Comparison

AG Anagram vs variant

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

Head to head
About

AG Anagram

Discover new anagrams of words, phrases, or names. Simply enter your text and the app will find and display a list of anagrams, prioritizing those with fewer words. It uses an English dictionary to generate results.

Highlights
  • Discover anagrams of words, phrases, and names
  • Automatic word count detection
  • Prioritizes pithier anagrams
  • Uses an English dictionary for results
  • Simple search and display interface
Features
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AG Anagram is an app for discovering anagrams. An anagram is a reordering of the letters in a word, phrase, or name. For example: Elvis — Lives Dormitory — Dirty room Twelve plus one — Eleven plus two Choir man — Harmonic Debit card — Bad credit AG Anagram makes it easy to discover new anagrams of your own. Simply enter a word, phrase, or name into the search box and tap Search. AG Anagram will search for anagrams of the text you entered and display them in a scrolling list. Try anagramming your own name, or the names of friends and family. For more variety, try them with and without middle names. There is no need to choose the number of words the anagrams should contain ahead of time — AG Anagram will automatically find anagrams containing any number of words, and since anagrams consisting of fewer words tend to be pithier, those are shown first. All you need to do is to pick out the best ones, and possibly improve on the ordering of the words. For example, if you type in "a gentleman", AG Anagram will show you a list of anagrams that includes "man elegant", but you could improve on this by changing the order of the words to "elegant man". AG Anagram uses a dictionary of English words, so even though you may enter non-English words, the anagrams will be in English.

About

variant

Experience a unique, ever-evolving audiovisual artwork that generates new music and imagery with every touch. Designed for all ages, this generative art piece offers a dynamic and unpredictable sensory experience.

Highlights
  • Generative music and imagery
  • Interactive touch controls
  • Multi-touch support (up to 10 fingers)
  • Visualizes audio engine
  • Screenshot functionality
  • Ever-changing, non-repeating experience
Features
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variant:breaker is an audiovisual artwork that creates beautiful, ever-changing music and imagery. The app combines user input and built-in randomness to create images and music that will continually change, grow and evolve, offering a new and different experience every time. For users of all ages, variant:breaker is a chance to explore and experience a unique work of generative art. variant:breaker was created for an installation in New York City’s Times Square, and combines immediately responsive interactivity with aggressive visuals and sound designed to stand up to one of the most intense audiovisual environments in the world. To interact with variant:breaker, simply touch the screen. Each touch will play a new, randomly selected sound and alter the visuals. You can use up to 10 fingers at once to control the sounds and visuals. You can view the indeterminate audio engine by tapping the dot in the lower right. The display shows the different elements of the musical composition as they are loaded by the engine through a combination of chance and user input. The center button opens a menu of settings for the app, and the button to the right allows you to take screenshots of the visuals, automatically saving them to your photo library. The Variant apps are a new series of generative audiovisual artworks from Interval Studios featuring visuals by Joshue Ott and music by Kenneth Kirschner. Each Variant features a unique visual composition by Ott based on his superDraw visual performance software, as well as a new indeterminate musical composition by Kirschner. Each Variant app also offers a different set of interactive controls for the user, ranging from the ability to subtly influence the development of the piece to total interactive control over both visuals and sound. All of the Variants are generative artworks: through a varying combination of built-in randomness and user input, each Variant will continually grow and evolve over time without ever directly repeating itself either visually or musically, offering the user an ever-changing, ever-evolving audiovisual experience.

Screenshots

AG Anagram2 screens
variant4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: variant at Free against AG Anagram's $1.99. variant also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 19 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). AG Anagram's advantage is review sentiment (86% vs 67%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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

variant is free to download; AG Anagram costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for AG Anagram against 4.8 for variant. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of AG Anagram's written reviews are positive against 67% of variant's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

AG Anagram ships an update every 19 months, variant weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
AG Anagram versus variant: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAG Anagramvariant
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.7 (7 ratings)4.8 (6 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings7 — better6
Update frequencyEvery 19 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.68.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB80 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperWaxing WaveInterval Studios

Customer experience

AG Anagram

All ratings7 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%

variant

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

AG Anagram

No in-app purchases

None

variant

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is AG Anagram free?
AG Anagram costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is variant free?
variant is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, AG Anagram or variant?
variant is rated higher. AG Anagram averages 4.7 out of 5 from 7 ratings, while variant averages 4.8 from 6 ratings.
Do AG Anagram or variant have ads?
Neither AG Anagram nor variant shows ads.
Which is updated more often, AG Anagram or variant?
AG Anagram ships an update every 19 months, and variant weekly. Most recently, AG Anagram was updated on November 1, 2026 and variant on October 24, 2026.

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