Wordle: This is what the Wordle clone app developer has to say – Times of India

Wordle Once in a Day is an online word game that has become popular recently. Days after the game went viral on the Internet, several knockoffs of Wordle appeared apple app store And google play store, Apple Already cracked down on the In Word spin-off and removed wordl clone Apps from its App Store.
Developer Zach Shadd, who created one of these fake apps on the App Store, has apologized on Twitter after facing backlash on the Internet. In a Twitter thread, he said he realized he had ‘crossed a boundary’ and that he would ‘never do anything remotely again.’

Believing that Wordle is a ripoff of another game, he made his calculations based on the fact that Wordle-the word is not a trademark and there are a bunch of other unrelated word apps of the same name.
Now, the original Wordle game is free to play and available to everyone at no cost. But, Shakeed was charging $30 as an annual membership fee. He defended the point, saying, “I put subscriptions in every one of my apps. That’s how you make money from the App Store.”

In his tweets, Shuck also mentioned how he spoke to Wordley’s producer – Josh Wardle on the phone for 30 minutes. He tried to persuade Wardke to do three things- “a) let me pay a huge license fee (100k+), b) partner with me to develop the Office Wordle app or c) send him a percentage of the proceeds” , as stated in the tweet.
To his dismay, Wardle said he was not interested. To which Saka told him that he would consider changing the name. He was looking at other options when Apple removed the app.
Wardle can only be played on the website and does not have a mobile app. The only remaining product on the App Store with that title was Wordle!, a time-based game created by Steven Cravota more than four years ago. Google is yet to remove these cloned apps from Wordle.