WORD DUO ― Mini Word Puzzles vs Grid Shift
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
WORD DUO ― Mini Word Puzzles
Engage your mind with a daily word puzzle game designed for quick, enjoyable sessions. Puzzles adapt to your skill level, offering hints to prevent frustration. It's a brain workout you can look forward to each day.
- Daily word puzzles
- Adaptive difficulty
- Progressive challenges
- In-game hints
- No artificial time limits
- Quick sessions
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WORD DUO is a delightful and unique word puzzle game. Once people start playing WORD DUO, they naturally come back to it every day. The puzzles are designed to become progressively more challenging over time, but extra hints are provided to ensure you never get stuck or frustrated. WORD DUO puzzles give your brain a workout you can fall in love with. Most puzzles can be solved quickly, with no artificial time limits, ensuring a fun experience for everyone. WORD DUO is a registered trademark of FIRST UNITY LLC.
Grid Shift
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Grid Shift - The twisted offspring of Word Search and a Rubik's Cube -------------------------------------------------------------------- What do I mean when I say 'The twisted offspring of a Word Search and a Rubik's cube'? Well let me explain … * Word Search - We all know this. A grid of seemingly random letters in which words are hidden that you need to find. * Rubik’s Cube - That annoying cube that you need to move the rows and columns around to match the colours on each side. Grid Shift takes the elements of both of these puzzle types and splices them together. A level starts with a grid of seemingly random letters (sound familiar?). Underneath the grid is the list of words that you need to find, again much like a Word Search. The twist is that the letters are not in the correct places to form the words! What you need to do is move the rows and columns around to make the words. And like the famed cube of misery, you will almost certainly have to temporarily break some words while making others. Game Play ----------- You are presented with a grid of letters. The earlier levels are a 4x4 grid, as you progress through the levels the size of the grid increases until you get to the 10x10 levels. Levels 1 through to 6 are designed to teach you the game. Beneath the grid are the words you need to find. Words can be found across the grid (left -> right), and down the grid. The words have to be found in the direction indicated. Finding a word in the wrong direction doesn’t count. If you look at the screenshots Duck has to been found DOWN while dog has to be found ACROSS. You use the buttons around the grid to Shift the rows and column in order to move the letters around the grid. When you find a word, the background of the tile will change colour. To complete the level you have to have all the words highlighted at the same time. This will also unlock the next level. In a lot of cases there is no fixed location the words have to be found in. If you take level 1, it is possible to find the word dog in 8 different locations to complete the level. As the complexity of the grids increases sometimes a word has to be in a specific place to be able to find all the other words. There are almost 200 level of annoying, frustrating, and yet somehow satisfying levels to complete. Join the Facebook group to get hints and tips. https://www.facebook.com/groups/gridshift
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Grid Shift at none against WORD DUO ― Mini Word Puzzles's 5. Grid Shift also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 months). WORD DUO ― Mini Word Puzzles's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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 DUO ― Mini Word Puzzles sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Grid Shift asks for nothing beyond the download.
WORD DUO ― Mini Word Puzzles ships an update every 2 months, Grid Shift every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | WORD DUO ― Mini Word Puzzles | Grid Shift |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (24 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 24 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 47 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | FIRST UNITY LLC | Haskins.io ltd |
In-app purchases
WORD DUO ― Mini Word Puzzles
- 50 Coins$1.99
- 200 Coins$3.99
- 500 Coins$5.99
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- 1200 Coins$9.99
- 2000 Coins$14.99
Grid Shift
No in-app purchases
Questions
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