Crosswords With Friends

Crosswords With Friends

A new crossword puzzle daily!

63K ratings
918 reviews
With Ads#22 in top-grossing Trivia
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🧠 Trivia
📝 Word
Free
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Details

  • Released
  • Updated
  • May 4, 2017
  • October 3, 2026
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Engage your mind with daily crossword puzzles featuring themes from current entertainment, pop culture, and sports. Compete with friends, earn rewards, and access a vast archive of puzzles. Offers mini and midi puzzles alongside themed daily challenges.

✓Daily themed crossword puzzles
✓Mini and midi puzzles
✓Leaderboard competition with friends
✓Weekly challenges and rewards
✓Collectible puzzle packs
✓Helpful hints
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What's New in Crosswords With Friends

51.37.649

October 3, 2026

Introducing Daily Trivia - the ultimate brain-boosting experience! Test your knowledge with a quick and fast-paced trivia challenge that will keep your brain ringing. Update now and let Daily Trivia engage your brain with quick challenges. Get ready to unlock your inner trivia genius! You can now be a VIP Subscriber and avail exclusive benefits! Add friends to enhance your social crossword adventure! Stunning visuals, faster Gameplay, and more of your favorite puzzles and events, packed with rewards galore! **Now with VIP Subscription and Daily Challenges!

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Subscriptions & In-App Purchases

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30 Day Subscription, No Ads, Free Puzzles!!

$9.991 Month
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Charts

Top Grossing

📉 22-1

Trivia games

This game dropped -1 position in Trivia games chart.

Last updated on October 14, 2026.

Top Grossing

📉 65-1

Word games

This game dropped -1 position in Word games chart.

Last updated on October 14, 2026.

User reviews

Ads that won’t let you back to puzzle

Lately there are ads that only take you to the internet. Or just leave you on a blank screen. You can’t get back to todays puzzles. Annoying. Today in on the level 10 of the guest, a word game, the candy crush ad is stuck. There’s no way to ask out of it, and no way to get back to the game. So I can’t finish the 10th level. The ads lately have been super frustrating. Especially candy crush and some of the matching ones. You can’t close them easily and they last forever.
Months later. :
Your review button does not work. It won’t let me send a new one. And no support at all. Tonight your game froze my phone. For a long time. I can’t play it. Sad. I enjoyed it every night.

Same issues here. This is nuts. I’m stuck. Can’t close an ad. This was the best game. But not now.
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It’s become AI slop

Used to be a good little game to get your brain thinking, but now it’s blatantly written by AI. The clues don’t make sense and half the answers are wrong (eg ‘rugby legend Ian Botham’ or ‘classic jazz singer Etta Jones’. And therein lies the problem with AI.

ai-generated puzzles now :( so i guess this is goodbye

Years ago this app had a genuine quality to it, but it dropped away with every new "improvement" to how it did things: ads getting cheaper and filled with slop, and the puzzles declined similarly. About a week ago, a dramatic shift in the tone of the puzzles to something weird and alien, and they didn't have any named creators anymore. Sad to lose this app, but... What's the point in playing something nobody can be bothered to create??
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Changes are Not Good

I used to enjoy these puzzles but lately the clues have become really bad. I’m even thinking about deleting this app and searching for a different one. I’m hoping the update will help.

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Overnight, my bank of coins disappeared! I had thousands. My game froze, I deleted it, and reinstalled it; and my coins had disappeared. Please replace them. I’ve been playing crosswords with friends for about 15years now. Is that what I get for being a loyal player? PLEASE RETURN MY COINS!

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User experience

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Reported Bugs

4 issues

Coins disappearing without explanation

Bug

Inability to claim earned badges

Bug

Inconsistent tournament scoring

Bug

Ads not properly rewarding coins

Bug
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Requested Features

5 requests

Easier way to earn free coins

Feature

More international/global content

Feature

Option to disable ads for a fee

Feature

Ability to play past puzzles without paying

Feature

Improved stability and performance

Feature

FAQ

What is Crosswords With Friends?

Crosswords With Friends offers a new, daily crossword puzzle designed around current entertainment, pop culture, and sports news. It provides a challenging and engaging way to test your vocabulary and general knowledge.

What are the key features of this app?

Key features include daily themed crosswords, mini and midi puzzles, the ability to compete with friends on a leaderboard, weekly challenges with rewards, collectible puzzle packs, and helpful hints for when you get stuck.

Is Crosswords With Friends free to play?

The app is free to download and play, offering daily puzzles and challenges. It also includes in-app purchases, such as a VIP subscription that removes ads and provides access to archived puzzles.

What kind of puzzles can I expect?

You can expect daily themed crosswords with unique themes each day of the week, such as Movie Monday or Sports Fan Friday. Additionally, there are free daily mini and midi puzzles available, as well as thousands of puzzles in the calendar archives.

Who creates the crossword puzzles?

The crosswords are created by industry experts, including crossword champions and writers from top newspapers, led by co-editors Trip Payne and Amy Reynaldo. This ensures a high-quality and challenging puzzle experience.