Comparison

Delete After Reading vs Wordactle

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

Head to head
About

Delete After Reading

Engage in an interactive adventure that blends reading with puzzle-solving. Uncover a secret mission to retrieve a stolen videogame and alter destiny, all while ensuring your actions remain undetected.

Highlights
  • Interactive reading and story gameplay
  • Escape room style puzzles
  • Unique storytelling format
  • Adventure mission
  • Stealth and puzzle mechanics
Features
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A book you can play, or a game you can read, Delete After Reading is a crafted combination of an adventure story and puzzle games about cheating your destiny. An original storytelling format for armchair detectives and escape room aficionados of all ages. On the worst day of your life, you find a strange device with a file named “Delete After Reading”. It’s a classified document. Nina, Cinco, and Tomate, a clandestine group of kids (they happen to be dead, but they’ve never let that small detail interfere with their daily, uh, lives) want you to join them on a secret mission to repair Destiny’s latest injustice: the despised millionaire Martin Skrilhex has stolen the only existing copy of the highly coveted videogame “The Curse of Penguin Island” so only he can play it. Together you’ll have to sneak into the magnate’s mansion and steal back the videogame, so kids around the world can play it. But this mission will only be successful if Destiny does not find out that you are changing his plans, so never ever forget to delete the file after reading it. Main features: - Text is the gameplay, a cool and innovative mix of interactive reading, story, and escape room puzzles. - An immersive storytelling format that broadens the view of what games (and books) could be. - A thrilling adventure story for the whole family.

About

Wordactle

A word puzzle game where you decipher a secret five-letter word using other five-letter words as clues. Offers unlimited puzzles with varying difficulty and daily challenges, playable offline.

Highlights
  • Secret word guessing
  • Clue-based word puzzles
  • Unlimited puzzles
  • Daily challenges
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Offline play
Features
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Wordactle is a challenging word game that combines logic and vocabulary skills. Test your wit by finding a secret five-letter word using a series of clues. Each clue is another five-letter word that might share some, none, or all of the letters from the secret word. If you love word puzzles, you will love Wordactle. This app offers unlimited access to Wordactle puzzles on your device, with various levels of difficulty. You also get four fresh Wordactle puzzles every day, from easy to expert, that you can print and solve offline. To use this app, you don't need online access to play on your device, but you will need Internet access to retrieve your daily Wordactle puzzles, as well as a printer to print them out. Unlike other puzzle or game apps out there, the Wordactle app does not have any advertising, subscription fees, in-app purchases, or tracking. In other words, you can use this app every day with no surprises or extra costs. Think you can decipher the clues and uncover the secret word? Put your word skills to the test! Download the app and play Wordactle today!

Screenshots

Delete After Reading4 screens
Wordactle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Delete After Reading at Free against Wordactle's $0.99. Delete After Reading also leads on rating (4.2 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (73 vs 2). Wordactle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads 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

Delete After Reading is free to download; Wordactle costs $0.99 up front. Delete After Reading sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Wordactle asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Delete After Reading holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Delete After Reading has 73 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Delete After Reading versus Wordactle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDelete After ReadingWordactle
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.2 (73 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews48.6% of reviews—
Number of ratings73 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 4 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size393 MB1 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperPatrones y EsconditesH Valeur

Customer experience

Delete After Reading

All ratings73 ratings
Positive78.1%
Neutral6.8%
Negative15.1%
Written reviews35 reviews
Positive48.6%
Neutral25.7%
Negative25.7%

Wordactle

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Bugs and requests

Delete After Reading

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • Cannot scroll on MacBook Pro
  • Symbols on TV are incorrect
  • Cannot buy the game on Mac
  • Chapter 5 is terrible on Mac
  • TV did not show channels 7-9 until reloading app
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  • Audio did not play after reloading

Requested features

8 requests
  • Add a save/continue feature
  • Make all levels free or reduce price
  • Add iCloud syncing
  • Add built-in video walkthroughs
  • Improve scrolling on iOS
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  • Adjust controls for Mac users
  • Fix text spacing issues
  • Provide clearer guides for puzzles

Wordactle

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Delete After Reading

One-time1
  • Full Game$4.99
None

Wordactle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Delete After Reading free?
Delete After Reading is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wordactle free?
Wordactle costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Delete After Reading or Wordactle?
Delete After Reading is rated higher. Delete After Reading averages 4.2 out of 5 from 73 ratings, while Wordactle averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Delete After Reading or Wordactle have ads?
Neither Delete After Reading nor Wordactle shows ads.

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