Sidewords vs BranchWordy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sidewords
This app offers a unique blend of logic and word puzzles with no timers or penalties. It provides hundreds of puzzles of varying difficulty, with new ones added daily, and includes a bonus game. Users can customize the color scheme to suit their mood.
- Logic and word puzzle blend
- Hundreds of puzzles
- Daily new puzzles
- Bonus game included
- Customizable color schemes
- No timers or penalties
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Grab a cup of coffee and relax with Sidewords. Sidewords is part logic puzzle, part word game, all original. No timers. No penalties. No pressure. Just you and a good puzzle. Sharpen your mind with hundreds of puzzles, from small and quick, to large and captivating. Plus three new puzzles to do every day! There’s even a bonus game included! Choose a color scheme that fits your mood and environment. Get your morning started with bright colors, or unwind at the end of a long day with a dark theme. So sit back, relax, and enjoy a good puzzle. You deserve your Sidewords time. ----- Critics Are Saying ----- "If you're looking for a truly new word game experience, this is the game to get." - 148Apps "The word and logic elements mashed together create a special experience that I’ve never seen before in a word game" - AppAdvice "If you’re looking for a word game with some unique ideas, go download Sidewords" - AppUnwrapper "Sidewords isn't quite like anything else you've ever played before." - PocketGamer
BranchWordy
This word game challenges players to form compound words by arranging base words on branching paths. It offers various difficulty levels and helpful lifelines, with an untimed mode for relaxed play.
- Form compound words
- Arrange base words on branches
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Lifeline assistance
- Untimed play mode
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Do you like Compound Words? Oh, that is an UNDER+STATEMENT? So you are a ROCK+STAR, or maybe a MASTER+MIND! Branchwordy is a cool new word game - challenging yet simple. Just arrange base words along branches, such that words on adjacent boxes form a compound word. You don't have to be SUPER+HUMAN to do well. Choose from different difficulty levels to play in and use the given lifelines to help you crack the trickier puzzles along the way. Or simply choose the untimed mode to play at leisure without the time limit per round. Now, if we've managed to BRAIN+WASH you, download the game and have fun branching!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: BranchWordy at Free against Sidewords's $2.99. BranchWordy also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 81%). Sidewords's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (295 vs 8). On rating, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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
BranchWordy is free to download; Sidewords costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Sidewords against 4.9 for BranchWordy. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sidewords has 295 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 81% of Sidewords's written reviews are positive against 100% of BranchWordy's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sidewords | BranchWordy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (295 ratings) | 4.9 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 295 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Best chart rank | #75 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Milkbag Games | Vaibhav Electronics Pvt Ltd |
Customer experience
Sidewords
BranchWordy
Bugs and requests
Sidewords
Reported bugs
3 issues- Crash when clicking 'share solution'
- Applies unreal words
- Sometimes rejects real words
Requested features
9 requests- Improve tutorial or add clear instructions
- Sync between devices
- Add a scoring system or way to measure excellence
- Allow iPad rotation to landscape
- More puzzles/daily puzzles
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- Undo option after tapping a word
- Fix crash when sharing solution
- Algorithm for randomly creating levels
- Ability to rotate iPad in all directions
BranchWordy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sidewords
No in-app purchases
BranchWordy
No in-app purchases
