Telephone Game vs Passed Word
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Telephone Game
This app recreates the classic telephone game where players record voice messages that get distorted as they are passed along. Up to ten players can join for a hilarious and chaotic experience.
- Voice message recording
- Message passing and transformation
- Multiplayer support (up to 10 players)
- Hilarious audio distortions
- Simple and social gameplay
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Telephone Game brings the classic word-of-mouth game to your iPhone. Record a short voice message, pass it along and watch it transform in surprising and hilarious ways as each person records what they think they heard. Invite up to ten players. Just a few listens stand between you and chaos. Simple, social, and made for laughs.
Passed Word
This game challenges players to collaboratively build a story, with each participant only seeing the previous turn's text. Once all players have contributed, the full, often surprising, narrative is revealed.
- Collaborative storytelling
- Turn-based gameplay
- Hidden previous text
- Full story reveal
- Multiplayer
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Passed Word is a game of telephone storytelling. As they add to the story, each player can only see the text that was written the turn before. Once all rounds have been completed everyone can see the completed story.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Passed Word at none against Telephone Game's 1. Passed Word also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 10 days) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.6). Telephone Game's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 2). On price, rating, ads 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
Both are free to download. Telephone Game sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Passed Word asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Telephone Game against 5.0 for Passed Word. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 2 respectively.
Telephone Game ships an update every 10 days, Passed Word every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Telephone Game | Passed Word |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (6 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 6 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blast777 LLC | Case of Bolts LLC |
Customer experience
Telephone Game
Passed Word
In-app purchases
Telephone Game
- Unlimited Play$0.99
Passed Word
No in-app purchases
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