Last updated on December 12th, 2025 at 11:12 am
Pangram – Word Game Review
Pangram is a Word/Puzzle game from Russell Neufeld, first launched in 2nd January 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 4,154+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Pangram Stand Out
Pangram is a simple game – just make words!
See how many words you can make with the letters on the screen. Each word must include the center letter(s). Use letters as many times as you want in each word. Can you guess the pangram? Pangrams are words that use all the letters on the board. Each game has at least one, and many have more. Bonus points for finding them!
Configure games how you like them:
• Set the number of center (required) letters
• Set the number of outer (optional) letters
• Set the minimum word length
That's it! No lives to lose. No penalty for guessing wrong. No stress. Just play!
For some extra fun, send games to friends and family, publish them on the public games listing, or join other public games that fellow Pangrammers have posted. Each shared or public game has a leader board where you can track everyone's progress.
In the free version you can create and play one game a day. If you're having a blast, upgrade to the Unlimited Games in-app purchase. Create game after game after game…
Requirement: You must have iCloud Drive enabled to share games and play public games. The basic free tier is all that's needed.
Final note: My kids want you to know that Pangram looks even better in Dark Mode. Embrace the dark side, they say.
This Word game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Pangram is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th March 2024
Recent improvements include:
Lots of improvements, including:
• Indication of how many "perfect" pangrams are in a game
• Improved Apple Watch layout for watchOS 10
• "Shake to shuffle" on Apple Watch version (and iOS too!)
• Ability to sort found words and game answers by point value
• New words in the word list
• Accommodations for latest versions of iOS
Download & Availability
Pangram 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:
Have ten seconds? Make a word. Have more time? Make more words. Incredibly easy to pick up but just right in terms of difficulty since you choose the parameters for each game.
We cant play the game anymore because we got a new watch but we loved the game before. Please make a new update! For the Apple Watch OS version 8.8.1.
Im a paid subscriber, and Im running the latest version of ios on our phone we have deleted app and redownloaded it, but still we cant create games with custom letters. The curser is active and blinking in the box the ios keyboard pops up, but when we hit a letter nothing shows up. Ive even tried pasting it in and still nothing is there a setting or trick to it? Thanks for any help with this.
If you want to sharpen your mind, this game is for you! Im having a blast.
We love how they are all so hard working letter challenges and that is so much fun.
We enjoy the challenge, and periodically we learn new words. The designer addresses bugs quickly and stay in communication. There seems to be an endless, number of pangrams to solve; and the dictionary of possible words has expanded.
This is a challenging and fun word game. We play it so much that we need more options for board placement on our iPad to avoid wearing out spots.
We enjoy the challenge of rare or unique words, but this game has a whole lot of extremely rare words. In some of the games they completely dominate the word list. Other than that its a very well designed game that is great fun to play and most games have enough less-than-rare words that it doesnt affect the game unduly.
The reason we gave 4 stars instead of 5 is because Ive played/had this game for a few years but we have NEVER seen the letter S. Theres been Qs, Xs, Zs, Ys, Vs, and Ws. But not a single S? Im a bit baffled. All that being said, we play the game multiple times a week and enjoy it very much.
Ive really enjoyed playing this for more than a year. Fun while requiring thought. Ive had no technical problems. However, none of the many dozens upon dozens of sets of letters have ever featured the letter s. Perhaps the developer has a superstitious reason for apparently not encoding words with an extremely common letter in the English language.
We really like this game but we wish the submitted word list was displayed more efficiently. We enjoy this more than similar apps but would love it even more if the found words were in a vertical, alphabetical list.
We love a game like this and this setup has a lot of potential. Dont get us wrong, we play it a lot. HOWEVER. Be prepared for real words in the dictionary to NOT be accepted as answers. We dont know what the glitch is but it happens a ton. Including obscure words. And very common words. (Most recently had ripping be denied as a word). Since there doesnt seem to be a real rhyme or reason to why, its our biggest issue with the game.
Seems like half the words they use are from an obscure medical dictionary from 1890.
We really like the app. Please adopt some quality control and minimize the number of games that include e and r. Of the currently published games that require one letter, 10 out of 25 include an e and an r. Yesterday, it was 16 out of 25 and Saturday it was 10 out of 27. Its boring. Tnx.
We purchased unlimited games, but cannot play new games. Im not sure why this is whether its delivered deception or some kind of problem with the app.
Free play is good for one day only. No ad supported version. Ill stick with the NYT game of Spelling Bee.
Great game. Only problem is trying not to play it! Nice job Russ. Thank you. New winning time for us 9 minutes.
Affordable app for what you get. Im ashamed we spend hours a day playing it. We used to be a huge Blossom fan but this game has replaced that object of our obsession. The developer, Russ, makes regular updates and sends lovely messages in the NEWS menu. Find words, see how you rank, create your own games, leaderboards. Its all great.
We love this game! However the most recent update broke it for us. IPhone 12Pro, iOS 16.1.1. If we hit create game we are returned to our Games and then the app is completely unresponsive. We have restarted the app and the phone. Also tried deleting, restarting and reinstalling. Still the same.
For those of us who are technologically challenged, we have no means of submitting legitimate words for inclusion. This email link is beyond our understanding. We do not have email on our phone. Of late the game rejected wrentit (a bird) and allocute (when a criminal defendant admits to his crime to the court in his own words.).
Using even the beyond-basic levels, this game does not recognize completely normal words (such as labile). It doesnt make sense that you cannot get points for many common English words that are definitely found in the dictionary.
Really loving the new(ish) word stats feature! Seeing how many words remain starting w/ a given letter, or of a given length is fun and challenging. Motivates us to stick with each game until we reach level ten (and keep going) now that we can see the breakdown of what remains to be found. Thanks.
Im enjoying the game and would be happy to donate but we dont understand the various options.
Love the game but suddenly we don't show up in the leaderboard.
Its fun and we paid the fee for unlimited games. Ill keep playing. But we like hints and there are none.
We just cant say enough about the game. Highly customizable gameplay means it never gets boring. You can adjust all facets of the play, required letter, optional letter, word length, even avoiding common suffixes to stay away from endless -ES versions of words. The UI is also infinitely customizable to fit your mood, your eyes and finger preferences! We made a minor suggestion to the dev and he was super engaging and interested. Whether he incorporates is up to him but he responded and didnt ignore us. Lastly and definitely not least, there are no super invasive ads or click bait!!! We love this and have tipped on the side because we would rather give our money directly to the developer than endorse the practice of more and more ad space.
Totally love playing this game even upgraded so we could playmore than one a day. Recently, we have noticed that letters are being reused in different games. The only thing that changes is the middle letter. The seven letters are all still the same. They are just using a different letter for the middle. VANELOF. – these letters were used in two different games, one game had N in the middle, the other had O. And to make matters worse the two games were only six games apart.
After we updated to the latest version, the game is unbearably slow. Letters take at least a full second to appear after Ive tapped them. Its unplayable.
We love word games and this is one of our favorites, and the app is really well done. Our only gripe about the app is that the difficulty between different games changes drastically. Some games can be completed in minutes because the letter combinations lead to many common words. But some games are so difficult because most of the words are incredibly uncommon that it is impossible to get past 5 levels without having to randomly guess the rest of the words. This is just a small gripe though. Still love the game.
Our favorite game to play on our phone, we pull it up every day. Also, Russ is the man! Its so cool to be able to communicate with the developer of a game you enjoy so much. Thanks.
listing the user identified words in a single line thats not in alphabetical order makes it difficult to check if youve already found that word. Its not unusual to have well over a hundred words found over a period of several hours – too many to easily remember. Listing the words alphabetically, in columns (similar to NY Times Spelling Bee) would be a very nice improvement.
Good game but occasionally we find words that it doesnt acceptlike ukulele.
We love the game but every time we play we find that these two things happen: 1. Legitimate words that we enter are rejected and later appear in the answers. 2. Words we enter are accepted but then somehow drop off and are not counted in our score The third frustrasting thing we have found is the inclusion of fake words in the answers. Also some foreign words are accepted as answers and not others. All of this really needs to be corrected.
Every time we check the answers to what we missed and we see a bunch that this game cannot even explain. Why are these words even there then? If they are not in a dictionary and have no explanation, then they are not real words.
Downloaded and played one game. Then tried to play a second game only to find out we must upgrade from the free version in order to play more than one game in a 24 hour period! Sorry, but we dont upgrade. We are absolutely fine with ads. Apparently there is no option for ads. So we deleted it. Dont bother downloading this if you arent ready to pay to play. Absolutely ridiculous.
Could even figure out how to play because it only allow one free game per 24 hours. Before we realized this we had created a game but deleted it wanting to start over.
Have been doing NYT version love that we can compete now.
This is like NYTs spelling bee on crack. It is worth buying the full version 10x over. The customization options are awesome, there are no ads, and any skill level can have fun playing. Favorite word puzzle game ever.
A great game to while away some time. Super fun.
Love that it makes you think! The only thing that would make it better would be to have the found words in alpha order so you can more easily search on them.
Please add an option to turn off shuffle letters when the phone shakes! Its very sensitive and annoying when Im playing in transit or if we toss our phone down.
The star words (that use all letters) are always so obscure and uncommon. Still fun to play, but this is a missed opportunity. This game would be 5 stars with a better word list.
After the Apple Watch update a few days ago, all we get is a white screen… We're a huge fan of this game, so we're incredibly disappointed. Please help.
Was hoping for much more from this game. Shouldve listened to the other reviews. Also forces you pay to play.
Love this game. Addictive but activates our lazy brain more than we care to admit. Like we said, addictive, but in a good way.
We love the game. Its everything the NYT version is not. But the times that players post are totally bogus. Hundreds of points in just a few minutes? We dont think so! Im torn between hating the cheaters and wanting to learn how to cheat ourselves so we can post our own impossible scores.
This program (or at least the free version) limits you to one game in a 24 hour period. This means that we cant play quite one game per day. For, example, if we start a game at 8 AM on Monday, and start a game at Noon on Tuesday, we are not allowed to start a game at 8 AM on Wednesday again. We would like to be able to play one game a day, regardless of what time we start.
How is anyone supposed to get the word precieux? Get real.
A sudden proliferation of internal errors such as not updating participants progress.
Uh half of these words dont have any definitions that pop upor we really have to do some searching. Are these real common words.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2.4
- Size: 10.63 MB
- iOS: 16.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Russell Neufeld]()
Last updated: 12th March 2024 | Genre: Word, Puzzle | Developer: Russell Neufeld