Connections vs Unciphered
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Connections
This game challenges your vocabulary and sports knowledge with daily puzzles. Connect words and football terms to test your logic and trivia skills. Compete with others or play solo for a brain-boosting experience.
- Daily football and word puzzles
- Sports and vocabulary themed challenges
- Competitive rankings
- Unlimited solo or friend challenges
- Brain-boosting logic and trivia
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Connections Words & Sports - Brain Training Game The Ultimate Word and Football Puzzle Game! Test your brain with unique word connections and sports trivia—inspired by the New York Times' Connections, but with a sports twist. Key Features: Daily Football and Word Puzzles – Fresh challenges every day Football and Vocabulary Mix – Themed puzzles for sports fans and word lovers Competitive Rankings – Climb the leaderboard and prove your skills Unlimited Challenges – Play solo or challenge friends Brain-Boosting Fun – Sharpen your mind with logic and trivia Perfect for fans of: NYT Connections, Wordle, Trivia, Football, and Brain Games Download now and start connecting! Terms of Use This application follows the Apple End User License Agreement (EULA). You can review it here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Unciphered
Decode hidden proverbs by solving cryptograms where letters correspond to numbers. Solve crossword-style clues to reveal letters that fill in the entire puzzle. Enjoy daily puzzles, track your progress, and collect solved wisdom.
- Daily cryptogram puzzles
- Crossword-style clue solving
- Offline play
- Progress tracking
- Journal of solved proverbs
- Accessibility features
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A proverb is hiding on every board. Each letter became a number — the same number always hides the same letter — and the way in is through the clues: solve a small crossword-style clue, and every letter you prove fills in across the whole puzzle. Piece by piece, the hidden phrase comes back into the light. Unciphered is free to play from start to finish. Optional extras: coin packs, and The Wisdom Collection — four harder chapters, 80 more phrases — a one-time purchase, kept forever. ONE PUZZLE EVERY DAY A fresh cryptogram each day keeps your streak alive, and a two-week calendar lets you go back for days you missed. Filling in the past pays coins and completes the calendar — but the streak only counts the days you truly showed up. QUESTS THAT EARN SECRET LEVELS Finish the day's small quests — the daily plus a level you've never solved — and you earn one of the hidden levels, yours to keep forever. A JOURNAL OF DECODED WISDOM Every phrase you solve is saved with a short, true fact about where it came from. The journal becomes your own collection of proverbs, one solve at a time. MADE TO BE COMFORTABLE • Works completely offline — planes, trains, anywhere • No account, no sign-up, nothing to configure • Full VoiceOver support, large text sizes, Reduce Motion • Light and dark, on iPhone and iPad • Hints when you want them: reveal a letter or a whole word Unciphered is free to play from start to finish. Optional extras: coin packs, 4 harder bonus chapters, 80 new phrases, a one-time purchase kept forever).
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Verdict
Connections and Unciphered are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
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. Connections sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days and Unciphered sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Connections against 5.0 for Unciphered. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Connections ships an update every 10 days, Unciphered every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Connections | Unciphered |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Abdelmajid Rajad | Ahmed ElGhoroury |
Customer experience
Connections
Unciphered
In-app purchases
Connections
- Unlock Premium Weekly$0.997 Days
- No Ads$2.99
- No Ads + Offline$2.99
- 250$4.99
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- 1250$9.99
- 2500$14.99
- 6250$19.99
- 12500$29.99
- 25000$39.99
Unciphered
- Coins 100$0.99
- Coins 350$2.99
- Premium chapters$4.99
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- Coins 800$5.99
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