Molecano vs Subliminal Words
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Molecano
Embark on a word-based adventure to help a mole navigate volcanic landscapes. String words together to create bridges and collect food across challenging lava-filled levels. This unique puzzle game offers a relaxing experience with a cool soundtrack and unlockable characters.
- Unique word puzzle gameplay
- 500+ levels
- Unlockable characters
- Chill soundtrack
- Word-based bridge creation
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Molecano is an all-new word puzzle game from the creator of Dadish! Help Molene the mole explore volcanoes using words as a bridge. String words together so Molene can cross safely and collect all the delicious food strewn across the lava loaded levels. • A unique and challenging word puzzle game • 500 levels, with more to come • From the creator of Dadish and Super Fowlst • Cool characters to unlock • Playing this game will make you smart, probably • A good game for people who know some words • A chill soundtrack • Relax and unwind... in a volcano!
Subliminal Words
This game challenges you to find hidden words, famous faces, and secret terms camouflaged within images. Create, play, and share your own visual puzzles with a growing community. Enjoy endless challenges with new user-generated content added regularly.
- Find hidden words and faces
- Create and share custom levels
- Solve user-generated puzzles
- Over 500 official levels
- Daily puzzles and live quests
- Hint system available
- Customizable color themes
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Look closer. What do you see? And now... what will you create? Like the classic 'magic eye' pictures that once held our gaze, Subliminal Words is a captivating visual puzzle game filled with secrets hidden in plain sight. Subliminal words, famous faces, and hidden terms are cleverly camouflaged within each image, emerging only as you focus. - NEW: CREATE, PLAY & SHARE YOUR OWN LEVELS! - The hunt just got endless! What began as a quest to find hidden words has expanded into a massive, community-driven brain teaser experience. With our brand-new Level Maker, YOU can design the ultimate visual puzzles: • Create: Build your own custom optical illusions and hide secret words within them. • Play & Test: Solve your personalized puzzles to ensure your secrets are perfectly camouflaged. • Submit for Review: Send us your custom levels! Once accepted, your creations will be published globally and playable by thousands of players worldwide. ENDLESS VISUAL PUZZLES Test your "super sight" across 500+ official levels and a constantly growing library of user-generated content. Can you: • Beat Community Puzzles: Conquer fresh visual challenges designed by players just like you! • Discover hidden words from mesmerizing scenery. • Spot the Stars: Find famous celebrities sneakily blended into complex scenes. • Find the Athlete: Hunt for secret football lingo and identify iconic players. With our flexible, live-updated system, you get new community levels, daily puzzles, new categories, and live quests instantly—without ever needing to update the app. The puzzle-solving hunt never ends! Enjoy a clean and intuitive UI, choose your favorite color themes, and use helpful hints when an illusion leaves you truly stuck. How sharp are your eyes—and how creative is your imagination? Download Subliminal Words now to start hunting and creating your own masterpieces! EULA: https://indest.ee/eula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Molecano at 85% against Subliminal Words's 0%. Molecano also leads on ratings volume (109 vs 1) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Subliminal Words's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3). 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. Molecano sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Subliminal Words sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Subliminal Words holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Molecano has 109 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 85% of Molecano's written reviews are positive against 0% of Subliminal Words's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Molecano ships an update every 3 weeks, Subliminal Words every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Molecano | Subliminal Words |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (109 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.4% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 109 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 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 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 154 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Thomas Young | Indest |
Customer experience
Molecano
Subliminal Words
Bugs and requests
Molecano
Reported bugs
8 issues- Level 137 - character won't move after placing letters
- Level 311 - multiple reports of unsolvable/broken level
- Level 339 - reported as extremely difficult/possibly broken
- Level 480 - appears to have no solution
- Level 464 - reported as impossible to pass
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- Early levels (around level 5) - unresponsive words
- Word extension not working consistently
- Hint system not helpful for difficult levels
Requested features
15 requests- More levels beyond level 500
- Larger game map for mobile devices
- Ability to rotate words 360 degrees
- Replay previous completed levels
- Game Center/cloud save compatibility
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- Star rating system for level performance
- Coin rewards based on performance stars
- Cheaper character options (50-100 coins)
- Faster character movement speed
- In-game dictionary function
- Expanded word dictionary validation
- Ability to make intersecting words like Scrabble
- Hint system improvements
- Support for multiple languages
- Special interactive elements (fruits/vegetables)
Subliminal Words
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Molecano
- Remove Ads$5.99
Subliminal Words
- Monthly Pro Pass$2.991 Month
- Annual Pro Pass3 Days trial$19.991 Year
- No Ad Breaks$1.99
- Remove 3$1.99
- Highlight$1.99
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- Manipulate$1.99
- All-In Pack$4.99
- Lifetime Unlock$39.99
