“Having played Word Chums for years and having already paid to remove ads you are now ruining this by constantly trying to send me ads in game (started last month). As other's have said you need to sort this out or you will simply lose…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 990 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.6 ★174,902 ratings
1M+Downloads
17+Age rating
210 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
More fun than Words With Friends and more addicting than Scrabble, WORD CHUMS: the highest rated word game, earning a perfect 5 Star rating from users.
Find out why people are saying “Once you play it, you can’t go back to your old word game.”
“When I went from Words With Friends and other word games to Word Chums, there was no going back.” - VentureBeat
“This game takes it to another level with fun graphics and sounds, a built in dictionary, team mode, 3-4 player mode…” ◆◆◆◆◆ "I really love this game. A great game for the whole family and your friends.. It keeps you thinking. It's a challenge. Try it, you'll love it." ◆◆◆◆◆ "Way better than other word games! I am hooked!"
“Word Chums adds a significant layer of additional incentives to keep playing atop the basic formula.” Adweek
◆ INTRODUCING THE CHUMS Oozing with personality, they bring the game to life.…
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 2.19.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.19.0, updated 2026-09-01.
Google Play
This analysis describes version 2.19.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.19.0, updated 2026-09-01.
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 fewer than 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
1 theme 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
80–89% 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.
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 49.99 — a 50x spread across 10 items
Positive evidence 1
Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.
Developer says data deletion can be requested
The developer's data-safety disclosure on the store states that users can request deletion of their data, or the app's own text offers a way to delete the account. This restates what the developer declares; it is not a test of whether deletion works. Apple publishes no equivalent disclosure, so on an Apple-only listing only the app's own text can support it.
What we saw: The developer's store data-safety disclosure states that data deletion can be requested; we have not seen a deletion control in the app's own text
One source only — shown, not confirmed 1
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: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 25 distinct reviewers (4.5% of 558 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“I used to enjoy playing Word Chums, but it now glitches all the time, full of adverts that either load fully or they say "web page not available". This happens at least five times the moment that I click on the app, then occurs frequently…”
“Used to love this game, but the ads are out of control, the first time I played this years ago the coin offer to remove ads actually worked... this time around the app took the in-game coins I earned when I was given the offer but the ads…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.19.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$49.99
500 Coins$0.99
13,000 Coins$9.99
1,100 Coins$1.99
3,000 Coins$4.99
6,500 Coins$9.99
Show 5 more purchases
Get 2,200 Coins$1.99
17,500 Coins$24.99
Starter Bundle$2.99
40,000 Coins$49.99
Premium Upgrade$4.99
Google Play does not publish per-purchase prices.