Color Sort Therapy vs Word Therapy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Color Sort Therapy
Engage in a calming color sorting experience designed for relaxation and stress relief. This app offers a distraction-free environment with no timers, scores, or achievements, allowing you to simply sort colors at your own pace.
- Color sorting gameplay
- Relaxing and stress-relieving
- No timers or scores
- Distraction-free experience
- Sort at your own pace
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Sort the colors. Sort when you relax. Sort when you need to relax. Sort when you listen to music. Sort when you listen to podcasts. No timer, levels, sound effects, score, achievements, or distractions. Just sort the colors.
Word Therapy
Engage in a calming word puzzle designed to promote mindfulness and reduce stress. Progress through meditative levels with hypnotic ambience and mesmerizing wordplay.
- Mindfulness exercises
- Soothing word puzzles
- Meditative levels
- Hypnotic ambience
- Mesmerizing wordplay
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Achieve mindfulness with this soothing word puzzle. Allow your stressors to melt away as you progress from one meditative level to the next. Hypnotic ambience and mesmerizing word play combine in this all new experience from the makers of Letter Soup and Letter Fridge.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Color Sort Therapy at none against Word Therapy's shown. Color Sort Therapy also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 73%). Word Therapy's advantage is ratings volume (15K vs 1.5K) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Color Sort Therapy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Word Therapy sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Color Sort Therapy against 4.7 for Word Therapy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Therapy has 15K ratings behind it against 1.5K, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of Color Sort Therapy's written reviews are positive against 73% of Word Therapy's.
Color Sort Therapy ships an update monthly, Word Therapy every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Color Sort Therapy | Word Therapy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (1.5K ratings) — better | 4.7 (15K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.1% of reviews — better | 72.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.5K | 15K — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Applorium Ltd | Candywriter, LLC |
Customer experience
Color Sort Therapy
Word Therapy
User reviews
Color Sort Therapy
From 1.5K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🌟 Relaxing and calming
- 👍 No ads or interruptions
- 💎 Satisfying color sorting experience
- 🧠 Helpful for anxiety and focus
- 🎨 Beautiful color palettes
Room to improve
- 💰 Limited free color options, paid unlock required
- 🔁 Repetitive patterns after a while
- 🎨 Lack of customization options for color palettes
- 🕰️ Transition animations too fast
Word Therapy
From 15K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🧠 Challenging and mentally stimulating
- 🎨 Relaxing and calming visuals
- 📚 Expands vocabulary and spelling skills
- 🕰️ Endless gameplay with replayable levels
Room to improve
- 💰 Expensive hints and coins
- 🤖 Questionable word recognition and acceptance
- 🔋 High battery consumption
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and freezes
Bugs and requests
Color Sort Therapy
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on older devices
- Color palette selection issues
Requested features
5 requests- More free color palettes
- Customizable color palettes
- Difficulty levels or challenges
- Longer transition times between color sorting
- Haptic feedback or sound effects
Word Therapy
Reported bugs
3 issues- Progress and coin balances disappearing after updates
- Inconsistent performance and stability issues
- Ads causing the game to freeze or crash
Requested features
4 requests- Add more levels and content updates
- Allow customization of background colors
- Provide word definitions or a built-in dictionary
- Improve the reward system and make hints more affordable
In-app purchases
Color Sort Therapy
- Unlock All$5.99
Word Therapy
- Small Coins Pack$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
- Medium Coins Pack$2.99
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- Large Coins Pack$9.99
- X-Large Coins Pack$24.99
- Best Value Coins Pack$49.99
