Out now on iOS and Android: App Store · Google Play. The Wordy Bunch word duel for iMessage is available now. The same game also plays on Reddit at r/WordyBunch.
Released
20 July 2026 on iOS and Android. The iMessage word duel shipped alongside it.
Price
Free to play. Optional cosmetics only. No pay-to-win. No ads. Reviewers need no codes or special builds, because the live app is the full app.
Developer
Brainy Bunch Games Limited, United Kingdom. A one-person studio: Jaf is the engineer, designer, QA, and legal department.
Shared-board competition. Players race the same letter grid, so wins come from sharper reading, not luckier letters.
Real-time multiplayer. Ranked matchmaking, room codes, friends, rematches, quick chat, and spectator-safe rejoin handling.
Daily and solo depth. Regional daily puzzles, practice variants, bot matches, and three campaign worlds with 156 handcrafted levels.
League seasons. Create or join a league and play out a full season, earning promotion for winning your rounds and risking relegation when you slip. Tables and past results are kept for every member. Built for friend groups, clubs, and workplaces.
Player-first monetisation. No ads and no forced sign-up. Purchases are visual cosmetics: themes, avatars, titles, name finishes, and card backgrounds.
Accessible by design. VoiceOver reads the board and speaks feedback as the round runs. A tap-to-select mode replaces dragging for anyone who needs it. Themes meet WCAG contrast, Larger Text is supported, and Reduce Motion is respected across the app.
Word duels inside iMessage. Challenge a friend to an asynchronous word battle without leaving the chat, with no account and no lobby. Results return to the thread with a word replay, titles, and the longest-word reveal. More on the iMessage duel.
The match follows your lock screen. On recent iPhones, Live Activities and the Dynamic Island show the live word-count race through matchmaking, countdown, the game, and the final rating change.
Widgets with a daily habit. Home and lock-screen widgets carry your streak, shield status, and a Word of the Day on iOS and Android.
Learn as you play. Look up any word from a finished board without leaving the game, with full definitions built in, and replay how every word was traced.
A dictionary that takes both spellings. Over 170,000 accepted words, with UK and US spellings scoring equally, so colour and color both count. Your region decides which leaderboard you appear on and never which words are legal.
An on-device word coach. On supported iPhones, Apple Intelligence picks out a few strong words you missed after a round and helps you learn to spot them faster. It runs entirely on the device, so nothing is sent to a server.
At home on iPad. The full editorial layout is native to tablets, not a stretched phone screen.
Wordy Bunch is a real-time multiplayer word game for iOS and Android. Players drag across adjacent letters to find words, race opponents on the same board, climb regional leaderboards, play a daily challenge, and work through a handcrafted campaign. It is designed as a clean, competitive word game with no ads, anonymous-by-default play, and optional cosmetic purchases only.
Wordy Bunch is built by Brainy Bunch Games Limited, a one-person, self-funded studio in the United Kingdom, on a simple premise: modern word games are stuffed with ads, soft paywalls, and tricks designed to keep you opening the app at 3am. This is the version that just respects you. Skill, not slot machines.