FiddleBrix vs Tumblwords
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.
Tumblwords
This word puzzle game challenges players to reveal words by turning tumblers and tapping tiles. It offers randomly generated puzzles with millions of combinations and in-game rewards. Players can also look up word definitions and customize themes.
- Turn tumblers to reveal words
- Tap tiles to unlock words
- Randomly generated puzzles
- Earn in-game lockpicks
- Look up word definitions
- Customizable themes
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Turn the tumblers to reveal words, then tap the tiles to unlock them! Easy to play, and deceptively challenging, can you unlock the puzzle? Puzzles are randomly generated puzzles meaning millions of possible combinations! Earn lockpicks you can use to unlock letters! Find a word you don’t recognize? Solve the puzzle, then tap the word to show its definition! (*Requires system dictionary’s to be installed) Choose from built in themes, or create your own! Tumblwords is endless fun for all ages!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: FiddleBrix at none against Tumblwords's 1. FiddleBrix also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (44 vs 2). Tumblwords's advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 24 months). On price, rating and iOS requirement 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. Tumblwords sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. FiddleBrix asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for FiddleBrix against 5.0 for Tumblwords. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: FiddleBrix has 44 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
FiddleBrix ships an update every 24 months, Tumblwords every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | FiddleBrix | Tumblwords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (44 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 44 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FiddleBrix LLC | Apprhythmia LLC |
Customer experience
FiddleBrix
Tumblwords
In-app purchases
FiddleBrix
No in-app purchases
Tumblwords
- Handful Of Lockpicks$0.99
