Last updated on November 27th, 2025 at 09:13 pm
One Clue Crossword – Puzzle Game Review
One Clue Crossword is a Puzzle/Word/Education game from AppyNation Ltd, first launched in 3rd February 2016.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 36,019+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes One Clue Crossword Stand Out
Exercise your brain every day with picture crosswords!
- Now with 1000+ puzzles, including over 200 Bonus puzzles! *
ONE CLUE CROSSWORD is a new kind of crossword puzzle. Instead of a list of written clues, each puzzle includes a single picture. Every word in each puzzle can be deduced from the picture.
In some of the puzzles you'll just need to say what you see – but in others you'll need to think a little more laterally. It's easy to play, but with 100s of unique puzzles, you might find it hard to put down!
■ A whole new way to play crosswords
■ 800+ puzzles over 58 chapters (with more to come)
■ 230+ all-new bonus puzzles to discover as you play
■ NEW – 'Mix-Up' mode!
■ End-of-chapter Guardian Puzzles will test your word skills
■ Hundreds of beautiful photos – people, places, animals and more
■ Use instant hints to remove unused letters or reveal the next letter in a clue
SUPPORT
Please select the HELP option from the Options menu (the gear icon in the bottom left of the game screen) if you require assistance.
If you still have questions about the game or require further assistance, please email: [email protected]
One Clue Crossword is free to play, but contains optional paid items to unlock puzzles more quickly. You can disable in-app purchase functionality in your device's settings if you do not want to use this feature.
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Player Feedback
As a newer release, One Clue Crossword is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 25th September 2025
Recent improvements include:
We've added another 2 chapters of puzzles!
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Download & Availability
One Clue Crossword is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get One Clue Crossword 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:
Great fun, you will enjoy this game.
Please give more free tokens besides the 10 free with daily puzzles. Tokens more than coins please.
While this game is fun and a good challenge, the game is very ad heavy and asks you to pay if you want the ads gone.
Probably the best word game we have played in years. It is fun, challenging and educational. The pictographs are bright and colorful. We are impressed. We are a word game person. Thanks for putting this out. Sincerely, Crys, The Song.
We think this could be a lot of fun, but the random sound ads ruin it for us.
Self explanatory. These are compulsory ads.
We really enjoyed this game a lot but now that Im on level 15 the pictures are repeating themselves. Theres no reason to play anymore. Each puzzle is costing around 40-50 tokens now which means lots of ad watching to try and earn the tokens. The developers push you to pay $2.99 to remove the ads but whats the point when by level 15 the pictures are repeating themselves. Seems like a money grab from the developers. We considered paying the $3 but decided not to and Im glad cause it would have been a waste of money with the puzzles repeating.
If you have headphones bluetooth connected the game will know and play audio ads while youre working on the puzzle.
You gave changed. Too many ads. Not enjoyable anymore.
No more bonus puzzles not easy to get tokens.we will delete soon if it doesnt improve.
We enjoy doing the scrambled version of this game. Im glad that you have added two more chapters.
Ive been playing this game since it came out and still playing it once a day. Very enjoyable and relaxing. You definitely will love it. Challenging but yet not impossible to solve. Now theyve added even more to it. Definitely a must have game.
Did the update. No new chapters.
This is the longest game we have played. We have invested some money for sure! We have waited for the specials though. It challenges our mind when we need mindless entertainment and just need to think about other things. We really enjoy the daily bonus- except when we forget.
However, very often when we press Yes to the question related to wanting to watch a video to get a bigger prize when finishing a puzzle, the game freezes up and we get NOTHING. Not cool.
Its an..ok app. Too many ads. Really takes away any fun you might have.
We enjoy really seeing what is being depicted. We feel that it has increased our powers of observation.
Love the game, have played over half of the puzzles and the daily puzzle is done first thing every morning. However for the last month or so, it keeps crashing. Today it crashed 7 times just trying to do the daily. We would have given it five stars if it would not crash.
We disagree with one reviewer that you cannot play these games (there are two versions in the app.) without spending money. You can easily play both games on a daily basis and complete 6 or seven puzzles a day. It is a great game with only one caveat that applies to most games ads. And you can manipulate those such that you can amass a stockpile of coins and hints (if you even need them).
We play this on iOS 16.2 and we wish we could say great things, but we cant. The game repeatedly crashes. Over and over again. Ill start it up maybe get two words, and that CRASH.
App is crashing on a regular basis.
We love this game but it has stopped working for us. When we try to open the app it begins but doesnt complete the process. Im frustrated.
We enjoyed the game very much but we were extremely disappointed when we ran out of puzzles in the classic mode. We dont like the mix up mode as much. So for now will be deleting the app.
For the second time we have finished all the mix up and cross word puzzles (finished all the new puzzles) and finally compiled all the bonus puzzles too. We have enjoyed playing and have not paid for tokens or coins. We wish there were more puzzles to solve. The daily puzzle, as others have noted, is sometimes a stretch which is why we dropped one star – along with no new puzzles. We have found that by doing 1-2 puzzles a day there is no need to pay and often no need to watch for tokens or coins.
The reason for 1 star – when you offer players taking surveys for tokens then keep your word. Meaning – we just took 25 minute survey just to be left with a frozen last submit page. Coincidence? No! It happens to us 2 out of 3 times we took your offered surveys. We just hate for developers to be this shady. For the same surveys Nielsen or other brands would pay good money. Hence, you are probably making money off of us. Terrible.
The amount and length of ads is craze. We especially hate that if we go to the Home Screen, unless we select something immediately, it takes us to another ad. Nice game but not worth the effort needed.
Its a great game. We love playing it when we have enough tokens. But there is almost no way to get tokens or at least enough to keep playing without spending lots of money to buy them.
Our 8 year old to our 48 year old love the game.
Entertaining and challenging. Lots of fun to play.
At around chapter 30 they start reusing the same pictures.
We enjoy this game its easy but also each level get move challenging.
We really like this game, BUT the ads are so freaking longover a minute+ in most cases. Our phone locks before theyre done running. Some of them are in 3 stages – ridiculous. Thats not fun, and makes us not play as often.
Awesome game but theres many times where they do not give you the purple tokens after completing a puzzle, which you need to unlock the next puzzles! Meaning you have to do a survey, which half the time doesnt give hardly any tokens or doesnt work. Or you have to pay for more tokens. Its the reason we stopped playing this game years ago but just recently rediscovered it, now will be the reason we stop playing again! Offer more free ads.
Why are your ads in landscape but the app is in portrait? Many people have iPads. We deleted it.
Horrible game! They dont check the sponsor ads they use! We just solved the daily puzzle and played an ad to doubled our tokens and coins(?).our screen went black due to the ad playing. After thatnothing! We just lost over 3200 tokens and 4300 coins that took us months to save up!!!! Bad app.
Love the game but way too many commercials and you dont make enough tokens or coins so you have to watch the commercials. It would also be nice if we could choose a skill level so that our grandson and daughter can play with us.
We completed all of the puzzles many months ago. When will you add more? Wondering if we should just delete the game.
Crashes while entering final word on each puzzle we solved. When we get back in it shows not completed, we go to complete tge puzzle.CRASH!! Too bad, loved the concept.
We love this game. We need another crossword puzzles like this. Do you have one.
Good game, but both award level of tokens is very low along with high cost of playing. Also puzzle solve words often do not relate to photo.
The app used to be good. We did not mind the ads. But now many ads are locking the screen. A hard close is required and then play is lost. We sure hope the fix this, but we will not be playing until an upgrade comes out.
We enjoyed the game until the classic mode ran out. Seems nothing will be done as the previous review said the same & it was a year ago.
Bad glitches. We were almost done with level 5. We came in today, and it has taken be back to level 1. We lost all our progress and earned coins. Please fix the game.
We completed every puzzle over two years ago, but kept the app hoping for an update with more levels. So excited to be able to play again.
Love this game. However constantly locked up and now with the update you are forcing us to purchase. Therefore even if we love the game we will be deleting it.
We would give it 5 stars, however sometimes the word is not seen in the picture it is assumed that its to do with the picture. That is not a clue within the picture.
Have been playing game for a while then suddenly will not load. Any suggestions? Will rate 5 if fixed. Thanks.
Dear creator, we would like to inform u about the latest update, anyway since we updated the app itll open then close out, please fix the issue ASAP. Thanks.
There we said it. We're still giving five stars, because we're assuming the issue is with the ad companies, but how do you complain to them? Here's the issue:. Unless the player clicks directly on the tiny star or x at the end of the ad, they (we) are taken to the app store. See, the ads are meant to allow the player to click on the screen, which opens the app store. We don't know if the creators of ads assume we're going to buy their junk, like we may do in a brick&morter, …or if they just get paid any money from their clients each time they click on the ad to go to the App Store (our guess is the second assumption), but this is just annoying. Yes, we have been interested in ads, and we have downloaded their games; but never have we succumbed to their tricks, when they make the closing field so tiny that if the player is even just the tiniest fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a degree off the mark, "X", star or ">>>, we are left with missing the mark, going to app store, clicking out, missing the mark, going to the app store, clicking out….we mean COME ON!!! There are days we don't even play this game because we feel too shaky, and don't want to deal with the ads! These ads take advantages of the disabled:. The people who have conditions that cause them to shake or miss the mark that shuts off the finished ad. These ads take advantage of people with: autism, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, brain conditions, central nervous conditions, fine motor skills conditions, vision impairment, arthritis, partial limb issues, ADD, ADHD, Spina bifida, etc. Anyone who has a condition that prevents us from clicking directly on the icon are a target for these ad companies, who think they are clever for designing the microfield OFF buttons. They arent clever; they are CRUEL! They already add 15-30 seconds after the ad is complete. And before somebody chimes in and says, Well…you dont HAVE to play the game! Youre right! And Ive already deleted half our games for pulling this stunt. If the game itself isnt worth this little stunt the ad companies are playing, we delete. And Im coming close to deleting this game. Ad Creators: Stop taking advantage of disabled people, grow a pair and make ads that are worth clicking on, because they are INTERESTING!! Because if you ad companies feel you have to sink so low as to take advantage of disabled people in order to get them to go to the App Store to view your products…youre saying a LOT about your product! Youre saying Nobody is interested in this product…lets trick them! And our only guess as to why you ad companies do this is because YOU get money from your clients when players actually click on your ad. Am we right? WE ARENT STUPID!! KNOCK IT OFF and create ads worth clicking on! Stop violating the disabled players!! Still five stars for the game, but Devs, please pass this along. Because its beginning to reach a point where even this fun game isnt worth putting up with the ad companies stunts to trick us into visiting the App Store.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.30.0
- Size: 262.29 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: AppyNation Ltd
Last updated: 25th September 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Word | Developer: AppyNation Ltd