RiftWords • Daily Word Puzzle
40 Languages • One Daily Seed
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
iPhone
Now with Zen Journey: 38 constellations to light star by star, each with its own art. Still 40 languages, each with its own dictionary and a new board every morning.
A daily word puzzle in forty languages, each one built from the ground up in its own tongue. Tap letters on a 7×10 grid to spell a word, watch it clear, and new letters fall from the top. Three modes are free; a fourth unlocks with RiftWords+. Every player who speaks your language gets the same daily board, on the same day, with the same odds.
WHY RIFTWORDS IS DIFFERENT
Most word games ship in English and bolt translations on later. RiftWords was built the other way around. Each of its forty languages carries its own dictionary, drawn from real letter-frequency data in that language, not a word list run through a translator. The letter bag, the validation, and the daily share card are rebuilt per language. Russian, Ukrainian, Greek with full polytonic script, the Armenian alphabet, Georgian Mkhedruli, and Japanese kana are all first-class, not stretch goals. You play in your language the way a native speaker would.
THREE FREE MODES, ONE GRID
Daily is one puzzle a day in your language, three minutes, one attempt, resetting at your local midnight, with a share card that captures your score, your best word, and the rifts you cleared. Blitz is a three-minute lightning round where you spell as fast as you can and chase a high score. Zen drops the clock and the limits and leaves only the spelling.
RIFT TILES
The board fights back. Three kinds of permanent special cells turn every game into a small puzzle inside the bigger one. Volatile tiles tick down with every word you submit; miss the deadline and they detonate, taking neighbors with them. Scramble tiles randomize the rest of their row the moment you clear a word in it, so the board you just memorized is gone. Cursed tiles deduct points for every cursed letter in your word, and sometimes they sit on the only path to the high-value play.
POWER-UPS AND RIFTSHARDS
RiftShards are the game's currency. Earn them as you play, then spend them in the store on power-ups that bend the board. Row, Column, and Cluster blasts clear a line or a 3×3 pocket you choose. Cross clears the whole row and column through a tile; X clears both diagonals. A Nuke clears the entire board. When you stall, rescues step in: Hint surfaces a playable word, Wildcard turns a tile into any letter, and Continue saves a run before it ends. Blitz and Ascent still hand you power-ups as you climb, and the store is there when you want more.
RIFTWORDS+
A single one-time upgrade. No subscription, no loot boxes, no energy timers. It unlocks Ascent, the fourth mode, an endless climb where the words grow longer every level, and it removes the optional rewarded ads that otherwise appear between rounds.
DESIGNED FOR QUIET PLAY
No flashing rewards, no streak-anxiety pressure, no dark patterns. A hands-on tutorial walks you through the board in any of the forty languages, and you can skip it the moment you would rather just play. The reference points are the New York Times Games section, Monument Valley, and A Little to the Left. RiftWords reads the way it plays. Considered, confident, a little curious.
OFFLINE BY DEFAULT
Bundled dictionaries ship for every language. The game works on a plane, in a tunnel, or on the subway. No account required. No login wall.
ABOUT LEFTWARD LABS
RiftWords is built by Andrew M. Gray at Leftward Labs LLC, a studio in Oregon. Word games should respect the languages where they are played. This one tries to do exactly that.
PRESS · press@leftwardlabs.com
PRIVACY · leftwardlabs.com/privacy/#riftwords
Ratings & Reviews
The app icon now has proper dark and tinted forms, so it sits right on your home screen instead of inverting when you switch iOS to tinted icons. RiftWords Plus keeps its gold corner with + in every one of them. This build also bakes in everything delivered over the air since July, so a new install arrives complete.
The developer, Leftward Labs 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Location
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Purchases
- User Content
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Leftward Labs LLC
- Size
- 194.2 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.1 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- RiftWords+ $4.99
- 18,000 RiftShards Bundle $99.99
- 1,300 RiftShards Bundle $9.99
- 340 RiftShards Bundle $2.99
- 8,000 RiftShards Bundle $49.99
- 3,000 RiftShards Bundle $19.99
- 600 RiftShards Bundle $4.99
- 100 RiftShards Bundle $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Leftward Labs LLC
