Penanagrams vs aLemon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Penanagrams
A daily word puzzle game where you find near-anagrams of a five-letter starting word. Each day presents a new challenge to discover words by changing one letter and rearranging the remaining ones. Aim for three stars by finding a specific number of valid penanagrams.
- Daily five-letter starting word
- Find near-anagrams (penanagrams)
- Change exactly one letter
- Rearrange remaining letters
- Star system for progress
- Three-star daily goal
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Penanagrams is a free daily anagram-style word puzzle. Each day there is a new five-letter starting word. Find as many penanagrams (near-anagrams) as you can: (a) change exactly one letter in the starting word, then (b) use this new letter and the remaining four letters of the starting word in any order to form a new word. For example START -> RANTS or START -> RATES. For RANTS, a T is changed to an N. Changing a T to any other letter and rearranging in the same way, e.g. T -> F to produce RAFTS, does not count as a new penanagram. To show this, the changed letter shows up as a blank green square in your list of penanagrams. You get a star when you have found 1/4, 2/4, and 3/4 of the possible penangrams. Try for three stars every day!
aLemon
A fun and simple game where players catch edible items to score points. Avoid inedible objects, as three mistakes end the game. Earn stars based on your score.
- Catch edible objects
- Score points
- Avoid inedible items
- Earn stars
- Simple gameplay
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aLemon is a game based on the principle of Edible or Not. The player's task is to catch edible objects. Lemons are worth the most points. The game ends if the player catches an inedible item three times. Depending on the points scored, the player is assigned stars. The maximum number of stars is five (5).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Penanagrams at every 4 days against aLemon's every 2 months. Penanagrams also leads on ratings volume (9 vs 1). On price, rating, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Penanagrams against 5.0 for aLemon. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Penanagrams has 9 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Penanagrams ships an update every 4 days, aLemon every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Penanagrams | aLemon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noah Daniel Stein | RUBEN AKHAYAN, IE |
Customer experience
Penanagrams
aLemon
In-app purchases
Penanagrams
No in-app purchases
aLemon
No in-app purchases
