Comparison

Wordrows vs Flamingo Chess

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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!

About

Flamingo Chess

Features
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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!

Screenshots

Wordrows3 screens
Flamingo Chess4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Wordrows sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Flamingo Chess asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Wordrows ships an update weekly, Flamingo Chess every 5 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Wordrows versus Flamingo Chess: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWordrowsFlamingo Chess
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews66.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size9 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNicholas GiarraputoMartin Kim Đưng-Phạm

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Wordrows

One-time2
  • Remove Ads$0.99
  • Wordrows Pro$1.99
None

Flamingo Chess

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Wordrows free?
Wordrows is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Flamingo Chess free?
Flamingo Chess is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Wordrows or Flamingo Chess have ads?
Wordrows shows ads; Flamingo Chess does not.
Which is updated more often, Wordrows or Flamingo Chess?
Wordrows ships an update weekly, and Flamingo Chess every 5 days. Most recently, Wordrows was updated on October 24, 2026 and Flamingo Chess on October 24, 2026.

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