Word Kitchen vs Ball Sort
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Word Kitchen
Test your vocabulary and puzzle-solving skills in a culinary-themed word game. Serve up delicious dishes by finding words, with a helpful hint system available when you need it. It's a great way to relax and train your brain.
- Vocabulary challenges
- Puzzle solving
- Culinary theme
- Stress relief
- Brain training
- Hint system
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Can you handle the heat in the Word Kitchen? Use your puzzle solving and vocabulary knowledge to serve up some tasty dishes in the hottest kitchen in town. Great for stress relief and brain training and if you do run into some trouble our hint system is there to help. Service!
Ball Sort
A brain-training puzzle game where players sort colored balls into tubes. It offers hundreds of challenging levels that require strategy and focus, with simple tap controls and relaxing visuals.
- Hundreds of challenging puzzles
- Strategic gameplay
- Simple tap controls
- Relaxing visuals and animations
- Multiple difficulty levels
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Your goal is simple: sort the colored balls into tubes so that each tube contains only one color. But don’t be fooled—levels quickly become more challenging and require strategy, focus, and smart moves. *Train your brain with hundreds of increasingly difficult puzzles *Simple controls – just tap to move balls between tubes *Relaxing gameplay with satisfying visuals and smooth animations *Multiple difficulty levels from easy to expert Can you solve them all?
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Word Kitchen at 4.8 against Ball Sort's 4.1. Word Kitchen also leads on ratings volume (10K vs 27) and review sentiment (67% vs 45%). Ball Sort's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 5) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Word Kitchen sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Ball Sort asks for nothing beyond the download.
Word Kitchen holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Kitchen has 10K ratings behind it against 27, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Word Kitchen's written reviews are positive against 45% of Ball Sort's.
Word Kitchen ships an update every 2 months, Ball Sort every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 8, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Word Kitchen | Ball Sort |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (10K ratings) — better | 4.1 (27 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.3% of reviews — better | 45.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10K — better | 27 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Best chart rank | #36 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 303 MB | 195 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Gimica GmbH | Apperfun |
Customer experience
Word Kitchen
Ball Sort
In-app purchases
Word Kitchen
- Rubies Small$0.99
- Rubies Small$1.99
- Rubies Medium$3.99
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- Rubies Large$5.99
- Rubies Largest$11.99
Ball Sort
No in-app purchases
