Short Words vs Table Talk
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Table Talk
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Short Words | Table Talk |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Flaming Pear Software | Dudley Development, LLC |
In-app purchases
Short Words
No in-app purchases
Table Talk
No in-app purchases









