Last updated on January 21st, 2026 at 10:30 am
Word Chums! – Entertainment Game Review
Word Chums! is a Entertainment/Board/Word game from PeopleFun, Inc., first launched in 13th September 2012.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 23,662+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Word Chums! Stand Out
More fun than Words With Friends and more addicting than Scrabble, WORD CHUMS: the highest rated word game, earning a perfect 5 Star rating from users.
Find out why people are saying “Once you play it, you can’t go back to your old word game.”
“When I went from Words With Friends and other word games to Word Chums, there was no going back.” – VentureBeat
“This game takes it to another level with fun graphics and sounds, a built in dictionary, team mode, 3-4 player mode…”
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"I really love this game. A great game for the whole family and your friends.. It keeps you thinking. It's a challenge. Try it, you'll love it."
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"Way better than other word games! I am hooked!"
“Word Chums adds a significant layer of additional incentives to keep playing atop the basic formula.” Adweek
◆ INTRODUCING THE CHUMS
Oozing with personality, they bring the game to life. Have fun earning gear to outfit your Chum and expressing your style. They’re guaranteed to make you chuckle.
◆ INCREDIBLY STREAMLINED GAMEPLAY
Word Chums is a pleasure to play. See words validate instantly as you place letters and see the scoring badge automatically indicate word strength.
◆ FAMILIAR CROSSWORD GAMEPLAY
Word Chums stays true to the classic word building gameplay you know and love.
◆ EARN TOP CHUM STATUS
Earn experience points with each word played and level up to become King or Queen of the Chums. Show off your “wordly” prowess by climbing your way to the top of the weekly leaderboards.
◆ TRULY SOCIAL
See how all your friends are doing from the friends list on the main screen. Experience a new level of collaborative fun by grabbing a teammate for a couples challenge.
◆ SAY GOODBYE TO GETTING STUMPED
Just when you need it most…Hints can point you to the location of a better word.
◆ SATISFIES THE SERIOUS GAMER
Word Chums has achievements, best-word challenges, leveling, player stats, leaderboards and much more. It’s a deep gaming experience for everyone that gamers can master.
◆ LEARN A LITTLE
Expand your vocabulary as you quickly experiment with new letter combinations and instantly discover new words. Tap any word to see its definition.
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◆ SPECIAL FEATURES
• 2-4 player games
• Play versus friends, random opponents, and computer Chumbots
• Customizable Chum characters
• Know valid words before you press play
• Automatically see the strength of your word
• Weekly leaderboard competitions
• Find the best word and beat the hint challenges
• Drop a Bomb and take your turn with a new set of letters
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◆ ABOUT PeopleFun
Word Chums is a new kind of word game experience that comes to you from the makers of Age of Empires, one of the best-selling and most award-winning games of all time. Give it a try!
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Word Chums! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
Performance Improvements and Bug Fixes
Download & Availability
Word Chums! 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:
It's a fun game and you can play with your friends! Amen.
Great game, fun characters, if ya like scrabble, you will love it. Wish they would create more outfits for the chums.
So many variables as how you want to play this game after all sometimes we want easy and other times we prefer to be challenged. Playing with computer is quick, playing with random guest or with friends expands the choices for entertainment. Happy characters lighten a stressful day.
Great word game! Better than Scrabble.
Excellent especially advertising placement.
This is our new favourite game – we're addicted. So much better than Scrabble or Words with Friends. Our only complaint is we forget the time and am always running late for work or an appointment! It is so much fun and we love the stars that challenge you to find a higher score. We also love the cute characters. We would recommend this game to anyone.
We LOVE this game, its keeping us alert.
Love to challenge the friends we play with! They certainly challenge us! Love the hint option! Wish we could get other friends to play this game with us. Barb.
We have been playing this game for many many years..first with the word chum and now with a friend! Its challenging but so much fun! Absolutely love it.
We have played this game for about eight years and absolutely love it we have been playing this game for ever. We look forward to it every afternoon after work. Ive never had any trouble with it at all. Thank you so much. The only thing that bothers us is that sometimes our opponents score is hitting by the paraphernalia that they put on their character. We hope you would look into this. The game keeps our mind very very sharp and challenged. We play about three hours a day. Thank you.
We always look forward to playing, great fun! One of the best word games out there, always fun to play.
We find playing Word Chums to be very entertaining and fun. The game keeps you on your toes from moment to moment and we think it helps expand you vocabulary.
Having a great time with this game ! Been playing for over 9 years now and never EVER get tired of it. We look forward to playing friends in CHUMS as well as the computer picks. We Love the features and this is a great way to expand vocabulary and brain power! Our friends and we are addicted and love playing! CookieLady51 However, we wish they would reward loyalty! Like a nice discount on other packages.
Great choices of opponents, nice tools. The game rocks! A word game that stands above all the others. Superb! Just try it.
The visuals are super well done, and its so fun. We have several people that Ive been playing with for years, Ive made a friend, and learned about other parts of the country. Some have been our friends for years now. Try it! Lately our game has been freezing, though. It just freezes right in the middle of a move. Help.
This is one of our favorite games! We love how you can play with friends and get to chat! We love all the different characters and outfits its so cute. We highly recommend.
This game is pretty much connected to our hip all day long everyday! We play with friends or the Porkchop! He is our favorite! Sign in and see if you can beat us. We are a super player, haha.
We have been playing with two different players for 10 years each. All of us have gotten better, but Ilene gets her per word average very high. We are working on that. All of us uses MoreWords.com to maximize the number of choices that we have. Chums star system and suggested playing areas are extremely helpful in increasing the total points for each play.
Best single person game we have EVER played! As soon as we make a word, it comes back with a word in 3 sec. We can play a entire long game in 20 min! Keeps our mind fit playing everyday. Probably average 2-3 hours/day against Hooty. You can beat any, but the top three are out of hand when they turn it on. Hooty is relaxing, and always trying to string 5-8 in a row. Usually Im 60-40. It doesnt matter, cause we drink alone.
We love scrabble and we like that u can pick the chums and upgrade gear. Play with people all over. Esp when we cant get to sleep.
Love the fact that the word lights up if it's a true word!! We all love it here.
Fun game! Entertaining and challenging! Addictive.
This is really great game to play with our friends.
Favorite game. Like the ability to chat.
We love playing Word Chum. We enjoy playing w/our 4 player game which Ive been playing over 3 years. Such sweet people.
Only downloaded cuz SJP talked about playing it, but now Im addicted lol.
Addicting!!!! Good fun!!!good clean fun.
Love the game. Love the game. Working on No 8 novel. We are 85 years old now. Have played the game since the beginning. Very good for our brain. We have many Chum friends.
What a fun and interesting game. Makes words with friends pretty boring now. Good job.
If you love scrabble games, this is the game to download. We love it.
Word Chums has several features we enjoy very much: added credit for longer words, indication of word strength before playing it, and indication of best word played so you can seek a better word if possible.
This game takes the game of scrabble and makes it unbelievably cute with little characters that you can customize! It's so fun and perfect to play anytime and anywhere with friends and family! Thank you to the developers of this game for making the perfect game! :).
We have enjoyed many word games in the past, but none as challenging or as rewarding as Word Chums! We often have 10-15 different games all going at the same time. Try it! You'll like it.
Recently we havent been able to get into the game it kicks us out fix it.
We love this app and play with people all over. However, the app has been broken now for over three days. We cant find anything to indicate they are aware of it or trying to fix it. We hope we can get it back soon.
Hi, can you please fix this issue? Everytime we open it crashes.
Ive enjoyed playing this game for a couple of years now but suddenly the app isnt working. Every time we try to load the game it bumps us out. We hope they fix it soon.
We like playing this game because we have always been a descent speller and now we get to see words that go together.
Its a fun game. We just wish there werent so many ads. Or that you could X out of them.
It is more than frustrating to have the game freeze up during our turn so often.
Love the game, been playing for over 15 years.
We have enjoyed this game for several years. But recently it is freezing up for several seconds at a time. We sent a message via the game support and they responded that they are looking into to it, but its been several weeks now.
Good thinking game. Keeps you on your toes.
The game is entertaining, and appeals to the collector in us, but the freeze bug is back once again. The game is constantly freezing at random points. Never for more than a few seconds, but enough to interrupt play and get very annoying. This went on for a long time, was fixed for a long time, and now it's back. We are sure the developer will try to blame our device or internet, but we play an online graphics intensive game every day and it never freezes. Sure hope they get this fixed soon.
Great game. We like many of the features. Lots of fun. Our favorite game.
We love playing Word Chums however we do get frustrated when this game continues to freeze up a lot we play a lot of other games on our device without this problem so we know its a glitch with this particular game.
This last month the game keeps freezing up..what is the issue.
Word Chums is a fun game that you do not get tired of.
The app no longer closes out which is great, but its now freezing in the middle of word play.
This is a fun game. However for the last week we just keep getting connection errors. There is nothing wrong with our connection so we dont know what the problem is. It happens when we are in different places.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.16.2
- Size: 196.27 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- Developer: PeopleFun, Inc.
Last updated: 28th September 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Board | Developer: PeopleFun, Inc.