The Wordle clones have disappeared from the App Store

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The App Store was full of games ripping off other apps.

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Is Apple taking action against apps that cloned Wordle? They have been removed from the App Store after several publications called out a flood of copycats that featured the same gameplay andUI, each taking advantage of the fact that developer Josh Wardle didn't create an app. The Wordle name is not used by the clones on the App Store.

One developer bragged about how many downloads his version of Wordle was getting, when the spotlight was on the clone apps. He set his account to private, but people already found many other apps like it on the App Store.

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Wordle's success is being profited off by the App Store clones.

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There are two clones in the search results for Wordle at 5PM.

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The first results for Wordle at 8:08PM are an app from five years ago, and a story about Words With Friends 2.

It seems unlikely that each developer decided to take down their app in the time it took Apple to take action against the Wordle-alikes. The original game is at risk if Apple really is cracking down on the apps.

Protocol points out that there have been similar situations in the past, but it is hard to think of a recent example where Apple stepped in as much as it seems to have done today. Section 4.1 of Apple's developer guidelines states that "Come up with your own ideas." Don't copy the latest popular app on the App Store, or make some minor changes to another app's name orUI and pass it off as your own.

There have been questions about how Apple would deal with blatant clones. We may have gotten a precedent for how similar is with the Wordle-alikes disappearing from the App Store.