# Lex.Games: Daily Word Games — user reviews > 28 indexed App Store user reviews of Lex.Games by Lex Friedman, rated 4.90/5 from 306 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lexgames-daily-word-games/id6498941705/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/lexgames-daily-word-games/id6498941705.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 277 · 4★ 21 · 3★ 5 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Lex.Games? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 👍 Fun daily games - 💡 Great selection of games - 👍 User-friendly app - 💡 Innovative and challenging games - 👍 No invasive ads - 👍 Daily updates - 👍 Good for a daily ritual - 👍 Subscription is worth it - 👍 Good customer support (Lex helped) - 👍 Fun and clever games - 👍 Compelling leaderboards - 👍 Puzzles are varied (hard, easy, funny) - 👍 Lightweight app **Cons** - 🐛 Crossword bugs - 🐛 Incessant rating prompts - 🐛 Reset progress after update - 🐛 Keyboard cut off on iPhone - 🐛 Sluggish animations - 🐛 Nagging for reviews - 🐛 Leaderboard bug for archived games - 🐛 Mind Control game button not working - 🐛 Mismatched completion checks - 🐛 Long clues cannot be expanded - 🐛 Unpredictable cursor advancement - 🐛 Yellow highlight boxes misaligned - 🐛 Grid outlines misaligned - 🐛 Error checker highlighting erroneous - 🐛 Repeated games on consecutive days - 🐛 Minor bugs in crosswords (skipping/overwriting squares) - 🐛 Poor design of mini crossword - 🐛 Clues harder to read in mini crossword - 🐛 No restore purchase function - 🐛 No response from developer via email - 🐛 Social result prompts after each game **Commonly reported bugs** - Typos in word games - Crossword clues truncated - Whole games repeated consecutively - Crosswords skip filled-in squares or overwrite them - Yellow highlight boxes and grid outlines misaligned on iPhone SE - Error checker highlighting is erroneous - Completion checks on Home Screen mismatched with crosswords - Algorithm for advancing cursor is unpredictable - Mini crossword has ugly new appearance - Progress reset after mini crossword update - Keyboard is cut off on the right side for Cryptogram on iPhone 15 Pro - Animations are sluggish in mini crossword - Cannot restore purchase after uninstalling - No response from developer via email for purchase issue - Leaderboard for archived letter opener games only shows #1 puzzle - Cannot submit guesses in Mind Control game - App begs and nags for reviews - Yellow highlight boxes and grid outlines misaligned - Error checker highlighting is erroneous - Long clues cannot be expanded - Completion checks on Home Screen mismatched with crosswords - Algorithm for advancing cursor is unpredictable - Crossword completion checks don’t line up reliably - Crossword was not there a couple days ago - Crossword claimed user was wrong when input was correct - Revealed words marked wrong were identical to user input but in lower case **Most requested features** - Fix keyboard cutoff on iPhone for Cryptogram - Restore progress after app updates - Improve crossword UI/UX - Fix cursor advancement algorithm - Allow expansion of long crossword clues - Ensure completion checkmarks align reliably - Fix leaderboard bug for archived letter opener games - Fix Mind Control game submission button - Revert mini crossword appearance to previous version - Implement a 'restore purchase' function - Stop incessant prompts for ratings ## Newest reviews (9 of 28) ### 5/5 — Awesome collection *2024-07-05* These games are fun and clever and the app is really user-friendly! ### 5/5 — A daily treat *2024-06-14* I love the daily games and the ability to compare my scores with other players adds an element of competition that I really enjoy (especially when I’m near the top). ### 5/5 — Best daily puzzle app *2024-06-12* I love Lex’s daily puzzles and frequent references to “Weird Al” Yankovic ### 5/5 — The only app you need for all your Lex needs! *2024-05-30* Friedman — (not the other guy) ### 5/5 — Fun puzzles to start the day *2024-05-24* Lex games is an important part of a balanced breakfast. Coffee and puzzles, what else could you need? Sometimes the puzzles are really hard, sometimes they are easy and sometimes they are funny! ### 5/5 — A nice, fun daily ritual *2024-05-17* Have been playing the games daily on the web, and now I get to do it in a nicely designed, well built app. My partner and I have made these games a part of our daily ritual, right next to Wordle and the Crossword. The monthly sub is well worth it, too! ### 5/5 — Great daily puzzles! *2024-05-15* Lots of fun. ### 5/5 — Great games! *2024-05-15* I love word games, and this app has mostly different games than I’ve seen elsewhere. I also love that you can play daily for free, and there are no ads or obnoxious reminders about in app purchases. ### 5/5 — A fun, lightweight game app? In this economy? *2024-05-15* I was a beta tester for Lex Games, and I enjoyed witnessing the rapid maturation into the app that is now before you, the person browsing the App Store. It is full of challenging daily games and delightful personal touches. Run, don't walk, to get your copy of Lex Games today! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Constantly asks for a review *2026-04-11* Here you go. One star. **Developer response:** Apple offers developers a means to ask for reviews through your app. Apple limits how often you see them. I apologize if my request for reviews caused you to feel that the app offered a one star experience. ### 1/5 — deleting *2026-02-22* ugly ugly UGLY new appearance to the mini crossword AND you reset my progress? i’m done. **Developer response:** Your progress should definitely not be reset. The new Crossword interface mostly seems to be getting celebrated, but I’m sorry it doesn’t work for you. I’d love to better understand what’s not working for you. ### 1/5 — beg for a rating, get a rating *2025-09-22* honestly, this game is great, but unless something has changed, apps aren't supposed to beg and nag for reviews, and this game has done so twice now. **Developer response:** I’m using Apple’s built-in functionality for developers to request ratings. One star ratings when you enjoy the app are… rough. I’m sorry the requests bothered you, but Apple actually determines how often you see them. ### 2/5 — Games are great but no restore your purchase function *2025-12-12* The games are fun. However I purchased the subscription and had to uninstall for an issue with my phone. I cannot get the app to recognize my username and it does not restore my purchase so I cannot use the paid functions. I tried to reach out to the developer via email with no response. I took off 3 stars because of this problem. ### 3/5 — Needs an editor *2026-07-13* Typos in word games are really annoying, and they’re common here. Today’s “way” for “why” is typical. Crossword clues frequently have the last letter truncated (is the clue “Sol” or “Solo”?). Whole games get repeated two consecutive days. There are frequent minor bugs - crosswords can’t decide whether they’re going to skip filled-in squares or overwrite them for example. All in all this feels like Lex is overextended and frantically rushing to complete the puzzles every day, making a bad experience for users. **Developer response:** I’m so sorry you feel this way. I’m not rushing to write puzzles; I’m running at least a month in advance. Because it’s a one man operation, typos do come up, and I deeply regret them, but I’m working hard on a longer term solution. ### 3/5 — put it back the way it was! *2026-02-12* the new mini crossword looks awful! what was wrong with its old appearance? now it looks cheap! it’s harder to read the clues, and the animations are sluggish! put it back how it was before, please! **Developer response:** I’m using Apple’s built-in functionality for developers to request ratings. One star ratings when you enjoy the app are… rough. I’m sorry the requests bothered you, but Apple actually determines how often you see them. ### 3/5 — Fun daily distraction but one broken bit *2025-11-05* I enjoy playing most of the games most days, but I currently can’t submit guesses in the Mind Control game. After picking guesses, there button does nothing. iOS 26.1 **Developer response:** This will be fixed shortly. I’m traveling and can’t publish the fix until I return home. My sincere apologies. ### 4/5 — Crossword is mad buggy *2026-05-16, version 3.09* Fun games. But the crossword is ridiculous: on an iPhone SE at least, the yellow highlight boxes and grid outlines are misaligned, the error checker highlighting is erroneous, long clues cannot be expanded, the completion checks on the Home Screen are mismatched with the crosswords (fine for other games), and the algorithm for advancing the cursor is unpredictable. Also: incessant prompts for a rating are vexing, especially when (clearly) I have rated it. ### 4/5 — Sub is well worth it *2026-04-26* Great selection of games, fun to play, idiosyncratic and challenging. The only problem is the fantastically buggy crossword — it draws poorly on my (small, I know) SE, the completion checkmarks don’t line up with completed crosswords reliably (only game that has that issue), a couple days ago it just wasn’t there, and today I had it right, but it claimed I was wrong. I revealed the words that were marked wrong and it wrote exactly what I had, but in lower case. 🤦‍♂️ ### 5/5 — Good games *2026-08-30* This is a great app with excellent games! The developer was very responsive and helpful fixing a layout issue I had on my phone as well! **Developer response:** This should be fixed! ## Most praised reviews (9 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — I don’t like word game, but love this *2026-03-27* Never thought I’d play word games daily, but here I am ### 5/5 — Good games *2026-02-18, version 2.09* I like the games but the keyboard is cut off on the right side when I try to play Cryptogram on my iPhone 15 Pro running 26.2.1. A fix would be appreciated! ### 5/5 — Games are great! *2025-12-14* The games are fun! I love the punny Crostics! I had an issue restoring my purchase and Lex helped me. **Developer response:** Thanks so much! ### 5/5 — love this app and love the website *2025-12-03* was looking for an alternative to nyt daily games after they put the mini behind a paywall and found this. i love it!! no invasive ads and updated daily!! ### 5/5 — Several games in one *2025-12-02* There’s bound to be one in the collection to interest most people. Not to fond of the “gray” design pattern that encourages the player to post a social result after each game. I just wanna play, not advertise. ### 5/5 — Fun daily distraction! *2025-11-12* I enjoy playing most of the games most days. There was an issue with one game but Lex got it solved! Fun app! **Developer response:** Thanks so much!! ### 5/5 — Longtime player *2025-10-02* My doorway in was through Colextions - but I stayed because of that and the other games being introduced. Daily party of my life. ### 5/5 — Leaderboard bug *2025-04-01* Leaderboard for archived letter opener games only shows the leaderboard for puzzle #1, no matter which puzzle you just solved. ### 5/5 — Who knew Lex Fridman made a game app? *2025-03-30* Fantastic app #TheRebound --- *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 2026-09-03.*