WordFinder Reviews

This feature requires you to watch an ad to unlock best word. No problem and reasonable. Right? Right! After all, WordFinder is free. Only now you are required to watch the same ad multiple times and/or watch multiple ads before the best word will be unlocked. Tried to report this to the developer but the customer service rep didn’t seem to understand the issue and offered no resolution. Also, video ads required to earn crowns are seldom available . Additionally, WordFinder consistently misread the boards in solo challenge. Additionally, there are a few ads that have no video or audio and just lock up WordFinder . The only way out is to close and reopen WordFinder .

As an update:
WordFinder has gone off the deep end now. I’ve given it the fewest stars possible. The ads are incessant and annoying. Yeah, I should find something else, but the field is narrow, so I’m not having much success in finding a replacement.

As others have said, the ads are LONG. Sometimes double ads are part of the deal. WordFinder can’t always read blanks in a screen shot. Highest score words are not always provided. I can work around stuff…

Now, though, we get crowns so we don’t "HAVE" to watch an and we can earn crowns within each 24-hour cycle, depending on when you last received them. BUT, opting to sit through a long ad these days rewards me with - you guessed it - another long ad. And, the letters are wrong at least 50% of the time.

It’s true: nothing in life is free. And these are definitely not earth shattering problems. But WordFinder could be so much better, I’m sure.

I love your desktop app! I use it to help make crossword puzzles. The “all games” option allows me to do this. But for no reason that option does not exist or is not easily visible in the iOS app version. Similarly, you do not have to select a word length on the desktop version. I would like that option here as well. What is missing from both that I would enjoy is the ability to necessarily include or exclude certain letters from different positions in the word, either in absolute terms “4th letter in six letter word must be n” or relative “penultimate letter cannot be p” e.g.

Obviously that could be an advanced setting, even something I’d pay a premium for (but like $15/year at most)

Great bones of a tool. But you already have the whole cat online. I’d like both to be more than they currently are though.

Aside from the fact that the ads are too frequent and way too annoying (these “fashion game” apps are so bad and demeaning), half the time I can’t exit without closing down the whole app. Endless loop of exit/go back to App Store. I’d willingly pay once for an ad-free app, but the subscription is far too expensive to justify its purchase, as I only use it for hints on one game which I’ve paid for and don’t want to use coins for hints. I fortunately finally found another option. Give me a buy once option and I’m all in.

I understand advertising keeps business afloat. But here’s what happens almost every time I use WordFinder:
1) A timed ad must be viewed after deleting a screen shot, which then goes directly to another longer-timed ad that must be viewed in order to unlock the best word.
2) After looking at the definition of a couple words an ad breaks in, and from there, there’s no going back to the previous screen. If you haven’t yet chosen the word you want, you have to start all over again with a new screen shot, etc., etc., (see #1 above).
3) The only definition of most words that end in “s” or however the root word is pluralized is “Plural of (the root word).” Come on, really? If you take the time to look for the root word in the list of anagrams, you are guaranteed an ad or 6 before you find it.
Like most people who write negative reviews, I too wish there was an option for no stars.

Functionally, it works pretty well. I’ve not had it crash or fail. Generally, it gives me the word with the highest score available. However, it does struggle if I have more than one wildcard tile. If I put 5 letters and 2 “?”, it almost never comes up with the highest point word. This is also true with the screenshot feature.

Also, I do use the free version, so I expect ads, however, some of these ads are too long. I see some reviewers complaining that you can’t exit the ads. You can, but you must wait until the end, and some are more than 30 seconds long. Sometimes, it shows me an ad to import the picture, and then another ad to unlock the best word. That’s fine, but if both ads are long, it means the ratio of time spent using WordFinder to the amount of time watching ads is lopsided. It would be like watching a TV show that had 8 minutes of show and 22 minutes of commercials. The ads are long enough that I just look away and then come back to WordFinder . If they were 10 or 15 seconds long, I would probably watch them.

I love the functionality of WordFinder but the ads have increasingly become a problem. Many many times I use WordFinder , I’m forced to crash WordFinder and reload because there is no way to exit the ad (Candy Crush is the worst offender). I don’t mind sitting through the ads to keep WordFinder free but please make sure WordFinder /ads are optimized for any version of Apple device. The X’s to close the ads are often at the extreme edge of my screen on iPhone X.

The advanced screen of the web app has an option to enter the length of the word. I find this useful as I do the starts with, ends with, and contains options in advanced search. Will you be adding this option to WordFinder ? At this time the ads on the web based tool are less annoying to me than the ios app. With the addition of the length option to the ios app I would use the ios app and pay for no adds since some of the ads on the Ios app completely take over the screen with demos of other apps.

It’s quick, easy to use, and it accepts two question marks, yay. However, there’s no option to remove ads, unless you drop $3 a month. How about $10 for life? Or, you’re forced to watch three of the most inane, disgusting, disturbing ads ever, to then remove ads for thirty days. How is that reasonable? The whole point of removing ads, is to not have to watch ads. Also, the three evil ads reset every 24 hrs and 5 minutes. What’s with the extra minutes? I’m a happily retired person with nothing but time, but not enough time to watch ads. Consider your older consumer.

I pay for the premium version and hate the new changes - sometimes the recommended word cannot even be found in the list of possible words, unlike before when you could just tap on the word and you would automatically be shown its placement on the board.
I also find the new “pop-out” graphic irritating to my eyes. Would not pay for WordFinder in its current condition.

It is simply wrong that you use so many incorrect words! You are allowing words that have absolutely no definition whatsoever. The insult is that you make no effort to remove the words sent to you per you app for reporting same. To say I am disappointed is putting it mildly. And for the record your math isn’t any better. You score incorrectly as well. If your goal is to teach stupidity, then you are well on the way.

WordFinder itself is great. Best one I could find to help me with my word puzzles and games. However the ads are extremely annoying and unnecessarily long. You should atleast be able to turn the sound off for ads in WordFinder settings so I can play at night without having to turn my phone sounds off.

I use Word Finder for help with Words With Friends 2. If a player is unlucky enough to have the ad for June’s Journey pop up while they are searching for words, there is no way to get out of it other than to reboot! This frustrating issue often results in losing a timed mini game in Words With Friends 2. This ad pops up for me most days…GRRRR. Get rid of June’s Journey and I would rate your app 5 stars.

It runs nice on my iPad Pro 12.9” and my iPhone with no bugs. For me it is not really a cheat but rather a helper app. The strategy is left entirely intact and you still have to know where to place the unscrambled words it gives you. I look at it as a word unscrambler with some very handy tips as an extra.

Word Finder has increased my points per letter average score from 15 points to 18 points. It has increased my vocabulary and even my articulation and spelling.

Much more useful than a mere dictionary alone. I also found Word Finder to save me money even with the yearly service I subscribe to, with word games that charges you coins you have to buy or can earn, for hints when I get stuck on a puzzle.

I find that even tho I win and lose about the same amount of games from before I used Word Finder, my stats have indeed gotten much better.

Update: word finder has done many improvements
in the form of updates which has made WordFinder even easier to use. I likè the idea of separating the word unscambler tool from their other tools.

I really appreciate WordFinder. It functions the best of any I've checked But it's very slow coming up & is getting too many commercials. Update Feb 21, 2022 - so they've updated & taken it off my screen with no warning. Apparently I'd have to buy it to get it back now. Even tho I've had it for almost 3 years before. Not cool, so down to 2 stars from four.

When there are moving characters at the bottom of the screen my eyes can’t focus properly so I cannot play the game. That is why I kept checking in and out of the game today to see if you would take that little man off the bottom of the screen that was running back-and-forth.

I have been using Word Finder to help with word options for Words With Friends for a long time. I use it not only to find words in the 7 tiles, but to find other ways to make words from tiles already on the board. It’s a quick way to check other options. It helps me to think outside the box (the board!)

Ive had other simmilar apps. This one is the BEST!! & I wasnt offered reward to Rate/Review.. you choose which word game you r playing (as u know they all use varied dictionaries). You can put in letters & then add to letters with a Question Mark to symbolize your BLANK TILE & Then you can ADD to Search more letters the ones on board that youre trying to merge w/, like ENDS with “K”, & STARTs with “B” & CONTAINs “E” & it Lists in alphabetical & by
👉🏼Number of Letters👈🏼‼️ Its a Very Helpful App..!!

Just bought the new iPad Pro 12.9 and I love it. However, WordFinder is one of only 3 that I have that will not rotate to landscape on my new iPad. I have stuck with WordFinder through all of the ads and crowns and other unnecessary new stuff—but the inability to switch to landscape is gonna make me leave. Please fix this!

So disappointed that you have not been able fix the “watch a short video to earn free crowns” feature. I’ve reported 3 times in the last 2 weeks will still no fix. I’ve always been diligent to watch these ads and earn enough crowns in a month for an ad free month.