Comparison

Nodes vs Daily Worder

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Nodes

Connect dots to reveal beautiful, handcrafted images in a relaxing puzzle game. Enjoy a calming experience at your own pace, perfect for listening to podcasts or music. Pick up where you left off anytime.

Highlights
  • Connect dots to form art
  • Handcrafted puzzles
  • Relaxing gameplay
  • Save progress
  • No time limits
  • Clear incorrect connections
Features
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Looking for a calm daily triangle puzzle? Nodes is a relaxing vertex puzzle where you connect dots, form triangles, and reveal beautiful low-poly art. Play a new hand-crafted puzzle every day and enjoy a simple visual logic game designed for focus, calm, and unwind moments. Each puzzle blends satisfying dot connections, triangle strategy, and artistic reveals into a peaceful daily ritual. Why players love Nodes: - A new daily triangle puzzle every day - Connect dots to reveal beautiful low-poly artwork - Relaxing vertex puzzles with no timers or pressure - Satisfying visual reveals and calm progression - Archive, collections, and extra puzzles to explore How to Play: - Connect vertices to create triangles - Each number shows how many connections a vertex still needs - Complete the right triangle pattern to reveal the image - Double tap a vertex to remove incorrect connections Nodes is a calm and elegant puzzle game you can return to every day. If you enjoy connect dots games, triangle puzzles, visual logic, and relaxing art reveals, Nodes offers a satisfying way to unwind at your own pace. Privacy Policy: https://www.nodes-game.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Daily Worder

Engage your mind with five unique daily word puzzles, each crafted by a human. These quick, challenging games are designed for word enthusiasts who enjoy logic and deduction. Experience satisfying 'aha!' moments as you solve intricate clues and uncover hidden words.

Highlights
  • Five daily word puzzles
  • Human-crafted clues
  • Logic and deduction challenges
  • Quick gameplay (3-5 minutes)
  • No ads or account required
  • Multiple game modes
Features
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DAILY WORDER Five daily word puzzles. Five different ways to feel smart before lunch. Daily Worder is for people who love words — the kind who notice a good pun, argue about comma placement, and feel genuine joy when a tricky clue finally clicks. The kind of person who noticed the em dash above and now assumes this writing is AI-generated. It's not, and neither are the puzzles. Each game takes 3-5 minutes. Each one is created by a human. And yes, it's actually free. FOURBE: "The one that outsmarted me before I started playing" Four rounds. Four clues. One hidden subject connecting them all. Each round gives you a single, deviously crafted clue pointing to a hidden word. No grid. No letter-guessing. Just you, the clue, and the growing suspicion that the answer has been staring at you the entire time. The catch: every keystroke is final. No backspace. No undo. You commit or you don't. Sweep all four rounds and guess the hidden subject for a perfect 6,000-point game. Most players don't. The ones who do won't stop telling you about it. TOTUM — "I had the perfect word. I also didn't pick those letters." Sixteen letters arrive on a grid. You pick eight. We tally up and score every word you can make. Every single one. For the locked-in player who thinks they'd win every word-based tile board game if they could only pick the letters: Now you can. Good luck. PYRAMID — "I was so sure the vowel was E." Pick one vowel. Every row of the pyramid — a scramble of other letters — must form a real word with that vowel. All rows. Simultaneously. Choose wrong and the whole thing collapses. Choose right and words cascade from top to bottom like dominoes. INVERTLE — "Crack the combination. One key at a time." A five-letter combination lock. You guess. The game tells you whether each letter in your guess is higher or lower than the target letter in the alphabet. That's it. That's the entire hint system. No green squares. No yellow squares. Just directional arrows and your own deductive reasoning. Hone in. Invertle rewards the kind of thinker who enjoys a well-constructed logic problem. It punishes guessing. SPYING BEE — "I see it. Wait. No I don't. Wait — there it is." Letters hide in plain sight across a grid, revealing themselves one by one. Some cells are found, some are revealed, some stay stubbornly hidden. Piece together the words before the board gives everything away. Patience rewarded. Guessing punished. WHY PLAYERS LOVE IT "I think about the Fourbe clues all day." "Totum is a vocabulary test and a strategy game at the same time." "I've never played anything like Pyramid. Choosing the wrong vowel is devastating." "This is what I wanted Wordle to grow up into." Every clue is curated — not AI-generated, not recycled. You can feel the difference. A great clue makes you groan when the answer lands. That groan is the whole point. FREE DAILIES No paywall on dailies. No ads. No account required to play. Daily Worder's daily puzzles are free because daily puzzles should be free. Each game takes 3-5 minutes. Play one on your commute. Stack all five over coffee. Share your results. If you love it, purchase a premium account to get more: more Fourbe puzzles, endless modes, and access to games in beta. New puzzles drop at 5 AM Eastern, every single day. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Nodes4 screens
Daily Worder4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Daily Worder at none against Nodes's shown. Daily Worder also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 66%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Nodes's advantage is ratings volume (401 vs 4). On price, rating, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Nodes sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Daily Worder sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Nodes against 4.8 for Daily Worder. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Nodes has 401 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Nodes's written reviews are positive against 100% of Daily Worder's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Nodes ships an update every 3 weeks, Daily Worder every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Nodes versus Daily Worder: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNodesDaily Worder
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (401 ratings)4.8 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings401 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB25 MB
Age rating+412+
DeveloperNUR NURIYE ERSAHINRobert Bartley

Customer experience

Nodes

All ratings399 ratings
Positive90.7%
Neutral4.5%
Negative4.8%
Written reviews58 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral13.8%
Negative20.7%

Daily Worder

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Nodes

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Lines connecting to unintended dots
  • App crashes requiring restart
  • Progress deletion mid-puzzle
  • Puzzles not saving completion status
  • Touch controls directing swipes to wrong anchors
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  • Settings not persisting (red line toggle)
  • Occasional freezing and unresponsiveness
  • Graphics rendering issues when zoomed

Requested features

15 requests
  • Undo or delete line functionality
  • Ability to replay completed puzzles
  • More frequent puzzle updates and releases
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Portrait mode support
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  • Ability to clear all node attachments
  • Prevent line overlap feature
  • Adjustable touch sensitivity settings
  • Longer time to appreciate completed puzzles before animation
  • Ability to access previous month's daily puzzles
  • Theme-based puzzle grouping
  • More airplane-themed puzzles
  • Improved comment feature with replies and notifications
  • More sophisticated and complex puzzle designs
  • Multiple daily puzzles instead of just one

Daily Worder

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Nodes

Subscriptions3
  • Weekly$0.997 Days
  • Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Yearly$24.991 Year
3 purchases

Daily Worder

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
  • Annual7 Days trial$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Open Beta Supporter$24.99

Questions

Is Nodes free?
Nodes is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Daily Worder free?
Daily Worder is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Nodes or Daily Worder?
Daily Worder is rated higher. Nodes averages 4.7 out of 5 from 401 ratings, while Daily Worder averages 4.8 from 4 ratings.
Do Nodes or Daily Worder have ads?
Nodes shows ads; Daily Worder does not.
Which is updated more often, Nodes or Daily Worder?
Nodes ships an update every 3 weeks, and Daily Worder every 2 weeks. Most recently, Nodes was updated on November 12, 2026 and Daily Worder on November 9, 2026.

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