AG Anagram vs variant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
variant
This audiovisual artwork generates evolving music and imagery based on user interaction and randomness. Explore a unique generative art experience where sound influences visuals, offering a new composition with every tap.
- Generative audiovisual artwork
- Evolving music and imagery
- User-controlled music flow
- Sound-influenced visuals
- Interactive generative art
- Screenshot capture
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variant:flare 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:flare is a chance to explore and experience a unique work of generative art. To interact with variant:flare, tap the screen with one finger; each tap will start a new track of the music. After six tracks have been loaded, each tap will reset one track and load a new random selection. By gradually resetting different elements of the composition, you control the flow and evolution of the music. The visuals are in turn controlled by the sound, so by changing the music, you will influence the development of the 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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: variant at Free against AG Anagram's $1.99. variant also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 19 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.6). AG Anagram's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4). On review sentiment, 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
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.
AG Anagram holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 7 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 86% of AG Anagram's written reviews are positive against 80% of variant's.
AG Anagram ships an update every 19 months, variant fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AG Anagram | variant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (7 ratings) — better | 4.4 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 80.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 19 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 8.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Waxing Wave | Interval Studios |
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