Glomp vs LingoLatch
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glomp
A daily word game where you feed a hungry creature with letters to stop it from shrinking. Discover hidden words and phrases within a shared set of daily letters, with a unique physics-based letter system.
- Physics-based letter system
- Feed the creature to survive
- Discover hidden daily sentences
- Word scoring based on letter count
- Global daily letter pool
- Shareable game summary cards
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Every day, everyone in the world gets five minutes and the same twenty letters. How many words can you form? And maybe more importantly: just how good are those words? Glomp is a daily word game with a pulse and a personality. Twenty letters drift onto your screen as physical objects with different sizes and real weight, tumbling and clustering around a creature in the middle. That creature — it's Glomp. It's hungry. And it absolutely will tell you what it thinks. FEED IT Tap four letters or more and submit. Glomp swallows real words. Longer words with rarer letters earn more points. THE LETTERS DON'T SIT STILL There's no grid and no cute little tiles — every letter is a physics object that drifts, bumps and clumps. Tilt your phone and the whole board leans with you. A word only counts if its letters are actually touching Glomp, or chained to one that is. So a nine-letter word isn't just a vocabulary flex — it's getting nine circles into a line while they wander. Can you do it? GRADED ON WHAT'S ACTUALLY THERE Words are checked against Princeton's WordNet, so plurals and irregular forms land the way they should. THE SAME TWENTY, ALL DAY Each day's pool is fixed, hand-checked, and identical for every player on the planet. Play a word and its letters come straight back. You never run out of letters — just words. Each word counts once, so the easy ones go early and the hunt tightens as you go. IT TALKS BACK Glomp is not a silent partner — it's audibly delighted when you turn up something good. (You can silence it if it interrupts your flow.) Underneath, the music's tempo climbs as time runs short. BRAG ACCORDINGLY Finish and you get your streak, the standout word you found or missed, and where you placed against everyone else playing today. Share it with your friends! Game Center leaderboard and achievements: a seven-day streak, ten sentences solved, a word over seven letters, and seven words inside thirty seconds. GLOMP+ For the most devoted wordsmiths, Glomp+ offers a premium experience: • Unlimited play • Multiplayer mode: play against Glomp or your friends on Game Center • Word Journeys: stretch your vocabulary to the limit with this test of endurance • Scarcity Mode: make the most of a limited set of letters ALSO INCLUDED • A tutorial • A word bank holding every word you found today • Light and dark themes, or just follow your system • Separate music, sound and haptics toggles, plus a motion-sensitivity slider Twenty letters. One hungry Glomp. Words you can't unsee. Go ahead — get Glomped.
LingoLatch
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Spin each letter reel to line up a word, then lock it in. How many can you find before the minute runs out? Play quick rounds whenever you like, or take on the shared daily challenge. QUICK ROUNDS. ONE MORE WORD. Choose 4-, 5-, or 6-letter words in Quick Lock. Chase your personal best, try a fresh board, or replay a familiar board as unranked practice. A DAILY CHALLENGE Daily Lock gives everyone the same board and one official attempt each day. Make your minute count, build your streak, and compare scores. Practice replays stay separate from the daily competition. FIND WORDS. EARN MORE TIME. In Word Ladder, start with 60 seconds and keep climbing. Longer words earn bigger time bonuses, while non-words cost time. CHALLENGE YOUR FRIENDS Play turn-based Game Center Duels on the same board. Finish your round, then see how your friend scores. YOUR OWN DAILY RIVALRY Create a private group to compare daily results and compete for weekly honors. Weekly scores use your best five days out of seven. MORE TO PLAY FOR - Earn 24 achievements. - Follow global and friends leaderboards. - Track personal bests and daily streaks. - Sync supported progress with iCloud. - Set an optional daily reminder. Free to play, with an optional one-time Remove Ads purchase. No subscription required. Play solo without Game Center. Achievements, online rankings, and Duels require Game Center. Private groups use iCloud and Game Center. Online features require an internet connection.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Glomp at none against LingoLatch's shown. Glomp also leads on update cadence (every 6 days vs monthly). On price, 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
Both are free to download. Glomp sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and LingoLatch sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Glomp ships an update every 6 days, LingoLatch monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glomp | LingoLatch |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 106 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Richard Lampasone | Jared Deason |
In-app purchases
Glomp
- Glomp+$1.99
LingoLatch
- Remove Ads$4.99








