Zen Word® User Reviews
Customer Experience
~ Based on 3,928 written reviews from the US App Store.
What users say
Summarized from real user reviews of Zen Word®. Based on 463K reviews and a 4.9/5 average, it highlights the 4 positives and 4 negatives reviewers mention most about this game.
Positive things
- 🧠Challenging and mentally stimulating
- 🎨Beautiful visuals and calming music
- 🧘♀️Relaxing and zen-like experience
- 🧠Helps improve vocabulary and spelling
Negative things
- 🤖Excessive and intrusive ads
- 🤑Misleading advertising about no ads
- 🤔Repetitive and easy word puzzles
- 🤷♀️Unclear purpose of in-game items like butterflies
Is Zen Word® Safe?
Zen Word® - Relax Puzzle Game appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Zen Word® is 98/100.
This assessment is based on 462,903 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.9/5.
Safety Analysis
~ Based on 462,903 App Store ratings for Zen Word®.
Is Zen Word® Legit?
Zen Word® - Relax Puzzle Game appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Zen Word® is 90/100.
Based on 90 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.
Top reviews
Game freezes, not relaxing or stimulating as advertised
I love this game it’s so cool and knowledgeable
The game is good, but the ads have gotten insane. The most recent ones you can’t even close. You have to close the app and then restart. And the latest Candy Crush ad, if you miss the tiny x by a millimeter, it opens up the browser, the App Store, and the Candy Crush app. THREE other apps open. Might want to change the name to Zen Ads. I’m all for monetizing, but you should have standards for the ads.
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I play this game every day and really enjoy it. I especially enjoyed it when it didn’t pop up every time you earned an extra word. It is annoying and distracting. Players are capable of seeing when they have extra words and choose to use them when they want. Would like to see that stopped.
There is an ad after every level it’s an absolute joke. Not only that but most of the ads you’re sat there for 5 minutes waiting for it to end because there’s no way of exiting out of it. The only way to escape the endless ads is to close the app entirely after each level and restart it to play the next. Ok the rare occasion you can skip and ad and you can be bothered to do so, the game rewards you 20 coins for “sticking around”. Which tells me they are well aware how ridiculous the ads are and yet continue to allow it to happen, disgusting.
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As you go though the good word games, the adverts become non stop. Way too many. Don’t bother
Had to give up playing as ads wouldn’t close
I would've rated it 17 trillion stars if I could. This is the most relaxing game I've ever played in my life. Whoever made this game, just know, this game is amazing.
I love word games and this is one of my favorite ones. The problem is the ads you show. Now I don’t mind ads but every one of them is a scam. I have checked out each one and they all come back as scams. I think you should be more aware of what ads you allow.
Zen Word is a really good thing to learn.
I just can’t take the long winded ads for the free game that go on and on. Most ads are around 15 seconds but one just keeps going. Touts how there are no ads in the game while taking so much time from what I CHOSE to play. Stuck on yet another ad!!!
The game wanted me to update. I kept putting it off but it wouldn’t allow me to. I bought 2,000 coins. I was on something like level 179. Once I updated, it stole my coins! What a scam. I use this game to help my anxiety. Now I’m just super disappointed.
It is amazing
There are too many 3 letter words. If you’re a high IQ senior, like me, you won’t find it very challenging. Many times I’d find words that were not in a specific puzzle but should have been.
Great
I really like playing this word game. But when it takes to 3 minutes to solve the puzzle and 5 minutes to watch ads! It is taking too much of my time.
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Love doing this
A great way to increase your vocabulary and relax
I can understand wanting to keep your app politics free, but when I went to join a team I saw Trump named teams, MAGA teams, but no team for LGBTQ people. When I tried to make one, I was told “Inappropriate word detected in the team name (LGBTQ).” So Trump is OK, but gay folks aren’t?

