Grow Words vs NookGrid
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grow Words
This word game challenges you to guess related words by adding one letter at a time to form a chain. Solve daily puzzles with a clean, minimalist design for a focused brain workout.
- Daily word chain puzzles
- Words grow by adding letters
- 3-4 related words per puzzle
- Two new levels daily
- Clean, minimalist design
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Grow Words – A Daily Word Chain Challenge Grow Words is a fresh, thoughtful twist on classic word games. Inspired by hangman, each puzzle presents a group of 3 to 4 related words. Your goal: guess them all, one letter at a time. But there's a twist—each word grows by adding one letter to the last. For example: ROW → GROW → GROWS. Each correct guess builds momentum as you unlock the full chain. Features: • Challenging but approachable puzzles • Two new levels added every day • Clean, minimalist design for focused play Whether you're a word game fan or just looking for a satisfying daily brain workout, Grow Words fits easily into your routine.
NookGrid
Arrange nine locations to match a daily neighborhood plan. Enjoy a new puzzle each day, maintain a streak, and replay past puzzles. The game works offline and progress is saved locally.
- Daily fresh puzzles
- Daily completion streak
- Revisit previous puzzles
- Works offline
- Progress saved locally
- Share results
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NookGrid is a free daily brain game. Arrange nine places to match the neighborhood plan. Play a fresh puzzle each day, keep a daily completion streak, and revisit previous puzzles from the calendar. New to NookGrid? Try the optional guided Tutorial. Your progress stays on your device, and the game works offline. Share your result with your solve time, hints and streak, and challenge someone to beat your time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Grow Words at none against NookGrid's shown. Grow Words also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 2). NookGrid's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Grow Words against 5.0 for NookGrid. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Grow Words has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Grow Words ships an update every 3 weeks, NookGrid every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grow Words | NookGrid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 122 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Infinite Crayfish LLC | Alexander Jabbour |
Customer experience
Grow Words
NookGrid
In-app purchases
Grow Words
No in-app purchases
NookGrid
No in-app purchases
