Rettel vs Word Bites
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Rettel
Engage in a strategic 2-player word-building game on a letter grid. Plan your moves as submitted words are reversed in the grid. Features include competitive play, friend challenges, and progress tracking.
- 2-player word building on a grid
- Submitted words reverse in the grid
- Play against random players or friends
- Track wins, best words, and top scores
- Daily word finding challenge
- Zen mode with random letters
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Rettel is a 2-player word game on a grid of letters. Plan your moves carefully — submitted words reverse in the grid. (Sounds like how we got our name!) Features & Games: RETTEL Build words by connecting letters on a grid, head-to-head against your opponent. PLAY Always have a game going and play on your time. Match with random players and track your progress. FRIENDS Build your friends list and play people you know. Add friends with a friend code, challenge them directly, or get matched with another player for a quick game. PROFILE Track your wins, best words, and top scores all in one place. Customize your avatar and display name to match your style! RETTEL SEARCH Get 5 attempts to find today's word. RETTEL OPS Reach the target number using all four operations. ZENTTEL Zen mode version of Rettel with randomly generated letters and no stats.
Word Bites
This word puzzle game challenges you to build words by snapping syllable tiles together to solve clues. Enjoy a relaxing, ad-free experience with no timers or lives, and play offline anywhere.
- Syllable tile word building
- Solve clues using all tiles
- No timers, lives, or energy meters
- Offline play
- Daily free hints
- Earned bonus puzzle packs
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Word Bites: Deliciously Fun Five clues. Sixteen tiles. Every tile belongs to exactly one answer, and all sixteen get used. Word Bites is a word puzzle built out of pieces. Instead of typing letters, you snap syllable tiles together — PIC + TU + RES — until every clue on the board is solved. Nothing is left over, and nothing is missing. When the last tile lands, the puzzle is finished exactly. It's a quiet game. No timers, no lives, no energy meter waiting to refill, and no ads. Play one puzzle on a train platform or ten on the sofa. HOW IT PLAYS • Tap tiles to build a word, then check your answer • Tap a clue to pick up whatever a hint has already revealed • Shake the phone to shuffle the tiles • Stuck? A hint uncovers one piece of an unsolved answer — never the last one, so the solve is always yours 615 PUZZLES • 12 free packs to start — 200 levels, open from the beginning • 12 premium packs — 300 levels across Movies, Sports, History, Science, Art, Music, Technology, Geography, Literature, TV, Celebrities and Food • 8 bonus packs — 115 levels, earned rather than bought FREE HINTS EVERY DAY Open the game and collect a hint, every day. Three on your first day to get you going. Miss a day and nothing is taken away — the hints just keep coming when you come back. BONUS PACKS YOU EARN Every bonus pack asks for something different. Some open as you finish levels, some as the days you play add up, and some for a small favour. None of them cost anything. PLAYS ANYWHERE Every puzzle is on your device. No account, no sign-in, no connection needed. https://threetap.com/wordbites/privacy https://threetap.com/wordbites/terms
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Rettel at none against Word Bites's 10. Rettel also leads on update cadence (every 11 days vs monthly) and device support (3 vs 1). Word Bites's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price and rating 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 Bites sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Rettel asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Rettel against 5.0 for Word Bites. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Word Bites has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Rettel ships an update every 11 days, Word Bites monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Rettel | Word Bites |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 11 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Rettel LLC | John Arana |
In-app purchases
Rettel
No in-app purchases
Word Bites
- Pizza (Technology)$0.99
- Ramen (History)$0.99
- Salad (Food)$0.99
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- Soda (TV)$0.99
- Spaghetti (Science)$0.99
- Sushi (Art)$0.99
- Fries (Geography)$0.99
- Wrap (Literature)$0.99
- Burger (Music)$0.99
- All Premium Collections$8.99









