Red Herring vs Pixletters
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Red Herring
This word puzzle game challenges you to group words into categories while identifying misleading "Red Herring" words. Enjoy a fun, challenging, and easy-to-learn experience with no time limits and three difficulty levels suitable for all ages.
- Group words into categories
- Identify misleading "Red Herring" words
- No time limit
- Three difficulty levels
- Daily puzzle
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Red Herring is the word connections game. How to play: 1. Make the connections and group words into categories. 2. Look out for the Red Herrings, pesky words whose sole purpose is to mislead you. 3. Have fun making the connections! Red Herring is a FUN, CHALLENGING, and EASY TO LEARN word connections puzzle game. Each puzzle has only one correct solution and there's no time limit. Three difficulty levels make it suitable for the whole family. Don't say we didn't warn you if you can't stop playing. Give Red Herring a try today! From the creators of 7 Little Words and Moxie. ----- Red Herring contains 25 puzzles and a daily puzzle that you can play for free. Additional puzzles are available for purchase inside the app.
Pixletters
A word guessing game where players deduce a secret word using pixelated clues. Letters from attempted words are colored to indicate their presence in the secret word, challenging players to guess efficiently.
- Pixel clue word guessing
- Color-coded letter feedback
- Secret word deduction
- Multiple attempts to guess
- Challenging word puzzles
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Pixletters is word guessing game. Your goal is to find secret word using pixel clues. Pixels from entered words will be colored depending if those pixels belongs to letter in secret word or not. In how many tries can you guess the secret word? Find out by playing Pixletters.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Pixletters at none against Red Herring's 10. Pixletters also leads on iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.6). Red Herring's advantage is review sentiment (76% vs 50%) and ratings volume (48K vs 202). On price, rating, 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. Red Herring sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Pixletters asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Red Herring against 4.7 for Pixletters. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Red Herring has 48K ratings behind it against 202, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 76% of Red Herring's written reviews are positive against 50% of Pixletters's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and August 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Red Herring | Pixletters |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (48K ratings) | 4.7 (202 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.6% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 48K — better | 202 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 57 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Blue Ox Family Games, Inc. | Michal Gorny |
Customer experience
Red Herring
Pixletters
Bugs and requests
Red Herring
Reported bugs
3 issues- Formatting issues after updates
- Inability to access previous daily puzzles
- Ads that cannot be dismissed
Requested features
5 requests- More free daily puzzles
- Less American-focused content
- Dark mode option
- Ability to replay past puzzles
- Hints system improvements
Pixletters
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Red Herring
- Curiosity - 50 Puzzles$1.99
- Brilliant! - 50 Puzzles$1.99
- Allegro - 50 Puzzles$1.99
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- Spelunking - 50 Puzzles$1.99
- Renaissance - 50 Puzzles$1.99
- IQ - 50 Puzzles$1.99
- Serendipity - 50 Puzzles$1.99
- Unlimited Hints$2.99
- Older Daily Puzzles 2014 Jul - Dec$3.99
- Quantum Leap - 175 Puzzles$4.99
Pixletters
No in-app purchases
