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WordErase.

A themed word puzzle that handed everyone the same grid each day: swipe to spell words, clear the board, and see if you can find a perfect score.

Retired · 2026

WordErase is retired. It is off the App Store, and the worderase.com domain has lapsed, so there is nothing left to link to. It never really found players, and the hours it wanted were hours the apps people do use were asking for, so we stopped. The page stays here because the work was real and worth writing down: this is what it was, and the devblog posts below are the parts we learned something from.

v1.5Final release
iOSPlatforms
2025 to 2026In the wild
// What's inside

Six things it did,
while it was here.

// 01

One shared puzzle every day

Everyone got the same themed grid each day, so you and your friends were working through the identical puzzle and could compare how you did.

// 02

Swipe to spell and clear

You dragged across adjacent letter tiles to form words; valid words popped off the board with a little haptic and a gentle tone.

// 03

Two-stage word checking

Each word was checked first against a bundled English word list, then against Apple's UITextChecker as a second pass.

// 04

Look for the perfect score

Clearing every tile earned the day's perfect score and lit up your high score with an animated golden border.

// 05

Stats, calendar, and iCloud sync

You could follow your scores and words found over time, replay past days from a calendar, and keep progress in sync across devices via CloudKit.

// 06

Share your result

Tapping your high score shared a preview that linked straight to that day's puzzle through a Universal Link.

// Why it existed

WordErase,
made with
care.

WordErase gave everyone the same themed grid each day, so you and your friends could solve the exact same puzzle and compare notes. You swiped across adjacent tiles to spell a word; valid words popped off the board and scored by length, and clearing every tile earned a perfect score. Words were checked against a bundled dictionary and Apple's spell checker, scores synced across devices with iCloud, and a calendar let you go back and replay past days.

// On screen
Solving the Common Fruits grid, with current, high, and perfect scores below
Solving the Common Fruits grid, with current, high, and perfect scores below
// From the blog

Behind the scenes.

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// Also from the workshop

Other apps.

All apps →

That was
WordErase.

It is not on the App Store any more, and there is no site left to visit. The rest of the shelf is still here, and still looked after.