Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 01:23 am
Words Without Friends – Entertainment Game Review
Words Without Friends is a Entertainment/Word/Puzzle game from Les Ganton, first launched in 21st April 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 33+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Words Without Friends Stand Out
Single player word game like no other!
With Words Without Friends, you build branching words while collecting Gift Cards, Stars and most importantly Targets. Complete objectives to win free Cards that will help you complete Hundreds of Levels.
- Hundreds of challenging Levels
- Many board configurations
- 4 types of Cards (assists) to win and collect
- Employ your strategic genius
If you enjoy word board games, then give this one a try. Completing a level requires you to simply collect Targets. The not-so-simple part is that each Target has a letter which must be used in a word. You will need to use all your word skills as you strategically place letters. Placing a letter in a bad spot just might make it impossible to complete the level.
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Words Without Friends is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 10th July 2024
Recent improvements include:
Added 50 new levels.
Download & Availability
Words Without Friends is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Words Without Friends 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:
This is a great game. However, once you have finished all 800 levels, there is a promise of more levels to come. Alas, it doesnt seem like this will happen still, Id recommend this to any word puzzle enthusiast. UPDATE AS OF 07/16 new levels! Thats great! 6 stars.
This is a challenge. We have had to attempt some levels many times in order to solve. We cannot solve level 538 due to needing a word ending in V that includes we V. Any advice.
We love this game but it just suddenly stopped working all we get is a blue tile screen we are using a 7th generation iPad running 13.5.1. It still works on our 6th gen also running 13.5.1. We tried to email but it said server rejected recipients address.
Help, since the last just days ago, the app wont load. Help.
So much better than Words with friends. We love this game bc its more a strategy based game like chess. You have to create words in specific pattens so that you can achieve the already existing blocks. So fun.
Words without Friends is absolutely the best. We have been playing for many many months and we look forward to new games every morning. We even go back and play games again trying to improve our score.
Stuck on level 5 for too long. Your letter placements (especially the Q and X) make it too difficult to get them. We don't pay for apps before we've reached the halfway point and we never cheat by looking up word combinations (what's the point of downloading an app if you're just going to pay or cheat your way through the whole thing?). So, since we've tried and tried every combination we can think of in futility, we're uninstalling this before it becomes infuriating. You get 2 stars for creating a word game that doesn't require swiping or stacking. The other 3… See above.
We love this game as it challenges our mind. We use it daily as a mental exercise. However, we do have one problem. When we reach the use 75 letters level on earning free cards it doesnt count our letters, so we can no longer earn free cards. Also it says that you can repeatedly use the five stars and five targets options for earning cards but we see no way to access that option. Please help.
We liked this game right up to level 19. It has locked up so many times we feel like we have worked all possible games.
Once you get to the level where you need to get 75 words once you finish the first round, it wont count your words. You never progress to the next level. Im not sure why, Ive played this game for several years and this has never happened before. Deleting the app and reinstalling doesnt help.
The directions say to drag each letter to the board but it wouldnt work. Bummed. Oh, well plenty of other games to choose from.
For those people who have no friends, lifes lonesome losers, this is a must-have app. Challenging and fun…a great alternative to staring at the walls or binge watching The Office.
But the difficulty level is higher than the with friends version. Insult and injury. Restarted level over 15 times. Delete.
We be just installed the game, did not even set up a profile or account with them. We opened the game and it said Welcome back… And listed a weird name. Wow. This is a brand new device and have never used other products by this company. Uninstalling now.
Really love the latest update. Great stuff but suddenly Im having issues. At first, it stopped allowing us to press next after beating a level. The next button grayed out and so, we would go back to home and just pick the next level. Now, we just progressed to level 121 and it just crashes every time we attempt to open it. It does still let us open and play level 120 but not 121, so Im stuck :(.
We like this game a lot. The Save option makes us keep it. There are a few helper tiles. We would like the capability to EARN more by playing. The only way to get more is to buy them. Which we wont do.
Love this app even though, or maybe because, some of the puzzles are hard. If you like chess and word games, this one is for you. Our only complaint is that there needs to be more puzzles.
Id give it s 5 except the our cards doesnt save and collect what you find. If you dont use the card before the next card is found, it disappears. Would be awesome if they collected from level to level.
We can hardly ever finish a level in one sitting. But Ive noticed often if we leave the app and come back It resets our progress on the current level. This seems to be correlated with using our safari app…even when we are not visiting Safari for the purpose of finding scrabble worthy words.
(1) Target was not credited and couldnt go to next level even though we used the red target letter in a word. We correctly spelled and placed words using all the tiles. (2) Kept getting weird message that tiles were placed incorrectly and had to all be on same axis. No idea what that means but tiles were placed in the normal way for this kind of game. Per the rules, center and target boxes were covered correctly. Thanks for fixing these glitches please.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.9
- Size: 17.13 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Les Ganton
Last updated: 10th July 2024 | Genre: Entertainment, Word | Developer: Les Ganton