Crossword Light vs Tiny Little Crosswords
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crossword Light
Solve daily crossword puzzles from various newspapers on your mobile device. Get hints, view clues, and track your progress. This light version includes 40 puzzles, with more available in the full version.
- Daily crossword puzzles
- Hints available
- View clues
- Track improvement
- Leaderboard
- Social media integration
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Play crossword puzzles right on your iPhone or iPod touch. Each day many newspapers provide their crossword puzzles online; Crossword Light lets you solve a selection of what's out there; get hints, view clues, and track how quickly you're improving! This is a light version of our Crosswords game. Try it out with 40 brand new puzzles included. If you like it, please try the full version! • More than a months' worth of puzzles to play • Nearly unlimited puzzles from many different sites in the full version • Hints available • Leaderboard • Twitter and Facebook integration
Tiny Little Crosswords
Engage in quick and enjoyable word puzzles with a unique drag-and-drop letter mechanic. Solve daily challenges or explore themed puzzle packs for hours of engaging fun.
- Drag-and-drop letter solving
- Daily puzzles
- Themed puzzle packs
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Quick and easy gameplay
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Tiny Little Crosswords is fun, quick, and easy. We don't give you a zillion clues to slog through because, well, that's already been done. Just drag the letters into the grid to complete the puzzle! This clever little game contains Daily Puzzles as well as puzzle packs with different difficulty levels for hours of thoughtful, puzzling fun! Blue Ox Family Games is proud to bring you this delightful app from the minds of Eric Snider, David Arnott, and Aaron Weissblum. Put down your no. 2 pencil and download Tiny Little Crosswords today!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tiny Little Crosswords at 4.6 against Crossword Light's 3.0. Tiny Little Crosswords also leads on ratings volume (13K vs 54) and review sentiment (77% vs 53%). Crossword Light's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Crossword Light sells 10 one-off in-app purchases and Tiny Little Crosswords sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tiny Little Crosswords holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tiny Little Crosswords has 13K ratings behind it against 54, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 53% of Crossword Light's written reviews are positive against 77% of Tiny Little Crosswords's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crossword Light | Tiny Little Crosswords |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (54 ratings) | 4.6 (13K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews | 77.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 54 | 13K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 14.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stand Alone, Inc. | Blue Ox Family Games, Inc. |
Customer experience
Crossword Light
Tiny Little Crosswords
Bugs and requests
Crossword Light
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Tiny Little Crosswords
Reported bugs
2 issues- Daily puzzle crashes on launch
- Ads cannot be closed properly
Requested features
4 requests- Add more puzzle packs
- Implement a free daily puzzle
- Allow letter shuffling
- Improve clue clarity
In-app purchases
Crossword Light
- Aaxword's Easy Themeless Puzzles$0.99
- Aaxword's Easy Micro Puzzles$0.99
- MacNamara's Band, Vol. 1$1.99
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- Edited by Ben Tausig, vol. 1$1.99
- Ink Well Crosswords, Volume 1$1.99
- Dell Magazines #1$1.99
- Ridonkulous Crosswords$1.99
- Jonesin' Crosswords$2.99
- Brendan Emmett Quigley's Favorites, Vol. 1$2.99
- Crosswords$9.99
Tiny Little Crosswords
- More Hints$0.99
- On We Go$1.99
- Keep 'Em Coming$1.99
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- World of Entertainment$1.99
- Yet More Fun$1.99
- 3-4-5's$1.99
- Even More Hints$1.99
- Many More Hints$2.99
- Very Many Hints$3.99
- Unlock All Puzzles$9.99
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