Comparison

Charades Up vs Act Out!

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

Head to head
About

Charades Up

This party game challenges players to guess words or phrases displayed on their forehead based on clues from friends. It offers custom pack creation and offline play for endless entertainment.

Highlights
  • Create custom word packs
  • Share custom packs with friends
  • Offline play supported
  • Tilt phone to draw cards
  • Periodic pack updates
  • Variety of pre-made packs
Features
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A football fan or a dog lover, a celebrity fan or a festive favorite, Charades Up is a fun and hilarious game that brings another level of celebration with your friends and family. From Christmas classics to silly accents – your friends will give you thousand clues, but there is only one correct answer – on a card that’s on your head! Tilt your phone Up or Down to draw the next card and never stop playing, well, you may run out of time eventually! Features: # Create your own custom pack – show your creativity! # Share your custom pack with friends – show off your creativity! # No Internet required after first use – freedom everywhere! # Play anywhere-anytime – change your boring wait time into fun time # Tilt your phone to draw a new card – you won’t get tired, but may run out of time! # More packs added periodically – explore and master the new world! Packs include: * Festivals * Sports * Movies & TV * Words * Pets * And lots more - free and available to purchase!

About

Act Out!

This party game transforms the classic charades experience with evolving rules each round. Players act out subjects for their team to guess, with challenges increasing from verbal clues to single gestures. Features include power-ups, automatic round progression, and team photos.

Highlights
  • Evolving round rules
  • Power-ups
  • Automatic round switching
  • Team photos
  • 500 card topics
  • MVP stats
Features
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Have you played the game Celebrity with friends using pen and paper? Maybe you know it as Bowl of Nouns or Salad Bowl or maybe even Fish Bowl (if you are that cool). Well, this is the definitive version that takes it into the 21st century! Players split into two teams, then one person at a time will act out a subject in hopes of getting their team to guess it, but the twist is the rules change each round! Round 1: You can use words, sounds, and gestures Round 2: You can use sounds and gestures Round 3: You can only use a single gesture We've added some super fun features that will make playing Celebrity funner (yeah, that's a word) than ever: -Power ups! -Automatic round switching after all topics are guessed -Team photos so it's easy to know who's up next -500 available card topics! -MVP stats If you love charades, improv, ad-lib, or just acting stupid in front of friends and family... then this game is for you! And if you don't, hopefully your friends will still force you to play and you learn to stop being such a wet blanket.

Screenshots

Charades Up4 screens
Act Out!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Act Out! at every 3 months against Charades Up's every 19 months. Act Out! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Charades Up's advantage is ratings volume (16 vs 3). On price, ads, 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. Charades Up sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Act Out! 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

Act Out! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Charades Up has 16 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Charades Up ships an update every 19 months, Act Out! every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Charades Up versus Act Out!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCharades UpAct Out!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (16 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings16 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB135 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrailcode IncCurious Labs

Customer experience

Charades Up

All ratings16 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral0.0%
Negative6.3%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Act Out!

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Charades Up

One-time6
  • Unlock your Football love!$1.99
  • Guess your favorite NFL player$1.99
  • Comedy Shows 90s$1.99
Show 3 more
  • Comedy Shows 2000$1.99
  • Comedy Shows 2010s$1.99
  • Remove Advertisement$3.99
10 purchases

Act Out!

One-time10
  • Fairy Tales!$0.99
  • Cartoons!$0.99
  • Singers!$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Movies!$0.99
  • History!$0.99
  • Children's Television!$0.99
  • Today's Celebrities!$0.99
  • Sports!$0.99
  • Unpleasant Things!$0.99
  • Christmas!$0.99

Questions

Is Charades Up free?
Charades Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Act Out! free?
Act Out! is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Charades Up or Act Out!?
Act Out! is rated higher. Charades Up averages 4.8 out of 5 from 16 ratings, while Act Out! averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Charades Up or Act Out! have ads?
Neither Charades Up nor Act Out! shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Charades Up or Act Out!?
Charades Up ships an update every 19 months, and Act Out! every 3 months. Most recently, Charades Up was updated on November 2, 2026 and Act Out! on November 3, 2026.

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