Comparison

Relay Words vs Word Tack

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Relay Words

Features
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Relay Words is a word-chain game built around one clear rule: make a new word that starts with the last letter of the current word. Start from the shown word, build your answer, and keep the chain going. The required start letter stays large and visible at every step so the next move always makes sense. THREE WAYS TO PLAY Classic Relay — No timer. Take your time, find strong words, and push your personal best chain as long as it will go. Timed Relay — 90 seconds on the clock. Stay sharp, answer quickly, and earn speed bonuses for words submitted within 8 seconds. Chase your timed best. Survival — Three lives. Invalid words and skips spend a life. Protect your run, recover carefully, and see how far you can go before the chain breaks. CLEAR FEEDBACK EVERY MOVE Every word either carries the chain forward or explains exactly why it didn't. No ambiguity. No guessing what went wrong. YOUR PROGRESS, YOUR DEVICE Run results save your best chains, stats track your relay style, and cosmetic rewards unlock through play. Everything stays on your device. No account required, no data leaves your phone. BUILT FOR FOCUS No ads. No purchases. No notifications. Relay Words is a game you pick up, play for a few minutes or a long session, and put down with a clear result.

About

Word Tack

A relaxing word puzzle game where you sort 40 words into 8 themed groups. Swap tiles to match words, and enjoy a papercraft aesthetic with no timers or lives. Earn in-game currency to customize your experience.

Highlights
  • Word sorting puzzles
  • Papercraft aesthetic
  • No timers or lives
  • Daily puzzles
  • Customization options
  • Offline play
  • VoiceOver support
Features
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Sort 40 words into 8 groups. Swap tiles until every row of five shares something, and watch each finished row get taped down to the desk. Word Tack is a word puzzle made of paper: typewritten labels, washi tape and tiles that look cut out by hand. There are no timers and no lives. Try as many moves as you like. HOW IT PLAYS • Each board has 40 words in 8 rows, and every group of five words shares something. • Drag a tile onto another to swap them, or tap one tile and then the other. • Get all five right and the row is taped down, with its group written above. Solve rows back to back for a streak bonus. • Solve a board without help for three stars. 140 LEVELS AND A DAILY PUZZLE • 140 hand-made levels, each marked easy, medium or hard. • A new daily puzzle every day, with a streak to keep and an emoji grid to share. HELP WHEN YOU'RE STUCK • An Inkling links two words from the same group. A Clue names three groups. • Pick up a tile first to aim either one at that word. • Hold a tile to look its word up in the dictionary. • Up to three unsolved levels are open at once, and each keeps your board, so one hard level never holds you up. • Still stuck? Spend stamps to have a row solved for you. MAKE IT YOURS • Earn stamps as you play and spend them in the shop: tape colours, tile papers, row seals, desks, confetti and sound packs. • Eight sound packs, from rustling paper to a music box. Every row you solve plays a note higher than the last. • No in-app purchases. Everything in the shop is earned by playing. PLAYS WITH VOICEOVER • Double-tap two cards to swap them, or move a card up or down a row from the Actions rotor. • Hear each row as you solve it, and two-finger double-tap to hear the words that are left. ANY SCREEN, ANY WAY UP • Play on iPhone or iPad, upright or on its side. • Made for iPhone Duo: play folded on the outer screen, or open it up for a bigger board. NO ADS, NO ACCOUNTS • No ads, no tracking and no sign-in. Word Tack works fully offline.

Screenshots

Relay Words4 screens
Word Tack4 screens

Verdict

The call

Relay Words and Word Tack are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Relay Words versus Word Tack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRelay WordsWord Tack
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequency—Every 6 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB8 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperWilliam BrandonHeath Behrens

In-app purchases

None

Relay Words

No in-app purchases

None

Word Tack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Relay Words free?
Relay Words is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Word Tack free?
Word Tack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Relay Words or Word Tack have ads?
Neither Relay Words nor Word Tack shows ads.

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