Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 06:28 am
Crossword Explorer – Entertainment Game Review
Crossword Explorer is a Entertainment/Word/Puzzle game from PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd, first launched in 14th September 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 52,822+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Crossword Explorer Stand Out
Are you ready to embark on a journey of brain-boosting fun?
Immerse yourself in the captivating world of wordplay with Crossword Puzzle Explorer, the definitive crossword puzzle experience that's not only fun but also educational! Best of all, this game is completely free to play!
Whether you're a seasoned crossword enthusiast looking for a new challenge or someone just beginning their crossword journey, Crossword Puzzle Explorer has something special for you.
Dive into our vast crossword puzzle collection, featuring a diverse range of themes, sizes, and difficulty levels. There's a puzzle for every mood and skill level.
Key Features
- Endless Puzzles: Challenge yourself with an impressive collection of thousands of crossword puzzles that span the spectrum from easy to expert. Whether you have a few minutes or hours to spare, Crossword Explorer always has a puzzle to keep your mind in tip-top shape.
- Daily Challenges: Are you up for a daily challenge? Crossword Puzzle Explorer offers fresh crossword puzzles every day. Solve them to earn fantastic rewards, hone your crossword-solving skills, and prove your word mastery.
- Track Your Progress: Keep tabs on your crossword conquests! Unlock a variety of achievements as you conquer crossword after crossword and climb the ranks of wordplay greatness.
- Themes & Customization: Make your crossword-solving experience uniquely yours! Explore a delightful selection of themes and beautiful backgrounds!
- Hints & Tips: No one likes getting stuck on a tricky word or clue. That's why we've got you covered with a range of hints and tips to nudge you in the right direction. Keep the crossword-solving momentum going and conquer those challenging puzzles!
- Educational Fun: Enhance your vocabulary, sharpen your language skills, and boost your knowledge while having an absolute blast!
Don't miss out on the crossword puzzle adventure of a lifetime.
Download Crossword Puzzle Explorer now and start exploring the world of words like never before. Challenge yourself, have fun, and let your word-play journey begin!
Write back to us with any issues or suggestions, we are all ears!
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This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Crossword Explorer is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Hey there word maestro!
We’ve sprinkled some magic on our crossword kingdom with this fresh update. We’ve squashed pesky bugs, guaranteeing a crossword adventure smoother than butter on a hot pan.
Get ready to dive into a world of words without a glitch in sight!
Download & Availability
Crossword Explorer is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Crossword Explorer on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We like the puzzle for the most part, but how do you access the winnings from the tournament.Twice we have been in first place and we couldnt figure out how to get the results. Barb King.
We like this app but cant find an option for no adds. The same ads over and over are tiring.
Love the game it keeps our mind sharp but we dont be trying to use our hints and we may accidentally hit the button can you fix it to get permission before it uses the hints. Thank you, Yolanda.
Too many ads. We were enjoying the game but now its ads after the completion of every puzzle. Sadly we will delete the app immediately.
The new keyboard and display updates on the actual crossword are not good. We love the game but the previous layout looked so much sleeker and up to date. Now it looks like im playing something from 2011.
We play this game constantly and we are currently number1 in the tournament. If we dont stop seeing that nasty Happy Hospital game ad, we will stop playing this game. It is on every time now and it makes us want to vomit.
We think the concept is great, but the developers are just too greedy. There are not enough rewards, and the amounts you pay to play far outnumbers the prizes for winning. It is not cheap to purchase the coins to play. Also, there are just too many annoying ads. We recently payed out the nose to buy coins to continue playing. This purchase included a no ads option. Guess what! There are still ads with a petty little reward attached and over which you have no control. Wise up, developers! There are serious problems here. When we complete this last coin purchase, we will be leaving this app behind and moving on to something a little more in our price range.
Why do we have to pay to get the coins we earned in the Piggy Bank?!? If we earned these coins we should receive them! We will NOT pay to open the piggy bank to get coins we earned.
We love the game but every time we complete a puzzle it freezes, so we dont get our coins from it. When we started playing the game it didnt do that. Now that Im a lot higher level. It freezes every time we finish a puzzle so annoying.
Had to use a clue because this puzzle thinks AUS is the abbreviation for Austria, when in fact its for Australia.
Points awarded make no sense. If you go to home page and click on "help", nothing happens. If you click on app support on app page, nothing. Seriously. These folks don't want to hear from you.
We have this app downloaded but we keep running out of puzzles. We dont know what level we are on but it is way up there. Can we not go any further.
We love this game, right pace and diff. Love to see how many we play a day, we start with one and 2 hours laterAll In All its a great game if you want to relax and be alone or just see how smart you are great game.
Love playing this game we play it daily. The puzzles are great. The only thing Im nothappy with is the amount of points you get when finishing a section. 5 points doesnt seem like much for all the puzzles you must complete to finish a section and get your rewards. Would give it a 5 star rating if the points were larger. Feels like you work too hard just to such low reward.
Freezes ALOT!and WAY too many game ads.
We really like this game and we would have given it 5 stars if it wasnt for the small box ad at the bottom covering half the keyboard! We cant finish some of the puzzles unless we click out then come back in and the ad is not there. Other than that we like that the puzzles are easy enough for us to solve them as we were never really good at crossword puzzles.
We injured our back yesterday which required bedrest today. We just downloaded the app yesterday and have been enjoying playing (despite the ads that you don't have the option of turning the music off). But we've played 4-5 rounds that all deal with Omaha, NE, making us wonder who on development is from Omaha.
We love this crossword puzzle app.. Here lately screen has froze. We have to back out of it and reopen it again. Can this be fixed? We thought it was our phone.. Other games we have work fine. We still cant play this came. Screen freezes way too much. Can you please fix this problem.
We just started this game and we really started to enjoy it, we dont even mind ads, but it continually started to freeze up every time an ad started. Thank you anyhow.
We like this game a lot but Im getting tired of so many ads. Can you please cut down in-between games.
We love this game and have been playing it daily for a long long time- but all of a sudden now its 5 letters for 10 coins, and it used to be 10 letters for 10 coins? And the daily challenges are ridiculous now as well. You have to use +5 letters 5x, whereas it was only twice. Looking for a new app to play. And we are a loyal customer for a long time, purchasing coins through the game.
Ads!!! We love this game but now you have a long ads between each word. Couldnt you have much shorter ads like other games.
We are at level 200 something and the puzzles arent getting any more difficult. They arent challenging at all, we are able to solve them in less than one minute. Im about to delete it.
We bought coins and something saying no ads. But the ads are still there. Why.
We have finally found a way to relax.
We really enjoy playing the game but there are some wrong clues and thats not the issue for us. The game lags, gets stuck. Sometimes it takes up to 30 seconds for the letter fills the spot and if your impatient and tap it again it fills the next space too. Grrr.
We paid the almost $30 to be ad free but we still have ads. Like so many ads!! FIX IT or REFUND our $$.
Since they did the last update, this games lags so bad that we cant play it anymore. They need to do another update that actually fixes the bugs/speed! So frustrating because we love to play this game.
Too many ads and game freezes to the point that we have to delete reboot and play. Not worth it.
It is a good game to pass the time and such. But have to agree with everyone, at times the game freezes and we notice the one misinformation, Maria Sharapova isnt French, shes Russian.
Eek – the spelling errors are so cringy. Please hire someone who speaks English to write the clues. Sadly, deleting.
We downloaded this thing, thinking it was totally different. Why is the advertisement not the same game? Ad showed options to choose your category, and pictures with questions. This isnt even the same game! We dont understand.
We dont like being forced to compete.
Is there a subscription available for this game like Daily Themed Crosswords? If, bye.
Really like the app, but too many ads and no option to purchase a version without ads.
Why cant you give more coins when one has finished the entire crossword. One has to waste time waiting for the damnVideos. SOMEONE BETTER COME WITH FIXING THOSE SAMN BUGS. ITS MADDENING.
We are CONSTANTLY hearing this annoying clicking, even with sound disabled. It happens every 4 or so seconds, twice (no exaggeration). It Is incredibly annoying especially because we like to listen to music while we play these games. With this, the game is unplayable. Honestly wasnt impressed with the game itself either. Boring.
We downloaded this app for this feature and don't see it anywhere. Developer.
We love the crosswords but now under construction. Very frustrating.
This game could be good but it has constant ads, also who in there right mind would pay all that money for coins. This game has the potential to cost more than a great ps5 game. Its fun but the ads are painful so its got to go.
We enjoy the app, the major downfall is its constantly freezing up. In the middle of a puzzle we have to close the app and open it again. We enjoy this app but have considered finding another crossword app because of this.
We play every day! Love the easy of play. Daily challenges. Our only complaint is that when watching ads to collect coins many times when the ad is almost over it automatically opens the App Store which we dont like and dont know why this happens.
The game is fine but it frequently needs to be reset. It likes to freeze up on the game ads of which there are too many. Deleted this game.
So many of the same cluesalso way too many movie/actors clues. The ads are so annoying. You cant do two puzzles in a row without watching an ad.
Unable to play, ads keep popping up every 2-3 seconds not allowing game play.
Whats with the ad from express. It keeps interrupting our game play every few seconds. We enjoy playing but this is ridiculous. By the rate of frequency that the ad plays tells us that there is probably a glitch.
Great app! However, some of your ads are too long. After ten seconds, we know if we want the app or not. Thirty seconds is way too long. When we have to be bored with an ad, we stop playing. Ads should entertain not be repetitive and insulting. Thanks for the great app.
The 2 star rating was our own mistake! We were able to fix it pay attention to the boosters before each level that was the mistake we made.
Great game! Love crosswords. It would be helpful, though, if you would specify Britishisms in your clues. An American, for instance, would never see Inclined and think leant. Still having fun though.
Could not locate anything challenging.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.148
- Size: 317.63 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd
Last updated: 11th November 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Word | Developer: PlaySimple Games Pte Ltd