Comparison

Thicket vs AG Anagram

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

Head to head
About

Thicket

Create dynamic audiovisual experiences with interactive textures, movement, and sound. Explore five distinct modes, capture your creations, and enjoy a seamless blend of art and play. Perfect for those who appreciate generative art and ambient soundscapes.

Highlights
  • Interactive touch and gesture controls for visuals and sound
  • Five distinct creative modes
  • Screenshot capture for saving favorite moments
  • Child lock for uninterrupted play
  • VGA-out support for big-screen projection
Features
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--Made Apple’s Top 10 Generative Art & Sound list-- --Multiple times on Apple Staff Favorites list-- Thicket is an audiovisual world of texture, movement, line and tone. Thicket is part art piece, part toy, part wind chime, part spiderweb. If you like snowflakes, chaos, fire, and music without words, Thicket is for you. From the app store reviews: "...I got lost in the thicket for an hour tonight..." "...seamless interaction of audio and visuals. Beautiful..." "...the fluid feel and a/v implementation is impeccable. extremely well made app." "It was lovely before, now it's exquisite..." "...It's so much fun, may never do anything productive again!" Features: - Control visuals and sound simultaneously with touch and gesture - 5 distinct modes - screen shot capture: save your favorite moments to your photo album! - child lock: removes interface and menu buttons for uninterrupted fun. - VGA-out support: Connect your iPad to a projector or monitor and watch Thicket on a big screen (iPad/iPhone4 and Apple adapter required) - save screenshots of your favorite moments - Universal App: works on iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

About

AG Anagram

Discover new anagrams of words, phrases, or names. Simply enter your text and the app will find and display a list of anagrams, prioritizing those with fewer words. It uses an English dictionary to generate results.

Highlights
  • Discover anagrams of words, phrases, and names
  • Automatic word count detection
  • Prioritizes pithier anagrams
  • Uses an English dictionary for results
  • Simple search and display interface
Features
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AG Anagram is an app for discovering anagrams. An anagram is a reordering of the letters in a word, phrase, or name. For example: Elvis — Lives Dormitory — Dirty room Twelve plus one — Eleven plus two Choir man — Harmonic Debit card — Bad credit AG Anagram makes it easy to discover new anagrams of your own. Simply enter a word, phrase, or name into the search box and tap Search. AG Anagram will search for anagrams of the text you entered and display them in a scrolling list. Try anagramming your own name, or the names of friends and family. For more variety, try them with and without middle names. There is no need to choose the number of words the anagrams should contain ahead of time — AG Anagram will automatically find anagrams containing any number of words, and since anagrams consisting of fewer words tend to be pithier, those are shown first. All you need to do is to pick out the best ones, and possibly improve on the ordering of the words. For example, if you type in "a gentleman", AG Anagram will show you a list of anagrams that includes "man elegant", but you could improve on this by changing the order of the words to "elegant man". AG Anagram uses a dictionary of English words, so even though you may enter non-English words, the anagrams will be in English.

Screenshots

Thicket4 screens
AG Anagram2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Thicket at every 4 months against AG Anagram's every 19 months. Thicket also leads on ratings volume (35 vs 7) and iOS requirement (6.1 vs 15.6). AG Anagram's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5). On price, review sentiment, ads and in-app purchases 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

Thicket costs $1.99 and AG Anagram $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

AG Anagram holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thicket has 35 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Thicket's written reviews are positive against 86% of AG Anagram's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Thicket ships an update every 4 months, AG Anagram every 19 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Thicket versus AG Anagram: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThicketAG Anagram
Price$1.99$1.99
Rating4.5 (35 ratings)4.7 (7 ratings) — better
Positive reviews77.7% of reviews85.7% of reviews — better
Number of ratings35 — better7
Update frequencyEvery 4 months — betterEvery 19 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS6.1 — better15.6
Further details — not scored
Size22 MB1 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperInterval StudiosWaxing Wave

Customer experience

Thicket

All ratings35 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral5.7%
Negative8.6%
Written reviews319 reviews
Positive77.7%
Neutral4.4%
Negative17.9%

AG Anagram

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

Bugs and requests

Thicket

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Occasional crashes or freezes
  • Compatibility issues with older devices
  • Inconsistent or delayed audio-visual response

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add ability to import custom audio samples
  • Implement tempo and pitch controls
  • Expand the number of visual and audio modes
  • Include recording and playback functionality
  • Provide more customization options for users

AG Anagram

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Thicket

No in-app purchases

None

AG Anagram

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Thicket free?
Thicket costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is AG Anagram free?
AG Anagram costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Thicket or AG Anagram?
AG Anagram is rated higher. Thicket averages 4.5 out of 5 from 35 ratings, while AG Anagram averages 4.7 from 7 ratings.
Do Thicket or AG Anagram have ads?
Neither Thicket nor AG Anagram shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Thicket or AG Anagram?
Thicket ships an update every 4 months, and AG Anagram every 19 months. Most recently, Thicket was updated on October 29, 2026 and AG Anagram on October 23, 2026.

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