UPWORDS® App Reviews

Love this game. Only draw back, is finding people to play who give me a run for my money! (Hope my sister doesnt see this

Awesome game, beautifully designed!

Need to be able to remove challenges that havent responded. Just viable games should appear. Word scores almost too small to see. Glitches and other issues make game hard to stay with! Stop interrupting thought and game with notice that another game is waiting!

Love that I can play on my iPad or iPhone, which ever is more convenient. Ive had no issues with the interface. Its a great way to keep in daily contact with friends and family!

I love the new color schemes and the fonts and board are much clearer and easier to read. This is by far my favorite word game. Upwords works exceptionally well for me and I highly recommend it to all who enjoy word games. Elaine.

I really love playing this game way more than Scrabble or Words With Friends. It is challenging and engaging. Dont worry about finding people near your level of skill just prepave in your mind that you want a good challenger before requesting a new opponent. If I ever get a lazy player I just wait out the 5 days it takes for them to be eliminated from play. I dont resign and risk losing a game. Cannot say enough about how fun and engaging this game is.

People who voice their complaints about apps in reviews are essentially screaming at billboards. This is not how you help, or get anything fixed, or get answers to any questions! You are anonymous here, so no one can answer you! If you have a complaint or a question about this game/app, you contact the person who made and maintains it. Its so easy. You go under the help menu IN the game, select "contact us", it will take you to an email page with the "To:", "From:", and "Subject:" sections already filled out for you. There will be codes on the page identifying the device you are playing on, which will help the developer answer your questions in a meaningful way. All you do is type out your complaint or question. This apps developer responds to every single email – promptly. He is kind, thoughtful, patient, and he will help you. I promise. And my suggestions and complaints, I believe, have helped to bring about the new, more readable look of the board and chat screen! I am thrilled with it, and very grateful. I could hardly bear looking at that beastly gold color a moment longer. It reminded me of everything bad about the 1960s. I am awarding the fifth star this time because this terrific developer has finally changed that horrid gold color from the board and chat screen!!! I did not ever complain about this in my reviews, but I did complain about it vociferously in my emails to the developer. And I explained why – because it was hard for this chatty old lady to read her chats! He was interested in my feedback and suggestions, and he listened. And he did something about it! This is an absolutely stellar game, which the developer continues to improve, always attentive to user feedback. I play UpWords incessantly and I am consistently impressed with its developer. ................................ I have a few choice words for Hasbro, though, the company that owns the UpWords board game and that hired the developer to create this app. A review is a place to report problems publicly that cant be solved through emails to the developer. I have emailed my complaints about censorship many times, but Hasbro persists in their censorship like a crusading evangelist on a hopeless mission to stop people from writing or seeing the letters s-h-i-t in that order, or – God-forbid – f-a-r-t, though doctors and kindergarten teachers routinely speak the word out loud! And children are taught to say it. Hasbro: These are legitimate English words – in common usage, in dictionaries, and in standard word lists for games – as are the many other indelicate words that you removed from the standard list because they made you uncomfortable. [I noticed that your censorship stopped at ethnic slurs, which you retained. Perhaps you think ethnic slurs are not nearly as harmful as the letters f-u-c-k in that order. I would argue that ethnic slurs are the only words that are harmful!] But this the wrong place to apply your personal judgements on language use. Please find a more appropriate forum in which to defend your policy of Polite English Only. Stopping people from playing legitimate English words in a word game is an unnecessary, foolish, and unacceptable intrusion. If anyone else objects to this practice, I hope they will speak up.

I love this game. It would be nice if a players name changed color or if there were some other indication that an opponent is down to two or three tiles. In a live game, you can see the other persons tray. This is one disadvantage to an online game. I have also requested to have the ability to change the color of the tiles in my tray to remind me of a possible move I can make when I get back to a game after a few days. I play multiple games at a time. I love the game!

I really enjoy playing this Upwords. In fact, its my favorite way to play a word game with friends! Its not the prettiest game, but it delivers intuitive functionality and lots of letter-related fun.

The issue of not receiving a notification that it is your turn seems to have gotten much worse. How is Scrabble able to handle this so well?

Upwords is the best word game in the App Store. Its challenging and fun, and I feel like it makes me smarter!

This is really a fun game, challenging but not too crazy. It makes you think but you dont have to agonize over each move. I love playing with friends and seeing how theyll change a word. Nothings for sure. Its always a surprise!

LOVE this game and this app!! More fun than Scrabble and no one can cheat.

Love this game! I enjoy scrabble but find this game more challenging! Love that you can build upon letters to form new words. Have learned lots of new words bc of it! Love that you can "test" out words before you play them. Enter a word and click "play" and it asks if you want to play before submitting. This way you can see the point value and if it is actually a word!

Love the game! For those who are waiting to find people to play against, do you know you can play against the computer at several levels, no waiting. I play against Hal, the highest level (and have won!), but for some mysterious and maddening reason after I play the tiles fall away from the rack so I cant be working on the game while Hal plays (several seconds each time) . Waste of my time and unfair as Im sure Hal doesnt have that disadvantage. Agree that some strange words show up and others not considered legit that should be. A dictionary would help.

I really like the board version of Upwards, so I was happy to find this app. It would be a lot more fun to play if my letters did not disappear when the computer is taking a turn. In reality, players are able to see their own letters while opponents are taking their turns. Hiding them breaks concentration and causes the game to drag on longer than it should. I would love to see this corrected in the near future.

This is absolutely my favorite game! I love playing with friends and strangers all over the world. Addicting game that keeps this old gals brain working. Has definitely helped my memory.

I have been playing this game for years, it seems. I never tire of it. I highly recommend it. It is very fun and challenging.

Love this game! Cant stop playing. App works well, no issues.

Love the board game now I play all the time on my phone.