SlideWords™ vs Spellt
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SlideWords™
This word puzzle game challenges you to unscramble letter tiles to form valid words horizontally and vertically. It tests both vocabulary and spatial reasoning, offering a surprisingly difficult experience even with smaller grids.
- Unscramble letter tiles
- Form words across and down
- Tests vocabulary and spatial reasoning
- Challenging word square puzzles
- Multiple grid sizes
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Slide the tiles to unscramble the word square—a square of letters that forms valid words both across and down. SlideWords exercises two orthogonal skills which makes it challenging for anyone. If you have a good English vocabulary you may find it easy to discover the words but you'll probably find it difficult to move the tiles into place. If you're good at spatial reasoning you may find it easy to move the tiles into place but you'll probably find it difficult to discover the words. It's surprisingly difficult to solve even the simplest 3x3 word square, and you'll be blown away by the extreme difficulty of a 5x5 word square. Maybe this is why the ancient Greeks believed that the person who could solve a 10x10 word square would become immortal. Enjoy -David
Spellt
A daily word puzzle game where you find as many words as possible from a given set of letters. It offers new daily puzzles and themed packs, with leaderboards to compare your scores with others.
- Daily word puzzles
- Themed puzzle packs
- Game Center leaderboards
- Find words from letter sets
- New puzzle daily
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Spellt is a daily word game. Find as many words as possible from a set of letters. A new puzzle comes out every day! Also play the challenging, themed puzzle packs! Join the Game Center leaderboard to see how you compare to other players!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Spellt at 4.8 against SlideWords™'s 4.4. SlideWords™'s advantage is review sentiment (80% vs 60%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs monthly). 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.
Spellt holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 19 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 80% of SlideWords™'s written reviews are positive against 60% of Spellt's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
SlideWords™ ships an update every 2 weeks, Spellt monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | SlideWords™ | Spellt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (8 ratings) | 4.8 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 148 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Hot Chai Productions | Gabriel Perez-Putnam |
Customer experience
SlideWords™
Spellt
In-app purchases
SlideWords™
No in-app purchases
Spellt
No in-app purchases
