LETTRO Challenges vs Friends With Words
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LETTRO Challenges
Engage in a fun and addictive word game where you swipe to claim letters and dominate the board. Steal letters from your opponent to win challenges across hundreds of increasingly difficult levels. Compare your progress with friends and aim for the highest scores.
- Swipe to claim letters
- Steal letters from opponent
- Dominate over 50% of the board
- Hundreds of levels
- Use boosters to gain advantage
- Compare scores with friends
Read full descriptionHide full description
2 colors, 1 winner. Hundreds of challenges to unlock ! Swipe your finger in any direction to turn words into your color, steal letters and find the best words to win challenges. A course of hundreds of levels. A brand new fun and addictive word game. Ready to challenge your brain ? ***USER GUIDE*** At every new challenge, steal letters to LETTRO to impose your color and win the game. You only need to dominate more than 50% of the board and victory is yours! Tip: Use booster and find the word which steals the most letters to Lettro at any time during the game (5 free boosters)! Collect victories and replay challenges to improve your domination on the grid! Hundreds of levels increasingly hard to unlock. ***COMPARE YOURSELF TO YOUR FACEBOOK FRIENDS*** With LETTRO Challenges, compare your scores with friends and replay challenges to be the best!
Friends With Words
Engage in a word game with daily challenges or custom seeded runs. Compete with others on shared boards where skill, not luck, determines high scores. Track your progress with detailed stats and climb the leaderboards.
- Daily and custom seeded word boards
- Shared-seed competition
- Online leaderboards
- Online multiplayer with notifications
- Personal stats and score breakdowns
- Save and resume games
- Dark mode
Read full descriptionHide full description
Friends With Words is a single-player word game built around shared seeded boards. Play the daily board or daily mini! Every player on the same seed gets the same letter sequence, so high scores come from better play, not better luck. Play the Sprint mode for fewest moves to 200 points, or Rush mode for a timed points grabber. Features: - Daily games and custom seeded boards - Sprint and Rush modes - Shared-seed competition - Online high-score leaderboards - Online multiplayer with push notifications - Full score breakdowns and personal stats - Save and resume your current game - Clean, fast mobile gameplay - Dark and light mode Challenge yourself to find the best possible board and climb the leaderboard in Friends With Words.
Screenshots
Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Friends With Words at 100% against LETTRO Challenges's 43%. Friends With Words also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). LETTRO Challenges's advantage is ratings volume (21 vs 3) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.0). On price, 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
Both are free to download. LETTRO Challenges sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Friends With Words asks for nothing beyond the download.
Friends With Words holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LETTRO Challenges has 21 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of LETTRO Challenges's written reviews are positive against 100% of Friends With Words's.
LETTRO Challenges ships an update every 3 weeks, Friends With Words every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | LETTRO Challenges | Friends With Words |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (21 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 26 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Y A QU A | Seth Chun |
Customer experience
LETTRO Challenges
Friends With Words
Bugs and requests
LETTRO Challenges
Reported bugs
10 issues- Ads pop up excessively
- Game freezes or crashes phone
- AI makes up words not in dictionary
- Declines valid words
- Draws count as losses
Show 5 moreShow fewer
- Screen fades to black during gameplay
- Phone freezes when exiting game
- AI timer issues
- Game locks up phone
- AI uses questionable words
Requested features
8 requests- Option to play against other people
- Add a dictionary feature
- Broader word acceptance
- Easy/medium/hard difficulty options
- More lives or challenges to gain lives
Show 3 moreShow fewer
- Multiplayer without Facebook integration
- Save progress across devices
- Remove the life system or extend wait times
Friends With Words
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LETTRO Challenges
- Lives Pack 1$0.99
- 5 boosters$0.99
- Extra-time: 2 minutes$0.99
Show 7 moreShow fewer
- 10 boosters$1.99
- Lives pack 2$1.99
- Extra-time: 5 minutes$1.99
- 25 boosters$3.99
- Lives Pack 3$3.99
- 50 boosters$7.99
- Extra-time: 30 minutes$7.99
Friends With Words
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is LETTRO Challenges free?
Is Friends With Words free?
Which has better reviews, LETTRO Challenges or Friends With Words?
Do LETTRO Challenges or Friends With Words have ads?
Which is updated more often, LETTRO Challenges or Friends With Words?
Other comparisons
