Last updated on January 18th, 2026 at 03:50 pm
PopWords! – Education Game Review
PopWords! is a Education/Board/Word game from Sarah Pierce, first launched in 7th November 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 5,368+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes PopWords! Stand Out
PopWords! is a simple and addictive word finding game. There are three different ways to play:
Classic: Find words as fast as you can from an endless stream of letters. Finding words fast enough to keep the game going gets harder and harder as time passes. Try to reach the highest level you can! Then check out the leaderboards in Game Center and realize you've got a long way to go :)
Puzzle: You only get one board full of letters, so use them wisely! Longer words will earn you more points, and clearing the board completely will double your points for the whole game. Play on your own or compete in our Daily Puzzle competition to your score compares to everyone else who played that day. You can even watch the winning solution!
Practice: Relax with no timer and just try to find as many great words as you can!
Features:
• Easy to learn — just drag to make words!
• Daily Puzzle lets you compete against the world every day
• Game center leaderboards and achievements
• Tracks your records, averages, and all-time best words
• Relaxing untimed Practice mode
• A fun mental exercise to keep your brain sharp!
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, PopWords! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th June 2023
Recent improvements include:
This update includes a few bug fixes. Thanks so much to everyone who has sent feedback! I hope you enjoy the update. -Sarah
Download & Availability
PopWords! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This is a fun game although it is addicting.
Pop Words is literally one of our favorite pastimes. We love that you get to choose your speed as you advance your skill level – quickly eats up time if youre sitting somewhere waiting or bored! * It's also awesome that there are alternate game options (puzzles, etc…).
A great game to play. New challenge each day.
Fun game..great for killing time while waiting for appointmentsCan be played for a short or extended time.
We really enjoy the game, but would like an additional feature to be put into it. When the pop up window advising there is at least one more word, there should be an option to show the word.
When we are tired or uptight, we come to do this game and it makes us relax immediately! So thankful.
Wow! We can't stop playing. When we finally finish for the night, we are still making words in our head. Do not play this game if you have an addictive personality! You'll lose sleep, miss meals, and ignore the family.
Our wife and we have enjoyed the daily game for several years! At one time she had a string of closing every game for a year straight and being in the top 1000 players every day. (Not us, and she let us know it.
We have been playing this for a long time and keep trying to improve our score. We like that we can play it on an airplane flight even when we dont have the internet or other times when there is no reception.
We put 2 stars but it changed it to 3 stars.
Wish there would be an update on words.
We love playing this game but it is so frustrating when you are in the process of forming a word and the game cuts you off. It has happened many times so we know its not a fluke happening. That is the reason we give it only 2 stars. Hopefully this can be fixed so the game will continue as long as you are forming words.
Very entertaining, love the fact that we learn new words, also love using our brain. Keeps our brain fit! Love love love this game.
It provides the escape or diversion we need so we enjoy it.
This game takes our mind of the stresses of the day. Also, when we were stuck in an airport the other day, this game really helped in filling those agonizing hours.
We love Classic playing against time but wish there was a little more time. Great layout and very user friendly. Try it out.
This is our go to game. It makes us think fast something we need.
QueegQueeg. 03 April 2022. This is an Awesome Crossword Puzzle Game.we have been playing this game for 9 years.It is perfect for every level of players.It has a practice puzzle,Word find puzzle and a challenge puzzle. It also has a Trophy Case for Merits you can earn for self achievement. Its like getting 4 Apps in one.The game froze a year ago, so we e-mailed the developer Sarah about the issue and she personally replied back to us with an Apology and a very sincere Thank You for letting her know.How many developers take the time to personally respond to a problem,None!Most e-mails are computer generated and Cold. In our opinion this is by far the Best CrossWord Puzzle Game in the App Store.
We havent played in years. But after finding Wordle to be so mindless, we needed to challenge our brain again.
We've been playing this game (daily puzzle) for more than 8 years now and we feel like it exercises our brain a little each day. It's super fun and it's improved our problem solving skills and our scrabble game! Highly recommend this game if you like word games. Please offer an ad free game! We'd pay.
Pop Words is soooo fun! Kinda like scrabble but at a fast pace and you get to choose your speed. Great way to exercise your mind and learn new words in the process – quickly eats up time if youre sitting somewhere waiting or bored!! :).
This is a fun app. We think it scrambles the same puzzles over & over. Ive noticed words that show up in the same spots continually. It helps pass the time while waiting for an appointment.
Perfect challenging fun for the BRAIN.
Our grandkids showed us how to play this several years ago and we really enjoyed it. We just added it to our iPhone so we can play in our spare time and keep our 74 year old mind busy.
We love playing this game but it is so frustrating when you are in the process of forming a word and the game cuts you off. It has happened many times so we know its not a fluke happening. That is the reason we give it only 3 stars. Hopefully this can be fixed so the game will continue as long as you are forming words.
Please introduce a gradiation to get SOME credit for partial clearing of board. This is a unique, good game but getting ALL or NOTHING for board clearing is too severe.
We really enjoy the game, but would like an additional feature to be put into it. When the pop up window advising there is at least one more word, there should be an option to show the word.
Database of words needs to update with Miriam Webster dictionary. Doesnt recognize words like Latin jello or ozark Game often ends early on tablets if you touch the upper left side for some reason. This also happens on our iPhone version. Other than that game is very addicting and fun. Just frustrating when common words do not work and because of this your game ends too early.
Dont remember the timer prior to recently, but it takes all the fun out of the game.
While playing Popwords, we were shown an ad for trophy hunting. Disgusting and shameful. We dont want to see that again.
Im in the middle of playing and suddenly this ad pops up, pretending to be a system notification that our iPhones memory is full. We were playing on our iPad, you scammers. We wonder how many people fall for it if theyre playing on their phones. Apple, how is that not a violation of your terms??? Dont worry, there are plenty of other ways to kill time. Youve lost our trust.
Stops your play for an ad popping up over your game. Im Done! Tired of ads in all the games. Ads for games we would never play.
Im addicted! Our husband & we play every day. Our only frustration is that we often get cut off way before we think we should. We obviously do not understand how the scoring works.
Been playing, and enjoying, for several years. Now it crashes when trying to play daily puzzle.
Have enjoyed playing this for years and wish we hadnt downloaded the most recent update which broke the daily puzzle.
Ive been playing a long time. Over the last few days when we open the daily puzzle the app crashes within seconds. We contacted the developer but no reply. Too bad, it was one of our favorite games, now its deleted.
We have been playing this game for many years and loved it. Today we opened the game and cannot get the daily puzzle. Is it our we-pad or have you changed the format.
We really enjoy trying to best ourselves.
We do the daily puzzle every day. Challenge our self at least three or four times to get a higher score. Learn how to get the better scores, but never have understood how high score people come up the really weird words and the method they get there. Must use computer to generate their solutions.
Really like this game. Helping to exercise our brain. We will keep playing. Thanks for the fun! Jan.
As a poet, we have always enjoyed word games. This is one of our favorites.
Our fave game. Its our go to anytime we have a few idle minutes. And we enjoy seeing how others score, helps us stay on top of our game.
We love this game. Sometimes we get so involved we lose all track of time. We wash the point value were a little higher, but other than that we are a happy clam.
Ten stars. Best word game ever.
PopWords is our all time favorite game ever on our iPhone!! Its fun to keep trying to beat your own highest score!! Seriously if you havent tried it…down load it and give it a go…Im sure you will love it too.
It's not perfect, but we love it anyway.
We enjoy playing the game every day. Im satisfied trying to stay in the top 10%, and work to clear the board every time.
We really enjoy trying to beat our high score.
Keeps our mind going always a challenge.
Always start our day with this app….addictive.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.2
- Size: 34.24 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Sarah Pierce
Last updated: 12th June 2023 | Genre: Education, Board | Developer: Sarah Pierce