Sootly vs Rootle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sootly
Engage your mind with a daily logic and word puzzle. Discover the correct six-letter word by combining clues and improving your guesses before you run out of tries. Challenge friends and track your progress.
- Daily logic and word puzzles
- Six-letter word guessing
- Clue-based gameplay
- Social leaderboards
- Custom puzzle creation
- Performance tracking
- Dark and grayscale modes
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Sootly is a daily logic puzzle that will challenge and surprise you! Your vocabulary, working memory, and logical thinking skills will be put to the test as you try to discover the right word before you run out of guesses. HOW TO PLAY - Type and submit a six-letter word - You’ll get a clue about each pair of letters - Combine clues to improve your guesses - Submit the right word before you run out of tries - Share your results and challenge your friends! FEATURES - No ads, subscriptions, paywalls, or daily limits - 2,400 daily puzzles included - Social leaderboard: add your friends and compare scores on the daily puzzle - 16 earnable achievements - Create your own puzzles and share them with friends - Play a random puzzle anytime - Track your performance over time on the Stats page - Dark mode and grayscale mode for sensitive eyes
Rootle
Engage in daily word puzzles focused on the origins and history of English words. Each puzzle takes only a few minutes and offers insights into etymology, idioms, and place names. Enjoy a full archive of past puzzles with no ads or tracking.
- Six daily word puzzles
- Learn word origins and history
- Explore idioms and place names
- No ads or tracking
- Progress saved locally
- Full archive of past puzzles
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Rootle is six daily word puzzles about the hidden history of the English language. Every day, six new challenges unlock. Each takes 2–5 minutes and teaches you something real about where words come from. KIN — Twelve words. Four groups of three share a hidden ancient ancestor. Find them. TRACE — An ancient root is given. One modern descendant is hiding in the slots. Type it. TWIST — A phrase from another language, translated literally. Guess the real idiom. STORY — Every word has a biography. Three questions trace one word's journey through history. ATLAS — Every place name once meant something. Three questions about language, place, and origin. QUIRK — One ridiculous-but-real word per day. Three questions: meaning, origin, and which other word is also real. No accounts. No ads. No tracking. Your progress lives on your device. Full archive of every past puzzle included.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rootle at none against Sootly's 3. Rootle also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.6). Sootly's advantage is ratings volume (23 vs 1). On price, ads, monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Sootly sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Rootle asks for nothing beyond the download.
Rootle holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sootly has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Sootly | Rootle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 67 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Isaac Lyman | Rootle |
Customer experience
Sootly
Rootle
In-app purchases
Sootly
- Feedback - No Reply Needed$4.99
- Feedback - Reply by Email$19.99
- Feedback - Public Reply$59.99
Rootle
No in-app purchases









