# Crostix — user reviews > 85 indexed App Store user reviews of Crostix by Mountford Line, rated 4.70/5 from 49 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crostix/id317959702/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/crostix/id317959702.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 42 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 1 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Crostix? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Great game/app - 💡 Challenging puzzles - 👍 Fun to complete - 💡 Good variety of puzzles - 👍 Easy to use interface - 💡 Interesting quotes - 👍 Well worth the price - 💡 Automatic letter transfer - 👍 Good brain fun - 💡 Well-designed interface - 👍 Clever puzzles - 💡 Nice gradations on clues - 👍 Good vocabulary builder - 💡 Removes tedium of paper puzzles - 👍 Addictive **Cons** - 🐛 App crashes - 🐛 Puzzles not opening - 🐛 In-app purchases not working - 🐛 Data waiting errors - 🐛 Lost progress after reinstall - 🐛 Offensive content in puzzles - 🐛 Obscure US references - 🐛 Repeated clues - 🐛 Lack of punctuation - 🐛 US-centric content - 🐛 Religious references - 🐛 Unsolvable puzzles - 🐛 Clunky interface **Commonly reported bugs** - Library is gone, no record of puzzles - App not working with latest iOS - In-app purchases do not all work - Books 10 & 11 will not open - AppStore shows purchased but app says waiting for data - App crashes - In-app purchase feature does not work - Paid for book, charged again after update - Completed puzzles show blank after update - App is waiting for data - Misspelling in puzzle quote - Cannot buy Book 5 - App only checks for new puzzles every 30 days **Most requested features** - Add more puzzles - Add free starting letters - Add ability to skip filled squares - Add display for first letters of clue answers - Add score tracking - Add more challenging puzzles - Add more US-centric puzzles - Add more religious references - Add dark mode - Add puzzle title in top bar ## Newest reviews (13 of 85) ### 4/5 — Great app but no updates for several years! *2019-12-10, version 3.3* I love this app, but there have been no new puzzles for several years. It's easy to use and most of the puzzles are information and fun to solve. I like the more complicated puzzles, not the gag lines. However, the Sherlock Holmes puzzles are extremely difficult. I exhausted the Mumford puzzles quite a while ago, which makes the current version of the app worthless. PLEASE add more puzzles soon! ### 4/5 — Great app *2019-04-26, version 3.3* One of the few I’ll actually pay for which says a lot. I’ve always loved this kind of puzzle. I’d love it it started with some “free” letters on the puzzle to get you started but all in all I really enjoy playing. ### 4/5 — Pleasant time filler! *2018-06-05, version 3.3* There aren't many of this type of puzzle game to choose from. This one is good. Some of the US references are a bit obscure, but can be googled. There is a good mix of easy and challenging puzzles. ### 5/5 — Designer *2016-06-05, version 3.2* LOVE the game! Hope there's more coming! ### 5/5 — Love these! *2016-05-25, version 3.2* These are great acrostic puzzles! There are a number of different themes and levels of difficulty. Wish they'd release some more puzzles soon! ### 5/5 — Crostix is great *2016-05-10, version 3.2* Hard to find these wonderful puzzles. I'm happy to find this app and I hope they keep them coming. ### 5/5 — My favorite kind of puzzles *2015-11-17, version 3.2* I love acrostics and have a hard time finding paper books, so I play here. I enjoy the puzzles a lot and am on Book 10 - almost out of books to play. What then? The only thing I wish were different is that the initial letters of the clue answers don't spell out the name of author and source. So these are acrostics, not double-acrostics. But I love not having to erase all the wrong letters. ### 5/5 — Good puzzles, works like it should *2015-09-20, version 3.2* I love crostic puzzles, and this app has an intuitive interface. It's easy to enter letters into either the clues or the quote. The app sometimes crashes, and I wish there were a few more hard puzzles. But it's lots of fun and the quotes are interesting. ### 5/5 — Great game *2015-09-02, version 3.2* I love the way this game works. I also love that the additional libraries are reasonably priced. I hope it keeps going for a long time! ### 5/5 — Great puzzle app *2015-08-11, version 3.2* I have always liked acrostics, and the automatic cross-filling in the Crostix app takes away the only negative of this sort of puzzle. The choice of quotations for the app is a real plus. I have enjoyed some of the quotes so much that I have been inspired to read the books they are taken from. ### 5/5 — At last! A new addiction! *2015-07-10, version 3.2* I used to love double-crosstics in the NYT and magazines, and I've been very happy to find and enjoy this app over the past year. Being online and able to easily delete a whole clue answer permits a much more fun approach to the puzzle than doing them in ink on paper. I too was frustrated that I seemed to be stuck in limbo for several weeks, unable to complete the purchase of Books Ten and Eleven, but just now I tried buying the Headlines for the first time. There was a new AppStore purchase agreement I had to OK, and then suddenly the floodgates opened for my other failed purchases in this App. ### 5/5 — Yay, Crostics! *2015-05-27, version 3.2* I love crostics, and I deeply appreciate the way filling in a square in either the clues or the quote automatically fills in the corresponding square in the other. I've bought most of the books available, and an enjoying them all at their differing difficulty levels. There are a couple of improvements I'd love to see: First, I'd love to have the ability to choose to skip over already filled squares in both clues and quotes. Second, I'd really love to have a space (perhaps one that could be toggled in and out of view?) that shows the first letters of the clue answers. On paper, I can sometimes get useful hints to clue answers by recognizing names or titles thus spelled out, but on my iPhone I absolutely can never see more than three of those letters at a time, which really doesn't work! ### 5/5 — Addicted to Crostix! *2015-05-23, version 3.2* I love this game. I just wish they could come out with more puzzles faster! :) ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Like this a lot, but…. *2025-03-19, version 3.3* I’ve enjoyed this, and bought many of the add on packs, but for the past few months, whenever I finish one I try to go back to the library and everything is gone. So there’s no record of any of the puzzles. I’ve played previously like they’re used to be. And there’s no puzzles at all I have to delete the game and re-download it every single time. Don’t know what but something’s gone wrong and I’m extremely disappointed. ### 1/5 — Broken app? *2024-12-26, version 3.3* A week or so ago this app, which I have used and enjoyed for years, began to malfunction on my phone (iOS). Developers web site does not work either. Does anyone know if they are still around? ### 1/5 — Not bad *2017-12-22, version 3.3* Overall, way too easy. As mentioned elsewhere, in-app purchases do not all work. Almost a year and this has not been fixed??? Update: Still cannot make in-ap purchases as of Dec 2017. No way to contact the developer. Downgrading to one star, as is totally useless. ### 1/5 — Racism! *2015-10-06, version 3.2* I've had this app for some time, and I had loved it. However, I just got two puzzles in a row that were offensive--one used the word "Chinaman" and the second had a quotation on the topic of whether "Gypsies" could ever be honest. Extraordinarily offensive; I'm deleting this app immediately and encourage others to do likewise. I can, and will, get my word puzzle fun elsewhere. ### 1/5 — Books 10 & 11 will not open *2015-07-16, version 3.2* Bought the new books, and App Store shows they've been purchased. But in the app, trying to open Book 10 or 11, get an error message saying the app is waiting for data. Waste of money. ### 1/5 — Great game poor app *2015-05-17, version 3.2* While I really enjoy anacrostic puzzles this app's in game purchase feature does not work. I have already done the first nine books ad nauseum and am frustrated that I cannot buy the latest two books ### 1/5 — You just stole my money!!!!! *2015-04-06, version 2.7* I paid for the Crostix Big Book a couple of years ago. Today I was sent an app update to "fix" bugs. Well she fixed me! Though I already bought it, my completed puzzles show blank. Then the HELP button told me to press "buy it" and it would not charge me since I previously purchased it. But it did charge me. I want my $1.99 back AND my completed puzzles. What a mess. Don't buy this. It was crashing a lot!!!!! ### 1/5 — Crostix *2011-12-13, version 1.7* I love Crostix but what's up with book 5? I can't seem to be able to buy it! ### 3/5 — Finally broken with latest iOS *2025-02-08, version 3.3* Seems doubtful this will get fixed since the website is no longer up. But the app has quit working with the newest iOS ### 3/5 — Fun *2014-09-21, version 2.7* Pretty good UI and fun puzzles. Nice to be able to get a good shot of acrostics. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great game! *2026-07-11, version 4.0* I love this game! I feel like the puzzles are challenging, and fun to complete. I’m so glad there are more to purchase and download! I can’t begin to express just how excited I was when I randomly checked on this app and saw that it had been updated! This is by far one of my most favorite games on my phone! ### 5/5 — Something is broken… *2026-07-10, version 4.0* What the heck happened to this app? The colors are all wrong, making it impossible to see the letters you’ve already entered in the quote. I hope you guys fix this soon… ### 5/5 — Great game! *2024-10-04, version 3.3* I love this game! I feel like the puzzles are challenging, and fun to complete. I’m so glad there are more to purchase and download! Note: after updating to iOS 18, I had to delete and reinstall which means I have to start over on the puzzles, but that’s fine with me. I’m impressed that an app that has gone 7 years without an update is holding strong! ### 5/5 — My favorite Anacrostics in electronic form *2022-06-10, version 3.3* I’ve always loved Anacrostics. I’ve been doing them with pencil and paper for years. This app works just like the printed ones, but once completely filled in, you get immediate feedback as to whether all entries are correct. They’re fun and challenging, especially at the higher difficulty levels. ### 5/5 — STILL THE BEST WORD APP!!! *2020-10-19, version 3.3* . ### 5/5 — Love it! *2018-04-16, version 3.3* So much fun. ### 5/5 — The Best *2017-09-01, version 3.3* Excellent puzzles from easy to fiendish! I can't get enough! ### 5/5 — Great Game! *2017-06-24, version 3.3* I love word puzzles and this is one that works very well - great interface; nice gradations on clues; super variety of topics and quotes. ### 5/5 — Absolutely wonderful. *2017-05-21, version 3.3* I have spent many hours enjoying these puzzles and learning many things I did not know before. I hope that will continue to be additions to the Crostix library as I have completed most of them that are currently available. ### 5/5 — Crostix *2017-01-13, version 3.3* I love acrostic puzzles and have been doing them for years. These puzzles have good clues and quotations and are way easier to complete then with a pencil and eraser. 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