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title: "Codenames - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "Codenames is a clever word game of deduction, teamwork, and strategy, inspired by the popular board game loved worldwide.   Give one-word clues, link multiple words, and read your teammates’ minds to "
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# Codenames — United States
> Solve word-association puzzles

![Codenames App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/b0/2f/3e/b02f3e3d-7aa8-9b26-91c0-e61d1a5f5d33/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-11-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [CGE Digital s.r.o](https://apptail.io/developer/cge-digital-sro-XSVd)
**Category:** Games
**Rating:** 4.7/5 (1,036 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.czechgames.codenamesdigital
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 2.5.4484 (released 2026-05-27)
**Original Release:** 2024-09-11
**Languages:** English, Arabic, Czech, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1055650930)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/united-states)

## Codenames Description
Codenames is a clever word game of deduction, teamwork, and strategy, inspired by the popular board game loved worldwide.


Give one-word clues, link multiple words, and read your teammates’ minds to win before the other team does.


Easy to learn, hard to master
Codenames is simple to understand and instantly rewarding. Every match tests your logic, creativity, and intuition — a perfect blend of casual fun and deep thinking.

Play at your own pace
Turn-based matches let you play whenever you want, as much as you want. Start several games at once and return when it’s your turn — perfect for busy players.

Smart fun for sharp minds
If you enjoy games that make you think, this is for you. Every clue and guess matters — there’s no autoplay, no idle waiting, just pure wordplay and deduction.

Why players love Codenames
 • Turn-based multiplayer — play with friends or online opponents.
 • Based on a beloved board game concept: give one-word clues, guess multiple words.
 • Exclusive twists and new game modes available exclusively in this version.
 • Choose your role — Spymaster or Operative — and master both perspectives.
 • One-time purchase unlocks a full experience — no freemium grind, no intrusive ads—just the pure enjoyment for the price of a cup of coffee for the dev team.

Join millions of players and test how well you can get into the minds of others.
Download Codenames today — the top multiplayer word game for clever thinkers.

## Codenames Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/d7/d2/f2/d7d2f211-664a-d38a-768e-716ebd457fd7/cn_screenshots__2_1__EN__ribbon__b2__ingame.jpg/2688x1242.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/0f/e3/03/0fe3033d-f776-e7c4-5432-d670e21f87ea/cn_screenshots__2_1__EN__ribbon__a__awards.jpg/2688x1242.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/86/92/72/8692726f-8183-bef4-0cc7-805b730a1519/cn_screenshots__2_1__EN__ribbon__c__vip_modes.jpg/2688x1242.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/87/a3/84/87a38489-bdc2-2af5-a279-7718b0fe1381/cn_screenshots__2_1__EN__ribbon__d__daily_challenge.jpg/2688x1242.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/b1/00/6b/b1006b4e-0b73-1935-482d-65cfbb9f451c/cn_screenshots__2_1__EN__ribbon__e__pick_word.jpg/2688x1242.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/43/55/e1/4355e10d-57ac-1eb9-73ae-ccbde4cf6da5/cn_screenshots__2_1__EN__ribbon__f__profile.jpg/2688x1242.png)
- [Screenshot 7](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/75/a5/39/75a53989-02a9-ea3f-f053-e0b0f0979413/cn_screenshots__2_1__EN__ribbon__g__victory.jpg/2688x1242.png)
- [Screenshot 8](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/7f/f4/7a/7ff47a0b-ee1d-8d9b-b8cd-d4fa26bbceb7/cn_screenshots__2_1__EN__ribbon__h__comic.jpg/2688x1242.png)

## Codenames Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 906 (87%)
- 4 stars: 62 (6%)
- 3 stars: 25 (2%)
- 2 stars: 12 (1%)
- 1 stars: 31 (3%)

## Codenames Reviews in United States

### **--- "No time limit?!"
Why isn’t there a time limit for this game? The opposing player can take forever to make a move, leaving the game at a standstill. Plus, you can’t even quit an inactive game without getting penalized. This really affects the overall experience.
-- Paul S. from California, 2025-02-03

### ***** "Amazing app for an amazing game"
This app is more than just a digital implementation of Codenames. It adds daily missions, special game modes, and a progression/achievement system. Plus, the app is well designed (interface, graphics, etc.) and runs flawlessly. I highly recommend this to those who like word games or board games (even if you already own the physical game, like I do). At its current price of $5, it’s a steal.
-- mcd7bc1, 2025-01-27

### ***** "?"
The Prophet of the Arabic Language,
-- MB305M, 2025-01-24

### ***** "Clever and fun"
Great word game for all ages
-- 222bad it was good!!, 2025-01-21

### ***** "Amazing"
First played it on Twitch. This is just as good if not better! Loveeee it!!
-- Ms Ladii, 2025-01-17

### ***-- "Slow, takes forever to play"
Most of the time you are waiting for the clues or the other team. It’s boring.
-- S. Starkey, 2025-01-15

### ***** "Such a well made app!"
This app does such a fantastic job at bringing the game to mobile - wonderful job devs!!!

I love that it is a one time purchase with no micro transactions. I love that you level up and unlock more features as you play. I love that you can pass and play (ie a group of people can play on one device!). 

The only thing that I can think of that would make this game even BETTER is to support different themes, word packs, and Codenames Duet! 😁
-- jangelsb, 2025-01-12

### *---- "Rampant cheating"
Lots of cheating going on. Fun game but who wants to play with cheaters? Nobody.
-- TrevorS, 2025-01-11

### ***-- "Not My Preferred Way to Enjoy Codenames"
I appreciate the developers making this a flat-sale game without subscriptions or microtransactions. But at the end of the day, it’s just not a fun way to enjoy Codenames. it’s too busy with tokens and sidequests, and finishing a PvP game with other players is insufferable. You’ll have 10 active games open and still have to wait half a day between moves. I would revisit if the devs cut out the “mission” fluff and implemented a 10-minute timer before a player gets bounced. As it stands now, I’ll stick with the board game.
-- Splattergirl, 2025-01-08

### *---- "Not stable, support unresponsive"
So far servers will become unresponsive. iCloud and Game Center do not save your progress. If you want to chance this game make sure you “secure” your account to possibly have a backup of your progress.
-- mr realistic, 2025-01-05

### ***** "Really well done"
I figured the multiplayer online portion of this game would be good, but I was hesitant about how the single player would be and wasn’t sure I wanted to spend $5 on the game.  If that describes you also, and you aren’t sure about this game, don’t be.  Every aspect of it is really well done.  You will find yourself starting the game, thinking you’ll do just one or two quick missions/games before going off and doing something else; but before you know it, you’ve spent 30 minutes in the game doing all kinds of different things and you don’t want to go do something else.  If you like Codenames, getting this app is a no-brainer decision.  If you’ve never played Codenames before, get this app and you’ll be hooked.
-- ItchyPickles007, 2025-01-03

### ****- "Timer"
The game is a lot of fun. The only
Issue I see is waiting for people to play. I understand a few minutes of thought. I have been waiting currently for about thirty minutes for the other team to go. Having a day five minute timer and then the team forfeits.
-- Swanee727, 2024-12-31

### ***** "Love it!"
We love the physical game but this might be even better. Extremely versatile. Can enjoy my full helping of Codenames with family and by myself.
-- AtrumVis, 2024-12-29

### ***** "Good times"
Love the tabletop game; love how the app adapts using player input and has rewards for leveling up
-- Jonathan 200, 2024-12-28

### ****- "Good, but one painful bug"
Can’t click on words to select them sometimes as spymaster. Without that it’d be an easy 5*.
-- CharlieMB18, 2024-12-26

### *---- "lost faith"
There are only so many terrible clues or missed guesses you can encounter before your faith in humanity is fully eroded. I finally hit the 90-day streak and am excited to take a break now. It&#039;s satisfying when a game moves along quickly because everyone is online and responding in real time. But generally you have to wait hours or days between turns, just to have someone choose &quot;pickle&quot; when your hint was &quot;gladiator.&quot; The game is fine but people are trash and, well.... GIGO
-- capydat, 2024-12-25

### **--- "Updated: Well polished and ad free"
This is the best conversion of a board game to app I&#039;ve ever played. I like that the more you level up the more you get to do.

Update: after months of playing the number of non-American players have made this game unplayable for me. Some players don&#039;t grasp the most simple cultural references. There should be an international option if you wish to play this way, but I should be able to choose to play with Americans that understand what I&#039;m trying to convey. If you tried to play the real board game with people that didn&#039;t understand because they&#039;re not from this country it would be just as frustrating and no fun. Shame because this game was so well made.
-- WabbyTwax, 2024-12-23

### ***-- "Daily Challenge scoring problematic"
Overall, I like this app a lot, and I’ve become addicted. But there is a major issue I’ve found with the way that spymaster scenarios are scored that is making them a lot less fun and violating the spirit of how codenames is supposed to work. If operatives select words that were on your team but not selected, it should not count the same as a bystander. It should count as one of your words, because it is one of your words (you should still lose “Perfect” points for it) It does make the scoring more complicated, but it needs to be done. As it is, it is incentivizing people to select more of their words for clues because they’re afraid someone will pick one of the words that they didn’t select, but that makes it much more likely that someone guessing as an operative will select a word that is not one of their words or an assassin and it’s just making the daily cases much harder and not as fun. It’s also not how a codenames game works (and not how the app works everywhere outside of daily challenges). A core part of being a spy master in Codenames is that you are evaluating the likelihood that someone’s gonna pick one of the words that you did not select and the penalty for that is different based on whether it is one of your words, one of the enemy words, a bystanderor an assassin. Daily challenges is violating that by making the penalty for selecting one of your words that you didn’t pick the same as selecting a bystander and that is just wrong. Also, the operative should not be stopped from guessing if they select one of your words that you didn’t pick. That’s another core part of how Codenames is supposed to work that I cannot think of a reason why that should not be part of a daily challenge. Again, I’m fine with you not getting the same amount of points if an operative selects one of your words that you didn’t pick versus one of your words that you did pick but you should not get penalized for it the same way as if the operative picked a true bystander. You could score it as the spymaster loses some perfect points and they don’t get the full hundred points for the pick so they lose points on both of those fronts but again it should not stop the operator from guessing and it should not count the same as bystander.

There’s also a bug where probably about 20% of the time when I go back to the app it either crashes or doesn’t actually load for like almost 10 seconds and it’s stuck at showing the tip on the screen.
-- Omegapart1cle, 2024-12-22

### ****- "Great, but missing one thing"
This is a great port of an already great game! I love both it and the original. I would give it five stars, but there is one thing that irks me. The jury is a great way to test new additions to the game, but a lot of words get voted in that really don’t follow the original rules. It would be great if the developers could make a tournament mode with strict guidelines that doesn’t allow jury additions and has a base dictionary/card collection that is more similar to the original board game.
-- Skrilla the dj, 2024-12-20

### ***** "Most Brilliant Game online"
I’m truly blown away by the way the makers combined interactive game play with imagination. Bravo!!!
-- drummeroze, 2024-12-20

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## Codenames Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Paid | Denmark | Games | #14 |
| Top Paid | Egypt | Games | #45 |
| Top Paid | Saudi Arabia | Games | #49 |
| Top Paid | Switzerland | Games | #71 |
| Top Paid | Germany | Games | #73 |
| Top Paid | Kuwait | Games | #73 |
| Top Paid | Portugal | Games | #75 |
| Top Paid | India | Games | #92 |
| Top Paid | Poland | Games | #127 |
| Top Paid | United States | Games | #141 |
| Top Paid | France | Games | #146 |
| Top Paid | Austria | Games | #160 |
| Top Paid | Australia | Games | #194 |
| Top Paid | Canada | Games | #212 |
| Top Paid | Czechia | Games | #260 |
| Top Paid | Algeria | Games | #340 |
| Top Paid | Brazil | Games | #420 |
| Top Paid | United Arab Emirates | Games | #458 |

## Codenames Discovered Keywords
- code names
- codenames

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## Codenames Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/united-states)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/germany)
- [Czechia](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/czechia)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/united-kingdom)
- [France](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/france)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/canada)
- [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/australia)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/switzerland)
- [Belgium](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/belgium)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/saudi-arabia)
- [Spain](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/spain)
- [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/netherlands)
- [Sweden](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/sweden)
- [Poland](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/poland)
- [Austria](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/austria)
- [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/new-zealand)
- [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/norway)
- [India](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/india)
- [Denmark](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/denmark)
- [Portugal](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/portugal)
- [Slovakia](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/slovakia)
- [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/italy)
- [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/brazil)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/israel)
- [Türkiye](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/turkey)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/russia)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/hong-kong)
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- [Luxembourg](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/luxembourg)
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- [Romania](https://apptail.io/app/codenames-IVfk/romania)
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