Last updated on December 11th, 2025 at 03:45 am
Home Cross – Board Game Review
Home Cross is a Board/Puzzle/Entertainment game from Metajoy Limited, first launched in 24th November 2019.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 2,829+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Home Cross Stand Out
Home Cross (also known as Nonograms, Picross, Hanjie or Griddlers) is a brand new Sudoku-like puzzle game.
You just solve each logic puzzle to unlock the amazing home-themed pictures.What are you waiting for? Make yourself at home!
Features
• Tons of manually designed levels
Over 2000 free, funny and brain training levels inside
• Easy to learn, Hard to master
• Tons of hidden pictures to unlock
• Playing the game with your FRIENDS
Home Cross UNLIMITED SUBSCRIPTION:
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The subscriptions are $1.99 weekly with 3 days FREE trial, $6.99 monthly, $49.99 annually.
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During your subscriptions, you can get ads free, 30 tokens and 500 coins per day.
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You can get 100 tokens at once.
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Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase.
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Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at leat 24-hours before the end of the current period.
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Account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen subscription.
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Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's Account Settings after purchase.
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No cancelation of the current subscription is allowed during active subscription period.
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You can read privacy policy at http://www.metajoy.io/privacy.html and terms of use at http://www.metajoy.io/tos.html
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Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that content.
*Prices are equal to the value that "Apple's App Store Matrix" determines is the equivalent of the subscription price in$USD.
Terms of Service
http://www.metajoy.io/tos.html
Privacy Policy
http://www.metajoy.io/privacy.html
Questions? Ask: [email protected]
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Home Cross is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th May 2025
Recent improvements include:
— Bug fixes and improvements!
Download & Availability
Home Cross is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
So we love playing this game, but for some reason its very slow to load; like it has a time delay for everything we click on. Not sure why this game does that when the game we play from another developer has way more graphics and runs perfectly normal. Is this a glitch in the system that needs to be updated? Im operating on an iPhone.
We have been playing this game for probably two years. Though the ads are a little annoying, they are at least useful for earning extra tokens here and there. With the most recent update in March 2021, the ads, whether these are ads we chose to click on (to earn double points, for example) or ads that appear randomly on their own, the screen has been freezing. Theres no way to close the ad and/or the counter showing the amount of time left on the ad is stopped and wont continue to count down. This started happening immediately after the latest update. Within a few more days, now the screen freezes mid-game. Sometimes the app will then close itself and we have to restart it or sometimes it just stays frozen until we restart it.
We updated twice this week. Now the game doesnt load at all.
The app freezes every time we try to open it and freezes our phone every time we try to leave it. The game was enjoyable beforehand, but has been rendered literally unplayable. All the most recent app updates have failed to solve the issue.
Great game. Thank you for adding more levels.
We have almost finished the game. We really need more levels. These are our favorite type of game and we have really enjoyed this one.
We absolutely love this game, but ever since the latest update we can barely play. Its always been somewhat glitchy, but it constantly freezes and we have to close it out and reopen it, and it freezes again! Very frustrating and disappointing. Please fix.
Love this game! Wish it was working normal, but ever since the last update, it crashes all the time and causes our phone problems. Please fix it.
Love the app, but like most others the last update really screwed the game up. We can hardly play it anymore.
So why a one star review? We accumulated over 2000 tokens to play the game, worked our way through hundreds of puzzles and now it wont load, we cant access it through our settings and it actually crashes our settings app when we try to troubleshoot it. Can this be fixed? Maybe its due to the latest iOS update.
We LOVED this game. However the last 3 updates rendered it unusable. It doesnt load anymore and freezes and then our phone freezes from it crashing.
We love the app but for some reason you have chosen to make the size of the colored versions so small we can no longer play them without a magnifying glass and even then they are too small. They didnt used to be like that and even only some of them were uncomfortable but now all of them are. Will have to stop playing as Ive run out of puzzles we can see.
Enjoy the game but since the update days ago, the game keeps freezing. Sometimes it wont open, sometime Ill be playing and it just stops reacting. Also sometimes its hard to even quit out of it. Please fix.
We really liked this game but in the last week it has been freezing up. Now its not playable at all.
Crashing, crashing, and crashing.
We love this game and all but it would be helpful if you had more quests/tasks to get tokens because im almost done with them all and they are getting harder to complete and im out of coins. Im not aloud to buy stuff in apps so it would be helpful it we had more chances to get larger amount of coins. Thank you.
We really like this nonogram app! We like that you have to complete different photos to earn different daily rewards. Our only complaint is that we wish they allotted more coins and tokens for watching videos per day. We think 10 for each would be better. Especially since they offer subscriptions that are ad free. Because then the people who have subscriptions would watch more ads which is actually more beneficial to the app owners.
We play this game for while now and we love it in the beginning but now its just keep frozen and we cant play it no more.
If there was a way to pay to remove ads Id leave a 5 stars.
Love this game but Im tired of the freezing up. We dont know if its on end or yours so we will play other Nonogram puzzles to figure it out.
We enjoyed playing this game. The app hasnt worked for quite some time. It opens, then sits at 0% loaded.
We like the game EXCEPT you cant turn the sound off of the ads!!! Want to play as youre falling asleep? Stupid ads sounds come on even if youve set your phone to Silent Mode. No toggles options in the app to turn the sound off. Somehow ends up on our phone even when the phone is off. Creepy! Im deleting the app because the ads invade our privacy and bypasses our phone settings. Creepy creepy creepy.
We absolutely love this game, however the ads are way too overwhelming in amount and length. Very few are skippable after several seconds. We normally would purchase an app, but this cost is way over priced at $50 a year! If things were redesigned and a small purchase was offered for no ads, it would be much more realistic. We are having to give up on this game as a result of the ad annoyance and price.
This would be more enjoyable with less ads. Every time you complete a puzzle or return to a puzzle, another ad pops up.
We really really like this game. We only have 2 problems though. 1. It costs way more blue coins to play a game than you get back in rewards. 2. It keeps making us log back in every time we open the app. So we sometimes lose data from where we left off.
Cant play the game after last update.
We absolutely love this game. On the holiday pictures it is tough to complete 48 out of 64 puzzles in order to unlock them, we suggest having to PURCHASE 48 puzzles. If you pause too long then the help box keeps popping up. Please give us an option to skip the help box. The ads could be shorter than 30 seconds. Thanks.
Our game hasnt worked since the last update. We hope a fix is found soon! Thanks for your reply to our message. We get to a 0% screen and nothing happens. We cant even get to main menu.
We really like this game and the developers are super nice.
Since latest update, only get 0% bar, will not load.
We love this game and immediately play all the new puzzles, but after the last update, it wont open. We guess we need to cancel our subscription.
We played this for about 2-3 months and two nights ago had a pornographic anime image pop up as an ad while in the middle of a level. We immediately deleted the app, and the others from the same developer. Very disappointed and disgusted.
Downloaded version 7.9 on our ipad 2 days ago and game wont load… What the heck.
Just updated and now it wont load at all. Restarted phone and still sits at 0%.
How do you pay for no ads without doing vip.
Would be really fun if we didnt have ads popping up every 10-20 seconds, not even enough time to do a puzzle without them popping up.
We love this app. Its entertaining and meeps us alert. The only problem is it keeps shutting down or it just freezes and we have to restart it. Very frustrating.
We cant see the video thankfully, but twice now a pornographic ad has popped up in the middle of game play. At first we thought it was a fluke until it happened again. We dont even know how this could possibly happen on accident.
The game has been broken for a few days. It wont load past the 100% screen for us to play levels. We loved this game and we cant even play it. We emailed the company and heard no response.
We love this game but FIX THE ADS. Everytime we try to play an ad it won't play. Fix it.
We like nano puzzle games. But we were hoping to play the twists that we see in the advertisement. Doing levels in color, doing lots of tiny puzzles that build itself into one big picture. NOPE. The token system is annoying; we have a different version that doesnt require it, and we can play all we want with fewer ads. Most annoying thing is having to start with easy levels before we can do something challenging. The 20×20 grid is a new challenge. However, we dont want to waste our time doing soo many easy puzzles before we can actually enjoy a challenge.
Played this app for a while. Didnt pay for it, so we dealt with the ads. Out of nowhere a 5 second video in the middle of a game flashed on the screen with pornography playing. Deleted every app from this developer! This DID NOT happen in the normal places ads are run. This was mid game. It wasnt an ad, it was imbedded in the game. It lasted for a few seconds. There is no way for us to screen shot this, especially since Ive deleted the app. Google this developer and you will see other complaints with the same issue. This game is rated 4+ years, its targeted to children. Its a complete cop out to say that this happens to every developer. Take responsibility for your app.
Game makes you watch multiple ads just to play one level. You quickly finish enough puzzles and run out of free options to continue because the puzzles cost more stars than you are able to accumulate. The kicker for us is that they allowed an explicit pornographic ad to be played. Dont let your kids touch this game. You dont know what ads theyll be exposed to.
This is a great game but the amount of ads is incredible! Constantly sitting through an ad before and after a game.
We like the game. Our son likes to play it as well. Hes 8. We cant let him play it anymore because the Campus Life game ads are more like NC 17. They depict women having clothing removed, women getting stuck in windows, and while it doesnt show anything, the ad is very clear on what they are wanting you to think. This games age rating should be changed to match the maturity level of the ads they allow in their game.
We really enjoy the app however, anytime you try to watch a video to get bonus coins or to actually get coins you get the lovely prompt Ad not ready yet!. This is very frustrating Since the ad seem to work perfectly anytime you open or close a puzzle. This pretty much makes the app not even playable.
Sometimes new features need an explanation. We dont know why our tokens are split now.
Great game, fantastic adaptation of Picross.
Great game and very challenging. Very addicting game but in order to get extra coins you have to watch the ads which are annoying. When we play a game its for fun and wanting to play. Its sad when you spend more time watching ads in order to play a game.
This game is amazing! We play it non stop, and it cures our boredom during quarantine. We have a few suggestions to improve it, because everything can be improved. First off, there is a point that you can get to where you dont have enough energy to buy any puzzles, forcing you to watch ads in order to play anything. Secondly, the colored puzzles had a really confusing layout, causing you to either spend money for hints, or just guess. And lastly, this suggestion wouldnt necessarily improve the game, but more clue options would probably improve solving puzzles. Overall, we really love this game, but a couple of changes might make it a bit better. :).
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 12.79
- Size: 297.53 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Metajoy Limited
Last updated: 15th May 2025 | Genre: Board, Puzzle | Developer: Metajoy Limited