Depicto vs ShiftFive
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Depicto
Engage your brain with a daily pictionary-style guessing game. Challenge yourself or compete with friends by deciphering AI-generated images and earning points to climb leaderboards.
- Daily AI-generated images
- Guess the 2-word prompt
- Group play and competition
- Points and leaderboards
- Hints and guidance keys
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Play Depicto! Guess the daily pictionary-like image with a game similar to wordle. Increase your focus, engage your brain, play with a group of friends, and win points! Each day new AI generated images are dropped. The game is simple, guess the phrase that created the image, win points, and accelerate to the next level. If you want to take it a step further, create groups and invite your friends to compete against each other daily! You might be surprised who wins the top of the leaderboard each week. How to play: - Guess the 2-word image prompt - Use hints for help - Follow green keys for guidance - Win points - Compete w/ friends
ShiftFive
Engage in a strategic letter elimination game where you guess a five-letter word. Utilize color-coded feedback to eliminate letters and score points. Unlock rewards and themed word packs for extended gameplay.
- Strategic letter elimination
- Color-coded feedback system
- Daily Classic and Daily Shift modes
- Unlockable rewards
- Themed Word Packs
- Scoring based on efficiency
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Shift. Solve. Score. Play daily challenges and unlock rewards! Check out themed Word Packs for a new twist. Welcome to ShiftFive, a game of high-scoring strategic letter elimination. ShiftFive is a fresh take on the daily word puzzle that leaves all those boring Wordle clones and wannabes in the dust. Your job is to guess the target 5-letter word in as few tries as possible and score points while you do it. Spin the letter pickers to enter a 5-letter word and submit your guess. Each letter in the word will light up one of three colors: # Green means the letter is correct and will be locked in. # Red means the target letter comes later in the alphabet, eliminating the guessed letter and all letters before it. # Blue means the target letter is earlier in the alphabet, eliminating the guessed letter and all letters after it. After each guess, you'll see how many possible words are remaining! You're awarded points for efficiently eliminating words, guessing letters correctly, and finding the target word in as few tries as possible. So what are you waiting for? Download today and enjoy 2 different (completely free) daily game modes: > Daily Classic is the original. 5 guesses to solve the target word. Eliminate letters as you go. Use a hint if you get stuck. > Daily Shift spices things up by choosing a random word as your first guess. And what’s this? No access to a hint?! Better hope you’re feeling lucky. Complete both challenges each day to unlock exciting rewards like backgrounds, color themes, and customized logos! But wait, don’t forget about Word Packs! Still craving more sweet Shifting action? Word Packs are where it all comes together. Unlock a new layer of strategy by guessing the target words for each theme. Enjoy one sample Word Pack for free, with 10 more available for purchase and more to be added in the future. Are you still reading? How have you not downloaded this game yet?? Happy Shifting :-D
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Depicto at none against ShiftFive's shown. Depicto also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and ratings volume (104 vs 6). On price, rating, review sentiment 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
Both are free to download. Depicto sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and ShiftFive sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Depicto against 5.0 for ShiftFive. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Depicto has 104 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Depicto ships an update fortnightly, ShiftFive monthly. The most recent releases landed on July 6, 2026 and June 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Depicto | ShiftFive |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (104 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 104 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 68 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blinkgame Inc. | Braxton Smallwood |
Customer experience
Depicto
ShiftFive
In-app purchases
Depicto
- Just a little more$0.99
- Quite a bit more$1.99
- 20 extra games$1.99
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- A whole lot more$3.99
ShiftFive
- It's Spooky Word Pack$0.99
- Gettin' Swoll Word Pack$0.99
- Pass the Popcorn Word Pack$0.99
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- The Feels Word Pack$0.99
- Nom Nom Word Pack$0.99
- Feel the Beat Word Pack$0.99
- To Be Young Word Pack$0.99
- It's a Zoo Word Pack$0.99
- On the Go Word Pack$0.99
- 5 Word Packs + Remove Ads$1.99
- 10 Word Packs+Unlimited+No Ads$4.99









