“Seems like a fun concept but far too many ads. Only got to level 4 but there's an ad break for every line cleared & these ads open other windows, crash the game & then you have to restart that level. I'm sure there are better versions by…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 1,002 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.6 ★525,745 ratings
5M+Downloads
12+Age rating
369 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Connect Word: The Ultimate Word Puzzle Game
Are you a fan of puzzle games and addictive word challenges? Then look no further than Connect Word: Association Game — the perfect blend of word games, word search, and matching games. And best of all, it’s 100% free!
How to Play:
Each level gives you a set of seemingly random words.
Your task: group them by meaning, category, or association.
Think carefully — connected words may be scattered.
Solve the puzzle by making the right associations.
Each level increases in difficulty, offering fresh logic puzzles that will keep your mind sharp and engaged. This is not just another word game — it’s a clever, relaxing way to grow your vocabulary while having fun.
What Connect Word Improves:
- Logical thinking and strategic planning
- Building associative chains between ideas
- Language, vocabulary, and general knowledge…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
App Store
This analysis describes version 2.21.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.21.0, updated 2026-09-14.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.21.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.21.0, updated 2026-09-10.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to at least 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
2 themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
The catch list 1
Charges we publish at a strength we stand behind: measured from an artefact, agreed by independent sources, or reported by enough users to clear that charge's own published bar.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Raised by 199 distinct reviewers — 37.5% of the 531 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Context 1
Measured and published because a reader would want to know — deliberately not a charge. The measurement alone does not show a harm.
Cheapest and priciest options are far apart
The disclosed in-app purchases span an unusually wide price range. Published as context: the cheapest and priciest items may be different kinds of product entirely, so the spread alone deducts nothing.
What we saw: In-app purchases run from USD 0.99 to USD 79.99 — a 81x spread across 10 items
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
Reviewers repeatedly report that the app is not what its advertising showed. We never see the ad creative itself, so nothing we collect can corroborate or refute this — it is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.
What we saw: Misleading advertising: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (0.9% of 531 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (6 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“WAY TOO MANY ADS. Experience was ruined by the excessive ads. Ads are between rounds and also if you take too long solving a round it will hit you with 'ad breaks'. I understand ads are a necessary evil but when they are excessive and…”
“5/31/26 edit the amount of ads has gotten much more bearable. Previously it would stop you in the middle of a level. This no longer happens. As far as I can tell, there is still no way to pay to remove ads completely. this is a good game…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.21.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$79.99
Small Coin Pack$1.99
Medium Coin Pack $8.99
Big Booster Pack New$4.99
Small Booster Pack New$1.99
Very Big Booster Pack$14.99
Show 5 more purchases
Large Coin Pack$29.99
Very Small Booster Pack$0.99
Piggy Bank$3.99
Huge Coin Pack$49.99
Ultimate Coin Pack$79.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.