# Crossword Champ — user reviews > 229 indexed App Store user reviews of Crossword Champ by Monster Brain Studios Ltd, rated 4.30/5 from 420 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crossword-champ/id1112945822/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crossword-champ/id1112945822.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 239 · 4★ 108 · 3★ 58 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Crossword Champ? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 👍 Fun and addictive game - 💡 Variety of puzzles and categories - 🧠 Keeps the mind active - 👍 Good user interface **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and glitches - 💰 Too many ads interrupting gameplay - 🔋 Drains battery quickly - 🤔 Clues not always aligned with answers **Commonly reported bugs** - Game freezes when completing puzzles - Incorrect clues shown for the current word - Inability to earn points for completed puzzles **Most requested features** - Ability to save progress and resume puzzles - Option to disable ads or pay to remove them - More challenging puzzles and difficulty levels - UK-based clues and content ## Newest reviews (13 of 229) ### 3/5 — Game *2025-07-13, version 2.4.6* Love the game but I haven’t been able to earn points when I complete a puzzle. I don’t like the puzzles that the letters in each word don’t connect to another word. I need to find another Crossword game. ### 3/5 — Good *2020-10-02, version 2.3.2* If using on Iphone being a masochist helps. Many freezes, references to nonexistent clues, when using arrows to skip it will show clues from others. Otherwise I like it ### 3/5 — Game *2020-05-03* Love the game but I haven’t been able to play for the last 3 days. Very disappointed. ### 4/5 — Crossword champs *2020-04-28, version 2.3.2* Having fun! ### 4/5 — Overall Good *2020-02-08, version 2.3.2* I think there are some bugs they need to work out with the release of iOS 13.3.1. But overall it is decent. ### 3/5 — Too many ads!!! *2020-01-01, version 2.3.2* Had potential but after a couple days of playing was just waaay too many ads! Couldn’t do anything without one popping up! ### 4/5 — IPad OS 13.1 *2019-10-14, version 2.3.1* App no longer open after upgrading. Please fix. I truly enjoy this game ### 4/5 — App crashing after iOS 13.1 *2019-10-11, version 2.3.1* I’m trying to reach out to the developers for this app isn’t working after I updated my iPhone. Please fix the issue. ### 3/5 — Game *2019-07-03, version 2.3* It is good ### 3/5 — Great games. Frustrating app errors. *2019-06-01, version 2.3* I love the game, but the app has a lot of glitches. Games will freeze and you have to exit out of the app. When you come back, you often have to start all over. Sometimes, games can’t be opened due to errors. Some old games can’t be deleted off the bottom list. It’s too bad, because I play every day. ### 4/5 — More of a challenge then I thought it would be *2019-04-04, version 2.3* When I first saw this, I thought that it would be easy, even though I am pretty rusty at crossroads. There’s a bit more of a challenge, answering the clues correctly and getting the letters in the right spaces. I like it. ### 5/5 — Love this app!! *2019-03-13, version 2.3* I can’t wait each day for the new puzzle! They are fun, challenging and educational as well!!! ### 5/5 — Rate *2019-03-13, version 2.3* Lots of fun, enjoy playing. Relaxing. Love the daily themes. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crossword champ *2023-07-23, version 2.4.3* This app won’t open. It hasn’t opened in over a week! ### 1/5 — Really? *2021-02-23, version 2.3.2* I didn’t mind this game, it was a fun little crossword time killer...... until I opened it today. I got 6 unskippable 30 second ads back to back. Now I understand that ads are how most apps make money, but 6 in a row? Come on now. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2020-09-28, version 2.3.2* I’m giving this app one star. When moving from one word to another it shows you a clue for a word you aren’t even on. Only when you click a word yourself will you get the right clue. Also the ads are just ridiculous. You watch one to play the puzzle. Then they come up randomly as you’re trying to do words in the puzzle. You never know when they’re going to happen. I get that it’s how you make your money but you need a better system. Other crossword games are much better. I advise to stay away from this one! ### 1/5 — Kind of useless *2019-10-26, version 2.3.2* Can’t differentiate between horizontal and vertical clues and keeps going back to the other randomly. ### 1/5 — Not working *2019-10-25, version 2.3.1* I got this game and loved it in the beginning. But now, I can’t play with. When I go to collect my coins it just closes out on me. If I close the pop up, thhe game still closes. Please update and fix! ### 1/5 — Terrible *2019-04-30, version 2.3* This would be an amazing game if it stopped crashing!! I’ve entered the live game for today 3 times and got frozen out on the last clue EVERY TIME!! ### 1/5 — Way too many ads *2019-03-23, version 2.3* I enjoyed the app for a couple days, but now anytime I try to do a puzzle, I’m hit with an ad every minute. I don’t know if it’s a bug or what, but I’m tired of having more ad time than play time, so this app has to go, no second chances. ### 1/5 — Horrible *2018-10-18, version 2.3* I used to play this game and I loved it. The new version has all of the puzzles mostly done already and the clues aren’t set to the right spots. Trash. Very upset. ### 1/5 — Wayyy too many ads *2018-09-30, version 2.3* This game was great when I first downloaded it. However I don’t know what y’all did within the last couple weeks but it’s like when I’m in the middle of typing a word and ad pops up and you have to watch the entire thing there is no skip!! At least put lt before a puzzle like you already do and after like you already do. Just don’t put 10 ads while I tryin to type words. ITS ANNOYINGGGGGGGGG 😤😤😤😤 ### 1/5 — Crossword *2018-03-05, version 2.3* What a colossal waste of time. It took 5 minutes to get through all the game advertising to actually get a puzzle. Then I answered one word and imagine my surprise more game adverts. It would take all day to complete a puzzle with that ridiculous amount of ads...so not worth playing this game. I gave up after 15 minutes when, in that time I could only fill in 5 words..worst hame ever. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Fun *2022-08-10, version 2.4.0* Never gets boring ### 5/5 — Crossword *2021-07-14, version 2.3.3* Good game and not full of adverts like other games. ### 5/5 — Fun game *2021-02-14, version 2.3.2* Just started playing this but so far so good! No glitches and some ads but that's to be expected! Puzzles are good ### 5/5 — Review *2020-11-08, version 2.3.2* Excellent game but paid for ads to be gone and they were still coming up. Then the whole game glitched and kept showing adverts for 25 coins repeatedly restarted the game and my phone and was still glitching with continuous ads. Not happy I paid £4.99 for it to still glitch and show ads all the time! I feel robbed.... ### 5/5 — Love it but... *2020-05-04, version 2.3.2* I’ve lost all of my progress four different times and have had to start all over. Other than that, the crosswords are great! ### 5/5 — Addicting *2020-02-18, version 2.3.2* I love this puzzle. It is really addicting ### 5/5 — Great *2020-01-09, version 2.3.2* It’s challenging and lots of fun for someone who loves crosswords ### 5/5 — Love *2019-08-09, version 2.3* I LOOOOOOOOOVR IT ### 5/5 — Crosswords *2019-03-13, version 2.3* Love it every morning ### 5/5 — Crossword Champ *2019-03-13, version 2.3* I have always enjoyed crossword puzzles. Research has shown that if you stimulate your brain with crossword puzzles, you reduce the risk of Alzheimer's so that's an added bonus. This Crosswords with Friends app is awesome and features a different category for each day of the week. Best app I have used so far ! --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-03.*