Comparison

Actorle vs literally

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

Head to head
About

Actorle

Engage in a daily movie trivia challenge to guess the actor of the day. Play with friends in party mode, with options for both experts and beginners. Level up by exploring filmographies and earning hints to expand your cinematic knowledge.

Highlights
  • Daily actor guessing challenge
  • Multiplayer party mode
  • Leveling system based on filmography
  • Age hints for actors
  • Hints for challenging levels
  • Score sharing with friends
Features
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Play the daily movie games with your friends. Guess the mystery actor from their films, sort sixteen movies into four hidden groups, fill a grid of co-stars, and do it together: race each other every day, or solve one shared board as a team. Actorle 2.0 is a brand new app, rebuilt from the ground up. PLAY WITH FRIENDS - Start a group, pick its games and share the invite link. Joining is free - Race: everyone plays their own daily, and the group sees who solved it in the fewest guesses - Co-op: one shared board for the whole group, live. Every guess counts for the team - See who is on a board right now, and whose guess got in first - A weekly table of who played and who won - Report, remove and leave keep every group friendly YOUR DAILY GAMES - Actorle: guess the actor from their filmography. The titles are hidden; years, genres and IMDb ratings are your clues - Cinections: sort 16 movies into four groups that share a director, a star or a story - Fill the Grid: name an actor who was in both films, for all nine squares - Storyboard: put a film's scenes back in order - StarWords: a crossword of actors, solved from film clues - Moviedle, Moviemoji, Moviedle Classic and Fill the Grid with movies, from moviedle.xyz - Actorle.tv: guess the actor from their TV shows - Pick the games you play and keep them on your Today screen; the rest are one tap away EVERY DAY - New puzzles every day, the same as on the websites - Every past day in the archive, so a missed day is never lost - Streaks, stats and how you rank against today's players - Share your result without spoiling the answer - Sign in with Apple or Google and your games, streaks and favorites sync with the websites LEVELS - The 38 classic levels from the original app are back, free - Then more levels past level 40, from household names to cult favorites, and Marathon mode, with Actorle Plus - Earn stars as you solve and spend them on a hint when an actor has you stuck - Need more stars? Star packs are in the shop ACTORLE PLUS One membership for the app and the websites, on every device you sign in on: - Start your own groups and invite anyone. Your friends join free - More levels past level 40, and Marathon mode - The Expert Daily, a second and much harder actor every day - On the websites too: Cinephile mode, share styles and premium badges - No ads, in the app and on Actorle, Moviedle and Actorle.tv MADE FOR IPHONE AND IPAD - A look of its own, easy on the eyes by day and by night - A daily reminder and a streak saver, only if you want them Played the old Actorle app? Update over it and your levels, stars and daily games come along. Actorle Plus is an auto-renewing subscription, billed monthly or yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. It renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for the renewal within 24 hours before that. You can manage or cancel it any time in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://actorle.com/privacy/ Questions or ideas? Write to contact@actorle.com. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.

About

literally

Engage in a timed word-building challenge where you race against the clock to form words from available letters. This game offers a substantial story mode with numerous levels and tasks, alongside unique challenges like deciphering aphorisms. It features a simplified mode for a relaxed experience and detailed statistics to track your progress.

Highlights
  • 200-level story mode
  • 66 aphorism deciphering tasks
  • Simplified, relaxed mode
  • Minimalistic design
  • Detailed statistics
  • Power saving mode
Features
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literally is a word game in which your main opponent is time. This is a race in which you have to collect words from letters so that the game does not end. you've probably missed the standard feature lists, so I've prepared another one for you: • a story consisting of 200 levels and 77 tasks. you can't think of a better brain workout (of course, if you don't feel like reading books; books are the best) • 66 aphorisms are frantically waiting for you to decipher them • simplified mode for those who do not like to rush • minimalistic design and incredible Ukrainian-made fonts • statistics that analyze to the smallest detail what you wasted your time on • surprisingly catchy animation in the main menu • power saving mode, which will help kill the battery more slowly (for example, by turning off the surprisingly catchy animation in the main menu)

Screenshots

Actorle4 screens
literally4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: literally at none against Actorle's shown. literally also leads on review sentiment (73% vs 39%) and ratings volume (516 vs 119). On price, rating, update cadence and in-app purchases 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. Actorle sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and literally sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Actorle against 4.5 for literally. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 119 and 516 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 39% of Actorle's written reviews are positive against 73% of literally's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Actorle ships an update fortnightly, literally every 3 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Actorle versus literally: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterActorleliterally
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (119 ratings)4.5 (516 ratings) — better
Positive reviews39.4% of reviews73.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings119516 — better
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaszlo KissOleksandr Kozlov

Customer experience

Actorle

All ratings119 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral2.5%
Negative12.6%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive39.4%
Neutral15.2%
Negative45.5%

literally

All ratings499 ratings
Positive87.6%
Neutral6.8%
Negative5.6%
Written reviews26 reviews
Positive73.1%
Neutral19.2%
Negative7.7%

Bugs and requests

Actorle

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • Daily challenge broken/blank screen
  • Daily challenge not loading
  • App not maintained
  • Party mode bug (deletes typing)
  • Lists missing actors/movies
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  • Incorrect movie data (years, ratings)
  • Stars not rewarded for daily challenges
  • Ads blocking settings button
  • Interface is glitchy
  • Web version has too many ads

Requested features

6 requests
  • Add IAP to remove ads
  • More recent films included
  • Dark mode option
  • Add IMDB rating
  • Option to remove picture
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  • Multiplayer feature

literally

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Actorle

Subscriptions2
  • Actorle Plus, monthly$2.991 Month
  • Actorle Plus, yearly$24.991 Year
One-time5
  • 20 stars$1.99
  • 50 stars$3.99
  • Remove Ads$4.99
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  • 100 stars$5.99
  • 250 stars$11.99
4 purchases

literally

One-time4
  • Bubble gum$0.99
  • Coffee$2.99
  • Chicken wings$4.99
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  • Borscht$9.99

Questions

Is Actorle free?
Actorle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is literally free?
literally is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Actorle or literally?
literally is rated higher. Actorle averages 4.4 out of 5 from 119 ratings, while literally averages 4.5 from 516 ratings.
Do Actorle or literally have ads?
Actorle shows ads; literally does not.
Which is updated more often, Actorle or literally?
Actorle ships an update fortnightly, and literally every 3 weeks. Most recently, Actorle was updated on October 24, 2026 and literally on October 24, 2026.

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