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Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 413 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.

Word Hike -Inventive Crossword

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Word Hike is a relaxing word puzzle game for adults featuring classic crosswo…

4.7 ★61,830 ratings
1M+Downloads
4+Age rating
—App size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases

About this app

Word Hike is a relaxing word puzzle game for adults featuring classic crosswords, themed crossword challenges, word tile puzzles, logic games, picture clues, and idiom puzzles—all in one word journey.

Solve clues, complete crossword grids, match and clear related word tiles, and uncover hidden connections between words. Choose a peaceful crossword or a challenging logic puzzle, relax your mind, and expand your vocabulary.

🧩 MULTIPLE WORD PUZZLES IN ONE GAME

Explore different puzzle modes and choose a challenge that matches your mood:

✔ Classic crossword puzzles ✔ Themed crossword challenges ✔ Word tile matching and elimination ✔ Category and connection-based logic puzzles ✔ Daily puzzles, events, and rewards

🔤 SOLVE CLASSIC CROSSWORD PUZZLES

Read each clue, find the correct answer, and complete intersecting words across the board.…

Preview

Real screenshots from the store listing.

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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.

Automated analysis in progress

Which version this describes

When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.

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 2026-09-30.

What we measured

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How these are measured

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
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.

Methodology

Positive evidence 1

Things this app does right, published at the same strengths as the catch list.

Developer says data deletion can be requested
Measuredfrom the store listingview evidence
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 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
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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 13 distinct reviewers (3.1% of 413 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
One source onlyShown, not confirmed — the only source is user reviews.view evidence
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 47 distinct reviewers (11.4% of 413 reviews scanned)

Highlighted reviews

Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.

Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
“The game looks nothing like the ad, downloaded it to play the rock quiz with my wife, it's just a normal word game like all the other ones out there, no music no quiz. When will developers learn people who download the game like what they…”
1★ · Google Play · 2026-03-20
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
“Not what is advertised.”
1★ · Google Play · 2025-12-24
Reports that the ads misrepresent the app
“Is there really cartoons in this game, kind of false advertising if not”
5★ · Google Play · 2026-09-13

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.

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