Comparison

The Emoji Challenge vs Typeshift

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

The Emoji Challenge

Test your emoji interpretation skills with this engaging quiz. Featuring over 400 levels, it offers a fun challenge to decipher the meanings behind emoji sequences. Enjoy a straightforward and addictive guessing game experience.

Highlights
  • Over 400 levels
  • Emoji interpretation
  • Guessing game
  • Challenging puzzles
Features
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Can you figure out what the emojis are trying to tell you? With over 400+ levels, this quiz will keep you guessing! Enjoy!

About

Typeshift

This word puzzle game challenges you to unscramble letters within stacked words to form new words in the center row. It offers daily challenges with global leaderboards and special clue-based puzzles. Unlock additional content and remove ads with in-app purchases.

Highlights
  • Anagram and word search mechanics
  • Shift letter columns to spell words
  • Daily challenges with leaderboards
  • Special clue puzzles
  • Unlockable puzzle packs
  • Themes and statistics
Features
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From the creator of SpellTower, comes a new and completely original word game! Anagrams meets Word Search, with a sprinkle of Crosswords. Typeshift is the modern anagram puzzle; re-imagined from the ground up, combining wordplay, modern game design, and a mobile-first approach. In most anagram games, you search for new combinations within a single word, but in Typeshift, you search within three to five words stacked & scrambled up together. Shift columns of letters up and down as you try to spell words in the center row. Play continues until you have used all letters in a puzzle at least once. Special Clue Puzzles combine Crosswords with Anagrams as you match clever clues provided by Typeshift's various puzzle authors. - Daily Word Game Play with Global Leaderboards - Typeshift features a free daily challenge with global leaderboards. The easiest challenge for the week appears on Monday, and progressively more challenging puzzles build throughout the week. Compare your fastest Typeshift daily solving times with players around the globe! ------WHAT CRITICS ARE SAYING "Addictive and edifying, like popping a special kind of bubble wrap that expands your vocabulary.” - The Verge "Typeshift is a unmissable entry to the [word] genre." Gold Award. - Pocket Gamer "Typeshift is f*cking awesome" - Giant Bombcast "The Word Puzzle Game You've Been Waiting For" - Waypoint "Well worth your time" - Sixcolors ------WHATS IN THE “BOX”? Typeshift comes with over a hundred free puzzles, with more coming soon, plus new free daily puzzles every day. Additional puzzle packs may be purchased in-app. Purchasing any puzzle pack removes ads, and unlocks themes & detailed statistics. ------A WORD FROM THE DEVELOPER Typeshift continues my quest to re-imagine classic newspaper games in the digital era. Where SpellTower tackled word search and Really Bad Chess handled chess puzzles, Typeshift re-examines Anagrams and Crosswords. Typeshift has been a joy to develop, and I hope you have as much fun playing it as I had making it. As always, thanks so much for your support! -zach

Screenshots

The Emoji Challenge3 screens
Typeshift4 screens

Verdict

The call

The Emoji Challenge and Typeshift both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of The Emoji Challenge's written reviews are positive against 50% of Typeshift's. The Emoji Challenge also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (6.0 vs 14.0). Typeshift's advantage is ratings volume (499 vs 8). On price, rating, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. The Emoji Challenge sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Typeshift sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for The Emoji Challenge against 4.3 for Typeshift. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Typeshift has 499 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of The Emoji Challenge's written reviews are positive against 50% of Typeshift's.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
The Emoji Challenge versus Typeshift: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe Emoji ChallengeTypeshift
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (8 ratings) — better4.3 (499 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better49.6% of reviews
Number of ratings8499 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB72 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeter GilmourZach Gage

Customer experience

The Emoji Challenge

All ratings8 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral12.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Typeshift

All ratings497 ratings
Positive80.9%
Neutral7.8%
Negative11.3%
Written reviews228 reviews
Positive49.6%
Neutral17.1%
Negative33.3%

Bugs and requests

The Emoji Challenge

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Typeshift

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Puzzle timer inaccuracies
  • Purchased content not restoring properly
  • Letters not registering correctly
  • Puzzles not displaying properly on some devices

Requested features

5 requests
  • More clue puzzles and puzzle packs
  • Option to reset/replay completed puzzle packs
  • Sync progress across devices
  • Support for British/Australian English
  • Built-in dictionary with better word definitions

In-app purchases

10 purchases

The Emoji Challenge

One-time10
  • 6 Reveal Helpers & Remove Ads$0.99
  • 4 Remove Letters & Remove Ads$0.99
  • Solve Level & Remove Ads$0.99
Show 7 more
  • 18 Reveal Letters & Remove Ads$1.99
  • 12 Remove Letters & Remove Ads$1.99
  • 40 Reveal Letters & Remove Ads$4.99
  • 30 Remove Letters & Remove Ads$4.99
  • 100 Reveal Letters & Remove Ads$8.99
  • 80 Remove Letters & Remove Ads$8.99
  • 200 Remove Letters & Remove Ads$15.99
10 purchases

Typeshift

One-time10
  • Chocolate Puzzle Pack$0.99
  • Peppermint Puzzle Pack$0.99
  • Pecan Clue Puzzle Pack$1.99
Show 7 more
  • Walnut Clue Puzzle Pack$1.99
  • Parmesan Clue Puzzle Pack$1.99
  • Umami Clue Puzzle Pack$1.99
  • Pistachio Clue Puzzle Pack$1.99
  • Starter Bundle$1.99
  • Sophomore Bundle$1.99
  • Gumshoe Clue Bundle$3.99

Questions

Is The Emoji Challenge free?
The Emoji Challenge is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Typeshift free?
Typeshift is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, The Emoji Challenge or Typeshift?
The Emoji Challenge is rated higher. The Emoji Challenge averages 4.4 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Typeshift averages 4.3 from 499 ratings.
Do The Emoji Challenge or Typeshift have ads?
Typeshift shows ads; The Emoji Challenge does not.

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