Word Guess Challenge vs Ordle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Guess Challenge
Test your vocabulary by guessing a hidden word within six attempts. Clues are provided as letters change color based on their accuracy. Track your progress, challenge friends, and utilize helpful features like letter selection, dark mode, and hints.
- Guess words in 6 tries
- Color-coded letter clues
- Track statistics
- Compete with friends
- Select individual letters
- Dark mode
- Hints available
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Guess the word in 6 tries or less! The letters in your guess change color to give you clues. Keep track of your stats and compete with your friends! Includes the ability to select individual letters, dark mode, and hints.
Ordle
A word-guessing game where players have six tries to find the correct word. It offers multiple difficulty levels and daily challenges, allowing competition with others on leaderboards.
- Six tries to guess the word
- Multiple difficulty levels (5, 6, 7 letters)
- Daily word challenges
- Global leaderboards
- Word guessing similar to Mastermind
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Guess the correct word in six tries. Ordle is a simple game, but it is not easy. It has many similarities with the classic game “Mastermind”, with the difference that you have to guess words instead of color combinations. Ordle has three levels of difficulty where you can guess words of 5, 6 or 7 letters. From easy to pretty challenging. You can guess all the words you want per day and compete with other players for the top of the rankings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Word Guess Challenge at 3.2K against Ordle's 67. Ordle's advantage is review sentiment (84% vs 67%) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, 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. Word Guess Challenge sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Ordle sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Word Guess Challenge against 4.6 for Ordle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Guess Challenge has 3.2K ratings behind it against 67, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Word Guess Challenge's written reviews are positive against 84% of Ordle's.
Word Guess Challenge ships an update fortnightly, Ordle monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Guess Challenge | Ordle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (3.2K ratings) — better | 4.6 (67 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 84.2% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 67 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cider Software LLC | jacob nielsen |
Customer experience
Word Guess Challenge
Ordle
Bugs and requests
Word Guess Challenge
Reported bugs
2 issues- Incorrect word detection
- Compatibility issues on older devices
Requested features
5 requests- Ad-free version
- Daily challenge mode
- Customizable word themes
- Improved keyboard and letter selection
- Tracking of winning streaks
Ordle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Word Guess Challenge
- Remove Ads$4.99
Ordle
- Remove Ads$5.99
