Comparison

Glomp vs FORMBO

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

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About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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Every day, everyone in the world gets the same twenty letters. There's a sentence somewhere in there. Glomp is a daily word game with a pulse and a personality. Twenty letters drift onto your screen as physical objects — different sizes, real weight, tumbling and clustering around a creature in the middle. That creature — it's shrinking. It's hungry. It's Glomp. And it will absolutely tell you what it thinks of your last word. FEED IT OR LOSE IT Tap four letters or more and submit. A real word gets swallowed, and the shrinking stops for a while — three seconds per letter. A four-letter word buys you a moment. A nine-letter word buys you half a minute. Go quiet for too long and it collapses. THE LETTERS DON'T SIT STILL No grid. No neat little tiles. Every letter is a physics object that drifts, bumps and clumps. Tilt your phone and the whole board leans with you. Drag the Glomp around with your finger to go hunting. And a word only counts if its letters are actually touching the Glomp, or chained to one that is. So a nine-letter word isn't a vocabulary flex — it's getting nine circles into a line while they wander. Can you do it? TODAY'S SENTENCE Along the top sits a row of empty circles: a short aphorism hidden in today's letters, with only its shape showing. Hold a blank and the letters that word needs come swimming toward it through the crowd. Tap it to send your selection. Get it exactly right and those letters lock into place — and the Glomp swells back a notch, buying you time you didn't have. Guess wrong but play a real word anyway and it still counts toward your day. Nothing you spell is ever wasted. GRADED ON WHAT'S ACTUALLY THERE A typical day hides well over two thousand valid words, so your score isn't a tally — it's a percentage of what today's letters can genuinely make. Long words count for far more than short ones because they're far harder to build. Anything near 100% is a serious performance. 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 turn that off if it interrupts your flow.) Underneath, the music climbs a tempo every time it shrinks — by the end you can hear how little is left. BRAG ACCORDINGLY Finish and you get your streak, whether you caught the day's sentence, the standout word you found or missed, and where you placed against everyone else playing today. Share the whole card as an image, anywhere you like. Game Center leaderboard and achievements: a seven-day streak, ten sentences solved, a word over seven letters, and seven words inside thirty seconds. ALSO IN THE BOX An eight-step interactive tutorial that hands you a practice board to learn on Play a previous day any time — 730 of them, unranked and unlimited 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 shrinking Glomp. A sentence you can't see. Go ahead — get Glomped.

About

FORMBO

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FORMBO is a colorful shape-packing puzzle: drag, rotate and flip pieces to fill every board completely. Easy to learn, tricky to master. 9 WORLDS, ONE GOAL - Blocks — classic square grids - Hive — honeycomb boards - Twist — fixed and locked pieces - Giants — huge boards, huge pieces - Orbit — circular boards that wrap around - Rush — place pieces in a fixed order - Chroma — two-sided pieces and color targets - Delta — triangle grids - Prisma — half-square pieces FEATURES - Over 1,000 hand-crafted levels with rising difficulty - A fresh daily puzzle every day - Quick tutorials in every world - Hints when you're stuck — 3 free every day - Game Center achievements for every world - No account, no sign-up FORMBO PREMIUM (one-time purchase) - Unlimited hints - No ads - Play offline — anywhere A game by DATOBO. Feedback? info@datobo.com

Screenshots

Glomp4 screens
FORMBO4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Glomp at none against FORMBO's 1. Glomp also leads on ads (none vs shown). FORMBO's advantage is update cadence (daily vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (18.0 vs 26.5). On price 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

Both are free to download. FORMBO sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Glomp asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Glomp ships an update every 4 days, FORMBO daily. The most recent releases landed on October 3, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Glomp versus FORMBO: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGlompFORMBO
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 daysDaily — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS26.518.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size88 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRichard LampasoneDATOBO

In-app purchases

None

Glomp

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

FORMBO

One-time1
  • FORMBO Premium$7.99

Questions

Is Glomp free?
Glomp is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is FORMBO free?
FORMBO is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Glomp or FORMBO have ads?
FORMBO shows ads; Glomp does not.
Which is updated more often, Glomp or FORMBO?
Glomp ships an update every 4 days, and FORMBO daily. Most recently, Glomp was updated on October 3, 2026 and FORMBO on September 28, 2026.

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