The Word Finder vs Cheatle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
The Word Finder
This app helps solve various word and puzzle games, offering hints and answers for popular titles like Wordle, Connections, and Sudoku. It provides tools to find playable words, suggest best moves on game boards, and check definitions. Users can customize their experience by pinning favorite tools and accessing past puzzles.
- Word finder with letter input and filters
- Board solver with screenshot analysis
- Word checker with definitions and points
- Solver for Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee
- Tools for Sudoku, Queens, and other puzzles
- Daily built-in games
- Customizable favorite tools
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Stuck on a rack of letters, a full board, or today's puzzle? The Word Finder solves every big word game in one app, and reveals only as much as you ask it to. WORD TOOLS • Word Finder — enter your letters, blanks included, and get every playable word with points for Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Crossplay dictionaries, with filters for starts-with, ends-with, contains, and length. • Board Solver — take a screenshot of your Scrabble GO, Words With Friends, or Crossplay game, upload it, and get the best move for the whole board, ranked by points. Save each game and come back next turn. No screenshot? Enter the tiles yourself, or solve the rack alone. • Word Check — is it playable? Definition, point value, and where it's accepted. • Wordle Solver (with screenshot upload) — smart guesses, deep filters, letter odds, and today's answer when you want it. NYT GAMES SOLVERS • Connections — today's groups, hints, and a practice board • Spelling Bee — today's answers, pangrams, and hints • Strands — theme words, the spangram, and every path • Pips — every domino placed, constraint by constraint • Sudoku — Easy, Medium, and Hard, revealed cell by cell LINKEDIN GAMES SOLVERS • Queens — reveal today's board, cell by cell or zone by zone • Tango — balance suns and moons on the grid • Zip — trace the path through every cell • Crossclimb — the word ladder, rung by rung • Pinpoint — the category from five clues • Mini Sudoku — today's 6×6, digit by digit • Patches — fit every patch to its clue • Wend — every word's path through today's grid DAILY GAMES, BUILT IN • Lingle — the daily word guessing game, with hints • Word Connection — find the two words in between • Daily Anagram — four scrambled words, one clue, and a result to share • Sudoku Six — a 6×6 every day, easy on Mondays • Crossherd — a 5×5 mini crossword, with the archive HINTS FIRST, ANSWERS WHEN YOU WANT THEM Every puzzle solver is built to spoil as little as possible: reveal a single cell, one group, one rung — or the whole board when you're done fighting it. A new puzzle lands every day, and you can flip back through past dates. MADE FOR WORD LOVERS • Tap any word for its definition • Pin your go-to tools to Favorites and drag them into your order • Works beautifully on iPhone and iPad • No account needed GO AD-FREE The Word Finder is free with ads. One subscription removes every ad across every solver — monthly or annual, cancel anytime. The Word Finder is an unofficial fan-made companion. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The New York Times, LinkedIn, Hasbro, Mattel, or Zynga. Scrabble, Words With Friends, Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee, Strands, Pips, Queens, Tango, Zip, Crossclimb, Pinpoint, and related marks are trademarks of their respective owners. Questions or ideas? Tell us what to build next from Settings → Send Feedback, or visit thewordfinder.com.
Cheatle
This app assists in solving daily word puzzles by providing smart, ranked suggestions for your next guess. It analyzes your previous attempts and their color feedback to narrow down possibilities and help you crack the puzzle faster. The app works offline and requires no account.
- Smart suggestions ranked by information revealed
- Full list of remaining possible answers
- No account required
- Works offline
- Clean, Wordle-style interface
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Cheatle is a Wordle solver that helps you crack the daily puzzle. Type your guess, tap each letter tile to match Wordle's color feedback, and get instant, ranked suggestions for your next guess. FEATURES • Smart suggestions ranked by how much information each guess would reveal • Full list of every remaining possible answer — tap any word to fill it into the grid • No account required — just open the app and start solving • Works offline — no internet required to solve • Clean, Wordle-style interface HOW TO USE 1. Type your first guess and tap ENTER 2. Tap each letter tile to change its color to match Wordle's feedback (grey, yellow, green) 3. Pick a suggested word, or type your own next guess 4. Repeat until you crack it Cheatle isn't a Wordle clone — it's a helper for the daily puzzle at nytimes.com/games/wordle. Perfect when you're stuck, want to preserve your streak, or just want to see the mathematically best next move.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: The Word Finder at 4.6 against Cheatle's 2.0. The Word Finder also leads on ratings volume (13K vs 1). Cheatle's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). 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. The Word Finder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Cheatle asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Word Finder holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: The Word Finder has 13K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | The Word Finder | Cheatle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (13K ratings) — better | 2.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 43.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 13K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | MPL Ventures, LLC | Blake Jackson |
Bugs and requests
The Word Finder
Reported bugs
3 issues- Black screen when checking word definitions
- Letters stay in search bar after closing app
- App freezes when using advanced search
Requested features
4 requests- Allow longer word lengths
- Add more dictionary words
- Improve compatibility with word games
- Provide option to remove ads permanently
Cheatle
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
The Word Finder
- Ad Free Version$1.991 Month
- Ad Free Version (annual)$14.991 Year
- The Word Finder Premium$0.99
Cheatle
No in-app purchases
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