SemanticDrift

Similarity is your compass

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Words are closer than you think. OCEAN sits right next to SEA, which is no surprise. But APPLE next to BLIGHT? MUSIC leading to SILENCE? SemanticDrift is a word puzzle where every guess has to be semantically close to your last one. You're trying to reach a target word, but it's always just out of range. You have to hop, word to word, through the hidden connections of the English language. Some paths are obvious. Most aren't. The best ones make you say, "Wait, that worked?" DAILY CHALLENGE One puzzle a day, with the exact same words for everyone. Compare your path on the Game Center leaderboards. A new puzzle drops at midnight. PUZZLE LIBRARY Thousands of curated word pairs across multiple difficulty levels. The easy ones build your intuition. The hard ones wreck it. MULTIPLAYER Best Path: Same start and target, entirely different routes. Build your path, then vote on whose logic is the best or weirdest. Speed Race: Throw words as fast as they come to you and see what sticks. WORD MAP Pick any word and see what lives nearby. Poke around its semantic neighborhood and discover connections you didn't know existed. FREE WITH NO ADS Play the daily challenge plus two library puzzles every single day. No ads, no tracking, and no data collection. Not now, not ever. PREMIUM (One-Time Purchase) Unlimited puzzles. Host multiplayer games. Sync with iCloud. Zero subscriptions. WHAT'S ACTUALLY HAPPENING SemanticDrift runs on Apple's NaturalLanguage framework. It's the same word embedding technology behind predictive text and search engines. Every word occupies a specific point in high-dimensional space. Words that show up in similar contexts end up clustered together. That's why OCEAN is close to SEA, and why some connections will genuinely surprise you. All of this math runs locally on your device. No internet needed for solo play.

Ratings & Reviews

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    1 Ratings

minor bug fixes

Version 1.2.1

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    Information

    Seller
    • Asher Feldman
    Size
    • 47.2 MB
    Category
    • Word
    Compatibility
    Requires iOS 18.2 or later.
    • iPhone
      Requires iOS 18.2 or later.
    • iPad
      Requires iPadOS 18.2 or later.
    • Mac
      Requires macOS 15.2 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
    • Apple Vision
      Requires visionOS 2.2 or later.
    Languages
    • English
    Age Rating
    9+
    In-App Purchases
    Yes
    Copyright
    • © 2025 Asher Feldman
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