Comparison

Astraware Acrostic vs Honeycomb Hints

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Astraware Acrostic

Solve word clues to uncover a vertical target word. Enjoy quick puzzles perfect for short breaks, with daily and weekly challenges. Features include helpful hints and global leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Solve word clues to find a vertical target word
  • 50 built-in free puzzles
  • Daily and weekly new puzzles
  • Global leaderboard competition
  • Vowel/consonant highlighting
  • Helpful hints available
Features
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Astraware Acrostic is a quick-style word puzzle game - solve the clues to reveal the words and find the vertical target word that connects through them all! Perfect if you love Crosswords but like something a bit quicker that you can fit into a shorter break and still finish a puzzle! There are 50 built-in free puzzles with a range of difficulties and sizes, so you can play offline at any time. You get free unlimited access to play two new Daily Acrostic puzzles each day, and compete on the global leaderboard! There's a free Weekender puzzle available each week with a larger puzzle and trickier clues. The unique twist are some novel features to boost your progress - highlighting in puzzle shows you where vowels and consonants appear, and each time you get one of the horizontal words, the target letter is revealed throughout the puzzle! Still need a bit of a hint? (Everyone does, from time to time!) - ask for a hint for a small time cost and our bookend-hints give you the first and last letters of the word which we've found are a huge help! Astraware Acrostic Top Features: - Free unlimited access to our Daily and Weekender puzzles, each with their own online high score table - submit your times and see how you compare! - 50 free puzzles in a range of sizes for hours of play - Play any of the puzzles from the past week and catch up whenever you like! - Unlimited helpful hints - Clues and answers are written for an international English-speaking audience whether you are American, British, Canadian, Australian or maybe learning English as a student. Astraware Acrostics are hand-crafted quick-style puzzles with a broad range of clues using general knowledge that are popular on the puzzle pages of many major newspapers such as The Times, The Guardian, National Post and the New York Times (NYT) crosswords! Clues might also include synonyms and anagrams, and the occasional slightly cryptic puzzle too! If you love this game, you will be pleased to know that we have other apps available in this range: Astraware CodeWords, Kriss Kross, Word Search, and of course Astraware Crosswords for the dedicated enthusiast! Puzzles Plus Subscription Terms and Details Puzzles Plus is our optional subscription for Acrostic which entitles you to play all of the available Daily, Weekender and Stream puzzles as soon as they are available, without in-game adverts. Subscribers can also choose to highlight their high scores with a choice of badges. Subscriptions are available with renewal periods of either monthly, quarterly, or yearly. The price shown is the cost of the renewal, with the saving as a comparison to the monthly option. After you confirm a subscription, you will have a free trial period of seven days. Your iTunes Account will be charged as soon as the free trial is over. If you cancel the subscription at any time before the free trial is over, you will not be billed. The subscriptions are automatically renewing, and you will be charged again at the end of your current subscription period. Your subscription will automatically renew unless you turn this off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. The renewal cost will be the same for each subscription period, and will be charged within the 24 hours before the end of your current subscription. You can manage the subscriptions at any time by going to the Account Settings in the Settings App after purchase. There are options to either change to a different renewal period (at a different price) or to cancel your subscription completely. If you cancel the renewal you will still have access to the Puzzles Plus features until the full subscription period is complete. If you confirm the purchase of a subscription before the free trial is complete, any unused portion of the trial will be lost. These terms are available at : https://www.astraware.com/about/puzzlesplus/ For more information on Data and Privacy, see our Privacy page at http://www.astraware.com/privacy

About

Honeycomb Hints

This app assists with word game arithmetic by automatically updating hint matrices and clue lists from uploaded screenshots. It allows manual entry of discoveries as you play, making word game calculations easier.

Highlights
  • Screenshot analysis for word games
  • Automatic hint matrix updates
  • Two-letter-list clue generation
  • Manual discovery entry
  • Supports multiple screenshots
Features
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Good at word games but struggle at counting? Let Honeycomb Hints take care of the arithmetic so you can play quick. Upload screenshots of your words and watch as the hint matrix and two-letter-list clues are automatically updated. As you solve for more words, upload more screenshots or manually enter your discoveries- whichever is more convenient for you. The Honeycomb Hints app is an independently developed project created in the spirit of Fair Use Doctrine. It is in no way affiliated with the New York Times (NYT) or the NYT Spelling Bee game.

Screenshots

Astraware Acrostic4 screens
Honeycomb Hints3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Honeycomb Hints at none against Astraware Acrostic's 8. Honeycomb Hints also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). Astraware Acrostic's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 2). On price, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Astraware Acrostic sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Honeycomb Hints asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Honeycomb Hints holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Astraware Acrostic has 53 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Astraware Acrostic ships an update every 6 weeks, Honeycomb Hints every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Astraware Acrostic versus Honeycomb Hints: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstraware AcrosticHoneycomb Hints
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (53 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings53 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAstraware LimitedAaron Cohen

Customer experience

Astraware Acrostic

All ratings53 ratings
Positive84.9%
Neutral5.7%
Negative9.4%
Written reviews21 reviews
Positive76.2%
Neutral4.8%
Negative19.0%

Honeycomb Hints

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Astraware Acrostic

Subscriptions3
  • Puzzles Plus7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Puzzles Plus7 Days trial$2.993 Months
  • Puzzles Plus7 Days trial$7.991 Year
One-time5
  • Easy Pack$0.99
  • Tough Pack$0.99
  • Ad-Free Daily Puzzles$2.99
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  • Deluxe Pack$2.99
  • Calendar Pack 2017$4.99
None

Honeycomb Hints

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astraware Acrostic free?
Astraware Acrostic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Honeycomb Hints free?
Honeycomb Hints is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Astraware Acrostic or Honeycomb Hints?
Honeycomb Hints is rated higher. Astraware Acrostic averages 4.5 out of 5 from 53 ratings, while Honeycomb Hints averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Astraware Acrostic or Honeycomb Hints have ads?
Astraware Acrostic shows ads; Honeycomb Hints does not.
Which is updated more often, Astraware Acrostic or Honeycomb Hints?
Astraware Acrostic ships an update every 6 weeks, and Honeycomb Hints every 2 days. Most recently, Astraware Acrostic was updated on October 22, 2026 and Honeycomb Hints on October 11, 2026.

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