Comparison

Brain Teasers vs Word Games

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

Head to head
About

Brain Teasers

Engage in a variety of riddles, logic puzzles, and math challenges to sharpen your mind. Test your lateral thinking and problem-solving skills with hundreds of brain teasers. Share puzzles with friends and track your progress through various difficulty levels.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of brain teasers
  • Riddles, logic, lateral thinking, numerical puzzles
  • Track puzzle progress
  • Save favorite puzzles
  • Challenge friends
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
Features
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Test your brain with these riddles, puzzles and logic training games! Enjoy hours of intriguing, fun, and challenging brain teasers and puzzles. Keep your brain sharp with our challenging riddles and puzzles, improving your mental acuity and lateral thinking skills as you play. Can you think outside the box to find the solutions? Pick a quiz, puzzle or game and put your IQ to the test. These riddles use math, logic, memory and lateral thinking puzzles to help keep your mental health sharp. Get some of the most difficult brain teasers in the palm of your hand, and share puzzles with your friends and family to challenge them to see who's smarter! (Or get their help in case you’re stuck.) Start enjoying riddles and mind puzzles for FREE – no registration required! Just download and enjoy an instant-play puzzling challenge! Are you smart enough to solve our riddles? Download Brain Teasers and put your mind to the test! FEATURES RIDDLES GALORE • Hundreds of puzzles to train your brain! • Pick from Riddles, Logic Puzzles, Lateral Thinking, and Numerical Puzzles! • Classic riddles and new brain teasers alike! TRACK YOUR PROGRESS • Keep track of which puzzles you've been able to solve! • Save your favorites to come back to them later! ENJOY AND SHARE BRAIN TEASERS • Challenge your friends (or ask them for help). • Increase the difficulty to test yourself or find less challenging puzzles to relax. Train your mind with some of the best riddles the world has to offer! Download Brain Teasers now and prove your mental prowess!

About

Word Games

Enhance your verbal skills with a collection of 12 word games designed to boost vocabulary, trivia knowledge, and memory. Practice abstract thinking, word relationships, and spelling through engaging challenges.

Highlights
  • Vocabulary building
  • Trivia knowledge
  • Verbal memory practice
  • Abstract thinking exercises
  • Word relationship testing
  • Spelling improvement
Features
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Word Games is a great collection of games based, in part, on principles of cognitive psychology to help you practice verbal skills. This app contains all 12 of Mindware's word games to help you build your vocabulary, trivia knowledge, and verbal memory. Some games require purchase of the Pro version in order to play more than 3 times. Description of Games: Abstraction - Exercise your ability to quickly differentiate between words with a concrete vs. abstract meaning. Word Flow - Exercise your verbal memory for words. Similarities Scramble - Test and improve your knowledge of word relationships. Speed Trivia - Test and improve your knowledge of general trivia and information. Verbal Concepts - Practice your ability to categorize and think conceptually. Vocabulary Star - Improve your vocabulary and spelling skills. Vocabulary Power - An un-timed multiple choice vocabulary task. Word Memory - Memorize 30 words and see if you can remember them. Word Prefixes - Practice and improve your knowledge of word prefixes.

Screenshots

Brain Teasers4 screens
Word Games4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Word Games at 96% against Brain Teasers's 52%. Word Games also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.7) and in-app purchases (none vs 3). Brain Teasers's advantage is ratings volume (2.5K vs 120) and update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). On price, ads, monetization model 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. Brain Teasers sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Word Games asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Word Games holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Brain Teasers has 2.5K ratings behind it against 120, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of Brain Teasers's written reviews are positive against 96% of Word Games's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Brain Teasers ships an update every 2 months, Word Games every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Brain Teasers versus Word Games: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBrain TeasersWord Games
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.7 (2.5K ratings)4.7 (120 ratings) — better
Positive reviews52.0% of reviews95.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.5K — better120
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 5 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB25 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperGames for Friends LLCMindware Consulting, Inc

Customer experience

Brain Teasers

All ratings2,492 ratings
Positive63.5%
Neutral14.6%
Negative22.0%
Written reviews375 reviews
Positive52.0%
Neutral16.3%
Negative31.7%

Word Games

All ratings120 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral4.2%
Negative0.8%
Written reviews48 reviews
Positive95.8%
Neutral2.1%
Negative2.1%

User reviews

Brain Teasers

From 2.5K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🤩 Challenging brain teasers
  • 👍 Simple and easy to use
  • 🧠 Exercises the mind

Room to improve

  • 🤬 Excessive ads and pop-ups
  • 🤔 Confusing or illogical riddles
  • 🙄 Repetitive questions
  • 🙃 Forced reviews to see answers

Word Games

From 120 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🧠 Excellent for brain exercise
  • 💡 Sharpens vocabulary and cognitive skills
  • 🚀 Promotes rapid word finding and processing
  • 📚 Helps learn new things and expand mind
  • ⏳ Provides a challenge without feeling like wasted time

Room to improve

  • ❓ Lack of explanation on how to play games
  • ⏳ Success can be dependent on reaction times
  • 🔄 Outdated layout
  • 📝 Scores not transferring to pro version

Bugs and requests

Brain Teasers

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Answers not matching the given information
  • Screen going black after ads
  • Inability to navigate between questions

Requested features

3 requests
  • More variety of brain teasers
  • Ability to save progress and return to previous questions
  • Option to disable ads or pay for ad-free version

Word Games

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • No explanation on how to play games
  • Scores not transferring to pro version

Requested features

2 requests
  • More direct verbal memory training
  • Transfer scores to pro version

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Brain Teasers

One-time3
  • Remove Ads$1.99
  • Go PRO$2.99
  • Unlock 150 Questions$2.99
None

Word Games

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Brain Teasers free?
Brain Teasers is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Word Games free?
Word Games is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Brain Teasers or Word Games?
Word Games is rated higher. Brain Teasers averages 3.7 out of 5 from 2.5K ratings, while Word Games averages 4.7 from 120 ratings.
Do Brain Teasers or Word Games have ads?
Both Brain Teasers and Word Games show ads.
Which is updated more often, Brain Teasers or Word Games?
Brain Teasers ships an update every 2 months, and Word Games every 5 months. Most recently, Brain Teasers was updated on November 6, 2026 and Word Games on November 3, 2026.

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