Last updated on January 17th, 2026 at 11:50 pm
Wordly® – Word Game Review
Wordly® is a Word/Utilities/Puzzle game from Bluebear Technologies Ltd., first launched in 10th December 2011.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 5,756+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Wordly® Stand Out
Wordly® brings the classic word scramble game to iPhone. It is a simple, fun and addictive puzzle game, in which the objective is to find and trace as many words as possible on a randomly generated board before the clock runs out.
Form valid words by tracing letters on the board with your finger. Words can only be formed by connecting neighbouring letters, and the minimum word length is 3 letters. When you think you have found a word, release your finger from the board, and if valid, you score a point in the game.
Features:
- All possible words shown at the end of a game
- Board quality checker, to ensure there’s plenty of words to find
- Features an untimed mode
- Choose your own game time limit
- Intuitive user interface
28/06/2010: Wordly has been reviewed by WMExperts!
“This is a highly addictive, enjoyable and often humbling game. I didn’t experience any bugs, hang-ups or problems running Wordly.
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Reviews:
"Wordly is great. Once you get used to the idea that there are dozens of obscure words you’ve never heard of, this game is just great. My kids play it, my wife plays it – it is so addictive. The best £1.19 I ever spent on anything!!"
Mark | 18/04/2010 05:48
"simple but addictive. this game is gonna get me sacked! fully addicted…"
Anonymous | 25/02/2010 22:58
"really amazing app I find it HIGHLY ADDICTIVE and have recommended it to many family & friends. Find words you never knew existed!"
Ryan | 20/04/2010 23:18
Terms of Use: http://www.bluebear.ie/wordly_terms.html
Privacy Policy: http://www.bluebear.ie/wordly_privacy.html
Wordly® is a registered trademark of Bluebear Technologies Ltd.
This Word game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Wordly® is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
In this version: Under-the-hood improvements and bug fixes. Coming Next: We're putting the finishing touches on a major update with brand new features. Keep your app updated so you don't miss out!
Download & Availability
Wordly® 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:
But your ads are getting way too long! Makes us not want to play any more.
This game would be great if only the board could be rotated. Am we just not seeing the setting? How can you not have that option? The rest is great.
Enjoy we have to search and pick out words.
We still give it 5 STARS but would like to see archived stats like high games and high word scores.
We intended to download Boggle, but theyve added so much unnecessary junk and noises to it that its just not the same as it used to be. Figured we might as well give Wordly a try. So glad we did! No childish graphics or noises.
Thank you so much for your idea. It is the best game Ive ever played.
Really like the game, if could give partial stars would give it 4.5. Get the dang ad off the bottom of the field of play. Its on the very bottoms of the last row of letters. You can see the letters, but its very distracting and irritating. We can barely play with it there. Move it back down where it belongs, OFF the playing field.
Good game but the Q stand alone and the letters seem more random than other Boggle games so the max number of words is usually under 100 and never more than 200. Also, the subscription is a bit expensive. Still, better than the official boggle game.
Great game. Id give 5 stars if they could put out a dark mode.
Love the game and its the closest thing to the old Boggle for iPad out there. A few things we wish it had was a friends mode, shake to scramble and most importantly, the ability to rotate the board! Please consider adding these.
We play Wordly. We paid for no ads cause we love the game. We get up at night, awake, and play it. The dictionary makes want to delete the game. Zen is a word. The letters keep spelling Ire. Then lair, This is constantly. Ale, Ail, weird 3 letter words that Ive never heard of. It says theres 119 words, and we find 35. Im getting so tired of limited vowels in the words search, Im about to delete it.
A very high proportion of the words this app accepts and awards points for arent English language words. Some are foreign (including specifically Latin words.) Some are abbreviations. Some are just inexplicable. If the app leveraged a standard English dictionary, itd be a great app.
This is a good game; it gives you timing options. There are ads, a lot of ads that pop up all the tume, interrupting game play. Ads started second day after download. Sorry to see another bait and switch. It plays smoothly.
No extra fancy settings, no playing with friends. Just boggle.
We LOVE the haptics on this one that we can't find on any other competitors. However, we do NOT love that the list of words usually contains either non-words or words that certainly no one has heard of. One example we remember: it listed "aas" as a word we missed. Google it, that's not a word. For that reason, we tend to play the other options more often but we miss the haptic response on this one.
We started on the original boggle app which is no longer available. We just discovered this.
Love this game, first off there is no ads and it is just so fun.
Maybe a little calming music would really calm our brain and get some words faster but we love this app over all this review isnt as big as others but im just so obsessed im at a lost of words.
Sometimes you download a game and think this will be fun then you are deleting the game before you know it. This game is fun and relaxing and we highly recommend you try it at least.
You get to see all possible words and it calculates a percent of words found.
Great game word easy to use. Could be designed better to help with vocabulary of words. Please insert into the dictionary a function of speaking the words. And perhaps an example of how old are used in a sentence. If you want as we play it we could help in the development if you want. Im 72 years old but has an engineer never read much and we wish we had a better vocabulary maybe this will help.
Hi, love the game so far. Only thing we would like to see is the ability to rotate the board 90 degrees.
This game has become our every day usual, we would highly recommend this to anyone who wants to play. We go to school every day and this game helps with vocabulary and teaching kids new words and Adults too.
It is a really good app because it teaches word at has not been said for a while Im so good at reading now.
We look forward each day to play.
Very nice way to exercise your brain and learn additional words.
Your WORDLY app is excellent brain exercise. It runs very smoothly without glitches or freezing, which allows for good concentration. It helps your brain to move quickly and fluidly. If you practice, you can quickly see that you are improving , which not only is intrinsically rewarding , but compels you to try harder! We think one of the best aspects of your app is the feedback it gives informationally. When you finish a game it gives you a score, the number of words you have produced, and what percentage of all available words that represents. Best of all, it shows you a list of all the possible words that were available to be composed from the letter grid. If you spend a few minutes studying this list each time, you will find that the words available in your mind and on each successive look at a new game grid enlarges! Of the various word games we have tried in app form, this is the absolute best! MRM PS: And the fact that it can be played in just a few minutes allows a person, who wants to challenge themselves and exercise their brain, to use it frequently even if, as we all do, they have a busy life.
We love the challenge and it is highly addictive but hate we are struggling to get over 80 percent. More fun than boggle since not on timeframe.
We would give 5 stars if there were a dark mode. We have insomnia and like to use games like this to tire us out but have migraines that can be triggered by the bright white. We love the game, have played for a long time. Definitely recommend.
Really like the design with hand written letters and lines that show up. We wish it had a greater level of difficulty such as a 5 x 5 square or maybe 6 x 6. Very nice game though.
We like how uncluttered it is compared to some word games. You just play without a lot of gamification rules that feel so controlling. Wish it had a spin or rotate feature so we could rotate the board during a game. That would be a huge feature to make it more playable. Also wish we could take turns playing with a friend.
Before paying, we suggest you play three days of Wordly. Youll discover in that short time thst this is not a random puzzle generator, but rather a collection of screens in the memory of the game. This is important because you will soon (3-4 days) discover that the puzzles repeat. All of them.
This game keeps resetting, forcing you to start a new game. This is super frustrating. Please fix.
This is a great boggle app. But we dont understand why it needs a subscription plan and not a one-time purchase. Ah well. Seems like other people like it, though, so theyre clearly motivated to keep it.
As close to the good ole Boggle as we have found. Would consider the monthly plan but it's missing two crucial elements… 1) The ability to rotate the screen. 2) Not putting a "u" automatically with the "Q". It would be nice to be able to shake your phone, to mix up the cubes, to start each game too.
We download this game since we love boggle. Great challenges and perfect time limits. However we find frequently common words not in the dictionary preventing use. For example: zen, June, July. Whereas there are many words allowed not in the English dictionary or are acronyms for tech items. We love the concept of this game, but please add a function to allow submission of suggested words to be added.
The dictionary is bad and includes proper nouns, abbreviations, misspellings, etc. The free app is OK but definitely dont pay for the premium so you can access the dictionary. Its garbage.
No ability to adjust the complexity of the game.
We love how this game makes us think and rethink. What we didnt love is the ads that appear after EACH game. Its annoying and intrusive, particularly when you click on skip ad and it keeps going.or starts over. Forget about playing at bedtime. Even with setting to sound off the ads play sound loud and clear. We just deleted. Love the game, not the frustration of our time being forcibly invaded so frequently.
Update: originally gave 5 stars, because it was a no ads (too good to be true) game. Then after we rated it 5 stars and played about 2 more games- there came the ads. And much like some other apps Ive tried – the spam emails started almost immediately after we engaged with the app. Original: Great to play, especially easy to learn – tough to master. Chance to improve your scores, learn new words, and challenge yourself. Am a fan of, and play a lot of, word games. This is one of our new faves.
We like the format, but their dictionary kills us. 2 masters degrees, 10 years as a librarian, and yet we look through the list of words that we missed, and its full of things Ive never once heard or seen. And sometimes Spanish words, but not all, and not in any pattern we can see. We enjoy looking through the list to see what we missed, and feel like oh, hey, we overlooked that, oops! Not of course we missed that gibberish.
This game used to be great when it had no ads and we would have gladly paid to buy it prior to installing it. After having it on our phone for a while they performed and update that put ads in after every single game. We dont mind supporting devs but hate bait and switch tactics. Uninstalling the game right after we post this review. We wish devs would be honest.
We were enjoying this game except for the ads. Then a pop-up appeared saying we could pay a one-time fee for no ads forever. That was last week. We paid it, and now we have ads again. The game is telling us we have to subscribe to the premium edition to get no ads. This was a rip-off. We deserve a refund! DO NOT FALL FOR THE NO-ADS POP-UP.
The annoying font used forthe completed words makes the game more difficult , as does the huge size of the letters in the blocks. Word Blitz has a better set up However, we do like the running list of words found, and the fact that games can be replayed.
We wanted to play a Boggle like game and saw Boggle with Friends first. It is full of ads and gimmicks. We just wanted a good old fashioned way to play Boggle on our phone when Im bored. This is much better. Not ads. Tells you the words you missed. We enjoy it. Thank you for not trying to spam us with ads.
As a person who paid them already for their odd dictionary, we resent their recent move to grab yet more money from us for a monthly subscription, threatening us with ads unless we pay AGAIN! We used to like this app; now we have deleted it rather than allow ourselves to be ripped off. CAVEAT, yall. These guys have elected to dump on their loyal customers and we will not just go along.
Most apps are designed to get your attention and then get your money. This has no gated content, no energy mechanism, no pay to win element. This is just boggle. Sweet.
Not sure if itd be too complicated to do, but sometimes when looking at their dictionary, the definition refers to another word that we have no idea of the definition. Itd be great if that word could be linked to its definition too. Example: seti is an alternate spelling for suttee. Thats all. Whats suttee mean? Of course we can get online to look it up. But we would love to be able to not have to do that several times during our play. Overall a very fun game though! Addition: we would very much like to be able to see all the words we made, not just the ones that were on your list. Example: just did a game where we made the words lotion, and grouting, but didnt get credit for them because theyre not on your list. Whatever dictionary youre using is oddhas some proper nouns but completely skips other words that are in common usage.
Ive already subscribed! Love the design and interface! Can you add a circular arrow in the corner so we can turn the board by quarter turns in order to see possible words from different directions…and, can you please add the option for landscape orientation for us iPad users :).
This game is an awesome game it helps people too spell. Its very fun too, it has alit of words too fill. But it is an awesome game some words are hard too find but this game is one of the most awesome games ever! It has a aesthetic feeling when its in cursive, ty for letting us review! ().
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.50
- Size: 52.16 MB
- iOS: 15.6 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Bluebear Technologies Ltd.
Last updated: 12th January 2026 | Genre: Word, Utilities | Developer: Bluebear Technologies Ltd.