Comparison

Short Words vs Table Talk

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

Head to head
About

Short Words

Enhance your Scrabble® game by discovering powerful two and three-letter words. This tool helps you find optimal letter placements and build valid short words to boost your score. It serves as both a study aid and an in-game resource for players of all skill levels.

Highlights
  • Finds two and three-letter words
  • Shows top-scoring words
  • Reveals all possible words from your rack
  • Includes definitions
  • Supports North American and UK dictionaries
  • Wildcard matching with '?'
  • Study tool and in-game resource
Features
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Improve your score up to FIFTY POINTS in Scrabble® by exploiting the power of two and three-letter words. Effortlessly find the single letters that fit the board to make valid short words. Features: - Long-press the score to see the top-scoring word - Type your whole rack to reveal all possible short words in your hand - Swipe the letters to see words and scores - Complete lists of allowable two and three letter words, with definitions - Customizable choice of dictionaries for both North American and UK play - Use a question mark (“?”) for wildcard letter matching - Want to get rid of a specific letter? Type it as a capital - Use as a study tool and as an in-game resource - Weaker players can even the playing field when they’re up against stronger players - Any player can use it to hone their game WARNING: The first time you play a word like “za” or “qi” (both of which appear in all dictionaries) your opponents may be outraged and appalled. Expect this outrage to continue until the first time they have the opportunity to play one of these words, after which you should have no more problems.

About

Table Talk

Features
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Pull out your phone. Put it in the middle of the table. Watch the conversation start. Table Talk is a deck of hand-written conversation cards for dinner tables, first dates, friend groups, and work teams. Every card ships inside the app, so the whole thing works in airplane mode, with no account and nothing to sign in to. 420 CARDS ACROSS SIX CATEGORIES • Date Night — questions that actually go somewhere • Family Dinner — cross-generational, nostalgic, everyone at the table • Friend Group — playful, slightly roast-able, zero stakes • Work Team — icebreaker-safe, no oversharing • Deep Questions — substantive without being therapy • Light & Fun — absurd hypotheticals, maximum laughs Seventy cards in every one of them. No category is locked and there is no subscription. TODAY'S PICK A Daily Featured card, with a different one for every day of the year. It is worked out on your phone from the date — nothing is fetched, so it lands the same whether you have signal or not. WOULD YOU RATHER 80 either-or cards for when the table wants something faster. Both options on screen, everyone commits, then argue about it. What you pick stays on your phone. MADE FOR PASSING AROUND • Full-screen color cards — one palette per category, readable across a table • Swipe through any deck, and swipe back to revisit the card before • Bookmark up to 50 favorites and run them as their own deck with Shuffle My Picks • Share card — turn any prompt into a 1080×1080 image for the group chat • Gentle haptics, and a switch to turn them off FREE, WITH ADS YOU CAN TURN OFF Every card is free. Ads are how the app pays for itself, and they are kept out of the way: never during a session, never on your first sitting, and only once you have been playing a while — then a full-screen ad may appear as you leave a session. You can also choose to watch a short video to try a prompt pack free for 24 hours. Remove Ads is a one-time purchase that clears ads for good and restores on your other devices. No account. No sign-in. Nothing to set up. Open it, pick a deck, start talking.

Screenshots

Short Words4 screens
Table Talk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Short Words at none against Table Talk's shown. Short Words also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.6). Table Talk's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 months). On price, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Short Words ships an update every 9 months, Table Talk every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Short Words versus Table Talk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShort WordsTable Talk
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 monthsEvery 3 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.6
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB12 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperFlaming Pear SoftwareDudley Development, LLC

In-app purchases

None

Short Words

No in-app purchases

None

Table Talk

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Short Words free?
Short Words is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Table Talk free?
Table Talk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Short Words or Table Talk have ads?
Table Talk shows ads; Short Words does not.
Which is updated more often, Short Words or Table Talk?
Short Words ships an update every 9 months, and Table Talk every 3 days. Most recently, Short Words was updated on October 6, 2026 and Table Talk on October 25, 2026.

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