Text & Fly vs ManyWords
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Text & Fly
Engage in a fast-paced typing game where speed and accuracy are crucial. Find the longest answers to power your catapult and outrace opponents. Master your vocabulary to achieve victory.
- Quick fire guesses
- Longest answers win
- Fling the furthest
- Win the race
- Typing trivia
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Become the wisest wizard with words! You’ll need to think fast and type even faster if you want to rocket ahead of the competition and soar to new heights. Armed with an epic catapult, it’s up to you to find the longest answer in rapid time for the ultimate boost. Speed is key if you’re going to toss yourself ahead of your rivals and avoid being left behind. Beware! Try not to mistype in your haste for victory or you’ll be watching your flight come to a crashing halt and falling short of that winning distance. Have you got what it takes to be a vocabulary mastermind? Text & Fly Features: - Quick fire guesses - Longest answers win - Fling the furthest! - Win the race
ManyWords
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Thousands of puzzles, free to play; with leaderboards, achievements, training, archives, and the all-important daily challenge! How many words can you find before the clock runs out? ManyWords is a free daily word search / word hunt puzzle for iPhone. Every day you get the same 4×4 letter grid as everyone else. Trace adjacent letters (including diagonals), submit real words, and chase a higher score — then come back tomorrow for a brand-new board. WHY PLAY MANYWORDS • Fresh Daily Challenge every day — one shared board, five minutes on the clock • Score for longer words, clean play, length clears, and board-completion bonuses • Global cloud leaderboards plus private friend groups with invite codes • Training mode to practise with custom grid size, difficulty, timer, and rules • Archive to replay past daily puzzles and share grids with friends • Achievements, streaks, Encore unlocks, nicknames, and avatars • Free to play with optional rewarded ads for hints HOW IT WORKS Tap connected letters to build a word of three letters or more. Valid new words score instantly; duplicates don’t. Keep mistakes low for an accuracy bonus, clear every word of a letter length for +500, and climb completion tiers as you uncover more of the board. PLAY YOUR WAY Daily Challenge for competitive scores. Training when you want unlimited practice. Archive when you want yesterday’s grid again. Compete worldwide, or create a private leaderboard, share a short code, and race your friends on the same daily puzzle. Built for quick word-game sessions — perfect if you like word search, letter-grid hunts, anagrams, spelling challenges, and daily brain puzzles. Download ManyWords free and see how many words you can find today.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ManyWords at none against Text & Fly's 2. ManyWords also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 weeks). 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. Text & Fly sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. ManyWords asks for nothing beyond the download.
Text & Fly ships an update every 2 weeks, ManyWords every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Text & Fly | ManyWords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (17K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 49.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 340 MB | 22 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kwalee Ltd | Matthew Cody |
Bugs and requests
Text & Fly
Reported bugs
4 issues- Freezing at Whiplash City level
- Inability to progress past certain stages
- Incorrect answer recognition
- Logging out issues
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to disable autocorrect
- More varied question types
- Improved matchmaking against real players
- Option to remove ads
ManyWords
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Text & Fly
- Remove Ads2 variants$3.99
ManyWords
No in-app purchases









