Comparison

Astraware Wordsearch vs Fast Words!

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

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About

Astraware Wordsearch

Engage in a classic word search experience with daily and weekly puzzles. Discover hidden words across various themes and categories, with helpful hints and offline play options. Learn new words and test your vocabulary in this fun and engaging game.

Highlights
  • Daily and Weekender puzzles
  • 60 built-in puzzles
  • Over 20 categories
  • Helpful hints
  • Offline play
  • Themed puzzles
  • High score tables
Features
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Astraware Wordsearch is a quick and easy word game with lots of free puzzles for you to play - find all the words hidden in the puzzle! Play against the clock or take your time and just enjoy finding them all! You get free unlimited access to play four new Daily Wordsearch puzzles each day, there's also a new Weekender puzzle available each Friday! There are 60 built-in and unlocked puzzles with a range of categories, so you can play offline and have fun right away. With over 20 categories, and more than 100 different word lists, there's lots of variety as you play the free puzzles each day - and perhaps learn something new too. Many of the puzzles have a different theme, so you might see cute paw-prints on the cat breeds wordsearch, a cascade of leaves on the nature puzzles, a sparkle of stars on the space theme, and much more! Astraware Wordsearch has helpful hints - tap to sparkle the start of a word to give you somewhere to look!), and our popular hold-and-highlight so that you can hold a word to see the first letter lit up throughout the grid, or hold a letter to highlight that letter everywhere! Astraware Wordsearch Top Features: - Free unlimited access to our Daily and Weekender puzzles, each with their own online high score table! - 60 fully-free puzzles in a range of categories to give you plenty of fun! - Play any of the puzzles from the past week and catch up whenever you like! - Unlimited helpful hints - Endless puzzle streams - A wide variety of words in lots of themes - very helpful for early readers and students! - Built-in Special Event Searches, each available for just a few days! - Jump straight into a daily game from the iOS 14 widget, or asking Siri Wordsearch categories and lists include: Cat breeds, dogs, animals, birds, nature, world capitals, geography, weather, fashion, food and drink, history, music, poetry, books, history, USA states & capitals, songs, language, spelling, books, girls' & boys' names, TV shows, films, shows & musicals, sports, football and baseball teams, computer games, constellations, and lots more! If you love this game and you're an avid puzzler, you will be pleased to know that we have other apps available in the Astraware range: CodeWords, Kriss Kross, Number Cross, Acrostics, and of course Astraware Crosswords! Puzzles Plus Subscription Terms and Details Puzzles Plus is our optional subscription which entitles you to play all of the available Daily, Weekender and Stream puzzles as soon as they are available, without in-game adverts. Subscriptions are available with renewal periods of either monthly, quarterly, or yearly. The price shown is the cost of the renewal, with the saving compared to the monthly option. After you confirm a subscription, you will have a free trial period of seven days. Your iTunes Account will be charged as soon as the free trial is over. If you cancel the subscription at any time before the free trial is over, you will not be billed. The subscriptions are automatically renewing, and you will be charged again at the end of your current subscription period. Your subscription will automatically renew unless you turn this off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The renewal cost will be the same for each subscription period, and will be charged within the 24 hours before the end of your current subscription. You can manage the subscriptions at any time by going to the Account Settings in the Settings App after purchase. There are options to either change to a different renewal period or to cancel your subscription completely. If you cancel the renewal you will still have access to the Puzzles Plus features until the subscription period is complete. If you confirm the subscription before the free trial is complete, any unused portionwill be lost. These terms are available at : https://www.astraware.com/about/puzzlesplus/ For more information on Data and Privacy, please view https://www.astraware.com/privacy

About

Fast Words!

Features
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Build a crossword using 20 random letters. Play many times to beat your best scores. Do it quickly to earn bonus points. Play in Spanish or English. This is the free version, it has all the options. It is supported by ads.

Screenshots

Astraware Wordsearch4 screens
Fast Words!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fast Words! at none against Astraware Wordsearch's 10. Fast Words! also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 6 weeks). On price 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. Astraware Wordsearch sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Fast Words! asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Astraware Wordsearch ships an update every 6 weeks, Fast Words! weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Astraware Wordsearch versus Fast Words!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstraware WordsearchFast Words!
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (56 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews80.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings56 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.613.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAstraware LimitedDaniele Folatelli

Bugs and requests

Astraware Wordsearch

Reported bugs

6 issues
  • App will not open, just crashes
  • App spontaneously closes mid-game and loses progress
  • Survey system keeps kicking users out for not qualifying
  • Paid version still shows ads
  • Game reverts to version with ads after re-installation
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  • Words are sometimes spelled incorrectly

Requested features

4 requests
  • More categories that match other word search puzzles
  • Randomly generated extra packs that can be replayed
  • More stats to see performance per puzzle or category
  • More daily puzzles available

Fast Words!

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Astraware Wordsearch

Subscriptions3
  • Puzzles Plus7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Puzzles Plus7 Days trial$2.993 Months
  • Puzzles Plus7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time7
  • Fun-size Pack$0.99
  • Animal Puzzles Pack$0.99
  • Fun Size Pack 2$0.99
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  • Family Pack$1.99
  • Vacation Pack$3.99
  • Ad-Free daily puzzles$3.99
  • Deluxe Puzzle Pack$4.99
None

Fast Words!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astraware Wordsearch free?
Astraware Wordsearch is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Fast Words! free?
Fast Words! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Astraware Wordsearch or Fast Words! have ads?
Astraware Wordsearch shows ads; Fast Words! does not.
Which is updated more often, Astraware Wordsearch or Fast Words!?
Astraware Wordsearch ships an update every 6 weeks, and Fast Words! weekly. Most recently, Astraware Wordsearch was updated on November 6, 2026 and Fast Words! on November 7, 2026.

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