Last updated on February 7th, 2026 at 04:20 pm
Crossword – by puzzling.com – Word Game Review
Crossword – by puzzling.com is a Word/Board/Education game from AppyNation Ltd, first launched in 31st October 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 42,497+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Crossword – by puzzling.com Stand Out
Solve thousands of clues in the biggest and best crossword puzzle ever!
Now you can enjoy a new crossword challenge every day with this giant collection of hundreds of original puzzles.
There are over 80,000 unique clues to solve as well as dozens of quests to complete and trophies to collect!
Choose from TWELVE game modes:
■ DAILY THEMED PUZZLE
Enjoy a new crossword each day, featuring clues linked to a trivia fact about today's date that's revealed on completion!
■ WORLD'S BIGGEST Crossword
Explore over 1,500 crossword puzzles. The classic puzzle enjoyed by millions of players worldwide.
■ WORLD'S TALLEST Crossword
A collection of 800 extra-large puzzles – bigger grids, longer words, tougher clues! How high can you build the tower?
■ DAILY DIAMOND Crossword
Earn extra rewards with a snack-sized bonus puzzle each day.
■ SEVEN WORDS Puzzle
Solve the clues and use the scrambled letter blocks to find 7 hidden words.
■ CRYPTOGRAM Puzzle
Break the code, reveal the quote!
■ CODEWORDS Puzzle
Decipher the code to complete the crossword grid. Each square is marked with a number corresponding with one letter of the alphabet. Look for patterns and use your powers of deduction to crack the code!
■ WORD GRID Puzzle
Slide the tiles from the edge of the grid into the blank squares to spell out words. Unlike a regular crossword, there are no clues so instead you'll have to use logic to choose between the available letters for each square.
■ QUOTE FALLS Puzzle
Place the letter tiles from each column into the correct squares on the grid to spell out a famous quotation!
■ BRITISH CRYPTICS Crossword
The ultimate challenge – cryptic crosswords use their own obscure rules to hide the answer in the clue, using anagrams, double meanings, and a host of other subtle tricks. If you get completely stumped on a clue, you can swap it out for an easier, non-cryptic alternative.
■ FACT OF THE DAY
Curious facts to puzzle the mind!
■ MISSING LETTERS
Solve the curious conundrum, reveal the word.
Also look out for special timed events!
Complete all the core challenges to earn the title of Crossword Superstar!
- Solve all 80,000+ clues
- Complete all 6,000+ puzzles
- Collect all 45 trophies
- Complete all 57 quests
- Unlock all 10 achievements
SUPPORT
Please select the [HELP] option from the Pause Menu (the gear icon at the top-right of the game screen) if you require assistance.
If you require further assistance or are unable to access the in-game help, you can contact us via email: [email protected]
Crossword is free to play, but contains optional paid items to unlock content more quickly.
LATEST NEWS
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This Word game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Crossword – by puzzling.com is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Another huge update!
We've added over 1,000 new puzzles.
- 361 more 'World's Biggest' puzzles
- 100 more 'World's Tallest' puzzles
- 100 more Cryptograms puzzles
- 100 more Seven Words puzzles
- 100 more Codewords puzzles
- 100 more Word Grid puzzles
- 100 more Quote Falls puzzles
- Lots more Daily Themed Puzzles
We've also added a little more polish and fixed a couple of bugs!
Download & Availability
Crossword – by puzzling.com is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Crossword – by puzzling.com 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:
Love that theyre the largestwish they were little tougher..too easy, but then again Ive been doing crosswords our entire life!! Anyways (still give)five stars.
Starts fun but switches to other game not so good.
We like this app, (been using it for years) but your NEW animations after every letter, every word, are TOTALLY absolutely ANNOYING and are using up MY battery. Add an off switch in settings, please! Otherwise we will likely puzzle elsewhere. More actions are NOT necessary, and are a waste of our time.
Would like to see See nicer graphics. Graphics are very cheap looking.
Ive been playing this game for over five years now, and we still didnt solve more than 60% of the puzzles. This is the best crossword app that Ive encountered.
Very good app to exercise brain.
Ive played many games until we become No. 1 or in first place then we move on . Im 75 and we love the combination of things that come up in this game ! Challenging also great to play Im just a beginner so far.
Helps a 90 year old keep her concentration.
Please add more puzzles, Im almost finished with all of them, we only have the daily diamond puzzles left.
We like this game, but ads are too lengthy.
Puzzle solutions should not include words that dont exist. Its inappropriate and predatory. WYBER is not a word. In any language. You owe us 300 coins.
This is a great app, and Ive been using it for years. Lately though, when the ad pops up, it is a scam ad- you know, the ones that try to tell you your phone is infected and you need to update your antivirus software? It even presents itself mid-game, rather than before games as usual. Something has gone amiss.
You will spend more time navigating ads than solving puzzles. Waste of time.
The difference between these crossword puzzles and others is that they give you a letter bank to help you get solve each clue. Its a bit like playing Wheel of Fortune. There are only a few ads to watch, and you only need to watch them to get coins, if you want to. The coins are used to purchase hints.
They said snorkeling was a sportits not. Also, they spelled it with two Ls.
Some of the hints are vague but overall very fun and entertaining. Great for expanding your vocabulary.
Love playing this app. It really helps us when we do not want to watch TV and to unwind after work.
This is a great game for word lovers. We are so impressed with the levels of new ways to play. Very pleased with how it is put together.
This game is fun, slightly challenging, but could be better. It often uses British terms, some puzzles require up to 50 tokens to unlock. We do have a sense of game achievement when looking at the board and noticing all the completed tiles. We guess we will continue to play until the whole puzzle is completed.
We love this game!!! This game makes us think a lot.
This app has a variety of puzzles that can be challenging. It is fun and requires you to use your brain which is great for us.
Excelente para mantener activa la memoria. Buen ejercicio.
We like the game so far, the ads arent really that bad.
Love these crossword puzzles. Keeping our brain young.
Been playing since probably 2017-2018 well a few years ago probably 2021 all of our data got deleted it was whatever we looked at it as a way to start fresh and hey meant we had more puzzles to play. Well we started playing again after a couple month break and now there's ads everywhere and it's running terribly. Very disappointing.
We had finished the crossword and diamond sections and almost finished the tallest too. Taught ourselves the remaining puzzles. But Im thrilled that you are finally adding more puzzles.
This is a great crossword game. Be aware that it is programed by a British company and every once in a while, there is a word that isnt common in the US. At worst, it is annoying, and at best, it is a challenge. Fun and educational.
Its good to pass the time but the coins needed to play a game is frustrating. Id rather watch more ads and have plenty of coins to play as many puzzles as we want. Instead, we have to wait until the next day to get more coins.
We had over 1700 days in our streak and we lost that when the app wouldnt open. It works now but Im bummed we lost our streak haha.
When we have a few minutes, we always play! Great way to stay sharp.
Ive been playing this word game for years. No obnoxious ads. There are many games to keep you occupied and thinking. Im still enjoying it a lot.
Some move exceedingly quickly and some puzzles we have open for days or weeks.
We use these puzzles to try to stay sharp. Lots of variety, some are difficult which pushes us further. We recommend. We especially like the question of the day.
Enjoyed doing this puzzle immensely. Am now in the middle of doing it again.j.
Im not only tired of seeing the Royal Match video, but now it doesnt even show up. Screen remains black and when we click on the X in the upper left corner, we have to click Keep Watching but it never finishes and NO tokens are added.
We have completed about 40 of the first grouping of puzzles and they have reused about a dozen words already. Also the math questions we feel are a huge waste. They are far to simple. This gets two stars because briefly we had fun, and they also pulled in a few questions that words that were tough to guess. If you don't mind repetativeness and don't mind repetativeness then get this. But do not pay for it. They don't deserve extra money for not spending more than a couple braincells to create puzzles.
It takes too long to earn a game.
We dont like that we can only play once a day unless we pay for tokens.
Love the game. NOT the long ads.
This game is very good and very educational with the Fact of the Day.
Great game but Im tired of running out of tokens. The daily limit doesnt generate enough tokens to play more than 1 game and we get tired of having to come back to watch ads for multiple days without being able to play. To us, at least, it would seem that an app should should provide you with gameplay that keeps you engaged, not 1 that prevents you from playing for multiple days while you try to earn tokens. Seems counter productive since Ive lost interest. But again, thats us.
This is a great game when it works! Its no longer playable. App crashes as soon as you put in the last letter of the first clue typed in. Very frustrating. Please fix.
Doesntt mater if its the diamond puzzle or a regular one the app crashes as soon as you complete the 1st word.
Challlenging but solvable. Ive enjoyed it very much.
We were hooked from the start. Tapping each word is more fun than hunting for a number and across or down. We hope there are more after we finish the 1st 950+ puzzles.
We love to relax and enjoy a great crossword puzzle.
Theres no reason why transmitter and can should both be worth 5 coins. We suggest that the longer a word is, the more coins you get rewarded. We hammer out an 11 letter monster and only get 5 coins Not exactly fair.
We would like to see more puzzles.
It serves its purpose and no glitches that we saw but just wanted to warn people that it is developed by a company from the UK or at the very least clues developed by people from the UK. Point is that while we speak the same language, there are several idiosyncrasies and quirks if you will between UK English and American English and other English spoken throughout the world; enough so that for us this app just isnt for us. We just found a few clues had answers for terms that our wife and we had to look up online, and even a few words we had never even heard, let alone spoken ever.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.6
- Size: 391.30 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, JA, KO, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: AppyNation Ltd
Last updated: 17th December 2025 | Genre: Word, Board | Developer: AppyNation Ltd