Tiny Word Sprint vs Missing Vowels
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Word Sprint
This word game challenges you to unscramble letters against the clock. Earn extra time with each correct answer, build streaks for higher scores, and tackle a daily challenge. Customize your experience with unlockable themes and enjoy smooth animations and satisfying haptics.
- Timed word unscrambling
- Streak multipliers
- Daily challenge mode
- Unlockable tile themes
- Offline play
- Smooth animations and haptics
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Think fast. Unscramble faster. Tiny Word Sprint is the addictive timed word game where every correct answer buys you more time. Build streaks, level up, and take on the free Daily Challenge — no wifi needed. You get scrambled letters and a hint. Find the word before the clock runs out. Every correct answer earns points and precious seconds. How long can you keep going? **NEW IN 2.0** • Marathon: 3 lives, a fuse on every word, and its own leaderboard • Sprint Levels: earn XP from every word, daily and ladder run • Streak Freezes keep your Daily streak alive when life gets busy • A cleaner home screen built for iPhone, iPhone Duo and iPad **SIMPLE TO LEARN, HARD TO MASTER** • See a hint, unscramble the letters, submit the word • Each correct word adds time, so keep the streak alive • Longer words earn more points • Shuffle the letters or skip to a new word when you're stuck **MODES FOR EVERY MOOD** • Classic: race the clock • Zen: no timer, just words • Hard: less time, longer words • Marathon: 3 lives, every word has a fuse • Daily Challenge: same puzzle for everyone, every day • Weekly Tournament and Word Pack: fresh twists every week • Puzzle Ladder: 10 words, one life per step • Practice by category, Challenge Codes and Game Center VS **BUILD STREAKS, MULTIPLY YOUR SCORE** • Chain correct words for multipliers up to 3.5x • Hit ON FIRE at 3, UNSTOPPABLE at 5, LEGENDARY at 10 • Power Rounds every 8 words double your time bonus **LEVEL UP & CUSTOMIZE** • 13 tile themes and 7 timer styles • 20 achievements and Game Center leaderboards • Lifetime stats, a word collection and weekly recaps **RESPECTS YOUR TIME** • Runs fully offline: play anywhere • Sessions last 1–3 minutes • Home Screen widget and Siri Shortcuts • Optional iCloud sync for your stats **SUPPORT AN INDIE DEVELOPER** Every mode is free. If you enjoy the game, the Supporter Pack removes ads and unlocks every theme, or you can leave a tip.
Missing Vowels
This word puzzle game presents a daily challenge with a single category and eight vowel-less clues. Players use their memory and deduction skills to guess the words, with options for voice or keyboard input. It offers a relaxed experience with no leaderboards or streaks, focusing on personal progress and a visually appealing archive.
- Daily free puzzle (Mon-Sat)
- Eight clues per challenge
- Voice or keyboard input
- Forgiving answer matching
- Visual flower-based progress record
- Unlock past puzzles with earned currency
- Optional subscription for full archive access
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A word game for the incurably curious. One category, eight clues, every vowel gone. Category: Capital Cities Clue: BJNG Answer: Beijing Read the consonants. Look at the category. You'll say Beijing before you mean to. That's the game. Shakespeare plays. Jazz standards. Periodic elements. The category narrows the field to a few dozen possibilities. From there, your memory is faster than any dictionary. Some clues fall in seconds. Others sit until you look again. The ones that won't come can be passed. There's no leaderboard, no streak chase, no penalty for missing a day — just eight clues, one category, and the small click of recognition when a word finally arrives. A new challenge appears every morning, Monday through Saturday. Long enough to wake your brain up, short enough to fit between a coffee and a meeting. Sundays are a tougher bonus puzzle for Garden Pass subscribers — one more challenge before the week begins again. TYPE OR SPEAK YOUR ANSWER Tap to type, or hold the microphone and say your guess out loud. Voice recognition is tuned to the way this game works — handling vowel ambiguity, compound words, and spoken spellings more reliably than a generic dictation engine. A YEAR, LAID OUT LIKE A GARDEN Every finished challenge becomes an eight-petal flower — one petal per clue, colored by what you got right, what you missed, and what you passed. Scroll back through your history and you find a slow drift of flowers and little traces you left behind. It isn't a streak counter. It's a record of showing up. SEEDS AND THE GARDEN Regular play earns Seeds. Spend them on markers and decorations, or to unlock a past day you'd like to play. Garden Pass — the app's optional subscription — opens the full back catalog (including every Sunday Bonus) so you can wander the archive without spending a thing. SHARE WHAT YOU FINISHED At the end of a challenge, share a small card with your score, the category, and a sample clue. Or share a snapshot of your garden across a week, a month, a year, or your whole run. WHAT IT ISN'T No accounts. Your history lives on your phone. No ads. Ever. No notification spam. If you turn them on, they come only when there's a new challenge. No spelling traps. Caps, dashes, accents, "is this one word or two" — if you know it, it counts. FEATURES • A free daily puzzle, Monday through Saturday • Eight clues per challenge, in a shared category • Voice or keyboard input, tuned to the game's specific patterns • Forgiving answer matching for punctuation, capitalization, spacing, and compound words • Eight-petal flowers as a permanent record of every solve • Seeds earned through play, sharing, streaks, and reminders • Seed-based archive unlocks and garden decorations • Optional Garden Pass subscription — Sunday Bonus challenges and full archive access • Shareable result cards and history-range share cards • Replay previously played challenges and compare your performance • Daily reminders you can turn off • First-run tutorial, replayable from Settings • No accounts, no ads Terms of Use (Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sharkriverstudios.com/vwlss/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Missing Vowels at none against Tiny Word Sprint's shown. Tiny Word Sprint's advantage is monetization model (free vs freemium) and update cadence (every 5 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Tiny Word Sprint sells 5 one-off in-app purchases and Missing Vowels sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tiny Word Sprint against 5.0 for Missing Vowels. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Tiny Word Sprint ships an update every 5 days, Missing Vowels monthly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Tiny Word Sprint | Missing Vowels |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rene Fandida | Shark River Studios LLC |
Customer experience
Tiny Word Sprint
Missing Vowels
In-app purchases
Tiny Word Sprint
- Small Tip$0.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- Medium Tip$2.99
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- Large Tip$4.99
- Supporter Pack$5.99
Missing Vowels
- Garden Pass14 Days trial$14.991 Year
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