Last updated on November 24th, 2025 at 03:15 am
Picture Cross – Puzzle Game Review
Picture Cross is a Puzzle/Entertainment/Board game from AppyNation Ltd, first launched in 14th May 2015.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 72,794+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Picture Cross Stand Out
Solve the puzzle to paint the picture! Discover a world of over 10,000 amazing Picture Cross puzzles.
■ 76 massive themed puzzle packs to complete
■ Classic Picture Cross and Color Picture Cross puzzles
■ Different grid sizes and skill levels from Easy to Expert
■ Complete puzzles to reveal fun-packed hidden scenes
… Download free and start your Picture Cross adventure!
SUPPORT
Access the Help Center at any time from the pause menu (in the top right corner of the game screen).
New to Picture Cross (a.k.a. Nonograms, Hanjie, Griddlers)? We've included a quick tutorial and a player's guide to get you started.
Picture Cross is free to play, but contains optional paid items to unlock content more quickly.
www.picturecross.com
This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Picture Cross is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 18th November 2025
Recent improvements include:
We've added some new ways to interact with puzzles during the Mosaic Events.
Look out for more new puzzle packs in forthcoming updates!
Download & Availability
Picture Cross is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Picture Cross 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 love this game, we already have accumulated a day and 18 hours of play time. This keeps us thinking outside the box and its rewarding to fill out more pieces of a bigger puzzle.
Its a very fun game, but whats the point of the yellow coins? We have 15,000 and nothing to do with them. We cant even buy green coins with them.
We used to purchase the premium games and would save those for when our coins were low since they were free to play. Or sometimes we didnt buy the upgrade and would just use our coins to finish just like any other puzzle. However now that the puzzles must be completed during the challenge period AND disappear afterwards, we no longer purchase the upgrade. Please put it back like it was purchase upgrade and get free play or finish after the end and play with coins.
This is our all-time favorite game. Im obsessed and dont even mind the ads. We just wish there were more puzzles added regularly. We know the mosaic puzzles are new but we have to reply old puzzles just to play those and then we cant complete the mosaic without a purchase. We have Picture Cross Color as well and that has more puzzles but they arent as fun.
Our boyfriend now has it on his phone in order for us to play on there.
Up down left right on off A B X Y, this is the game for you. Its our just before bed, wind down, relaxer. We hope you enjoy as much as we do.
This is a fun Nonogram game with tons of levels. We play for about 30 minutes a day and Ive never had to buy any currency. We do have to sit through some short ads, but they arent intrusive compared to other games.
Been playing for years before we go to sleep. Keep up the awesome work.
Today a very inappropriate ad popped up – advertising Mate. You can imagine. Our grandkids play this game!! REMOVE THIS AD!! UPDATED: Thank you for your quick response. We havent seen this AI porn ad since – hopefully your team got rid of it! Changing rating.
This game is lots of fun for you puzzlers out there. But the HIJACKED ADS are insane!!! This happens over and over again every 30 seconds, the banner at the bottom opens your browser to some spam. It ruins the fun.
After struggling with a puzzle we used a bomb help and it marked an incorrect box that made no sense. We then tapped to solve the row and it fixed it. We should be able to trust the helps and not have to waste them or coins.
We like this game but it gets hard sometimes.
We really like playing this game, but there is no option to casually enjoy Picture Cross. In order to unlock more difficult puzzles you either need to spend a lot of money or you need to play it obsessively every day, neither of which interest us. At the rate we go through pictures it will take us years and years to complete.
We enjoyed this game when we first got it, but then after every single puzzle there is an ad, then every puzzle cost too many coins so we could only play one puzzle a day without watching extra ads.
Fun game but unless you play the $5/month there will be an ad after every single puzzle. And after a while it started opening a virus looking website on its own. One of those scan for virus scams. Fun but not worth all the ads.
Love this game! This is the first thing we play every morning! We need more! Ive just solved the last puzzle! (Yes Ive been playing it that long!).
We can finally get how this game works. Its fun. When we cant solve a level we can see what Im doing wrong.
We've reached out several times in the past few days, with no success. We had been playing the boards within the special Mosaic puzzle: "Marina" themed game for several days and still have many more to go within this game and tournament. Suddenly the Mosaic icon is gone and we can't access this section anymore. We paid for Premium access specifically for this game, so we're additionally annoyed by the lack of access. PLEASE RESTORE MY ACCESS!!! It takes forever to receive new games on this app anyway, and now we're angry as well as frustrated because you took our money and then took away our access.
Will you be adding more puzzles.
The reason we did 5 star is so yall can see it but this game would be sooo fun without after every level an ad.
We believe we will play this game to the very end. We enjoy the game, for it could be challenging at times. How ever, is it possible to display the number on the boxes instead of the question marks. Keep everything the same, just hate choosing multiple boxes to see which one will cost the most coin.
We love this game wherever we just wanna exercise our brain a little bit. The levels come with different difficultys which means you can work up to the harder ones. We dont like how in order to move on you must finish every level because for someone like us it means completing the easy ones too. If you want a game that will tell you when you make a mistake, has adorable art, and a silly cute story line we would recommend meow tower.
Ive been playing for about 6 years and always find ourselves coming back to it ten out of ten we thoroughly enjoy this game.
Great game until today when it keeps crashing. Hopefully it will get fixed.
We have been playing this game for almost 10 years almost everyday. Today it wont load. As soon as it opens it then closes. We are really bummed. We are missing our daily fix.
We really like it! It is fun but the only down side is a lot of them are REALLY HARD!!! We do suggest this game if you like a challenge OR if you are a REALLY fast learner because after the first 2-4 rounds it gets harder and harder.
Literally our only gripe with this game is we cant spend the coins to buy tokens we literally have 544,140 coins and could probably buy enough hints to finish a whole grid but never enough tokens.
We wish the developers of this game would allow you to use coins in lieu of tokens. We have a ton of coins that we will never use and it irritates us that we have to either do surveys or buy tokens to do more puzzles since we love doing them so much.
We HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THIS APP! KEEP COMING BACK, EVEN WHEN we LOST MY ACCOUNT! LOVE THAT YOU GUYS ARE ADDING NEW FEATURES & ONE OF MY FAV PARTS ARE THE OPTIONS TO ESRN FROM TAPJOY! !! WHEN we HAVE FREE TIME – TAPJOY IS A GREAT TIME KILLER/ WAY TO EARN COINS & ESP. TOKENS! THE ONLY ISSUE we HAVE (HAVE EVER HAD) IS we WAS SO HAPPY TO REINSTALL IT, ALTHOUGH we HAD TO START OBER BUT SINCE MY IPAD IS GETTING OLD, IT IS LOSING SUPPORT FROM SOME APPS/GAMES. We DO NOT PLAY MUCH, SO THE ONES we DO PLAY ARE THE BEST! HOWEVER, IT KEEPS CRASHING!! IT IS NOT THE GAMES FAULT JUST MAKES ME SAD!! :*(. SO, we MAY HAVE TO QUIT PLAYING FOR A WHILE UNTIL we AM ABLE TO GET A NEW ONE! MAYBE ADDING AN OFFLINE OPTION WOULD BE HELPFUL BC THAT HELPS WHEN THIS ISSUE ARRISES! TY! UPDATE ABOVE Seriously fantastic app!! It has TONS of puzzles!! (Nonograms) The only things we think we would change are: To have a choice to time your puzzles and to have challenges with rewards for all of the packs vs. Just the first one! Maybe if someone buys something, they become VIP & therefore can earn rewards for the other puzzles…if not some type of reward(s) then trophies …or collection cards similar to trophies. Also, we would add a competitive aspect where people can keep record of how long it took to beat it & challenge themselves or others. Like a book of the pic of each puzzle/name with the time (fastest & slowest) it took you to beat each. Then you can compare it to and compete with your friends/family!? : ) Anyway, its a cool app for any person who knows the picross basics. We LOVE a challenge … & this definitely gives it! Also, it makes your brain work! Gotta love those brain games!! Oh and we also love the sale prices on the tokens/coins! ; ) Thanks guys.
It takes too long to generate tokens to continue playing the puzzles and when you near the end of a puzzle pack they become 30-50 tokens per puzzle. If you changed the generate speed or the amount you can generate it would be much better.
We like this game a lot, but the advertising can be very annoying. Sometimes we just stop playing because the length of the ads and the number of times they require us to tap on buttons pushes us away to another game.
We have completed all the puzzles. Its been a while since a new puzzle arrived. Is this all there is, at least tell us so we dont keep coming back.
There is this terrible beeping that comes up once in a while.
You have to replay puzzles to collect tokens when the cost is 30-50 tokens at the end of a collection. Can be buggy and crash.
So this has been our favorite puzzle game for a couple years. Except it just started crashing on us TODAY.
App keeps crashing when we try to open it.
We love the game, but it keeps crashing when we open it or when Im in the middle of a puzzle. We hope they update it to fix this.
Love this game, however recently our game has been crashing in the middle of a puzzle and loses our progress. We get back to where we were and it crashes again. Please fix <3.
We really like the game but the number of tokens can get pretty outrageous and you have to either purchase them, plus other games in X amount of time or take surveys. On top of it, it is constantly crashing on us and keeps losing the progress we have gotten in the current puzzle every time it crashes.
Frustrating when it keeps closing every minute after opening the app. We closed all apps. Ive updated our device. We restarted our device. Ive uninstalled and reinstalled the game. Still crashes a minute after opening the game. When it works though its fun.
We see other people have had the same issue. What appears to be a McAfee website (although we doubt it really is) opens in the middle of gameplay. The regular ads are annoying enough, but this one seems malignant. Im deleting the app.
Im absolutely enthralled by this game, but Ive been getting an antivirus pop up. It opens our browser and goes to some antivirus website. Which then makes us think that it is the virus. When we delete the app and reinstall (data is saved in GameCenter) it will stay away for a good while, but eventually returns. If we dont delete the app, it opens this website every 5 minutes or so. So just beware. Developers, PLEASE FIX.
Daily app crashing and several times a day.
Way too many ads now, and since the newest update, it keeps making a loud beeping noise every now and then and wont stop unless we fully swipe up out of the app and close it.
Lately Ive been getting the same pop up ads that everyone else is mentioning and now our game keeps crashing whenever we open it. We really hope this game goes back to what it was. We loved this game whenever we had downtime and now it feels like ads are taking over.
We hate to rate it so low, we absolutely love it, but lately its been closing itself out shortly after we open it. We finally deleted it and hope reinstalling it will help.
We love this game, and completed the first section completely on an old device of ours, and decided to redownload it recently on our current device. Ive had no issue but as of this evening, the app will not stop crashing & its become unusable. Im hoping this is a temporary issue, but as of right now, we are quite upset with the state of this app, and the fact that the app support link in the AppStore leads to a unfindable webpage.
Been playing this game for a while and enjoy it but game has been crashes every time we open it for the past two days.
Today we opened our app to find that the mosaic puzzles, the leaderboards, and another tab full of puzzles were deleted (the ones about animals). Our game looks more plain now. Its like they deleted content from the game. How do we get all of those features back.
We have had this game for years and it used to be less ad heavy, and it didnt drain your battery, now our phone becomes hot while Im using it and our battery drains. The game sometimes randomly opens a webpage redirecting us there. When Ive earned 10 mins of token free play the ads still pop up wasting some of our time. It is silly to have an event where the only way we can complete the puzzle is by paying for the event package mosaic if thats the case then we should be able to opt in or out of that event, or the event should give us puzzle pieces to one of the games Im already working on. We find it ironic that the most helpful that auto populate reviews are from years ago, years ago this was a good game, it was simple in its nature, it had no tournaments or events, just more of like a scavenger hunt, the more puzzles you unlocked the more of the scavenger you found. There were no gimmick now thats all there is. Sometimes less is more.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 6.7
- Size: 469.38 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: AppyNation Ltd
Last updated: 18th November 2025 | Genre: Puzzle, Entertainment | Developer: AppyNation Ltd