Crossword Light vs Crossword Puzzles...
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
Crossword Puzzles...
Challenge your vocabulary and deduction abilities by filling in blank squares with letters to complete crosswords. Each word is accompanied by a helpful hint phrase to guide your solving process.
- Vocabulary testing
- Guessing skills challenge
- Fill empty squares with letters
- Solve crossword puzzles
- Hint phrases for every word
- 72 puzzle layouts
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Test your vocabulary and guessing skills. Fill empty squares with letter and solve crossword. Every word has a hint phrase to help you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Crossword Puzzles... at 96% against Crossword Light's 53%. Crossword Puzzles... also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 10). 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
Both are free to download. Crossword Light sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Crossword Puzzles... asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crossword Puzzles... holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crossword Puzzles... has 2.3K 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 96% of Crossword Puzzles...'s.
Crossword Light ships an update every 3 months, Crossword Puzzles... every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crossword Light | Crossword Puzzles... |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (54 ratings) | 4.6 (2.3K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews | 95.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 54 | 2.3K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stand Alone, Inc. | Vintolo Ltd |
Customer experience
Crossword Light
Crossword Puzzles...
Bugs and requests
Crossword Light
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Crossword Puzzles...
Reported bugs
2 issues- Puzzle 53 has no solution
- Clues with answer in the clue
Requested features
3 requests- More challenging puzzles
- Hint system improvements
- Additional crossword themes/layouts
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
Crossword Puzzles...
No in-app purchases
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