ContraBee vs Word Dawg
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Word Dawg
A fun word game where players form words from letter racks, with options to modify them by adding more letters. It offers various game modes and awards bonus points for dog-related terms.
- Create words from letter racks
- Modify words by adding letters
- Timed game mode
- Number of letters game mode
- Customized game mode
- Bonus points for dog-related words
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Word Dawg is a fun word game that is fun for casual players and for people who enjoy a challenging word game. Players create words from a rack of letters. They can then modify their words by adding letters from the rack to make new words. There are several game modes available; timed, number of letters or customized. You can also play against the computer. Special bonus points may be earned by using dog related words.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Word Dawg at 100% against ContraBee's 24%. Word Dawg also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1). ContraBee's advantage is iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Word Dawg holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 15 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of ContraBee's written reviews are positive against 100% of Word Dawg's.
ContraBee ships an update every 2 weeks, Word Dawg monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ContraBee | Word Dawg |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 23.8% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 15 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 85 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lexi Games LLC | Bruce Conrad |
Customer experience
ContraBee
Word Dawg
In-app purchases
ContraBee
No in-app purchases
Word Dawg
No in-app purchases
