FuzzWord vs GO FRIEND
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
FuzzWord
Create and share photo-based puzzles with friends or the public. Earn points and climb leaderboards by solving puzzles quickly. Use in-game power-ups to help solve challenging images.
- Create photo puzzles
- Play public and private puzzles
- Earn points and climb leaderboards
- Use FuzzBombs to reveal parts of images
- Follow users and receive their puzzles
- In-game coin bonuses
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Take pictures, make puzzles, and stump your friends! FuzzWord is a new way to share and play with all the photos you take. Create private puzzles between a close group of friends or make a public puzzle for anyone to play. Play user submitted photos to gain points, and move up the leaderboards. Solve fast to gain the maximum points and coin bonuses. Stuck? Drop a couple FuzzBombs to reveal part of the picture. You may also delete letters from the letter bank or reveal a correct letter. Like a photo? You can tap the heart button to follow other users and receive their public puzzles in your inbox. Leaderboards are based on total points and total hearts. Can you make it to the top?
GO FRIEND
Connect with trainers globally to participate in remote raid battles. Host raids by posting details and recruiting guests, or join worldwide raids by searching active invitations and sending friend requests.
- Find trainers for remote raids
- Host raids by posting details
- Recruit guest trainers
- Search active worldwide raids
- Join raids via invitations
- Send friend requests
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GO Friend is an application to find trainers who want participate in Invitation Raid Battle. Let's participate Raids around the world using "Invitation Raid BBS" of GO Friend ! 【How to use Invitation Raid BBS】 ■Host Trainer (who invite Guest trainer to the raids) 1．Report Raids Tap the “+” button at the top of Invitation Raid BBS Enter the required contents such as Raid information and the number of recruitment, and post. 2．Approve the Friend Request from guests 3．Join the Raid and invite guests ■Guest Trainer (who invited to raids by the Host Trainer) 1．Search active Raids on BBS. Search the active raids reported worldwide. 2．When you find the Raid you want to join, tap “ENTRY”. 3．Send a Friend Request When you find the raid you want to join, copy the Host trainer's friend code and send a Friend Request to the trainer. 4．Wait for the invitation Join the raid when you get an invitation from your Host trainer.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: FuzzWord at 100% against GO FRIEND's 50%. FuzzWord also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and ads (none vs shown). GO FRIEND's advantage is ratings volume (984 vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. FuzzWord sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and GO FRIEND sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
FuzzWord holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: GO FRIEND has 984 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of FuzzWord's written reviews are positive against 50% of GO FRIEND's.
FuzzWord ships an update monthly, GO FRIEND every 3 months. Both last shipped on October 13, 2026.
| Parameter | FuzzWord | GO FRIEND |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better | 4.3 (984 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 49.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 984 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 7 MB | 17 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Beyond Gaming LLC | takumi suzuki |
Customer experience
FuzzWord
GO FRIEND
Bugs and requests
FuzzWord
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
GO FRIEND
Reported bugs
3 issues- Refreshing issues after hosting raids
- Inability to rate players after raids
- Randomly getting banned/locked out of app
Requested features
4 requests- Group chat functionality
- Better raid coordination tools
- Refund system for unused raid passes
- Improved anti-abuse measures
In-app purchases
FuzzWord
- 1,000 Coins$1.99
- 4,000 Coins$4.99
- 10,000 Coins$9.99
GO FRIEND
- 100 PLUGS (PREMIUM)$0.99
- 550 PLUGS (PREMIUM)$4.99
- 1100 PLUGS (PREMIUM)$9.99
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- 2200 PLUGS (PREMIUM)$19.99
