Jumbled Word Solver vs Light'Em Up
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Jumbled Word Solver
This app helps you unscramble letters to find valid English words. It can solve word puzzles from newspapers and handles hyphens and apostrophes for contracted words. Enter any number of letters to discover possible word combinations.
- Rearranges scrambled letters
- Finds valid English words
- Solves newspaper word puzzles
- Handles hyphens and apostrophes
- Accepts any number of letters
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Jumbled Word Solver rearranges the letters of a scrambled English word to make valid words. For example, if you type in "ATB" it will list the words BAT and TAB as valid permutations of the letters. It can assist you in solving word puzzles that are published in daily newspapers. You can enter any number of letters. The application can take in hyphens and apostrophes also as input in finding hyphenated and contracted words. Please rate the app if you like it. You might want to upgrade to my Jumbled Word Solver Advanced app which gives you words of all lengths that can be created with the set of letters. If you have any issues please drop me an email at venkatesh@mv2.com and I can try and help. My twitter handle is @slipfielder
Light'Em Up
A casual puzzle game designed to challenge your brain. Place batteries to power bulbs with the correct color, progressing through increasingly difficult levels.
- Battery and bulb puzzles
- Color-matching mechanics
- Brain challenging gameplay
- Progressive difficulty
- Casual puzzle experience
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A simple puzzle game to challenge the brain. Use batteries placed in the game to light up all the attached bulbs. Bulbs can only be lit when supplied the correct color. Work your way through harder puzzles.
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Verdict
Jumbled Word Solver and Light'Em Up both sit at 4.5 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Light'Em Up's written reviews are positive against 85% of Jumbled Word Solver's. Light'Em Up also leads on iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.4). Jumbled Word Solver's advantage is ratings volume (67 vs 8). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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 — 4.5 for Jumbled Word Solver against 4.6 for Light'Em Up. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Jumbled Word Solver has 67 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 85% of Jumbled Word Solver's written reviews are positive against 100% of Light'Em Up's.
Jumbled Word Solver ships an update every 5 months, Light'Em Up every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Jumbled Word Solver | Light'Em Up |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.5 (67 ratings) | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 67 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.4 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 9 MB | 195 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Madras Venkatesh | David Fritcher |
Customer experience
Jumbled Word Solver
Light'Em Up
Bugs and requests
Jumbled Word Solver
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes or freezes on some devices
- Dictionary functionality not working on certain devices
Requested features
3 requests- Allow deleting/adding letters without re-entering all
- Provide anagrams for multiple words, not just single words
- Improve dictionary integration and word recognition
Light'Em Up
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Jumbled Word Solver
No in-app purchases
Light'Em Up
No in-app purchases
Questions
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