Daily Word Wizard vs ContraBee
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Word Wizard
A daily vocabulary game where players spell words from a given set of letters. Improve your word-building skills with a fresh challenge each day on your iPhone or iPad.
- Daily new letter challenges
- Spell as many words as possible
- Vocabulary building
- iPhone and iPad support
- Ad-free gameplay
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Word Wizard is a vocabulary game for the iPhone and iPad from Touchdown Systems. Every day you’re presented with a new set of letters and tasked with spelling as many words as you can.
ContraBee
This app offers a daily word puzzle using the same letter hive as the New York Times Spelling Bee. It challenges players to find words without using the required center letter, encouraging a different approach to word discovery.
- Daily word puzzles
- Uses NYT Spelling Bee letter hive
- Excludes center letter
- Encourages alternative word finding
- Unique puzzle twist
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ContraBee is a complement to each day’s official New York Times Spelling Bee. It uses the same hive as each day’s Spelling Bee, but with a twist: Instead of requiring the center letter, Contra Bee excludes it. You’ll be surprised at how many words you can find if you turn your mind upside down.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Daily Word Wizard at 5.0 against ContraBee's 4.0. ContraBee's advantage is update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 17.1). On price, ratings volume, 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.
Daily Word Wizard holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 4 respectively.
Daily Word Wizard ships an update every 5 months, ContraBee every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 9, 2026 and July 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Word Wizard | ContraBee |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 23.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 4 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Richard Kaye | Lexi Games LLC |
Customer experience
Daily Word Wizard
ContraBee
In-app purchases
Daily Word Wizard
No in-app purchases
ContraBee
No in-app purchases
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