PicWords™ vs Polysyllable
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PicWords™
This picture-based word game challenges you to find three words associated with a given image. Rearrange scrambled letters to form the correct words and solve over 700 levels. Enjoy an addictive experience with multiple language support.
- Find words related to pictures
- Rearrange scrambled letters
- Over 700 levels
- Multiple language support
- Addictive gameplay
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If you like word games, you will love PicWords™ - it's a fun word game in which your goal is to find words that fit to the shown picture. Every picture has three words associated to it. You get all the letters of the words in random order and have to rearrange them to the correct solution. 700+ levels and more are coming! Can you solve them all? Localized for English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian, Slovak, Turkish, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Greek and Dansk! PicWords™ is a very addictive word game that will catch you for hours! Try it out, you will love it!
Polysyllable
This word puzzle game challenges your observation skills by finding common elements across three images. Assemble words from fragmented parts using a special keyboard. It offers hundreds of puzzles in multiple languages.
- Hundreds of puzzles
- Observe commonalities in three photos
- Assemble words from fragments
- Special keyboard for easy typing
- Play in multiple languages
- Enlarge pictures
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Take a close look at the three photos. They have many things in common, but this is not what you are looking for. To solve the puzzle, you need to figure out what objects are in one or two, but not in all three of the pictures. This word game will need your power of observation and attention to details. For your convenience, the words are split into short parts. Tap these fragments on the round keyboard to put the words back together. Features: • Hundreds of puzzles. • You can tap the picture to enlarge it. • Special keyboard for easy typing. • Play in English, French, Russian, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish. • New kind of picture word search. If you like photo and word puzzles, word search and crosswords, then you will enjoy this word game. It could be fun for the entire family! Install this game and give it a try!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Polysyllable at none against PicWords™'s shown. Polysyllable also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 5 months) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 16.0). PicWords™'s advantage is review sentiment (92% vs 83%). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. PicWords™ sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Polysyllable sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for PicWords™ against 4.8 for Polysyllable. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 123 and 58 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 92% of PicWords™'s written reviews are positive against 83% of Polysyllable's.
PicWords™ ships an update every 5 months, Polysyllable every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and September 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PicWords™ | Polysyllable |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (123 ratings) | 4.8 (58 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 91.7% of reviews — better | 83.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 123 — better | 58 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 128 MB | 63 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dominik Haslinger | Maribou Inc. |
Customer experience
PicWords™
Polysyllable
Bugs and requests
PicWords™
Reported bugs
7 issues- App crashes on startup and won't boot
- Freezes when ads are displayed
- Unable to close or interact with ads properly
- Show letter feature places letters in wrong positions
- Game-breaking errors on specific levels
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- Uninstall/reinstall doesn't resolve crashes
- eBay ads cause app crashes
Requested features
3 requests- More levels - players have completed all existing levels
- Additional language support
- Improved app stability and performance
Polysyllable
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
PicWords™
- More Coins (S)$0.99
- Skip Level$0.99
- More Coins (M)$1.99
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- Premium$1.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
- More Coins (L)$4.99
- More Coins (XL)$9.99
- More coins (XXL)$19.99
Polysyllable
- 300 coins$1.99
- 1000 coins$4.99
- 2500 coins$9.99
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- 5500 coins$19.99
Questions
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