Last updated on January 3rd, 2026 at 11:04 pm
Stop – Categories Word Game – Education Game Review
Stop – Categories Word Game is a Education/Trivia/Word game from Fanatee, Inc., first launched in 29th January 2014.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 105,705+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Stop – Categories Word Game Stand Out
Love word games and trivia? Try Stop, the smash-hit word puzzle game that's been an App Store Editor's Choice in 18 countries!
Stop starts by randomly selecting five categories and one letter. You then have 60 seconds to think up five words—one for each category—that begin with that letter. Submit the most correct answers, and you win!
One letter. Five categories. Infinite chances to prove you are a word wizard!
Features:
- A fast-paced, easy-to-play update of a beloved pen-and-paper game
- 200+ captivating categories (and counting!)
- Connect with friends through in-game nicknames, Facebook, or Game Center. Or let Stop match you with a fresh opponent
- Unlock achievements that validate your vocab mastery
- Multilingual? Mix it up! Stop can be played in English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, and Turkish!
Start playing Stop today!
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This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Stop – Categories Word Game is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
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Bug fixes
Thanks everyone for the feedback!
Team Fanatee
Download & Availability
Stop – Categories Word Game is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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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:
Stop is such a fun game and it never gets old. Like sometimes games get boring after a while but not this one. And most of the categories are things you know what they are. And it is so fun. It is also not too addicting. We would definitely recommend this game.
Too many ads but fun playing remotely with our friend.
Its a easy fun family game for at home, on the road, or with friends. Its good for most ages and is a fun challenge. We definitely recommend it.
Stop is our favorite online game.
Its really fun to play, and it helps us stay in contact with people while long distance! But having an ad after every single round is exhausting. We get ads make games free, and we dont mind them very often because the world we live in is full of them, but its getting to a point of fatigue.
We like this game a lot, but it can be a bit frustrating because words are sometimes valid or not valid inconsistently. For example, when playing on an S, we entered S. Grant for a U.S. President. It used to be valid and now its not. We just played a player who used S. Truman and his answer was valid. Grrr.
The only bad part is the time can piss you off. Thats why they added zen mode. But some categories have answers that nobody has ever heard of. After a while you will get bored of it.
We understand ads are an important revenue source for developers, but ads in this game are excessive. We dont want to watch an ad every 60 seconds after matches. We honestly really enjoy this game and would be happy to pay a one-time fee or even subscription fee to remove ads. We guarantee Id sit and play for hours longer if we didnt get sick of the ads first and end up quitting to play another word game.
Good game but way too many ads you can't close for minutes.
The game is pretty fun but it sometimes takes a while for our opponent to respond. We also have to many ads that pop up and enterupt our game other than that It is a really fun game.
We really enjoy this game. Ive been looking for a good game to play on our phone, and this one is our new favorite. Our only complaint is that we wish that your opponent didnt have the ability to restrict your time when youre playing your turn. In our opinion, you should be allotted one minute and the other player shouldnt be able to shorten it.
Its so fun and enjoyable but way too many Ads.
We love stop! Its really fun to play with friends, and even strangers. Theres nothing wrong with this app. The ads are short. The only thing we dont like is that we can never win.
This game is very fun and has a wide variety of answers . Ive been playing for years and Im still not bored. However, this game needs an update. For example, it asked for a Pokmon starting with F, so we put falinks a sort of newer Pokmon, and the answer was deemed incorrect. We reported it, but many times we report answers that shouldve been correct and nothing gets changed. If the game gets updated to include recent events, we would play much more and it would be a refreshing touch on a repetitive game.
We find it challenging and enjoyable.
This game is awesome for challenging your friends on questions its awesome it can also give you coins just in case you get a bad letter thats amazing.
TAKE OUT THE K, Z, X, Y, W, CAUSE THEY ARE TOO HARD, BUT IT IS FUN GAMES ANYWAYS THANKS.
As someone who has to win in every competitive activity, this game makes us so happy! The feeling we get every time we win is so overwhelmingly joyous.10/10 definitely recommend.
We started playing this game when we were on lockdown during the pandemic. Our daughter and we used to play this every evening before bedtime. Love the challenge and finding what words our opponents come up with. Im using this app to do our part to keep our brain sharp.
We love how you can play with your friends and test their knowledge! Highly recommend! This game is challenging in a good way. Its not just a childs play style game, its actually challenging and enjoyable at the same time.
Overall we like the app, but we dont like how you have to watch an ad to go to the Home Screen.
How is masturbating a hobby and mosaic only half a point.
Absolutely entertaining game. We gave it 4 stars because they never fix their mistakes. Like pirates of Caribbean is famous franchise movie but they dont accept it no matter how many times we clivk onnthe correct button. The ads dont bother us because its necessary. Just fix it for god sake.
Fun game but wayyyy to many ads , its an ad after u play one game everytime . Overall it is a good game jus wish tha ads would decrease being one every 3 games u play.
We love this game a little too much. We not extremely competitive but we do get bothered when we cant complete our round when the phone rings. Other than that our brain cells are enjoying the workout of pulling words out of our head. Also, we would love to thumbs up our opponents good answers and maybe comment on the round.
Super Bowl scorers from last year, modern basketball players, etc. Are not up-to-date. Should be done automatically.
This game would be more enjoyable if the wheel didnt land on we, K, O, Q, U, X or Z more than 85% of the time.
Its fun, good concept, but we keep putting words that arent counting lol, we look them up after and theyre correct but the game just counts them wrong, also wayyy too many ads.
Would be better if it accepted answers that should actually be correct and the ads are terrible.
Hows Koala Baby not accepted in Baby Things? A quick Google check shows the diaper changing station and a baby carrier with that name brand. And hows kart racing not considered a birthday thing? Our child had two bday parties in a kart racing track, and attended two other kids birthday parties in one. Also according to Google Escalante is a city along the Utah Scenic Bywayhows that not a US tourist attraction.
After 4.5 years, our process was erased. We didnt notice until yesterday. We had over 10,000 coins. We only have 34 now. Im assuming our account was erased between Nov and Dec of 24. We dont have FB, so saving with them wasnt an option. Disappointed, but Ill get over it. The app is free after all.
Good game but the ads ruin the fun a little.
Can you have a little dignity and not allow pornographic advertisements? Is so base, pathetic, and disappointing. Where is your class.
You get an ad for literally everything. Itll likely be the reason we stop playing.
Its fun but when you play for only like 2 rounds you have to wait like. 30minutes for another round and its stupid.
Too much inconsistency in whether a plural answer is given a green score. Keep thinking this will be fixed.
Wow we used to love this game but this is really disappointing. We were so far in and deleted it just to be able to update our phone and redownload it. Well we tried everything but our account is lost. We had no idea we were supposed to make a Facebook account or something. Thats really the only way you can get your account back? And you didnt tell anyone that and just assumed they would know? So disappointing. Cant believe we wasted our time on this game just for all of our progress to be lost. We even paid for infinite hearts and no ads and lost all of it. This app is a scam.
This game was great for the first few months. Paid for unlimited lives, earned over 800 coins and was on an advanced level with many wins logged and categories unlocked. Then everything was gone. We reached out to their customer service (which is very responsive and kind) but its been weeks and even though our account was synched with our Facebook its gone and they cant get it back. Some problem with the app and iOS. Very frustrating.
Used to play this with our grandma bc she could understand it, thought about it the other day and im redownloading it! Its so fun and chill, great game for thinking and vocabulary. We love Stop.
Have been playing this game for years. Great game to refresh the brain.
THIS GAME IS AWESOME and really fun to play but there is a lot of ads and you have to wait a while for new hearts but otherwise we love this game.
Just something really quick, u need to update the answers because one video game franchise we put was mario odyssey and thats a real one and it was wrong sooo.
We truly cannot express the happiness we feel while playing this game. Definitely recommend although, we wish there were more lives. It totally takes the fun away when the fun ends.
Lovely game so much fun however not enough lives !! Gimme five lives pls.
We like this game but whenever we got to choose the categories it never let us continue playing after our turn. It may be because we press play against random opponent but it was a bit annoying for us. Otherwise we liked this game.
So its a really fun game but we dont like the fact that we have to wait so long and that we loose a heart every time we want to play somebody else Its very fun but it could be mean better.
We do REALLY enjoy this game! We do have two complaints though. We just wasted all our points to re-spin after getting the letters (right in a row: X, Z, U, Z and X. WHAT is UP with that? It happens far too often and its MADDENING. We can deal with getting a lot of Ks, Jd Vs and even the occasional we, but what can a player do with constant Z, U, and X? The other complaint (THIS is what caused us to finally leave a review), today we played a final round playing with the letter C. The category was Superheroes. We knew it was a stretch, but the only thing we could think of was Catwoman. We didnt think Id get even half a point, but we did. GreatI was surprised and happy with that. UNTIL we looked over at our opponents answers and she had also written Catwoman for her Superheroes answer. The problem? We got 1/2 point for MY answer (yes, it was spelled correctly) and our opponent got a FULL POINT for the SAME ANSWER! We still won the game, but this kind of thing really bothers us. There are a lot of answers Ive given that are absolutely valid but have not been accepted (we always report it when this happens). Its also irritating when there are categories like Pizza Toppings any your opponent puts Jam and gets a full point for that ridiculous answer. We have NEVER been in ANY pizza establishment where JAM was an offered topping! These kinds of things makes it hard to win a round or a game. Developers, PLEASE take a look at the issues mentioned above and correct them! STOP! Can do better!!! UPDATE: we received a very nice response today (11/10/24) acknowledging our complaint, an apology and reassurance from the developers they are looking into the problem in an effort to correct the problem we had so it doesnt happen again. It is very nice to know that when people have a problem and post it, someone does actually READ the review, and even better, actually RESPONDS to you PERSONALLY, rather than just posts a generic, So sorry this happened, well try to do better. Good customer service isnt easy to find these days. Im grateful that the developers of STOP! Took a few minutes to write to us personally. Thank you so much.
The game we rally fun to play the one app one our phone we dont get tired of playing.
We love this game! Especially because they count rats as an answer for pretty much anything.
This game is so fun u should totally get it u can chat wt ppl and u can play people we just love it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.34.0
- Size: 166.37 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ES, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information, Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity, Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Fanatee, Inc.
Last updated: 14th October 2025 | Genre: Education, Trivia | Developer: Fanatee, Inc.