Quickies vs Wordrows
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Quickies
Engage in quick, fun games with friends directly within your messages. Choose from classic challenges like Tic-Tac-Toe and Rock-Paper-Scissors, or explore new additions like Four in a Row and Battle Boats. More games are planned for future updates.
- Play games within iMessage
- Tic-Tac-Toe
- Rock-Paper-Scissors
- Coin Toss
- Four in a Row
- Battle Boats
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Have some time to burn? Play a Quickie! Quickies are quick games you can play with your friends right from the messages app! Simply open the app, choose a game and play. Play Tic-Tac-Toe, settle an argument with Rock-Paper-Scissors, or leave it up to chance with Coin Toss. More games will be added in future releases, so let us know what you want to play! Now including Game Pack 1: Challenge your friends to a game of Four in a Row or battle for aquatic dominance with Battle Boats! Have feedback or a suggestion for a game? Tell us at: developer@ryangant.com
Wordrows
Engage in exciting word games with friends, challenging them to guess words you pick or from a curated list. Explore five distinct game modes, each offering unique rules and engaging challenges for varied gameplay.
- Play word games with friends
- Challenge friends with custom words
- App-selected word bank (800+ words)
- 5 different game modes
- Unique rules and challenges per mode
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Word games can now be played between friends! Challenge your buddies with a word of your choosing, or let the app pick a word from a bank of over 800 unique words! Pick between 5 different game modes with unique rules and challenges!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Wordrows at 67% against Quickies's 26%. Wordrows also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.5) and update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months). Quickies's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Quickies sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Wordrows sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Wordrows holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 13 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 26% of Quickies's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wordrows's.
Quickies ships an update every 7 months, Wordrows weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Quickies | Wordrows |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (13 ratings) | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 26.1% of reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 13 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Weekly — better |
| 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 | 17.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryan Gant | Nicholas Giarraputo |
Customer experience
Quickies
Wordrows
In-app purchases
Quickies
- Game Pack 1$0.99
Wordrows
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Wordrows Pro$1.99
