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Crossword Helper – Utilities Game Review
Crossword Helper is a Utilities/Word/Puzzle game from C Loep, first launched in 15th January 2010.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 56+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Crossword Helper Stand Out
N__d h_lp fiing in yr bl_nks?
AFKSoft Crossword Helper is a free utility for solving crossword puzzles or other word games where the goal is to guess words and fill in blanks. If you are stuck on a difficult clue, just enter any known letters of your word, with spaces for blanks. Then you get a list of possible answers. Tap any answer to view its definition or synonyms and narrow down your choices.
Features:
- Fast startup
- Quick and simple to use
- Fast pattern searcher, find those blanks
- Searches as you type, wastes no time
- Dictionary lookup, explains it all(*)
- Thesaurus lookup, many ways to say it
- Supports British and American-style English
- Saves your search when you exit
Internet required for definitions and synonyms.
Also see our excellent Anagram & Word Lookup app, great for Scrabble(tm) players.
(*)If you're lucky.
This Utilities game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Crossword Helper is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 14th November 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- fixed input problem
- misc fixes
Download & Availability
Crossword Helper is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Crossword Helper 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 do one or two crossword puzzles every day in a little tiny caf and when we get stuck we have the crossword App on our iPhone and its very convenient.
We found this to be the best free app for crossword solving out of all the ones we tried. The down side is there are words listed that have no definition. All in all we recommend this to crossword lovers.
If you are stumped, this is a good, simple and fast helper.
We like what the app does, but every time you touch your screen an ad pops up! Drives us crazy. We deleted the app after three days.
Very tiring as there are long irrelevant ads between each word we try to solve! Very frustrating.
Used to be a great app. Now between the streaming ads and the popup ads, you may as well use a book.
You cant use it without another ad popping up. We need another app. Im disappointed in this one.
Way too many ads, some 30 seconds long. Ill find another.
We cant get passed the ads for other apps! What is up with that? And we can not get the ad apps to close either.
Trying to use, scrolling down screen, and it pops up "loading mini-game", and loads some other app. This is unusable for all the popups. Never another AFKSoft app. Never. Absolute fail.
This now requires iOS 10? Boo, hiss. We now delete you. Farewell.
Very helpful. Quick response. Huge vocabulary. Short definition for almost all words. If you do crosswords or word games, get it.
We've been using the app for several weeks with our crossword clues. Very good.
We play quite a bit of Words with Friends. Sometimes, we stumble onto letter combinations that turn out like unexpectably to be acceptable. We make a point of looking up the meaning of those words, and this is a useful resource for that. When our opponents play words that we don't know, we also use this app as a resource to learn the meanings. We recommend this app highly.
When you're stuck, turn to this app.
We think it works we're glad we have it ! Thanks.
Works very well for helping to solve British crosswords.
We're a crossword addict and use this app every day. It's easy to use and very comprehensive. Thanks for a great app.
Does what it says it will do. Works when others fail.
Our only problem is pop ups which are very annoying. Otherwise it is a great app.
Great app that we use every day. But we have to delete it and reinstall when all the pop ups start. If they fix that part it's a five star app for sure.
We use this APP almost everyday and we don't mind the Ads. But, today it goes crazy every time we open it up. It sends us straight to the APP store and we are unable to use it. Please fix it.
Always helpful to finished a puzzle out.
Nice app but very annoying sound effects with no way to kill them in the settings. Can you please offer a silent setting.
Very straightforward app. Wish we could choose special gaming dictionaries. Like scrabble or words with friends word lists.
Unusable. Non stop pop up ads.
Pop-ups are so bad we can't even use it.
Its full of adds that keep trying to take you out off the app to buy or install something else.
Used to be great, we used it to help us design puzzles. Haven't used it a some time, but now that we've come back to it, we've found it unusable. It hijacks our phone to a browser window of ads. We don't even have to touch the screen, we open the app and in a matter of seconds we're whisked away to an ad. Close browser, back to app only to be spirited off again. We can't even get one play out of it before we're off to view another ad. Useless to us. We're killing it.
Used to love this app. Now it's practically worthless. It redirects you to the app store before you are able to read through your word choices.
Could be very useful if it didn't keep redirecting.
This was a great little App. Now it is unusable. We don't mind seeing adds, but it constantly takes you out of the App while your trying to use it to somewhere trying to sell you a game or something. It is really annoying!! Don't get it.
Used to be good. Now ads pop up so often you can't even use the APP.
Easy to use – just what it needs to be.
Great user interface and definitions.
A well thought out tool for word games.
We are always using this app for writing, for lots of word games. It is so much more than a crossword helper. It can be used as a game itself. It is fun to see if you can come up with words that may not be the norm. It can be used to jog that memory about a word you can kind of remember, but not quite. It is a way to check your spelling. It is a necessity for worders.
We do the local crossword every morning. This is a strong help.
This app also helps with words with friends.
This app is very nice for one word clues. Screen/keyboard could be a little bigger, but, we're getting used to it.
Like this app for all sorts of word games and puzzles. A bit limited when looking for proper names and definitions of some words. But overall we really enjoy going through the options, finding words we are looking for and learning new words.
Before the last update it was a 3 star. Missing MANY common words. Now with the update you get pop ups when idle.
We love this app! It is such a help to finish a crossword puzzle when we get stuck and an about to give up.
Retained a lot of hair thanks to this invaluable app.
Pretty good for free app. Does well with dictionary words but not with proper names or phrases. Have used dictionary function for general definitions & pleased with results.
Too many words with no definition. Would be good to incorporate Words with Friends.
Crashes frequently. Displays words with no definitions. Quite a few ads. Otherwise, it's a useful app.
Since the last update we've been unable to use this app—it keeps crashing. Very disappointing since it used to be a great app.
Since the last update this keeps crashing. We are also annoyed at all the ads. This was paid for, so why is it going downhill.
Excellent helper and very dependable.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2
- Size: 15.58 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: C Loep
Last updated: 14th November 2016 | Genre: Utilities, Word | Developer: C Loep