Missing Vowels - VWLSS
A daily mini word puzzle
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Eight clues. No vowels. Use the category, read the consonants, and feel the answer click into place.
A word game for the incurably curious. One category, eight clues, every vowel gone.
Category: Capital Cities
Clue: BJNG
Answer: Beijing
Read the consonants. Look at the category. You'll say Beijing before you mean to.
That's the game.
Shakespeare plays. Jazz standards. Periodic elements. The category narrows the field to a few dozen possibilities. From there, your memory is faster than any dictionary.
Some clues fall in seconds. Others sit until you look again. The ones that won't come can be passed. There's no leaderboard, no streak chase, no penalty for missing a day — just eight clues, one category, and the small click of recognition when a word finally arrives.
A new challenge appears every morning, Monday through Saturday. Long enough to wake your brain up, short enough to fit between a coffee and a meeting. Sundays are a tougher bonus puzzle for Garden Pass subscribers — one more challenge before the week begins again.
TYPE OR SPEAK YOUR ANSWER
Tap to type, or hold the microphone and say your guess out loud. Voice recognition is tuned to the way this game works — handling vowel ambiguity, compound words, and spoken spellings more reliably than a generic dictation engine.
A YEAR, LAID OUT LIKE A GARDEN
Every finished challenge becomes an eight-petal flower — one petal per clue, colored by what you got right, what you missed, and what you passed. Scroll back through your history and you find a slow drift of flowers and little traces you left behind. It isn't a streak counter. It's a record of showing up.
SEEDS AND THE GARDEN
Regular play earns Seeds. Spend them on markers and decorations, or to unlock a past day you'd like to play. Garden Pass — the app's optional subscription — opens the full back catalog (including every Sunday Bonus) so you can wander the archive without spending a thing.
SHARE WHAT YOU FINISHED
At the end of a challenge, share a small card with your score, the category, and a sample clue. Or share a snapshot of your garden across a week, a month, a year, or your whole run.
WHAT IT ISN'T
No accounts. Your history lives on your phone.
No ads. Ever.
No notification spam. If you turn them on, they come only when there's a new challenge.
No spelling traps. Caps, dashes, accents, "is this one word or two" — if you know it, it counts.
FEATURES
• A free daily puzzle, Monday through Saturday
• Eight clues per challenge, in a shared category
• Voice or keyboard input, tuned to the game's specific patterns
• Forgiving answer matching for punctuation, capitalization, spacing, and compound words
• Eight-petal flowers as a permanent record of every solve
• Seeds earned through play, sharing, streaks, and reminders
• Seed-based archive unlocks and garden decorations
• Optional Garden Pass subscription — Sunday Bonus challenges and full archive access
• Shareable result cards and history-range share cards
• Replay previously played challenges and compare your performance
• Daily reminders you can turn off
• First-run tutorial, replayable from Settings
• No accounts, no ads
Terms of Use (Apple EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://sharkriverstudios.com/vwlss/privacy
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- if you make a guess that cannot be the real answer, because it has different consonants, a red pulsing animation runs
This should help folks who are frustrated with the dictation mishearing you. You can at least be warned as long as you don't guess immediately.
- fixed a layout issue with the way the history view is layed out on wider devices
- other tweaks
The developer, Shark River Studios LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Shark River Studios LLC
- Size
- 12.7 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.5 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.5 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.5 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.5 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Garden Pass $14.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Shark River Studios
