Penanagrams vs Bubble Boom
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!
Bubble Boom
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Want to test or improve your reaction? Then this game is for you! In a limited time you need to burst as many bubbles as possible. A new bubble appears in a random location on the screen immediately after you pop a visible bubble. The color of the bubbles can be changed in the settings. The sound can be turned on or off on the main screen (upper right corner).\n\nTrain your reaction, set new records!
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Verdict
Penanagrams and Bubble Boom are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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.
| Parameter | Penanagrams | Bubble Boom |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noah Daniel Stein | Vladimir Zhizhin |
In-app purchases
Penanagrams
No in-app purchases
Bubble Boom
No in-app purchases
