Harmony Isle vs Coded Word Search
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Harmony Isle
Build and customize your dream island community with friends. Explore mysteries, collect plants, and balance science, nature, and society to uncover the island's secrets. Enjoy daily rewards and a vibrant 3D world.
- Build and customize island towns
- Explore island mysteries
- Collect and share plants
- Balance science, nature, and society
- Social features with friends
- Daily rewards
- 3D island visuals
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Wish the sun shone every day? Want to leave the hustle and bustle behind? Travel to Harmony Isle and escape to a dream island community that you build with your friends! PLEASE NOTE: Harmony Isle is completely FREE to play but you can also purchase in game items with real money. If you don’t want to use this feature you can disable in-app purchases in your device’s settings. Build beautiful villas and mansions for your villagers to live in. Commission museums, bars and theatres for them to enjoy. Collect plants from across the island and share them with your friends. Whether you prefer zen gardens to bars, or cinemas to parks, you can shape Harmony Isle in your own unique style. Connect with your friends through Game Center and Facebook, send them gifts, swap collectables and see them visit your town. As your thriving community expands you’ll soon notice there’s more to Harmony Isle than meets the eye. Woodland shrines shrouded in mist, statues hidden in the woods - who built them? And what happens if you restore them to their former glory? Solve these mysteries and harness the natural power of the island to discover the ultimate secret to blending science, nature and society in perfect Harmony! WHY MOVE TO HARMONY ISLE? • See your island in beautiful 3D and show off your town on your Retina screen in all its glory! • Countless ways to build your perfect town – choose from stately homes, sweeping promenades, cute cottages, delicious delis and more! • Carefully balance the forces of nature, science and society with the Harmony meter. The greater the Harmony the greater the rewards! • Fun quests to explore, from solving island mysteries to throwing lavish parties for the whole town. • Find seeds, grow and collect all the different plants across Harmony Isle. • Daily rewards you’ll want to return to every single day. • Support for iCloud saves – pick up and continue on any of your iOS devices
Coded Word Search
This game offers a unique twist on word searches by encrypting every letter. Players must find words to decipher the code and solve puzzles, earning in-game currency for hints. Progress through levels and increase your in-game score by completing numerous challenges.
- Encrypted letter puzzles
- Code-cracking gameplay
- In-game hint system
- Progress tracking (Cred)
- Multiple difficulty levels
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Coded Word Search puts an interesting spin on the traditional word search formula. Every letter in a given puzzle is encrypted! Find words to crack the code and solve the puzzle. Earn Keys to buy hints that will help you with tough puzzles. Go from scrub to legend as you increase your Cred by solving tons of puzzles!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Coded Word Search at 5.0 against Harmony Isle's 4.2. Coded Word Search also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 71%). Harmony Isle's advantage is ratings volume (96 vs 2) and update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Harmony Isle sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Coded Word Search sells 8 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Coded Word Search holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Harmony Isle has 96 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Harmony Isle's written reviews are positive against 100% of Coded Word Search's.
Harmony Isle ships an update monthly, Coded Word Search every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Harmony Isle | Coded Word Search |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (96 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 71.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 96 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 186 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rebellion Games | ROSE METAL PRODUCTS, INC. |
Customer experience
Harmony Isle
Coded Word Search
Bugs and requests
Harmony Isle
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game crashes on startup
- Screen orientation issues after iOS updates
- In-app purchases not working correctly
- Quests and progression getting stuck
Requested features
5 requests- More buildings and content to unlock
- Ability to rotate buildings
- Faster resource gathering
- More varied gameplay elements
- Better support and updates from developers
Coded Word Search
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Harmony Isle
- One-Time Only Offer$0.99
- One Time Only Offer3 variants$0.99
- Handful of Coins$0.99
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- Handful of Gems$0.99
- Bag of Coins$4.99
- Bag of Gems$4.99
- Gem Condenser$6.99
- Gem Chest$13.99
Coded Word Search
- Play Untimed$0.99
- 50K Keys$0.99
- Remove Ads$1.99
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- 200K Keys$2.99
- 500K Keys$4.99
- 1M Keys$6.99
- 10M Keys$19.99
- 100M Keys$99.99
Questions
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