Penanagrams vs Micro Warz
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!
Micro Warz
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Micro Warz is a game of skill & unit micro management.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Penanagrams at none against Micro Warz's 2. Micro Warz's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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. Micro Warz sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Penanagrams asks for nothing beyond the download.
Penanagrams ships an update every 4 days, Micro Warz weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Penanagrams | Micro Warz |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 2 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Noah Daniel Stein | Hyunwoo Koh |
In-app purchases
Penanagrams
No in-app purchases
Micro Warz
- Blink Battle 3 Extra Lives$0.99
- Extra Lives$0.99
Questions
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