Last updated on January 15th, 2026 at 07:03 pm
Word Master – Pro – Board Game Review
Word Master – Pro is a Board/Word game from Luis Gualandi, first launched in 26th April 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 3,738+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Word Master – Pro Stand Out
Advantages of the Pro version:
Ad-Free Experience
7 additional board layouts
Randomize the board. Mix up the DL, DW, TL TW tiles and give the game a new twist
Option to enable the hints feature (Valid words appear above the rack as you form them by moving the tiles)
Word Master is an innovative version of the traditional “Crosswords" board puzzle.
Not needing internet connection, using unique fast artificial intelligence resources and with highly customizable options, Word Master is used by crossword games enthusiasts for quick offline training and induce the players to improve their skills and reasoning in the game.
Create words with the 7 letters on your rack and place them on the 15 by 15 tile board. Boost your score by placing letters on the special Double Letter, Double Word, Triple Letter and Triple Word tiles.
Languages supported:
• English
• French (Français)
• Portuguese (Português)
• German (Deutsch)
• Spanish (Español)
• Italian (Italiano)
• Dutch (Nederlands)
• Norwegian (Norsk)
• Swedish (Svenska)
• Romanian(Romana)
• Greek(Ελληνικά)
• Polish (Polski)
• Catalan(Català)
PLAY AGAINST THE COMPUTER
Choose the level and the duration of the game. No more waiting long hours for your opponent to play! Both computer and player tiles are randomly selected, simulating in the best way possible a game against a real opponent.
PASS N' PLAY
Play offline against friends! In the bus, airport, train or whatever place you are.
CHALLENGE MODE
Find out if you are a true hampion. In this mode, you score more points in each turn as you come closer to the best possible word. Try to beat your high scores!
IMPROVE YOUR PERFORMANCE WITH THE MASTER
After each turn, you will be able to see which words you could have played. Learn how to use the bonus squares on the board and the standards for the formation of words.
ENRICH YOUR VOCABULARY WITH WORD DEFINITIONS
Swipe your finger across any word on the board and get its dictionary definition. (Internet required)
DESIGN YOUR OWN BOARD
Use your creativity to place the bonus squares just where you want them to be.
MORE FEATURES:
• Do not waste your time searching whether the word you chose exists! As you place the word on the board, the game will display whether the word is or not valid and its score.
• Get tips for valid words being created in your rack as you are arranging your letters (You can enable or disable this feature at any time).
• Save your game and resume later.
• Keep track of your records and stats (e.g. best final score, best word ever played, total bingos and more).
• Choose from various board layouts, including random.
• Block the droid from using very rare words.
• Bad draw helper (avoid receiving a rack with no consonants or no vowels).
• Two dictionaries in English available
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Word Master – Pro is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 8th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Small revisions in the user interface
- General improvements and bug fixes
Download & Availability
Word Master – Pro is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Word Master – Pro on App Store
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:
Been useful in getting repetition play. Wish it had a play with friends online option.
This is the best word game ever, theres only a one time fee, not a monthly.
Feature to edit the board is fantastic. Editing the dictionary also good. And, it is really easy to learn a new word's meaning by swiping on it – an innovative feature. Perhaps a bit too permissive in accepting obscure words, e.g. Obsolete words. On the whole, great. We play it several times daily.
Finally found a scrabble game that can be played solo. And, this Word MasterPro game is without ads. A nice scrabble game without silly cartoons or awards. To the developers of this game: thank you.
Wordmaster is a sophisticated version of the classic board game of our youth. Every enthusiast should appreciate it immensely. Thank you! No doubt it would be a significant undertaking to create a Wordmaster version that would allow people to play each other instead of just the program. However, we believe enough people would pay for the opportunity to have a solid play environment without constant ads, bots, artificial barriers to play, and violations of privacy far beyond what is disclosed in everyday terms. We hope such a version will some day be available.
Wow! This is a fantastic app. We used to enjoy playing the Scrabble app, but this is so much better. No longer do you need to mourn the loss of that old app. You can configure the board anywhere you like, and play at a variety of levels. Everything about this game is aesthetically pleasing and a joy to use. And the developer is very responsive to suggestions. Dont hesitate to get the pro version. Its super worth it.
First off, we always play against the computer on easy to ensure a win. After we play our tiles we can click a button and see what other words we could have played and how many points they were worth and where they could have been placed on the board. This helps us understand how to improve, which we appreciate.
Im 79 years old now and this game is wonderful for keeping our mind sharp. We love it and we encourage others to play as well.
This is how you do a premium game! Free version is great too. Only request would be to add more customization.
We love the game and it is challenging but keeps freezing up.
We have multiple dictionaries on our phone and desktop , the computer/app played a word spelled wrong. We also did a web search on the spelling and couldnt find the word as spelled.
How is Sunday not a word in the English dictionary.
The original scrabble app was great until they changed it. This one is the best one out there now. Please dont change it.
This is a great alternative to the official (and horrible) Scrabble app, but we wish he would add one simple feature in the game preferences: the option to always go first when playing against the computer.
Great app. So simple and pure. We Wish the computer waited 5 seconds to put its word down so we could regale in our bingos a bit longer. Also wish there was a definition feature.
Love the pro version of this game – no ads, and lots of ways to customize the game to your preferences in the settings.
Hate the battle thing against another person. Waste of time.
This is our go to downtime game. Our kids even enjoy helping while looking ove r our shoulder.
Love it but needs a back button for when you make a mistake.
Worth it 1,000,000%. Seamless and meditative experience that rivals certain pies. Highly recommend.
An excellent game. Challenging and fun! This game is great for people wanting to work to keep their brain active. It has a feature where you can play against the computer. You can choose the language you want to play in. And the level. We play at the master level in our native language and the easy level in foreign languages we are practicing. Word Master Pro is a real challenge where you are in control of the difficulty and can enter or exclude words in the dictionary. Word Master is a relaxing way to exercise your memory.
We really love this scrabble game. We believe it is the best game ever.
We like this game. Use the pass and play but only works with 2 people. We really wish it had a 4 player pass and play.
The best scrabble app for now, but Avoid Bad Draws should really be changed to Use actual randomness. We feel like Im going crazy with the amount of statistically horrible draws Ive gotten consecutively. Surely some of it is just true randomness but something is definitely slightly off when on master + no bad draws. Ive drawn no blanks for the first 10 games and drawn 5 vowels/consonants at once countless times. Id rather the bot think a little more about their leave or blocking to increase difficulty rather than artificial things.
Love this app, but Ive noticed when we win too much (Im good, we admit) we start getting pathetically bad letters and the bot gets all the juicy ones and the blanks. To the point that we trade in constantly or just quit the game and start a new one. Not fair! We dont mind losing, but we want an even game, not a ridiculously unbalanced one. Would love to hear from the developers: Am we imagining this, or is it programmed to make it harder to win when you beat the bot too often.
We were tired of playing the ad-laden games WWF & Scrabble Go, where you end up playing perhaps 20% of your time on the game and no matter how well you play, you almost never complete a level and get the rewards unless you spend money. We just want to play Scrabble. Imagine our happiness when we found Word Master Pro, where the game board is exactly like Scrabble, and for $5 or $6 you are free from ads forever. For our first 40-50 games, our win-loss ratio was approximately 3-1. The tiles we were given during game play seemed random and realistic. However, over the last 30 or so games, the tile draw seems not so random and quite reminiscent of the ones we would get in Scrabble Go, mostly vowels and with a consonant or two. We seem to get an inordinate amount of Is, Us, and Rs. Not cool, as it coincides with a marked decrease in wins. We are now just below a 2-1 win/loss ratio. We do not think we are paranoid in this observation and we are not happy about it. Note: in spite of this apps 4.8 rating, we feel in retrospect that we should have read some of the lower reviews, as they are lockstep in what we are positing now. And noting the lack of responses from the developer, it must be true and will not change.
Randomizarion of letter draws seems inconsistent, as does the skill of the bot opponent at Master level. Update: we deleted it. The letter distribution also seems to be affected by whether you recently quit a game before finishing. Are there any better Scrabble-ish apps with better randomness on letter draws.
This would be the perfect app for practicing scrabble, but the lack of inclusion of the NASPA word list as an option for the dictionary makes it unusable for that purpose.
It's a swell piece of work. Happy retirement fun. Great job.
Where is pass and play?! It updated and now that feature is gone. That is how we played the game and now im sad its gone. Is it coming back pleasasssse.
Word choices need to be expanded. There are dozens of words that are used in everyday conversation that arent allowed.
Since you can no longer get regular scrabble with out ads and distractions , we were hoping there was a game they could replicate it. This game has great gameplay and is fun at the same time. We would highly recommend it.
We love this game. It is the very best Ive played.
We love everything about the is game! The speed, the simple board, that we can play pass and play, the word definitions, the difficulty levels.
So after a decade and a year we got an iPhone again. We checked if our older EA Scrabble was available and we were shocked it still works on this iOS version. Been playing it and EA Scrabble is the gold standard. But theres a few more varieties itch we had. Found this and classic words and was amazed how good this is. Ended up buying this because its a quality product. The pro has better features and layout and well worth the $5 they charged. Kudos and keep it up. Programming is a joy and we like well written programs.
This game never gets old to us. Fast paced and easy to understand.
We play everyday. It's so relaxing.
Maybe Im old but we want our scrabble to be simple, we dont need flash bombs, crazy animated graphics, pop ups from hellI dislike what Scrabble and Words with Friends became, so happy theyve kept this one simple.
It is so refreshing to play a game without all the utter nonsense one encounters playing Words with Friends. Keep up the good work.
Finally we found a simple classic Scrabble game without all the extra stuff.
We miss the details in the prior version. Example: before the update you could see the word list with word scores after completing the game. Would also like to see more analysis details after completing the game such as which word was the best move, game player history stats, etc.
Love this app, which we use every day. However since the latest update, fonts for suggestions above the tiles and in text boxes are smaller and overall less contrasted and easily readable. Same for the Master suggestions which now you have to slide over to see different options. This is more annoying than just tapping. Would you please fix that? Thanks.
Ive been addicted to this game for years and started with the free version. We purchased the pro-version to get rid of ads, but after the recent changes from the update to WordMaster Pro, we went back to the free version (WordMaster Classic). We do like that you can change to horizontal orientation, but the board is too small now, sacrificing space on the screen for current match stats. We dont know why that little box cant be hidden as a pull down. We liked that the previous version had buttons on the bottom of the screen that you could select to get master words, shuffle, swap/skip, etc. Visually so much nicer than the current view. Sadly, Ill be going back to the classic version until we find another app that has a nicer board display.
After the rotation update the app locks up when iPad is rotated and freezes our iPad. Recovery is time consuming and difficult.
Hope it stays free and we dont lie it to the greedies! Thanks for Word Madter.
This game is just what a wordy nerdy needs.
This is the best scrabble-type game app out there. Its simple to use. Upgrading to pro for no ads is worth it and the price is reasonable. We love the pass and play mode and its great that it works offline.
Please fix this. The most recent update 10/23 has taken away the ability to play in landscape mode. It wont turn any longer. Please fix this because we folk with bad hand problems cant hold our iPads in portrait mode for very long.
We enjoy playing this game against the computer or our kiddo. It teaches us new words and is entertaining in waiting rooms, a car ride or when Im bored.
Please, please remove the words barf and puke from your word choices. When you play either of those words, we have to end the match immediately, because it makes us feel sick! Please do us this favor. Otherwise,we love this game.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.0.7
- Size: 65.53 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Luis Gualandi
Last updated: 8th September 2025 | Genre: Board, Word | Developer: Luis Gualandi