Six letters. More words than you first see.
Hidden Word Puzzle is a calm word game for iPhone. Find the shorter words hidden inside a six-letter word, at your own pace, in English and five more languages. No timer, no ads, and it plays offline.
At a glance
- Devices
- iPhone
- Requires
- iOS 18 or later
- Price
- Free download · Lifetime Access $4.99 · One-time purchase · No subscriptionUS App Store price, checked October 11, 2026 · Family Sharing included
- Free version
- Every board and the daily challenge, with 3 hints per level
- Languages
- 6
- Your data
- Progress and stats stay on this iPhone, with no account and no Crafter Apps server. Only App Store purchases go online.
- Version
- 26.0.2 · updated
Take another look.
- Tap letters to spell. Build a word of three letters or more from the six tiles, and shuffle the tray when you want a fresh arrangement.
- Fill the vault. Found words lock into the Word Vault in green. It shows up to twelve slots at a time, each as long as its word, and counts the rest.
- Ask for a nudge. A hint reveals the first letter of the shortest word you haven’t found.
The board in the screenshot is ABATES, level 1 of English Easy. It hides 35 words, from BAT and SEA to BEAST and ABATE. Every word but the source word counts, so some boards hide another six-letter word: ABIDES, two levels on, hides BIASED.
Pick your pace. Or play today’s board.
- Easy
- 25 to 35 words to find, three letters or longer.
- Medium
- 15 to 24 words, three letters or longer.
- Hard
- 15 to 24 words, four letters or longer.
- Daily challenge
- One Medium board for each language. It changes at midnight UTC, and everyone playing in that language gets the same one.
A word scores a point a letter, times 1.5 on Medium and 2 on Hard; a hinted word scores half. Finding every word adds a 100-point bonus. Your current and best daily streaks stay on your iPhone.
A free-play level ends when every word is found, and then the next one opens; there is no skip. The daily board lets you stop early, but only a full board counts toward your streak, and it starts over if you leave it.
Six languages, built in.
- English
- Français
- Italiano
- Deutsch
- Español
- Русский
Menus and boards come in all six, and each language keeps its own levels and its own daily board. The game plays with words of six letters or fewer, about 89,000 across the six lists; the App Store’s 134,752 counts every line in the files, longer words included.
English uses a list made for word games. The other five are frequency lists, so their boards also hold names and words borrowed from English. No ads, no account, and your progress stays on your iPhone.
Questions
Is this a word search?
No. There is no letter grid. Each board is six letters, and you spell every word that can be made from them, from three letters up to the full six.
Does it work offline?
Yes. All six word lists are built in, so every board and the daily challenge play without a connection. Only buying or restoring Lifetime Access goes through the App Store.
Which languages can I play in?
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish and Russian. English uses a list made for word games; the other five are frequency lists, so their boards also hold names and borrowed words. Pick the game language on the home screen.
Do I have to find every word?
In free play, yes. The next level opens when the board is complete, and there is no skip. Hints show first letters: three a level, or unlimited with Lifetime Access. Each language and difficulty keeps its own level, so you can switch and come back.
When does the daily challenge change?
At midnight UTC, the same moment everywhere. Each language has its own daily board at Medium difficulty, and everyone playing in that language gets the same one. It doesn’t save part-way, so leave the board and it starts again, and only a board with every word found counts toward your streak.
How do hints and scoring work?
A hint shows the first letter of the shortest word you haven’t found, and that word scores half. Three hints a level are free; Lifetime Access makes them unlimited. Finding every word adds 100 points.
Are the boards the same for everyone?
Yes. Free play is a numbered sequence for each language and difficulty, in alphabetical order of the source word, so level 12 on Medium in French is the same board on every iPhone. Version 26.0.2 has more than 26,000 boards across the six languages, 5,119 of them in English. The daily board is the same for everyone playing in its language.
What do the stats show?
Free: words found, best score, your play streak, daily challenges completed, and your completion rate, average score, words per game and hints used. Lifetime Access adds a breakdown for each language and your recent daily boards with a score trend.
Can I change the language or difficulty?
Any time in Settings. The change applies to the next game or daily challenge, not the one in progress. Sound and haptics have their own switches.
Is there a timer?
No. Boards have no countdown, and a free-play game in progress waits on the home screen until you come back to it.
Pairs well with
Ten arithmetic questions a level against a shrinking clock, for when you want a sprint.
Another unhurried puzzle with no timer, sliding tiles of your own photo instead of letters.
Availability
Three hints per level are free. Lifetime Access adds unlimited hints, per-language statistics and recent daily challenge history.
- Devices
- iPhone
- Download
- Free to download
- Purchase options
- Lifetime Access · One-time purchase · No subscription
Prices vary by country; the App Store shows your local price.
Hidden Word Puzzle support and purchase help
Designed and built by Daniel, an independent Apple developer. Every release is listed in the changelog.