FiddleBrix vs Word Trails NETFLIX
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FiddleBrix
Engage your mind with a daily word puzzle that blends elements of crosswords and Sudoku. Solve intricate puzzles with increasing difficulty, including daily challenges and an archive of past puzzles.
- Daily word puzzles
- Crossword and Sudoku inspiration
- 100 built-in levels
- Increasing daily difficulty
- Daily Brix Archive
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FiddleBrix is a colorful daily word puzzle inspired by crosswords, Sudoku, and our shared love of letters. CHALLENGE YOUR MIND FiddleBrix puzzles are elegant, intricate, and devilishly difficult. Cruciverbalists, members of the Spelling Bee Hive, and casual word gamers can all find common ground as they fiddle with brix to give their brains an anagrammatical workout. LEVELS Develop your fiddling prowess by solving 100 built-in levels of increasing difficulty. DAILY BRIX Hone your wits and stimulate your mind by solving the Daily Brix. Daily Brix difficulty increases throughout the week. ARCHIVE Enjoy unlimited access to the Daily Brix Archive.
Word Trails NETFLIX
Connect scrambled letters to form words and solve crossword-style puzzles. This brain-training game offers hundreds of levels inspired by real-world locations and daily challenges to test your vocabulary.
- Connect scrambled letters to form words
- Crossword-style puzzle completion
- Hundreds of levels inspired by real locations
- Daily challenges with limited time
- Find bonus words for extra prizes
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Available exclusively for Netflix members. Train your brain the fun way! Connect scrambled letters to create words that fit into a crossword-style puzzle. Level up to solve daily challenges in this relaxing, worldly brain game. When a crossword with no clues meets a word search with no grid, you get the brain-teasing fun of this puzzle game. Find words within the group of letters provided and overlap them in a crossword-style shape to complete each puzzle. Relax with the endlessly zen, letter-swiping pace of numbered levels or test your vocabulary with limited-time challenges. Features: • Play through hundreds of puzzling levels inspired by real-life locations like Brazil, Canada, Japan and more. • Find bonus words on each level to earn extra prizes. • Challenge yourself with daily puzzles that reward you with coins, power-ups and fun facts to further train your brain. - Created by Playsimple.
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Verdict
FiddleBrix and Word Trails NETFLIX both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of FiddleBrix's written reviews are positive against 44% of Word Trails NETFLIX's. FiddleBrix also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). Word Trails NETFLIX's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 24 months) and ratings volume (18K vs 44). 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. Word Trails NETFLIX sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per month. FiddleBrix asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FiddleBrix against 4.9 for Word Trails NETFLIX. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Trails NETFLIX has 18K ratings behind it against 44, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of FiddleBrix's written reviews are positive against 44% of Word Trails NETFLIX's.
FiddleBrix ships an update every 24 months, Word Trails NETFLIX every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FiddleBrix | Word Trails NETFLIX |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (44 ratings) — better | 4.9 (18K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 44.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 44 | 18K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 204 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FiddleBrix LLC | Netflix, Inc. |
Customer experience
FiddleBrix
Word Trails NETFLIX
Bugs and requests
FiddleBrix
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Word Trails NETFLIX
Reported bugs
4 issues- Letter hunt feature not working
- Progress loss/reset issues
- Freezing/crashing on startup
- Incorrect scoring/coin tracking
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to set difficulty level
- Embedded dictionary with word definitions
- Leaderboard or progress tracking
- Multilingual support (e.g., Spanish, French, German)
- Ability to save/resume progress
In-app purchases
FiddleBrix
No in-app purchases
Word Trails NETFLIX
- Netflix Standard Plan$19.991 Month
