NineWords vs Letoria
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
NineWords
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NineWords is a simple word puzzle game. The objective is to find as many words as possible using four or more of the nine letters supplied. The one constraint is that the words must all contain the letter displayed in the middle. Complete with over 200,000 words in its dictionary, NineWords will keep your mind working for many, many hours.
Letoria
Engage in a live, global word puzzle game that resets every 2.5 minutes with identical letter boards for all players. Compete on leaderboards, collect virtual items, and expand your vocabulary with integrated dictionary definitions.
- Live global word puzzles
- Timed rounds
- Competitive leaderboards
- In-game dictionary definitions
- Multiple game modes
- Offline play
- Collectible items
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Right now, somewhere in the world, thousands of people are staring at exactly the same sixteen letters you are. Letoria is a live word game that runs on one global clock. Every 2.5 minutes a brand-new board goes live, and every player on Earth gets that identical word puzzle — same letters, same layout, same two minutes to play it. No matchmaking, no waiting your turn. You open the app and you are already inside the round that is happening. HOW IT WORKS • Drag across touching letters — up, down, sideways, diagonally — to trace a word • Words run from 4 to 10 letters • Length pays: a 4-letter word scores 3, a 10-letter word scores 57 • Every board hides 30 to 40 findable words, and at least one of them is 9 letters or longer • Chain finds back to back for NICE, GREAT, AMAZING, ON FIRE, UNSTOPPABLE and LEGENDARY • Every letter you trace plays its own note THREE WAYS TO PLAY • Live rounds — a word hunt against the whole world, on one clock, at full points • Daily Puzzle — one crossword a day in your language, the same board for everyone who speaks it. Today's is always free, and it grows through the week: a small grid on Monday, seven words by Sunday • Levels — an untimed crossword campaign at your own pace. 500 to 1,000 hand-built levels in each of the 16 languages, then endless levels beyond them, with a hint jar you fill by finding bonus words COMPETE • A live leaderboard closes out every round while the next board loads • Global rankings for Today, This Week, This Month, This Year and All Time • Yesterday's champion — and last week's, last month's and last year's — gets a card on your home screen. Salute the champion, share the card, or open today's cards again whenever you like • Game Center: 74 achievements and the Best Round Score leaderboard, unlocked as you play COLLECT • 99 photographs on a journey around the world — reach a new pack of levels and its photograph becomes the backdrop you play against • 200 of the world's great paintings, earned as your lifetime score climbs • Press and hold the home screen to sweep everything away and just look at the picture behind it KEEP PROGRESSING • 170 achievements, from your first four-letter word to a perfect 400-point round • Levels and XP that climb with every round you finish • A daily streak that grows with every day you score in a round or clear a level LEARN AS YOU GO Tap any word you found and read what it actually means. Real dictionary definitions, in your language — a word game that quietly grows your vocabulary. 16 LANGUAGES, 16 DICTIONARIES English, Turkish, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, Indonesian, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Ukrainian, Swedish, Danish, Finnish and Norwegian: one word game, sixteen native word lists, none of them translated. ALSO IN THE BOX • Play offline; your scores sync the moment you reconnect • Start instantly as a guest, sign in with Apple or Google later and keep everything • Light, dark and system themes, color palettes and board fonts LETORIA PRO • A year of daily puzzles — open any day you missed • 2 extra hints every day, on top of the ones you earn • A hammer whose price climbs half as fast inside a level • Replay any finished level as a brand-new puzzle • Keep playing through the closing seconds of every round • A live panel showing how many words of each length sit on the board, and how many you have found • The full emoji avatar set, every theme color, and a Pro badge beside your name The next board goes live in under two and a half minutes. See you in it. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: NineWords at none against Letoria's 2. NineWords also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). Letoria's advantage is device support (4 vs 2). On price 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. Letoria sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. NineWords asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | NineWords | Letoria |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | — | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | — | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 12 MB | 167 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Catch22 | Oguz Can |
In-app purchases
NineWords
No in-app purchases
Letoria
- Wordsmith Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Wordsmith Pro Annual$9.991 Year









