Comparison

Astraware Acrostic vs AnagramStack

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

AnagramStack

Features
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Solve a 3-letter anagram to unlock a new letter. This will give you a 4 letter Anagram to solve. Keep on going till you solve the final 8-letter Anagram. If you get stuck, just click the question mark icon for a hint. There are 5 chains in a pack, so solve them all to unlock the next pack. Keep checking back in for new Anagram Packs.

Screenshots

Astraware Acrostic4 screens
AnagramStack3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: AnagramStack at none against Astraware Acrostic's 8. AnagramStack also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 days vs every 6 weeks). Astraware Acrostic's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 26.2). On price 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. AnagramStack asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Astraware Acrostic ships an update every 6 weeks, AnagramStack every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 27, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Astraware Acrostic versus AnagramStack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstraware AcrosticAnagramStack
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (53 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews76.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings53 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better26.2
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAstraware LimitedRahul Matthan

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

AnagramStack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astraware Acrostic free?
Astraware Acrostic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is AnagramStack free?
AnagramStack is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Astraware Acrostic or AnagramStack have ads?
Astraware Acrostic shows ads; AnagramStack does not.
Which is updated more often, Astraware Acrostic or AnagramStack?
Astraware Acrostic ships an update every 6 weeks, and AnagramStack every 2 days. Most recently, Astraware Acrostic was updated on September 27, 2026 and AnagramStack on September 18, 2026.

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