Last updated on December 14th, 2025 at 11:47 pm
Picture Cross Color – Entertainment Game Review
Picture Cross Color is a Entertainment/Board/Puzzle game from AppyNation Ltd, first launched in 3rd November 2021.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 8,415+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Picture Cross Color Stand Out
Solve the puzzle to paint the picture! A treasury of picture logic puzzles, in glorious color!
■ Over 40 themed packs of COLOR puzzles to complete with more added regularly
■ Thousands of COLOR puzzles to complete with more added regularly
■ Puzzles to suit every skill level, from Very Easy to Very Hard
■ Complete puzzle packs to reveal animated scenes
… Download free and start your Picture Cross Color adventure!
SUPPORT
Access the Help Center at any time from the pause menu (the icon in the top right corner of the game screen).
New to Picture Cross (a.k.a. Griddlers, Nonograms, Hanjie)? We've included a quick tutorial to get you started.
Picture Cross Color is free to play, but contains optional in-app purchases to unlock content more quickly.
https://www.puzzling.com/picture-cross-color/
This Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Picture Cross Color is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st December 2025
Recent improvements include:
This update includes two brand new puzzle packs, adding 200 new puzzles to solve:
■ Factory
■ Tea Room
Also in this update:
■ Bug fixes and improvements
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Download & Availability
Picture Cross Color is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Picture Cross Color 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 have a 108 day streak, so obviously we love the game. However the daily reward remains 15 tokens with 30 every multiple of 5 day. But for the most part, Ive only been getting 15 tokens a day for TWO MONTHS. We feel like we deserve a bit more than that.
Ive been playing this game and standard Picture Cross for a couple years now and have had almost no complaints. Puzzles are fun and challenging, monthly grids feel rewarding and the animations are all well-made. We only have one complaint: Some puzzles utilize colors that are nearly (or sometimes entirely) indistinguishable from one of the other colors. Sometimes we can use the grid clues to determine which is which, but even with brightness turned all the way up, some colors look 100% identical, even when placed next to each other. It seems like a mistake sometimes though because the colors tend to be more distinct when the finished picture shows up. Other than that, we love this game and still play it daily.
Ive been waiting for new levels to come out for about three weeks. Ive completed up through video games arcade. When will new levels come out? Its after the first of the month.
We love this game and have been playing it for months but upon reaching the bazaar level it has been freezing, sometimes several times in a session. Its frustrating to have to reboot our we-pad every time this happens.
We cant watch ads for the daily reward anymore. We tried to go to their app support. No joy.
Ive been playing this game for almost as long as its been available. Our rating had been 5 but is now 3. The past couple of days, in the beginning we cannot watch an ad in order to double the coins we receive. The ads appear as usual after finishing a level. All our other games requiring ads are showing the ads and rewarding us with whatever they give for watching them. Why.
Way too many ads, It says make a purchase and there is no ads. But it must not last too long, because we have ads constantly.
Love the game and the adorable style! We also havent encountered a bunch of ads yet! Hopefully it continues to be great.
We have played this game for years, and we loved it. Now, all of a sudden, every time we select a game, it goes to an ad. Every time we finish the game, it goes to an ad. If we accidentally touch the bottom of the screen, it takes us to an ad. Why all of the ads, all of a sudden? For the play alone, we would give it five stars, because we really enjoy this. Now, every time an ad pops up, we leave the game, and come back in. When we come back in, we can play the game. Such a hassle. We're very disappointed as to how this game is changed.
We love playing this game but would like to get rid of ads. Most other games have an option to pay a small fee to remove ads but we havent found a way to do that with this game.
The game itself it fun, the puzzles are good and theres some decent variety. Though, issues. Its very streamlined, youre stuck with a specific set of puzzles to do and dont have much choice beyond those few. The amount of resources you have to do puzzles diminishes fast and the main way to get more is to either grind and replay levels or just wait, which is annoying. And it does get somewhat ad heavy fast, but we do complete levels fast to be fair. The art style is nice though, which is a small plus.
This nonogram app is one of the worst for having an ad nearly every 2 min of play.
We played the game for a bit since we were looking for another game of this type. First there were forced ads after you beat each area. The second problem is the big one and why we deleted the game and moved on. You can only charge up to 10 energy but the level Im on requires over 10 energy to unlock. The only way to get the extra energy is to buy it or wait until a daily reward gets you enough. Since there are so many of these games out there we deleted and moved on to one we can play as we want.
So far we are liking this game. Its pretty straightforward and the tutorial was very helpful for anyone who has not played a game like this before. We dont detect any cash baiting and have yet to experience an ad. Crossing fingers this game is a keeper.
The game itself was fun and well-made, but the ads were just too frequent and required a lot of careful tapping to get through. It took away from the experience, so we ended up uninstalling.
Why must we suffer through the tutorial and easy puzzles? Its tedious and not challenging.
We have been playing this game for years and never had an issue until the newest update. We can no longer watch the ad on the daily rewards to get more tokens. The option is there but it wont allow us to click on it. And we cant find any way of contacting support. Super frustrating.
We used to love this app. We still enjoy working the puzzles, but the penalty for missing a single day is huge. It takes a long time of playing every day to earn the max amount of tokens, and if you miss a single day you start back at the lowest amount of tokens rewarded per day. The thing that has changed recently is that now they have two events going on simultaneously. You either have to pay a lot of money to buy tokens or you have to choose which event you want to play because theres no way to complete both of them in the allotted number of days with the number of tokens that you can earn by watching ads and playing daily. It feels like they added the second event to get people to spend more money. And Im not doing that. Its very disappointing though because we play every day and we watch ads to earn tokens and that supports their sponsors. But we dont enjoy it as much anymore.
Why are there no puzzles requiring 18 points to play them.
We feel like this is the best color nonogram out there right now. The only reason we didnt give it 5 stars is that it takes so long to get new puzzles.
The game glitched out and closed just as we finished a set that awarded us 50 credits. When we reopened the app we didnt have our credits. Support said they couldnt give them to us. Thats a lie. They absolutely can fix it so its very disappointing that they refused to help.
STOP LETTING PROTECT FLOW LIFE ADVERTISE!! The ads automatically open safari & direct to their scam website causing the game to glitch and crash once we return to it. So annoying that im about to stop playing.
This game is so fun and enjoyable! There are so many puzzles in one puzzle! A lot of adds but a great idea for whoever invented this game.
We love this game! Been playing it for what feels like years! Played original picture cross before this one came out and we like this one better! We cant figure out how to contact them to report the bug. So im leaving it in the review so that hopefully they see it. If they see it then we can change it to 5 stare because we 100% recommend this app. Anyways. When we have finished the last 2 colorful adventures packs within the 21 days they give you (we had 6 days left today and finished the balloons one today) we did not get the 50 tokens or the gold. Its not a huge deal but we worked so hard the last two months to finish both the world tour and the colorful adventures but im not getting the rewards from the colorful adventures when we finish them. We did last year but the one we got to finish in January which was caves we think and the new balloon one we did not get rewards for them.
We are a guy who recently sparked interest in nonograms. They are extremely fun, so we chose this app to do lots of them. Picture Cross Color was the perfect option for us, because it had a huge selection of these puzzles of a wide range of types. So far, Ive done 4 nonograms and it is turning out better than we thought. This is why we love Picture Cross Color.
Going from og to this, we adore the upgrades they've made to the puzzles and the mechanics!! We do wish we still had the ability to change the background to what we liked but we haven't found it too distracting yet.
We enjoy picross puzzles quite a lot, but its hard to play when they dont give you enough tokens (except for once a day) or you have to watch an ad every time you want to unlock puzzle without tokens.
Double events are annoying. Stick to one at a time.
This was our daily go to game. Unfortunately, the latest update has begun interrupting mid game to play an ad. It completely disrupts concentration. We dont mind adds between games. But during a game is too much. Hope they fix this frustrating development.
Its a fun game but after 1500+ levels, half of them shouldnt be Easy, they should mostly be hard or very hard.
Take advantage of every time it shows you can watch a movie or ad to get the points you need to play more games and then get what you can each time and this is a great game. Keeps your brain working.
Long time player. Love the game! However, the last several days the in game sounds will randomly stop. We have the music turned off but keep the game sounds turned on. It may seem trivial but it does affect our gameplay.
Ive completed every pack and need more.
Really fun game not really anything bad to say about it but we feel you should not put so many 15×15 levels.
Really love this game, but the ads constantly pause our music while im playing. Tip: dont put video ads mid play. Its a stupid choice to do as a dev.
App keeps shutting down. Cant find any other way to report. App wont stay open long enough to access in app help support.
We love this game but the ads pause our music or podcasts every 5 seconds. We dont just sit in silence while playing puzzle games. This is the most aggravating thing Ive experienced on an app. Please for the love of God, fix this will this app and you other apps.
Im just going to start off by saying that we love this game. Its so much fun and we would play it all day if we could. We have recently found an issue, though. Anytime we earn over 20 of those green tokens and we play one that costs 10 or more, the rest of the tokens disappear. Just today, we had 22 of them and played one that was only 10. Once we get in, we looked up at the amount of tokens and there was none. We hope this gets fixed soon. Thank you :D.
We really like this game but you have to either replay puzzles or buy the tickets to play. If you dont do one of those you may be able to play 1 puzzle a day but some you would have to wait 2 days because of the cost to play.
We thoroughly enjoy this type of puzzle. That said, we have bad eyesight and these are difficult to see. The grids are very small and the colors are often too similar for us to be able to tell the difference. And sometimes we cant tell if Ive actually put a color in a square or not – like when there are very light colors such as pale yellow and light gray. Otherwise, its an enjoyable game. If the grids were bigger and the colors bolder – which would make it more user friendly to the visually impaired – Id give it 5 stars,.
Tokens earned every 3 min are capped at 10 but puzzles cost 20-50 so you have to replay puzzles over and over to earn 2 or 3 more. We like the game but not playing an old puzzle 4 times so we can play one new one. Tokens should keep earning up to the cost of the puzzles. Been months without new puzzles available.
We love this game so so so very much and we think its much better than the original the color makes it much more lively and fun. We highly recommend this game if you like colored nonogram. We know if you download it you will love it! Honestly we cant think of any bad parts of this game only good things but our favorite part is how calming it is. We love this game so we think you should download it. Bye.
We have a problem our hands where we frequently touch our tablet when Im not meaning to. In fact Ive had to write this review over several times because we keep accidentally tapping out of it. When we are tapping on a row or column to fill the line with xs, sometimes we will accidentally touch the one next to it which automatically gives us the answer to that line, also spending all our coins in the process. We wish there was a way we could turn that feature off so we dont have to worry about accidentally touching the screen anywhere. Is there anything we can do.
We love this game, we just wish there were more ways to get tokens than to by them or sign up for offers.
Both of your apps have entertained us for years! We just had to leave a review. We love all your games! We had to ask, was your first picture cross game color or black and white.
Super fun and challenging. You will love it.
One of our favorite games. Deducting a star because the match game ad freezes 50% of the time and we lose our reward even after sitting through the 30 second ad.
Ive been playing both of your Picture Cross games for years. We love them and they are the best out there by a long shot. New puzzles though dont come out soon enough. We end up waiting 2+ months with nothing to play. We know a lot of work goes into each of them, but it would really help if players werent left high & dry so often. Otherwise, keep up the great work.
Love this game, just wish we could play as much as we wanted instead of running out of coins or lives or whatever. Id even watch ads every time if we were given the option. Frustrating. We end up playing a similar game and watching all their ads instead.
This game, and its predecessor Picture Cross, are our all-time favorite phone games. Ive tried nearly all nonogram/picross apps out there, but nothing compares to these two. This developer hit on something that we havent found anywhere else, and we actually spend money with no regrets if we run out, so we dont have to wait and slowly save up. Im a daily player, and have been for years. The only complaint Ive ever had is that for players like ourselves, youll always finish puzzle boards then have to wait weekssometimes a few months, before new puzzles are released. If we didnt love these games so much, Id definitely lose interest and move on.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.4.0
- Size: 272.06 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PT, RU, ES
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: AppyNation Ltd
Last updated: 1st December 2025 | Genre: Entertainment, Board | Developer: AppyNation Ltd