest rating possible) and deleted them. Update: One more ROYAL MATCH ad and I’m deleting this app too! This is ridiculous! ### 2/5 — Game Used to be Favorite *2022-04-12, version 17.61.1* I’ve been playing this game since 2009 and it used to be amazing. I’d keep the maximum allowed ongoing games and thoroughly enjoyed the competition. It was simply Scrabble, one if the most popular board games ever, straightforward in design and challenging just like the beloved board game. So why mess with perfection. The direction the developers have taken over the years has practically ruined this game and I can see by the reviews I’m not the only one that feels this way. The play is slow and all the fluff graphics that’s been added over the years is annoying and slows down play. The expanding dictionary of allowable words that aren’t words interferes with truly competitive play. I now keep a max of 2-3 games going and those are with my significant other and a real friend. I NEVER choose a random player, it’s just not fun anymore. The Solo Challenge was a welcome addition at first but with the recent update, it’s no longer enjoyable. I’m giving 2 stars only because I have such fond memories for the original game. Message to the developers…….just because you can add all the unnecessary graphics and fluff it doesn’t mean you should. I paid for ad-free years ago and would gladly pay again to get the original version back. ### 3/5 — Great game but too much going on in the app. *2022-04-11, version 17.61.1* I love this game and I’ve been playing for years but I’ve found the app gets more and more annoying. I just want to play the game. I don’t need all these added features like power ups and rewards. I just want to play a word game. I do like the solo challenges. They are a fun way to practice your skills when you’ve completed your games with actual people but other than that I’m not a fan of any of the new features. In the latest update the power ups are much more forced on you. I would rather lose a game than win with power ups though. The point of the game, in my mind, is to get better at making words with higher points. It’s a game of skill and the power ups kind of ruin that. In the new update, after I get through a few levels of the solo challenge it makes it so in the next game there’s a bunch of extra triple and double word squares. Again, I just want to play the regular game. You don’t need to improve on what is already a great game as it is. It was better when it was simple. It also asks if you want to send a sticker after every move which I don’t think is needed because you could send that through the chat if you wanted. I just think it would be better if it was kept simple. Also I find the app to be slow and glitchy but I don’t mind that as much as all the unnecessary extra stuff. ### 2/5 — Not as trustworthy as I originally thought *2022-04-08, version 17.61.1* I bought this as a premium app years ago. Everytime it gets updated because either the iOS or the app itself was updated, it starts showing advertisements again. I complained a few times and they fixed it until the next update. At which time they bounced me back to advertisers again. It also pleads with me once or twice a week to allow its advertisers to track me. I do not want your app tracking my phone stop asking. Stay out of my business. I do not want to keep asking you to honor the premium contract that you sold to me. I now play until you show a pop up add. So I shut this down like every other move now. You have allowed some advertisers to run during game play blocking the view of player scores which is a little bit of a buzz kill. I am very close to deleting this app that is otherwise enjoyable. If and when I do, I will make a mental note to add your organization to the disreputable list ### 4/5 — WORDS *2022-02-21, version 17.40.1* We have been playing Words with Friends for a long time now and we evidently enjoy the play or we wouldn’t waste quite so much time at the app. We do find that the WORDS DICTIONARY contains words that do not appear in the other dictionaries and that the WORD DICTIONARY doesn’t contain some actual words that do appear in the WEBSTER DICTIONARY, for example. Even if a word is recognized as a word, it should not be allowed in play if it has no meaning. Fact is, it shouldn’t be recognized as a word at all. It is only a group of letters that no one can pronounce and that fits into a space. Scrabble rules should be more of a guideline perhaps. Updates have cluttered the app with a bunch of meaningless activity and worthless prizes. I know, its all for fun but all the extra stuff just makes the app less convenient to navigate. Regardless, we engage the Solo Challenge and find it quick and challenging but the distribution of letters sometimes stinks and the computer persons we play against surely come up with a lot of trees and vines and bugs and stuff from millions of years ago. Maybe they are in the dictionary but, if they aren’t, even the WordMasters shouldn’t be allowed to play them. ## Frequently asked questions about Words With Friends ### What is Words With Friends? Words With Friends is a popular mobile word game where players connect with friends and family to expand their vocabulary and sharpen their wit. It offers various modes to play, including competitive challenges and solo offline play. ### What are the key features of the game? Key features include weekly challenges with badges, a fast-paced 'Beat the Clock' mode, offline solo play, a 'Hindsight' feature to review past moves, 'Word Radar' to find possible moves, 'Smart Match' to connect with similar skill players, and support for 6 different languages. ### Is Words With Friends free to play? Yes, the game is free to play. However, it does offer in-app purchases for additional content and in-game currency. Players who previously purchased 'Words With Friends Pro' on iOS or other mobile devices can play without third-party ads between moves by logging in with their previous account. ### What languages does Words With Friends support? The game supports play in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, and British English, allowing a diverse range of players to enjoy the word-building experience. ### Can I play Words With Friends offline? Yes, the app includes a 'Solo Play' feature that allows you to play offline. This is a great way to practice your skills and improve your vocabulary without needing an internet connection. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 19.91.0 — 2024-01-11 Play your best words in the latest release from Words With Friends! Compete with friends and family or find the perfect match to complete your Daily Goals! Smoother gameplay than ever before with new updates and bug fixes. ### 19.90.0 — 2023-12-13 Play your best words in the latest release from Words With Friends! Compete with friends and family or find the perfect match to complete your Daily Goals! Smoother gameplay than ever before with new updates and bug fixes. ### 19.801 — 2023-09-11 Play your best words in the latest release from Words With Friends! Compete with friends and family or find the perfect match to complete your Daily Goals! Smoother gameplay than ever before with new updates and bug fixes. ### 19.61.1 — 2023-06-19 Play your best words in the latest release from Words With Friends! Compete with friends and family or find the perfect match to complete your Daily Goals! Smoother gameplay than ever before with new updates and bug fixes. ### 19.60.1 — 2023-05-29 Play your best words in the latest release from Words With Friends! Compete with friends and family or find the perfect match to complete your Daily Goals! 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User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*