Comparison

Find the words vs Smart Challenge

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

Head to head
About

Find the words

This word search puzzle challenges you to find hidden words in a grid. Words can be oriented horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. The app offers multi-touch support, landscape mode, and customizable word lists. Earn achievements for new pen colors and upgrade to remove ads.

Highlights
  • Word search grid
  • Horizontal, vertical, diagonal words
  • Customizable word lists
  • Multi-touch strokes
  • Landscape mode
  • Speech voice for found words
  • Achievements for pen colors
Features
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Find the words This is the implementaion of the word search that most popular word puzzle on papers. The objective of this puzzle is to find and mark all the words on the grid. The words may be placed horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. When the word has found, it will play the speech voice automatically. You can draw multi-touch strokes, also play it with landscape mode. You can get more pen colors by achievements. There's three buttons on the top. Top left button: to manage the words that play the game. add your own words and start the game. Top second button: to share the play screenshot on the social media. Top right button: settings for languages to play, speech voices, achievements for pen colors. Also you can upgrade the app to hide the advertisements. Find the words supports the languages: English, Simplified Chinese(简体中文), Traditional Chinese(繁體中文), Japanese(日本語), Spanish(Español), French(Français), German(Deutsch), Russian(Pусский), Portuguese(Português), Italian(Italiano), Korean(한국어), Turkish(Türkçe), Dutch(Nederlands), Arabic, Thai(ภาษาไทย), Swedish(Svenska), Danish(Dansk), Norwegian Bokmål(Norsk bokmål), Polish(Polski), Finnish(Suomi), Greek(Ελληνικά), Romanian(Română), Hungarian(Magyar), Czech(Čeština), Slovak(Slovenčina), Hindi(हिंदी) Find the words - Discord community https://factorcat.github.io/apps/findthewords/

About

Smart Challenge

This app facilitates classroom learning by enabling teachers to create question-based group challenges. Students earn points for correct answers, with the highest scorer declared the winner. It's designed to enhance engagement and competition within an educational setting.

Highlights
  • Group creation for challenges
  • Question-based learning
  • Point system for rewards
  • Competitive scoring
  • Classroom engagement tool
Features
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An application that serves the educational process inside the classroom using learning strategies by creating groups and each contains questions, these questions reward points, and the winner is the one who has a higher number of points.

Screenshots

Find the words4 screens
Smart Challenge4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Smart Challenge at 5.0 against Find the words's 4.5. Smart Challenge also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Find the words's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 3). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Find the words sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Smart Challenge asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smart Challenge holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 3 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Find the words ships an update every 5 weeks, Smart Challenge every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Find the words versus Smart Challenge: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFind the wordsSmart Challenge
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (10 ratings)5.0 (3 ratings) — better
Positive reviews27.8% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB61 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNO WOO KYOUNGMOHAMMED ALAYOOB

Customer experience

Find the words

All ratings10 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative10.0%
Written reviews90 reviews
Positive27.8%
Neutral5.6%
Negative66.7%

Smart Challenge

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Find the words

One-time1
  • Upgrade Find the Words$2.99
None

Smart Challenge

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Find the words free?
Find the words is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Smart Challenge free?
Smart Challenge is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Find the words or Smart Challenge?
Smart Challenge is rated higher. Find the words averages 4.5 out of 5 from 10 ratings, while Smart Challenge averages 5.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Find the words or Smart Challenge have ads?
Find the words shows ads; Smart Challenge does not.
Which is updated more often, Find the words or Smart Challenge?
Find the words ships an update every 5 weeks, and Smart Challenge every 2 weeks. Most recently, Find the words was updated on October 21, 2026 and Smart Challenge on October 20, 2026.

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