Grabble Words! vs Penanagrams
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grabble Words!
A fun and challenging word game where you find and steal words from opponents. Strategize to build the highest letter score by choosing between quick finds or longer words. Compete against friends or an AI.
- Find words
- Steal words from opponents
- Play with friends
- Play against AI
- Score based on letter values
- Strategic word choice
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Grabble Words is the Fun, Free, Social and Challenging New Word Game that You Should Already Be Playing! Play Grabble Words With Friends, or Test Your Skills With the Grabot. Find words, and grab words from your opponent - when the tiles run out the player with the highest letter score wins. The fastest to find a word gets it - but careful - longer words beat faster words! Should you be quick and grab the first word you find? Or should you take your time to find the longest word you can? The choice is yours... Grabble Words is inspired by a word game from the Victorian era - many years older than Scrabble! Join the fun now!
Penanagrams
A daily word puzzle game where you find near-anagrams of a five-letter starting word. Each day presents a new challenge to discover words by changing one letter and rearranging the remaining ones. Aim for three stars by finding a specific number of valid penanagrams.
- Daily five-letter starting word
- Find near-anagrams (penanagrams)
- Change exactly one letter
- Rearrange remaining letters
- Star system for progress
- Three-star daily goal
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Penanagrams is a free daily anagram-style word puzzle. Each day there is a new five-letter starting word. Find as many penanagrams (near-anagrams) as you can: (a) change exactly one letter in the starting word, then (b) use this new letter and the remaining four letters of the starting word in any order to form a new word. For example START -> RANTS or START -> RATES. For RANTS, a T is changed to an N. Changing a T to any other letter and rearranging in the same way, e.g. T -> F to produce RAFTS, does not count as a new penanagram. To show this, the changed letter shows up as a blank green square in your list of penanagrams. You get a star when you have found 1/4, 2/4, and 3/4 of the possible penangrams. Try for three stars every day!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Penanagrams at 4.9 against Grabble Words!'s 3.6. Penanagrams also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 5 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Penanagrams holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 9 respectively.
Grabble Words! ships an update every 5 months, Penanagrams every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grabble Words! | Penanagrams |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (5 ratings) | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 92.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 9 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 67 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Craig Grummitt | Noah Daniel Stein |
Customer experience
Grabble Words!
Penanagrams
In-app purchases
Grabble Words!
No in-app purchases
Penanagrams
No in-app purchases
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