Twisty Beads vs Glomp
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Twisty Beads
A relaxing puzzle game where players rotate colorful beads to solve intricate looping patterns. Enjoy satisfying gameplay at your own pace with charming visuals and smooth animations. Perfect for both short breaks and extended play sessions.
- Rotate beads to solve loop puzzles
- Simple controls
- Relaxing difficulty curve
- Charming visuals
- Smooth animations
- No-timer, stress-free gameplay
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Welcome to Twisty Beads — a fun and relaxing puzzle game where you rotate colorful beads to solve looping challenges! Match the beads, clear the patterns, and enjoy smooth, satisfying gameplay at your own pace. Twisty Beads is easy to pick up but rewarding to master. Each level brings new twists, new layouts, and new strategies to discover. Perfect for short breaks or long sessions! Features: • Rotate beads to solve unique loop puzzles • Simple controls, relaxing difficulty curve • Charming visuals and smooth animations • No-timer, stress-free puzzle experience Start twisting and clear your next loop today!
Glomp
A daily word game where you feed a hungry creature with letters to stop it from shrinking. Discover hidden words and phrases within a shared set of daily letters, with a unique physics-based letter system.
- Physics-based letter system
- Feed the creature to survive
- Discover hidden daily sentences
- Word scoring based on letter count
- Global daily letter pool
- Shareable game summary cards
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Every day, everyone in the world gets five minutes and the same twenty letters. How many words can you form? And maybe more importantly: just how good are those words? Glomp is a daily word game with a pulse and a personality. Twenty letters drift onto your screen as physical objects with different sizes and real weight, tumbling and clustering around a creature in the middle. That creature — it's Glomp. It's hungry. And it absolutely will tell you what it thinks. FEED IT Tap four letters or more and submit. Glomp swallows real words. Longer words with rarer letters earn more points. THE LETTERS DON'T SIT STILL There's no grid and no cute little tiles — every letter is a physics object that drifts, bumps and clumps. Tilt your phone and the whole board leans with you. A word only counts if its letters are actually touching Glomp, or chained to one that is. So a nine-letter word isn't just a vocabulary flex — it's getting nine circles into a line while they wander. Can you do it? GRADED ON WHAT'S ACTUALLY THERE Words are checked against Princeton's WordNet, so plurals and irregular forms land the way they should. THE SAME TWENTY, ALL DAY Each day's pool is fixed, hand-checked, and identical for every player on the planet. Play a word and its letters come straight back. You never run out of letters — just words. Each word counts once, so the easy ones go early and the hunt tightens as you go. IT TALKS BACK Glomp is not a silent partner — it's audibly delighted when you turn up something good. (You can silence it if it interrupts your flow.) Underneath, the music climbs a tempo as time runs short. BRAG ACCORDINGLY Finish and you get your streak, the standout word you found or missed, and where you placed against everyone else playing today. Share it with your friends! Game Center leaderboard and achievements: a seven-day streak, ten sentences solved, a word over seven letters, and seven words inside thirty seconds. ALSO INCLUDED - A tutorial - A word bank holding every word you found today - Light and dark themes, or just follow your system - Separate music, sound and haptics toggles, plus a motion-sensitivity slider Twenty letters. One hungry Glomp. Words you can't unsee. Go ahead — get Glomped.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glomp at none against Twisty Beads's 1. Glomp also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Twisty Beads's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.6). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Twisty Beads sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Glomp asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Twisty Beads against 5.0 for Glomp. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Twisty Beads ships an update every 3 weeks, Glomp weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Twisty Beads | Glomp |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 106 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Guang Yang | Richard Lampasone |
Customer experience
Twisty Beads
Glomp
In-app purchases
Twisty Beads
- Remove Ads$1.99
Glomp
No in-app purchases









