A fast, friendly word duel - one move at a time, on your own schedule.
How it plays
You and a friend each pick a secret five-letter word. Take turns guessing. After every guess you learn your “jots” - how many of your letters are hiding in their word. Rule letters in and out, narrow it down, and be the first to crack their word.
It’s part race, part deduction, all banter.
Play asynchronously, like messaging - take your turn whenever you like.
The same word for everyone each day. Solve it and keep your streak alive.
Pick a JotBot avatar for your player tile and a name your friends will know you by.
A peek
The maker
I build software for a living, and I love it. My iOS apps and other products at Meta and Adobe are used by billions of people every day.
Jottly is made under my studio, Iced Matcha Labs - it's the kind of fast, friendly word duel I actually want to play, and I sweat every detail so it feels just right.
I read every email and reply when I can. Say hello.
Support
Email support@icedmatchalabs.com - we read every message and usually reply within a couple of days.
Pick a secret five-letter word; your opponent does too. Take turns guessing. Each guess shows your jots - the number of your letters that appear in their secret word. Use those clues to deduce their word, and be the first to guess it exactly.
Tap New game, choose your secret word, then Invite a friend and share the link. They open it, pick their own secret word, and the duel begins.
Yes - tap New game → Play JotBot any time, or take the daily challenge everyone shares.
Enable notifications for Jottly in iOS Settings → Notifications → Jottly.
Open Settings in the app and tap Restore Purchases. Avatars are the only purchase - cosmetic only, and they never affect gameplay.
Swipe a game on the Home screen to delete it. There’s no account - uninstalling the app removes its local data.
Privacy
Effective June 25, 2026
Jottly is made by Drew Sullivan. The short version: we built Jottly to be played and shared, not to harvest your data.
We collect no email, contacts, location, advertising identifier, or usage analytics. Jottly has no login and integrates no third-party advertising, attribution, or analytics services. The only detail ever shared is a display name - if you choose one - and only with the friend you're playing, so they know who they're dueling. That's its only use; we never use it to track or profile you. Anonymous play is totally fine!
To make a two-player word game work, some information is created on your device and, for games with a friend, synced through Apple’s iCloud / CloudKit so both players stay in sync:
This data lives on your device and in Apple’s iCloud infrastructure under Apple’s privacy policy. We don’t run our own servers and don’t use this content for advertising, profiling, or tracking.
Jottly is free. The only optional purchase is a JotBot avatar for your player tile - $0.99 each, or $4.99 to unlock all of them - handled entirely by Apple’s App Store. Apple processes the payment; we never receive your payment-card or billing details.
If you email us, we’ll receive your email address and message, and use them only to read and respond. We don’t add you to any list.
Jottly suits a general audience and does not knowingly collect personal information from children. With no account and no data collection, no personal profile of any player is built.
Game data stays until you delete a game in the app or remove the app. Deleting the app removes its local data; iCloud game data follows Apple’s iCloud handling for your account.
If this policy changes, we’ll update the date above and post the revised version here.
Questions? Email support@icedmatchalabs.com.
