It’s free, so I can’t really complain. I love that I can do crosswords from different papers and it’s in one app. No ads which is pretty awesome, I would gladly pay for it.
However, there are a few things worth noting. I wish there was an area inside the app to submit bug reports. I’ve run into a few issues the past 3 months or so and want an easy way to submit them. I don’t think sharing on the App Store page is great but I didn’t see another way.
It kills my phone battery. I am on an iPhone 12 with latest iOS. Working on 2 crosswords kills my battery from 90% to ~50%. Maybe this is an iPhone issue but I also notice my screen gets dark when on this app and I can’t adjust it to be brighter (brightness is already at 100).
There seems to be a lot more bugs since last month (early June), e.g. app doesn’t refresh to show new puzzles no matter what I do, some puzzles appear broken and can’t enter text into squares, etc. Just today, 3 crosswords appear twice and I can’t enter text into any of them without it kicking me back to the puzzle list screen.
All that said, it’s free, no ads, simple UX, so this is my favorite crossword app by far.
Developer Response
I'm glad you like it. In the future, the best way to submit bugs in the future is through the support page: https://rrnarayan1.github.io/omni-crosswords/
I'll add a link in the app for this.
I generally try to keep users informed on issues I know using the in-app alerts as well. Feel free to reach out via the support link with issues you see and I'll try to take a look.If you love working crosswords you will have to have this app. It has quickly become one of the most essential apps. The only thing I wish that would be added is a setting to jump back to the first blank in an answer when you are filling it in, a tiny complaint and not enough to affect my rating. Thank you!
Developer Response
I'm glad you're liking it! I believe I added the setting you're talking about in the latest version.Love the app. Hate the “refresh/reload” aspect. You finish a puzzle and voila it takes you back to the beginning or middle of the puzzle you just completed. Super frustrating when it happen during a puzzle. What’s up with the app?
Love that I can finally get some of these favorite crosswords without paying for the paper! Love that you can choose to use the timer or not. Would love to see two things: 1. Make the clues bigger! Some of us don’t have 20/20 vision, and the minuscule clues are SO very hard to read, even on my large iPad. 2. Allow us to tab to the next word. Having to click the > on the screen to get to the next word is frustrating.
Developer Response
Hi there, changing the clue font size was added in an earlier update. The latest update also supports using tab to skip to the next clue.This app is great! Good way to pass the time and aggregate all these crosswords. I noticed today though that the only puzzles showing up are USA Today and Wall Street Journal, not sure what happened to the others.
Developer Response
Hi - this should be fixed as of last week. Sorry for the inconvenience.I've had this app for a few months now and done crosswords on it every day! One day it just stopped providing crosswords from 6 newspapers and started providing 1 or 2. Im so sad that it still isn't working correctly! I've checked all my settings, refreshed the page, deleted and reinstalled the app several times and I still can't seem to fix the issue. Hopefully it is resolved soon!
Developer Response
Hi - this should be fixed as of last week. Sorry for the inconvenience. Please reach out through the support channels for faster responses.It’s nice to have something like alpha cross for iOS. I appreciate that more work is being done to it.
Just a couple of notes:
- The next/precious buttons are a little tricky to tap on iPhone
- An option to show the solution would be nice for when I can’t quite complete the puzzle but want to see the answers
- Adding the Universal daily puzzle would be nice
Keep up the good work!
Like others I really like the app but it’s currently unusable. I truly appreciate that the dev acknowledged this in the comments for the latest update and patiently await their solution coming soon.
Developer Response
Thanks! I should have fixed the app crashing on iOS 14 devices in the latest update, please let me know via the support page if you have more feedback!Have played this group of puzzles for a while now. Recently when I touch the letter I want, OmniCrosswords closes. When I re-open and hit the same key, the puzzle closes again. Any suggestions?
Best crossword app out there! But recent update causing to crash upon open.
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