Last updated on October 7th, 2025 at 04:05 am
Word Chums – Word Game Review
Word Chums is a Word/Board/Entertainment game from PeopleFun, Inc., first launched in 13th September 2012.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 4,916+ 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.
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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 Word 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: 19th February 2025
Recent improvements include:
Performance Improvements
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:
A great game to play with words to help stimulate your mind.
A great game to play with words to help stimulate your mind.
Played the others but none have the benefits of bombs, hints and points showing immediately if its an accepted word! Love it! And so do our friends! Great game but sometimes it won’t accept a word like jomon which displays as a word in the Word Chums anagrams. Also, why does it accept some foreign words and not others? And even though we have downloaded many games, it will only give us one video a day to watch and earn 20 points.
A great game to play with words to help stimulate your mind.
This is great for spelling brush up and great fun. Just be sure to start with playing against people of the same level otherwise you can get discouraged. We play everyday and it is awesome competition.
Great to play when you have time on you hands.
Its addictive ( in a good way).
Word Chums is a wonderful way to keep in touch with friends while keeping the brain active. Great fun.
Love this it includes fun little chums which you can decorate and even choose a seson too.
Makes it fun with the little characters.
We enjoy this game. It can be a challenge. You choose. It’s extremely relaxing for us.
Love the colorful graphics and the word search help.
More fun that scrabble with friends.
Long-time Words with Friends player… This one is more FUN! Still play the other, but like Word Chums better! This game has better scoring opportunities, fun characters, and allows for word education.
Love this game! You need to know that " ugli" is a word. It’s a fruit. Your game won’t let us play the word.
Have been playing WWF for several years, but like this game so much better. We like that it shows whether you’ve laid down a "usable" word, hints option is great, also fun to get to buy items to up your points faster. Also like that we can play chumbots (our choice of level too!) any time and the wait time for them to respond with a word is immediate…not waiting for other player to respond like when we play a "real" player. Great game.
This is a great game! So much fun to chat with people from all over! Love the format, characters and challenge. We play with our son and 6 year old Grandson. Hope he takes it easy on us! Highly recommend.
Connects us with Friends and Family, including grandkids who are getting good at it, too.
Its a fun game and you use your mind.
2 of our friends cant play the game after the most recent update. It is crashing.
We love this game. We only ask for more outfits for our chums.
So much better than Words with Friends. Been playing for years with some of the same players, and we have no idea who one another is. We love the fact that you can actually see your point total for each word you make, before clicking. You can also play complete games with the comical Chumbots. We never get bored, and it challenges your vocabulary.
We cant get on this game that we have played for years. Written to you in support but we CSNT GRT ON TO GET YIUR ANSWER ! Please get in you with our email or text us. This is so frustrating. You say you are aware of glitch and continue to play while Im waiting for a fix. We CANT PLAY, cant sign up for updates NOTHING.
This is our favorite game, its fun plus we learn a lot of new words, found some friends, too. Plus, as of yesterday, we are getting notifications and sound! In all the years Ive played this game its never given us notifications! TY.
Lots of fun and sharpens your mind skills.
Great Game- point update as words build is great. Enjoyable game, good word builder. Super game enjoy playing. A good challenge.
More fun with more people Text your favorite people.
We love that you can chat with chums. We have made friends all over the world.
We play this game every day. The dictionary is different than ours, so we learn new words also. We like the highlights for finding new words also.
Love the Green indicators, the hints…awesome.
…is addictive! The only thing we would ask is that a visible list could be made for each player showing the words he used and the point value for later reference.
Best game to play with friends ever. Tried to go back to words with friends and didnt like it anymore after playing word chums.
Great game for long distance family & friends to stay connected.
This is our favorite game of all time. This was the first game we put on our iPad and now we put it on our iPhone. Thank you for such a great, enjoyable game.
We are completely and totally hooked on this game! It’s fast and fun with cute and clever avatars to enhance the experience.
Ive been playing for awhile but they dont seem to keep up with new words. We used to give them 5 stars but no more. Doesnt show if you did come in first. Havent seen a trophy in weeks.
We really like competing with the computer.
Our favorite game. Love the hints.
Fun to play and challenging too.
Nice way to meet people from other countries.
We have chums we have been playing for 5 years.
Great game, very loyal player. Love it. Great way to learn new words, awesome. Try it youll like it. Great value. Nice summer past time. GO CUBS. Have Fun.lets Go.
We enjoy thinking and not having to spend a lot doing so. This game is terrific.
Our friends and we have played Word Chums for the longest time…for years! So innovating! The seasons can change…the Word Chums have outfits to change with the seasons and holidays…the game can give you hints and bombs as you play…what is there not to like!!! You will not be disappointed!!! It will become your fave too.
Just wish you could earn the coins faster annoying waiting for them.
If u like scrabble and other word games, this is the best!! Love to play with the chum bots and with friends our favorite game! Love it.
Bunch of us switched from WWF. This ~scrabble PvP game is better. Nice hint feature, good chats, fun creature characters. App runs on Android phones, too, so more of us can play together. Zero crashes in 20 mos. =^) #RECOMMENDED iPhone 14 & iPad mini, iOS 18.x.
We really enjoy playing against friends of all levels. Also use it for quick messages since Im frequently checking it during the day. Retired so not on our phone as much.
Love this game! We have been playing for over 10 years.
Love this app! Never play Words with Friends anymore. This is so much more entertaining with the sound effects and we love the ability to play in teams. We are addicted.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.15.0
- Size: 188.38 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Simulated Gambling
- Developer: PeopleFun, Inc.
Last updated: 19th February 2025 | Genre: Word, Board | Developer: PeopleFun, Inc.