Cracking the Cryptic User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience71.9% of reviews
Neutral13.7% of reviews
Negative experience14.4% of reviews

~ Based on 146 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Cracking the Cryptic Safe?

Cracking the Cryptic appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Cracking the Cryptic is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 207 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

84.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.7% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 207 App Store ratings for Cracking the Cryptic.

Is Cracking the Cryptic Legit?

Cracking the Cryptic appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Cracking the Cryptic is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Please let us reset

I love this app and the puzzles - I have spent hours playing. However, I’ve gotten to the point where I would love to replay but the empty stars just doesn’t give the same feeling of progression because the number on the pack select menu doesn’t change. I’ve tried deleting multiple ways, but something about the way it’s saved in iCloud makes it impossible. Please please please give the option to completely reset progress.
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Awesome! Love all of the puzzles especially the new worm by blobz!

But can we please have a setting to keep the calculator available? Some of the non killer puzzles require math but don’t have a calculator available.

Also I really want to see more yin yang puzzles! (:

The hint system would be more useful if it weren't riddled with typos

Trying to decipher what the helpful clue is trying to say is a puzzle unto itself when digits are frequently mistyped as other digits. Normally I try to be forgiving of typos, but they're especially egregious here where the meaning changes entirely.

The puzzles are mostly fun besides that.

Ohne Geld nicht spielbar

Game geöffnet. Spielen gedrückt. Gesehen, dass jedes Game Geld kostet. Deinstaliert. Ladet es einfach nicht runter

Dommage ..

Superbe app, mais la seule du développeur où le partage familial n’est pas pris en compte

high quality puzzle

so good worth paying! Just a tiny problem with the app. After the recent update, purchase notices pop up everytime the app is opened. I bought 4 packs after the update, and somehow I have to close 8 pop-ups in a row. Not so serious one but if you could fix that then it would be much less bothering

Hard and not unlocked

All of these apps follow the same pattern and are generally geared for the very advanced to expert solvers. Also, I paid money for this app, so there is 0.0 reason why I need to complete some number of puzzles to get to other ones. I am not a great solver to any degree, but not a beginner. The 1-stars are generally very difficult for me. My final complaint is the absolute battery hog these apps are. There is a “battery saver” mode, but they drain battery like nobody’s business, so completely close the app when you are not playing. Other than that, I’ve bought them all and get tp about 3-start before giving up.
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Best sudoku app for experts and challenge-seeking enthusiasts

This is the best Sudoku app, hands down. I’ve tried countless Sudoku apps in search of a real challenge, but none satisfied me—until I discovered this one! Finally, a Sudoku app designed for true Sudoku lovers seeking the highest challenge. I highly recommend this app to anyone who loves a real challenge.
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Purchase pop up

Very good app and I’ve recently made two purchases for new levels which causes the “Purchase Complete: Your content has been unlocked. Enjoy!” message to pop up twice for each purchase every time I open the app. So every time I open the app I’m getting four pop ups. Can be quite annoying.

Amazing puzzles

One issue though: every single time I open the app, between 2 and 4 "Purchase completed" popups appear, although my latest purchase was weeks ago

Shockingly buggy for how simple it is.

Even after the latest update, the app still freezes and crashes, to the point where I have to put my phone to sleep to escape the app. Additionally, the app frequently loses all progress on a puzzle. Twice now in the past week I've been 75% done with a puzzle and I've put my phone away for a moment only to find all my progress on the level erased.

Additionally additionally, this is more minor, but every time I am immediately greeted by two popups that say "Your purchase has been successful" that I have to close in order to progress. It's just really annoying.

Furthermore, in the new fog of war packs, the line tool draws underneath the fog which is really annoying when trying to do arrow and thermo puzzles.

It blows my mind that an app as simple as this can possibly even be this buggy.

Puzzles are fun though and I like the channel.
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I recommend the puzzle packs

Some fantastic puzzles here, really well rounded difficulties. I personally really enjoyed the very cheap worm puzzles, and the slightly more expensive fog pack. But there’s a great deal of free content here, and no ads or intrusive marketing.

Pen tool

New update is cool, but the pen tool is absolutely useless in Fog of war puzzles. let me draw on top of the fog!

Decent App but Obscures Puzzle Difficulty Leading to Wasted Purchases

It’s a pretty nice app for doing sudoku. It hides puzzle difficulty from you before buying a puzzle pack so it’s impossible to know if you’re about to waste money on a set of puzzles well beyond your ability or tolerance for arcane and complex variant rules. Puzzles come with hints which can be useful, but there are many typos in the row/column references.
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New Bug

Love this app and redownloaded it because I saw they added more puzzles, but now when I open the app after downloading the most recent update, my whole screen is just gray and nothing ever appears! Please fix soon!

Startet erst gar nicht.

Installiert, geöffnet, nichts zu sehen, schwarzes bzw. dunkles Display und keine Reaktion. Das ist das zweitschlechteste was eine App machen kann. Daher noch ein Stern… und wieder gelöscht.

Fun. Wish there was more

The puzzles are very fun, ranging from easy to very challenging. As many others note, the hints can be very difficult to follow. I wish there were more frequent updates to add new puzzles.

Puzzles are good, hints are almost always wrong or vague

In so many puzzles, there will be a hint such as “r2c8 can only be 9”, and if you go to input 9 into r2c8, it’s just flat out wrong. Probably around 40% of the puzzles, I would say, contain uninterpretable typos, including mislabeling cell positions (saying r5c6 when they mean r6c5, or saying r5c6 when they mean r4c6). Additionally, even many of the clues that aren’t just fully wrong are still vague and unhelpful, assuming leaps of logic, causing me to get to the point where I just have to abandon many of the puzzles because there’s nowhere left for me to make progress. And then I don’t have enough stars to unlock new puzzles, so I often just have to manually put in random numbers until I fill out the grid of one puzzle so I can finish it and unlock new ones.
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Hints Are Pathetic

Just a horrible experience from top to bottom. Would not recommend.

Less than “free” app.

It’s made intentionally difficult to play without paying for level packs. There are some free packs at the very bottom of the list.