Word Mess vs Connectionary
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Mess
Discover words hidden within visually appealing word clouds. Enhance your vocabulary and visual scanning skills with this engaging game. Suitable for all ages, it's also beneficial for educational purposes and skill development.
- Word cloud puzzles
- Vocabulary improvement
- Visual scanning practice
- Rhyming word finder
- Category-based word challenges
- Odd-one-out bonus rounds
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Find words in beautifully designed word clouds. Improve your vocabulary and visual scanning ability! Featured by Apple as a "Staff Favorite" and "New Games We Love" Word Mess is fun for word enthusiasts of all ages! It is great for kids in middle school as it boosts spelling, word recognition and general knowledge. It is also being used in special education programs and by occupational therapists. Word Mess has four different modes. Find Mode - simple word finding, boosts visual scanning Rhymes - find words that rhyme together. Great for little kids Categories - boost your general knowledge with endless combinations of hundreds of categories! Bonus Round - Odd one out. Our personal favorite! Contact us: masalagames.com developer@masalagames.com
Connectionary
This word puzzle game challenges you to combine word halves into compound words before time runs out. Compete with friends, climb challenge levels, or practice at your own pace to earn rewards.
- Daily compound word puzzles
- Competitive multiplayer mode
- Progressive challenge levels
- Practice mode with adjustable difficulty
- Earn in-game currency
- Leaderboard rankings
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Two halves of a word are sitting on the board. Find the pairs that join into one — SUN and FLOWER, RAIN and BOW — before the clock runs out. DAILY GAME One puzzle a day, the same for every player, with a public Leaderboard. Match every pair before the timer ends and see where you land. CHALLENGE MODE A hundred levels that get harder as you climb. Three attempts on a level: burn all three and you wait out a cooldown, or spend Gems to skip it. PLAY WITH FRIENDS Add a friend, share a Game Code, and race them head to head. Work the same board and take the higher score, or claim the pairs before they can. PRACTICE Play as many boards as you like, at Easy, Medium or Hard. EARN REWARDS Collect Gems and stars as you master each puzzle. Spend Gems to skip a Challenge Mode cooldown, or to unlock a Daily Game you missed. Easy gives you sixty seconds and six pairs; Hard gives you twenty-five seconds and ten. Daily Game scores are checked on our servers, so a place on the Leaderboard is a real one.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Connectionary at Free against Word Mess's $2.99. Connectionary also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 31 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 74%). Word Mess's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and chart position (#73 vs unranked). On rating, in-app purchases, monetization model 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
Connectionary is free to download; Word Mess costs $2.99 up front. Word Mess sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Connectionary sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Word Mess against 4.0 for Connectionary. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Mess has 30 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Word Mess's written reviews are positive against 100% of Connectionary's.
Word Mess ships an update every 31 months, Connectionary fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Mess | Connectionary |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.1 (30 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 74.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 31 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #73 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Masala Games | AlsipRossi Games LLC |
Customer experience
Word Mess
Connectionary
Bugs and requests
Word Mess
Reported bugs
11 issues- App loads upside down on iPad
- Screen doesn't auto-rotate properly
- iPad screen too large, content cut off
- Words appear after game ends that weren't visible during play
- Tapping words doesn't register accurately
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- App won't download or install
- iPhone 5 display optimization missing
- Black bars on iPhone/iTouch 5 borders
- Ambiguous purchase prompts causing accidental charges
- App accessed contacts and sent spam
- Deceptive free app promotion with timezone issues
Requested features
12 requests- Difficulty settings and untimed/beginner modes
- Ability to earn tickets instead of only purchasing
- Better category rotation and variety
- Screen rotation support for landscape/portrait modes
- Penalty system that doesn't reset to level one
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- Custom word input for personalized gameplay
- Longer time limits for processing
- Include educators in professional categories
- Non-reader version with pictures/shapes/colors
- Adjustable time limits for therapy/educational use
- Music toggle or audio customization
- In-game instructions and directions
Connectionary
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Word Mess
- Newbie Pack$0.99
- Prodigy Pack$1.99
- Maestro Pack$3.99
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- Addict Pack$5.99
Connectionary
- 10 Gems$0.99
- 35 Gems$2.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
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- 65 Gems$4.99
