Wordle! and Wardle team up to donate proceeds from an unrelated app’s popularity spike

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Wordle is a free browser game, and a browser game only, and it has no accompanying apps, something that some people might not realize during a time when nearly everything has an app.

There is plenty of room for fake Wordle apps to crowd app stores in an attempt to make money off of the word puzzle game's sudden rise in popularity. Wordle! is not a clone of the browser game. According to a report from Gamespot, the developer of Wordle is teaming up with the mind behind the browser-based game to give back to the community.

Steven Cravotta, the developer of Wordle!, detailed how his coding project blew up five years after it was created. Cravotta stopped promoting and updating his app after it got around 100,000 downloads, because it wasn't as successful as his previous game.

Downloads for Wordle! slowed to around one to two per day, but when the browser-based Wordle started taking off, so did his app. The app racked up 200,000 downloads in a single week, despite confused users who thought it was a browser-based Wordle. Cravotta reached out to Wordle app developer, Josh Wardle, and let him know about his plans to donate the proceeds from his app to charity.

The money earned by Wordle! will be donated to a charity in Oakland, California. Cravotta told us that he has collected more than $2,000 so far, and that he will donate the total amount he has earned at the end of the month.