Two taps, no keyboard
Changing a word is two taps: touch a letter, then touch one of the leaves offered. Only letters that make a real word are ever offered, so “that isn’t a word” never happens.
A cozy word-ladder game for iPhone and iPad
Word Terrarium
Grow Worlds from Words.
Change one letter at a time to turn a start word into a target word — and watch a miniature world grow under glass with every word you play.
Interface in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese. The word puzzles themselves are in English.
Made for iPhone and iPad · iOS 17+
Quiet, gentle play
Two taps. No keyboard.
Every word grows the jar
What grows under the glass comes from the words you play — a fox, a moon, a pine, a lantern, 39 things in all. Two people who solve the same puzzle by different routes end up with different worlds.
208 handcrafted puzzles
Ten named shelves, from one-move sprouts to eleven-move rare blooms. Every ladder is hand-picked and machine-verified, and a finished world remembers every route it has been grown by — up to eight.
A daily journey
A daily world, the same for everybody, with a twelve-week archive. Miss a day and it’s repairable — growing an old day fills that day in.
See the world grow
From your first word to a shelf of tiny worlds.
What it doesn’t do
The game doesn’t shout.
Word Terrarium is paid once, upfront. There is nothing to consent to and nothing to be interrupted by — just the puzzle and the little world growing beside it.
- No ads
- No tracking
- No subscriptions
- No timers
- No lives
- No energy
- No leaderboards
- No consumable hints
One purchase, yours to keep
Everything included.
Paid once, upfront. Nothing locked, nothing to buy later, and it all works offline. Finished worlds can sync through your own iCloud account, and Game Center achievements are optional — and nothing else.
Purchases are handled by Apple through the App Store.