Nouns Hunt vs NOID RUNNER
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Nouns Hunt
This game challenges players to find words that fit specific categories and start with a given letter, all against a ticking clock. Compete with friends globally or test your skills solo to climb leaderboards and become the Nouns Overlord.
- Singleplayer mode with global leaderboards
- Local and international multiplayer
- Over twenty-five customizable categories
- Race against time
- Unlock power-ups
- Compete for Nouns Overlord title
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Re-live the popular childhood game of 'Name, Animal, Place & Thing' or 'Scattergories', with new exciting features. Get ready to unleash your inner word wizard in Nouns Hunt. Challenge friends and family locally or internationally, typing words that match given letters and categories in a race against time. It’s laughter, strategy, and brain-teasing fun all rolled into one! Singleplayer: Think you’re fast? Test your word skills in this heart-pounding mode and climb the global leaderboards with record-breaking scores! Multiplayer: Play public or private modes with friends/family anywhere in the world, or compete online to claim the coveted price of Nouns Overlord! Nouns Hunt currently has over twenty-five categories, but we're constantly listening to our community and updating. Follow us to keep up with the action and drop some suggestions for categories you want to see. Instagram: @nounshunt Twitter: @nouns_hunt Tiktok: @nouns_hunt Nouns Hunt is free to play, and contains in-app purchases for additional features, or when you run out of power ups. Whether you’re a casual player or a word ninja, Nouns Hunt delivers non-stop entertainment for everyone! Don’t wait, download Nouns Hunt now and dive into the ultimate word-hunting frenzy! Will you be the Nouns Overlord?
NOID RUNNER
Embark on a fast-paced endless running adventure across ten unique worlds. Dodge obstacles, collect power-ups, and unlock nine distinct characters as you strive for new personal bests and compete on global leaderboards.
- Endless running gameplay
- Ten diverse environments
- Nine unlockable characters
- Hoverboard power-ups
- Offline play supported
- Portrait and landscape modes
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Pick your runner. Find your line. See how far you can go. NOID RUNNER is a fast-paced endless runner from LEFT CLICK LABZ. Jump gaps, dodge incoming hazards and chase a new personal best as speed and obstacle combinations grow more demanding. 15 ENVIRONMENTS. ONE ENDLESS RUN. Race through neon streets and freight yards, weather the lightning of Thunderbreak, skim the water in Mangrove Run and ride the futuristic Afterburn Circuit. Push through Whiteout, carve the hills of Snowdrift Summit, then discover alpine roads, elevated routes, Doodle World and Terminal Zero. The course keeps going as the challenge builds. 14 CHARACTERS TO DISCOVER Choose from eight NOIDs and LEFTCLICKBUY, ESSENTIAL and RON. Earn BUUMEE and SMITHS through distance milestones, then uncover SECRET BUUMEE by completing its gameplay challenges. Swipe through the character and environment selectors to find your next run. RUN. RIDE. RUSH. Ride a waterboard through the swamp, take a motorcycle onto the circuit and snowboard across snowy slopes. Catch big jumps, collect signal tokens and time your Rush. Hoverboard pickups add a temporary speed boost and one-hit shield. CHASE THE ALL TIME RECORD Join Apple Game Center to compare your best distance on the All Time leaderboard. One ranking, no resets. Ranked runs begin in the first environment; choose a later starting environment to explore and practise. Game Center is optional, and the full game can be played offline. MADE FOR YOUR PHONE AND TABLET Play in portrait or rotate into landscape. Swipe to change lanes, jump and slide on foot. Adjust graphics and sound from the pause menu. Progress and settings are saved on your device. Free to play. No game account, paid character unlocks or in-app purchases. A game by LEFT CLICK LABZ. Original NOID, BUUMEE and SMITHS artwork and character intellectual property owned by Mitchell Gach. Additional avatar artwork used under license. © 2026 Mitchell Gach. All rights reserved in original material.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NOID RUNNER at none against Nouns Hunt's 4. NOID RUNNER also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). Nouns Hunt's advantage is ratings volume (9 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, rating 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. Nouns Hunt sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. NOID RUNNER asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Nouns Hunt against 5.0 for NOID RUNNER. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nouns Hunt has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 78% of Nouns Hunt's written reviews are positive against 100% of NOID RUNNER's.
Nouns Hunt ships an update every 3 weeks, NOID RUNNER weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Nouns Hunt | NOID RUNNER |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 77.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 486 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dash Studios Inc. | Mitchell Gach |
Customer experience
Nouns Hunt
NOID RUNNER
In-app purchases
Nouns Hunt
- Spare Pencils$1.99
- Pack of Pencils$4.99
- Carton of Pencils$14.99
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- Spare Pencils$29.99
NOID RUNNER
No in-app purchases









