Wordrows vs Flamingo Chess
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Wordrows
Engage in exciting word games with friends, challenging them to guess words you pick or from a curated list. Explore five distinct game modes, each offering unique rules and engaging challenges for varied gameplay.
- Play word games with friends
- Challenge friends with custom words
- App-selected word bank (800+ words)
- 5 different game modes
- Unique rules and challenges per mode
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Word games can now be played between friends! Challenge your buddies with a word of your choosing, or let the app pick a word from a bank of over 800 unique words! Pick between 5 different game modes with unique rules and challenges!
Flamingo Chess
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Flamingo Chess is plain chess for you and your friends: in Messages, live in the app, or across the table on one phone. No login, no tracking, no engine. Just a game of chess between people. PLAY IN MESSAGES Start a game right in a conversation and take turns whenever it suits you. Your opponent's move plays out on the board when you open it. Games in Messages are serverless: your moves travel in the conversation between your iPhones and are never stored on our servers. PLAY LIVE IN THE APP Pick a color, start a game, and share its five-letter invite code. Your friend types in the code and takes the other seat. Moves appear the moment they are made, and every game you play in the app waits in your games list, titled with both players' names, like "blueberry764 vs orange489." PLAY HOT SEAT Two people, one phone. The board turns to face whoever moves next, you can take moves back, and the game stays on your phone until you come back to it. SHARE YOUR GAMES Share any online or hot seat game as a scoresheet: plain text laid out like the paper sheet at a tournament, with the date, both players, the result, and every move in numbered rows. Send it to your opponent or keep it in your notes. KEEP YOUR GAMES Finished games go to the archive, where you can replay them move by move. AND ALSO • Offer a draw or resign, just like over the board • Speak your move: hold the Speech button and say "Move pawn to D3" • Playable with VoiceOver: every square announces its name and its piece, and legal moves are called out • Two board themes, Neon and Standard • Choose your own display name in Settings Have fun everyone!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Flamingo Chess at none against Wordrows's 2. Flamingo Chess also leads on ads (none vs shown). Wordrows's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence 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. Wordrows sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Flamingo Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.
Wordrows ships an update weekly, Flamingo Chess every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | Wordrows | Flamingo Chess |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (7 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 8 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nicholas Giarraputo | Martin Kim Đưng-Phạm |
In-app purchases
Wordrows
- Remove Ads$0.99
- Wordrows Pro$1.99
Flamingo Chess
No in-app purchases









