GameFox vs literally
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
GameFox
Engage in competitive multiplayer games directly within iMessage. Challenge friends to word-based puzzles and creative phrase-combining games. New titles are regularly added to expand the gaming experience.
- Play games within iMessage
- Multiplayer word game
- Phrase combination game
- New games added regularly
- Compete against friends
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Compete against your friends in fun iMessage games! • Play Wurtle, the new multiplayer word game! See who can guess the hidden word first • Play Portmanteau, combine the answers to two clues into a single phrase! More games coming soon!
literally
Engage in a timed word-building challenge where you race against the clock to form words from available letters. This game offers a substantial story mode with numerous levels and tasks, alongside unique challenges like deciphering aphorisms. It features a simplified mode for a relaxed experience and detailed statistics to track your progress.
- 200-level story mode
- 66 aphorism deciphering tasks
- Simplified, relaxed mode
- Minimalistic design
- Detailed statistics
- Power saving mode
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literally is a word game in which your main opponent is time. This is a race in which you have to collect words from letters so that the game does not end. you've probably missed the standard feature lists, so I've prepared another one for you: • a story consisting of 200 levels and 77 tasks. you can't think of a better brain workout (of course, if you don't feel like reading books; books are the best) • 66 aphorisms are frantically waiting for you to decipher them • simplified mode for those who do not like to rush • minimalistic design and incredible Ukrainian-made fonts • statistics that analyze to the smallest detail what you wasted your time on • surprisingly catchy animation in the main menu • power saving mode, which will help kill the battery more slowly (for example, by turning off the surprisingly catchy animation in the main menu)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: literally at 4.5 against GameFox's 3.9. literally also leads on ratings volume (516 vs 23). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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. GameFox sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and literally sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
literally holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: literally has 516 ratings behind it against 23, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of GameFox's written reviews are positive against 73% of literally's.
GameFox ships an update every 4 weeks, literally every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | GameFox | literally |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (23 ratings) | 4.5 (516 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 73.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 23 | 516 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 weeks | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| 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 | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 35 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Foxtail Games LLC | Oleksandr Kozlov |
Customer experience
GameFox
literally
In-app purchases
GameFox
- Plus$2.991 Month
- The Hard Pack$0.99
literally
- Bubble gum$0.99
- Coffee$2.99
- Chicken wings$4.99
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