Comparison

Bad Plot vs Hangman Fold

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

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About

Bad Plot

Guess a movie from a deliberately terrible plot description. Each day brings a new puzzle with five tries to get it right. Share spoiler-free results and track your progress with stats and trophies.

Highlights
  • Daily movie puzzles
  • Five guesses per puzzle
  • Spoiler-free result sharing
  • Streak tracking and stats
  • Replayable past puzzles
  • Earnable trophies
Features
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Somewhere, a deliberately terrible movie plot description is waiting to be guessed. That's Bad Plot. Every day, everyone gets the same puzzle: one movie, described as badly as possible. Get it wrong, and the description gets a little less bad. Five tries, one puzzle, same for the whole world. HOW IT WORKS - One new puzzle every day, no exceptions - Five guesses. Each wrong one reveals the next, slightly-less-bad line - Guess right or run out of tries, and the answer gets revealed either way - Share a spoiler-free result grid, with no title or clue text WHY IT'S DIFFERENT Most guessing games play it straight. Bad Plot plays it dry: the joke is that the description is genuinely bad, not silly-bad. Just a bored film critic's worst possible summary of a movie you already know. MEET KERNEL One piece of popcorn who decided he'd rather watch the movie than be eaten during it. He sits in the front row and reacts to every guess you make. BUILT TO LAST - Streaks and stats that carry across days - A calendar of every day you've played, with each puzzle replayable - Trophies for streaks, sharp guessing, and the actors, directors, genres, and decades you keep getting right, kept a surprise until you earn them - Free to play, with no ads and no account needed New puzzle every day. Come back tomorrow.

About

Hangman Fold

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Guess the word. Save the explorer. The word game you know, reborn as a cinematic 3D adventure: every wrong letter puts your explorer in more danger, and every round ends with its own film-style finale, win or lose. Fourteen worlds, five difficulties, 28 categories and about 2,400 words. No ads. No tracking. FOURTEEN WORLDS • Lava Temple: a crumbling pillar over a lake of lava. Each miss sends a stone into the fire. • Thin Ice: a cracking ice floe in a glacier cavern under the aurora. • Quicksand: a sinking desert ruin, its ancient stones toppling into the sand one by one. • Sky High: a crate under six balloons, high over golden farmland. Every miss pops one and down you go. • Dino Valley: a goofy T. rex stomps one step closer with every wrong letter. • Sunken Temple: the water rises in a flooded temple with every miss. • Haunted Tomb: the candles go out one by one as a ghost closes in. • Snowy Summit: a giant snowball rolls closer down the mountain. • Pirate Cove: the fuse on a ship's cannon burns closer with every miss. • Candy Factory: a conveyor belt carries you toward a vat of chocolate. • Robot Lab: a lab robot charges up its shrink ray. • Moon Base: your oxygen bubbles run out one by one. • Toy Box: a jack-in-the-box winds up, ready to spring. • Bee Meadow: the bees leave their hive one by one. Every world has its own winning finale (a rope swing to a golden mask, a frost bridge to the shore, a stair rising out of the sand, a biplane rescue, a pterodactyl airlift, a snowball-dodging sled ride and many more) and some very funny ways to lose. Win without a single wrong letter for a flawless finale, or with one guess to spare for a last-second save. WAYS TO PLAY • Classic: one word after another from your category and difficulty. Every word you find scores, so build your run. • Daily Word: the same word for everyone each day, easy on Monday up to Extreme on Friday. Keep your streak going. • Blitz: as many words as you can in 90 seconds • Pass & Play: two players, one device. Set three words for each other, or let the game pick them. • Online: set words for a friend anywhere through Game Center and take turns whenever you like • Stump the Robot: pick a word and watch the robot try to guess it STATS AND LEADERBOARDS Your high score, longest streak, Blitz best and daily streak, every word you've played, and Game Center leaderboards to see how you rank against your friends and everyone. Five difficulties from Easy to Extreme, and 28 categories, from Animals, Food and Sports to Dinosaurs, Myths & Legends, Countries, Inventions, Explorers and Knights & Castles. DESIGNED FOR IPHONE DUO Half-fold your phone like a little laptop: the world stands up on the top half while the word and the stone keyboard lie on the table half. In Pass & Play, close the phone to hide your word and hand it over. Opening it starts the next player's round. PLAYS ON EVERY IPHONE AND IPAD No foldable needed: everything works the same, and in Pass & Play a button handles the hand-off. WORLDS (OPTIONAL IN-APP PURCHASES) The Lava Temple and every mode, difficulty and category are free. Unlock any other world for 99¢ each, or get the All Worlds Pass for $3.99: every world, including all the new ones we add in updates, in one purchase. Thin Ice, Quicksand and Sky High can also be earned for free with a Classic run of 20 words in a row at their difficulty or harder. No subscription. Restore any time from inside the game. Family Sharing works too. YOUR PRIVACY No ads, no analytics, no tracking and no account of our own. Online play and leaderboards run on Apple's Game Center, and we don't run any servers.

Screenshots

Bad Plot4 screens
Hangman Fold4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Bad Plot at none against Hangman Fold's 10. Bad Plot also leads on iOS requirement (16.4 vs 18.0). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Hangman Fold sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Bad Plot asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Bad Plot ships an update every 3 days, Hangman Fold every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 6, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Bad Plot versus Hangman Fold: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBad PlotHangman Fold
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (6 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings6 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size44 MB144 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJONATHAN COLELLA HAINESDavid Eichelberger

In-app purchases

None

Bad Plot

No in-app purchases

10 purchases

Hangman Fold

One-time10
  • Bee Meadow$0.99
  • Sunken Temple$0.99
  • Haunted Tomb$0.99
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  • Pirate Cove$0.99
  • Toy Box$0.99
  • Robot Lab$0.99
  • Moon Base$0.99
  • Snowy Summit$0.99
  • Candy Factory$0.99
  • Dino Valley$0.99

Questions

Is Bad Plot free?
Bad Plot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hangman Fold free?
Hangman Fold is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Bad Plot or Hangman Fold have ads?
Neither Bad Plot nor Hangman Fold shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Bad Plot or Hangman Fold?
Bad Plot ships an update every 3 days, and Hangman Fold every 4 days. Most recently, Bad Plot was updated on November 13, 2026 and Hangman Fold on November 6, 2026.

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