Comparison

Word Tack vs ArcFlush

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

Head to head
About

Word Tack

A relaxing word-sorting puzzle game where you group scattered words into their hidden categories. Enjoy a handcrafted aesthetic with no timers or penalties, and customize your game experience. Play daily puzzles and track your progress with gentle assistance available.

Highlights
  • Handcrafted word-sorting puzzles
  • No timers or penalties
  • Daily puzzles with shareable results
  • Customizable desk aesthetics
  • Gentle in-game hints
  • Offline play
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.

About

ArcFlush

This game combines solitaire-style card removal with poker hand building. Strategically clear layered card formations to unlock new cards and build winning poker hands to achieve target scores and progress through unique stages.

Highlights
  • Layered card formations
  • Solitaire card removal
  • Poker hand building
  • Unique stage themes
  • Unlockable twists
  • Collectible trinkets
  • In-game shop
Features
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Cards don't line up politely here. They're stacked in layers — the way mahjong tiles are stacked, except these are playing cards, and one of the maps is on fire. Which means there are two games sitting on top of each other: getting a card out of the pile, and knowing what to do with it once you have it. HOW IT WORKS · The map is a layered formation. Anything underneath is locked until you clear what's covering it, so every card you take decides what you're allowed to take next. That half is solitaire. · Play up to five of the cards you've taken as a poker hand. A pair is fine. A Flush is better. A Straight Flush means you planned ahead — or got lucky and will claim you planned ahead. That half is poker. · Beat the stage's target score, spend what you earned in the Shop, and do it again. And again. Until the target has grown a couple of digits and you're no longer certain which of your trinkets is doing the heavy lifting. WHAT'S IN IT · Every map is built around exactly one idea. Ice Lake freezes cards. Furnace sets them alight. Dark Pool turns the lights off and invites you to feel your way out. · Clear a map and its Twist unlocks: the same map, in a considerably worse mood. · Trinkets. Some add points. Some quietly rewrite a rule you'd assumed was permanent. The legendary ones turn up rarely enough that finding the right one feels like the run has decided to help you, just this once. · A Shop between stages, because a roguelite without a shop is just a difficult puzzle. · A tutorial that leaves quickly and waits in Settings in case you ever want it back. WHAT'S NOT IN IT · Ads. · In-app purchases. · A season pass, a battle pass, or a little bar that refills while you sleep. · An internet connection. This app has never phoned home and wouldn't know who to call. Buy it once and own all of it — every map, every trinket, every Twist. There is nothing else to sell you, and we are not going to think of anything. One deck, thirteen languages. Good luck.

Screenshots

Word Tack4 screens
ArcFlush4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Word Tack at Free against ArcFlush's $2.99. Word Tack also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). ArcFlush's advantage is ratings volume (31 vs 1) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 days). On ads, in-app purchases, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Word Tack is free to download; ArcFlush costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Word Tack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ArcFlush has 31 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Word Tack ships an update every 5 days, ArcFlush every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Word Tack versus ArcFlush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWord TackArcFlush
PriceFree — better$2.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.6 (31 ratings)
Positive reviews—73.3% of reviews
Number of ratings131 — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#7 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHeath Behrens欣宇 王

Customer experience

Word Tack

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ArcFlush

All ratings31 ratings
Positive90.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.7%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive73.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative20.0%

In-app purchases

None

Word Tack

No in-app purchases

None

ArcFlush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Word Tack free?
Word Tack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ArcFlush free?
ArcFlush costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Word Tack or ArcFlush?
Word Tack is rated higher. Word Tack averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while ArcFlush averages 4.6 from 31 ratings.
Do Word Tack or ArcFlush have ads?
Neither Word Tack nor ArcFlush shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Word Tack or ArcFlush?
Word Tack ships an update every 5 days, and ArcFlush every 2 days. Most recently, Word Tack was updated on October 28, 2026 and ArcFlush on October 29, 2026.

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