Circular Tic Tac Toe vs The Lettervan
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Circular Tic Tac Toe
Experience a unique twist on a classic game with a circular board and multiple winning conditions. Enjoy tactical gameplay against AI or friends, with adjustable difficulty and immersive modes. Includes puzzles and customizable options.
- Circular board with 32 squares
- Multiple winning conditions
- Play against AI or human
- Five difficulty levels
- 50 puzzles
- Portrait and landscape modes
- Customizable piece appearance
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A classic game – but far beyond the standard 3x3 game. Games are quick tactical slugfests! Featured in Apple's New and Noteworthy in Strategy Games, and also in What's Hot in both Board Games and Strategy Games The game consists of a circular board divided by a grid into 32 squares. The players place pieces in consecutive turns with the objective being to get four pieces in a row around the circle, four in a line out from the center, or four in a spiral. Features: • Play another human or the computer. • Choose among five levels of difficulty from easy to expert. • All settings are preserved - resume exactly where you left off. • Option to hide the user interface so just the board shows for a fully immersive experience. • 50 puzzles at three levels of difficulty. • At the top level, the computer can find wins 12 moves ahead. • Supports both portrait and landscape modes. • Two choices for the pieces appearance. • Complete documentation. • Fully animated, fluid, and smooth functioning interface. • Very small - only 2.1MB in size. • Loads almost instantly.
The Lettervan
This educational game helps children develop phonemic awareness and spelling skills through interactive word challenges. Players navigate engaging scenarios while learning to identify and manipulate sounds within words, fostering reading and pronunciation proficiency.
- Phoneme recognition practice
- Interactive spelling challenges
- Word-based animations
- Developed with speech pathologists
- Engaging game scenarios
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Listen to phonemes and practice reading and spelling! Navigate past thorny vines, hangry monsters, and dark clouds - with unique animations for each word spelled. The app, developed in collaboration with speech and language pathologists, is designed to assist children in recognizing that words are composed of phonemes. This ability to identify phonemes within words is closely associated with proficiency in pronunciation, reading and spelling.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Circular Tic Tac Toe at free against The Lettervan's paid. Circular Tic Tac Toe also leads on ratings volume (25 vs 4). The Lettervan's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 16 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 86%). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Circular Tic Tac Toe against 5.0 for The Lettervan. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Circular Tic Tac Toe has 25 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Circular Tic Tac Toe's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Lettervan's.
Circular Tic Tac Toe ships an update every 16 months, The Lettervan every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Circular Tic Tac Toe | The Lettervan |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (25 ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 25 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 16 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 161 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | David P. Sumner | Rickard Paulsson |
Customer experience
Circular Tic Tac Toe
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In-app purchases
Circular Tic Tac Toe
No in-app purchases
The Lettervan
No in-app purchases
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