“Ads — Fun game but too many long ads that ruin the game since they are between every turn. Fake exits for those ads. Can’t really skip through them. Click it and it’d drag it out much longer by bringing you to the app shop continuously…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 666 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-06.
4.6 ★751,957 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
408 MBApp size
Free · In-app purchasesIn-app purchases
About this app
Words With Friends is FREE to download and includes optional in-game purchases (including paid random items).
ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST POPULAR MOBILE WORD GAMES is better and smarter than ever before! Unscramble letters, train your brain and indulge in a plethora of word games and puzzles in Words With Friends! Connect with loved ones, expand your vocabulary, and show off your spelling bee skills as you search for the highest scoring word in this beloved classic free word game. May the Best Friend Win.™
CREATE A GAME
► The word games showdown starts here. Challenge your friends and family members to play, or use Smart Match to find your perfect opponent. Unscramble and search for the highest scoring words on the board and fill in the crossword style puzzle!
COMPLETE GOALS AND GET REWARDED…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
The evidence behind this assessment
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 61.01.01 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-06 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 61.01.01, updated 2026-09-30.
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
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 138 distinct reviewers — 20.7% of the 666 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 49.99 — a 50x spread across 10 items
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Not fun — This game has the potential to be fun and engaging, however the amount of ads you are bombarded with is ridiculous.”
“5 minute adds every 3 minutes awful — this game shows way to many ads that are so long they are 5 minutes per ad that show up every 3 minutes!”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 61.01.01.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Items shown10
Lowest$0.99
Highest$49.99
AdsFree Season Pass 13$12.99
AdsFree Season Pass Offer 13$12.99
Season Pass Offer 10$9.99
Season Pass 10$9.99
Ad Free Bundle$9.99
Show 5 more purchases
Handful of Coins$4.99
Stack of Coins$9.99
Pack of Coins$0.99
Pile of Coins$19.99
Bag of Coins$49.99