Spellt vs Penanagrams
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spellt
A daily word puzzle game where you find as many words as possible from a given set of letters. It offers new daily puzzles and themed packs, with leaderboards to compare your scores with others.
- Daily word puzzles
- Themed puzzle packs
- Game Center leaderboards
- Find words from letter sets
- New puzzle daily
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Spellt is a daily word game. Find as many words as possible from a set of letters. A new puzzle comes out every day! Also play the challenging, themed puzzle packs! Join the Game Center leaderboard to see how you compare to other players!
Penanagrams
A daily word puzzle game where you find near-anagrams of a five-letter starting word. Each day presents a new challenge to discover words by changing one letter and rearranging the remaining ones. Aim for three stars by finding a specific number of valid penanagrams.
- Daily five-letter starting word
- Find near-anagrams (penanagrams)
- Change exactly one letter
- Rearrange remaining letters
- Star system for progress
- Three-star daily goal
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Penanagrams is a free daily anagram-style word puzzle. Each day there is a new five-letter starting word. Find as many penanagrams (near-anagrams) as you can: (a) change exactly one letter in the starting word, then (b) use this new letter and the remaining four letters of the starting word in any order to form a new word. For example START -> RANTS or START -> RATES. For RANTS, a T is changed to an N. Changing a T to any other letter and rearranging in the same way, e.g. T -> F to produce RAFTS, does not count as a new penanagram. To show this, the changed letter shows up as a blank green square in your list of penanagrams. You get a star when you have found 1/4, 2/4, and 3/4 of the possible penangrams. Try for three stars every day!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Penanagrams at every 4 days against Spellt's monthly. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Spellt against 4.9 for Penanagrams. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 19 and 9 respectively.
Spellt ships an update monthly, Penanagrams every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spellt | Penanagrams |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (19 ratings) | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gabriel Perez-Putnam | Noah Daniel Stein |
Customer experience
Spellt
Penanagrams
In-app purchases
Spellt
No in-app purchases
Penanagrams
No in-app purchases
