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Spell the Hive vs Chain Link Words

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

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About

Spell the Hive

Features
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Find words, fill the hive, and see how far your vocabulary can take you. Spell the Hive is a polished, multilingual spelling bee word game with unlimited puzzles and no ads. Create words from seven letters, always include the center letter, and hunt for special pangrams that use every letter in the hive. PLAY WITHOUT LIMITS Start a new puzzle whenever you want. There are no daily limits, energy systems, or waiting periods. FIND EVERY WORD Track everything you discover, review the words you missed, and check definitions as you play. GET A HELPING HAND Use board hints to uncover useful letter patterns. Spend earned nectar to reveal additional clues when you need them. CLIMB THE RANKS Every valid word earns points. Find longer words and pangrams to advance from Larvae all the way to Pure Honey. FOLLOW YOUR PROGRESS Revisit completed puzzles, continue games in progress, track personal statistics, and collect achievements as you master the hive. PLAY IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES Switch between English, Spanish, and Portuguese from one app. Download each language pack once for offline play. MADE FOR WORD GAME LOVERS • Unlimited spelling puzzles • English, Spanish, and Portuguese • Curated word lists • Pangrams and bonus scoring • Board hints and word clues • Definitions and word breakdowns • Ranks, statistics, history, and badges • Multiple visual themes • Haptic feedback • Offline-friendly language packs • No ads • No tracking • Free to play How many words can you find?

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Chain Link Words

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SUN · FLOWER · POT One word sits between two others and links them both. Sunflower. Flowerpot. Find it, and the chain grows. Chain Link Words is a word puzzle built on compound words and everyday phrases. Each answer becomes the anchor for the next, so a chain builds beneath you as you climb — and one wrong turn is the difference between a clean run and a scrappy one. FIVE WAYS TO PLAY DAILY — Five links, once a day. Everyone gets the same chain. Keep the streak alive. LADDER — The long climbs, up to eleven links. No clock. Just how far you can go. BLITZ — Ninety seconds. How much chain can you build before it runs out? RELAY — A finished chain with gaps in it, fillable in any order. Work backwards, sideways, whatever gets you there. HUB — One word in the middle. How many words can you hang off it? RECORDS — Every past daily, still playable. Nothing expires. BUILT PROPERLY Every link in the game is a real compound word or a phrase people actually say — checked against a corpus of billions of words, not a dictionary that treats "leaflove" and "lighthouse" as equals. Stuck? Spend a key to reveal a letter, or give up and move on. You collect keys every day and earn more for solving unaided. No ads. No account. No internet needed. Just words.

Screenshots

Spell the Hive4 screens
Chain Link Words4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spell the Hive at Free against Chain Link Words's $0.99. Chain Link Words's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.4). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Spell the Hive is free to download; Chain Link Words costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard2 real differences · 6 level
Spell the Hive versus Chain Link Words: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpell the HiveChain Link Words
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.413.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size61 MB22 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDiogo De Souza Castroadam rogan

In-app purchases

None

Spell the Hive

No in-app purchases

None

Chain Link Words

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spell the Hive free?
Spell the Hive is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Chain Link Words free?
Chain Link Words costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spell the Hive or Chain Link Words have ads?
Neither Spell the Hive nor Chain Link Words shows ads.

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