“Was great until it was good — It was great until they updated & now you can’t do anything unless you watch an ad or spend coins. Used to be able to unlock word, play daily quiz & do gaps, now you have to choose 1 of the 3. Don’t like the…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 509 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.7 ★38,936 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
197 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Make vocabulary growth a daily habit with Word of the Day, a vocabulary-building companion created by humans, for humans. With daily words, games, and quizzes all in one app, it’s learning that actually sticks.
Built in collaboration with leading language experts, our vocabulary database intelligently ranks words based on real-world usage patterns. After you take our vocabulary assessment and answer a few questions about your goals, we’ll create a personalized learning plan tailored to your needs, ensuring the words you see are ones you’ll want to use. With our unique combination of expert curation and smart design, Word of the Day transforms the simple act of growing your vocabulary into a powerful tool for self-improvement.…
Preview
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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.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 9.13.13 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 9.13.13, updated 2026-09-07.
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
3 or more 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.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 5
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.
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 (5 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.
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 15 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 509 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Trial converts to a charge
The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.
What we saw: Trial converts to a charge: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.0% of 509 reviews scanned)
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 (1.0% of 509 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 509 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Ai slop — Constant ads, ai images and way to expensive”
“Constant adds — I deleted this app because I had to watch an add or pay to get the word of the day. I just wanted to learn a new word every day if I missed a day ya ok I got to watch an add to get that one sure no problem but if I missed…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 9.13.13.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.