Puzzmo vs 5 Griddy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Puzzmo
Discover a universe of daily puzzles with original games and modern classics. Enjoy word puzzles, strategy games, and crosswords with helpful hints. It's a free and engaging way to challenge your mind.
- Daily original puzzles
- Classic puzzle games
- Word puzzles
- Strategy games
- Crosswords with hints
- Memory and matching games
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Hello! If you're reading this you either really love Puzzmo or you are somehow undecided about our app. Let's be clear: you should download the app. We made it for you and it's free and it's really good! What do you have to lose? Puzzmo is the center of the puzzle universe. You'll find fresh original games by brilliant designers like Zach Gage and new daily puzzles for modern classics like Cross|word, SpellTower, Flipart, Typeshift, Pile-Up Poker, Memoku, and more. You'll also find a little puzzle at the bottom of this AppStore description. Go on, scroll to the bottom. NEW: MEMOKU Inspired by the classic memory game, Memoku invites you to match pairs of numbers, but there's a twist – like Sudoku, no number can appear in the same row, column, or box twice. BONGO Bongo challenges you to build a better board out of twenty five tiles, often picked on a theme by Puzzmo's friends, community members, and celebrity guests. There’s always a better board. PILE-UP POKER Pile-Up Poker is a twist on traditional poker where players build rows and columns of poker hands. The objective is to create the highest overall score by adding cards one by one to the gird, making strategic decisions along the way. FLIPART Flipart is a modern twist on digital jigsaw puzzles. This free daily puzzle challenges you to rearrange Tetris-like shapes by tapping the pivot points so that none of the shapes overlap and they all fit within the border. Flipart puzzles are enjoyable for kids and adults alike! TYPESHIFT Typeshift is our free, daily captivating word puzzle game that challenges your vocabulary, spatial reasoning, and wit. Solve puzzles by shifting columns of letters like a combination lock to form words. Each puzzle is a fun brain-teaser chock full of both word search and strategy. CROSS|WORD Puzzmo crossword puzzles are for everyone. Some of the world’s top solvers compete daily for the fastest solve on Puzzmo, but that doesn’t mean we’re here to stump you. In fact if you’re new to crosswords or struggling complete a grid, we’re here to help. Only Puzzmo crosswords offer an optional, easier hint with every single clue. CUBECLEAR Cube Clear is a word puzzle game where players spell words in a grid whose letters then disappear. Longer words score higher points, and adjacent tiles disappear after use, causing remaining tiles to tumble to the bottom of the grid. With only 36 letters, the challenge of Cube Clear is two-fold. Can you clear the board, and in how few words? WORDBIND Wordbind is a directional anagram game that challenges you to discover new words hidden within the chosen words of the day. You can only key in letters from left to right, you’re allowed to skip letters, and you can use the same letter twice to find the perfect word. With each word you find, you rise the ranks on your way to Luminary status. REALLY BAD CHESS Aside from the small advantage white gains by making the first move, chess is a battle of wits between two competitors with the same pieces in the same positions. Puzzmo’s free daily Really Bad Chess game turns all of that “fairness” on its head. For example, you might have a huge material advantage with three queens while your computer opponent might have no queens and five rooks. The pieces may look random, but your advantage is carefully calculated! SPELLTOWER SpellTower is a two-dimensional grid of letters that looks like your typical word search puzzle. But unlike a traditional word search, you can change directions, cross your own path, go diagonal, and even spell backwards! This freedom of movement allows you to find more complex and challenging words, but this isn’t the only twist with SpellTower. As you use letters, they disappear from the grid, with the ultimate goal being a perfect, total clear of the entire board. You found it! If you can solve this classic riddle, enter the answer at puzzmo.com/code "Forward I’m heavy, backwards I’m not. What word am I?" Happy puzzling!
5 Griddy
Solve a daily 5x5 word puzzle where every row and column must form a valid word. Drag and rotate letter pieces to complete the grid. Compete against yourself with timed scores and track your progress.
- Daily 5x5 word grid puzzles
- Drag and rotate letter pieces
- Real-time grid validation
- Timed scoring
- Streak tracking
- Offline play
- Unlockable past puzzles and grid sizes
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One word square a day. Every row and every column of the 5×5 grid must be a word, ten in all. Ten letters are there from the start. The rest arrive as small pieces that you drag in and tap to rotate. When all ten lines are words, you've solved it. Any ten real words count, not only the ones the puzzle was built from. Everyone gets the same board each day, and your first attempt is the one that counts. HOW IT WORKS • Drag pieces onto the grid and tap to turn them • The grid checks itself as you go • Your time is your score • Hints are there if you're stuck, but each one adds time: +1:00 for the first, +2:00 for the second EVERY PUZZLE IS SOLVABLE Each square is built from a finished grid of familiar words, then letters are taken away. No obscure answers, and no days without a solution. KEEP YOUR STREAK Streaks with freezes, a week at a glance, and your stats. Share your result without spoiling the answer. MORE TO PLAY Unlock the full archive of past days, plus 4×4 and 6×6 puzzles. NO ACCOUNTS. NO TRACKING. Works offline. Your progress stays on your device.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: 5 Griddy at 100% against Puzzmo's 43%. 5 Griddy also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.7) and ads (none vs shown). Puzzmo's advantage is ratings volume (178 vs 2) and chart position (#170 vs unranked). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Puzzmo sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and 5 Griddy sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
5 Griddy holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Puzzmo has 178 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Puzzmo's written reviews are positive against 100% of 5 Griddy's.
Puzzmo ships an update every 2 weeks, 5 Griddy every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Puzzmo | 5 Griddy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.7 (178 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 178 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #170 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Puzzmo Inc. | Jromed Aminian |
Customer experience
Puzzmo
5 Griddy
Bugs and requests
Puzzmo
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crossword clues not locking in correctly
- Transitions between games could be smoother
Requested features
3 requests- Ability to resume games from where left off
- Numerical order for crossword clues
- Remove subscription, keep account option
5 Griddy
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Puzzmo
- Puzzmo Plus (monthly)7 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Puzzmo Plus1 Month trial$39.991 Year
5 Griddy
- 5 Griddy Unlimited$1.99









