Crossword Light vs Crossword Solver Silver
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 Solver Silver
This app helps you solve challenging crossword puzzles quickly and easily. Enter known letters to instantly find solutions from an extensive word database. Perfect for when you need a little help with difficult crosswords.
- Solve puzzles quickly
- Enter known letters for solutions
- Instant results
- Access over 280,000 words
- Multiple word sets (Standard, Expanded, Jargon, Names)
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Solve the toughest crossword puzzles FAST and EASILY on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch now with Crossword Solver! Do you enjoy playing those challenging crossword puzzles online and in our daily newspapers, but after you've given it your best and still can't find the answer don't you wish you had a little help? Now you do! Just enter the known letters in to the text box and press Solve Crossword. That's it... within seconds the solution is presented in the results text box! Select from our Standard, Expanded, Jargon, and Names word sets... giving you instant access to over 280,000 words at your fingertips!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crossword Solver Silver at 3.5 against Crossword Light's 3.0. Crossword Solver Silver also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 10) and ads (none vs shown). Crossword Light's advantage is review sentiment (53% vs 32%) and ratings volume (54 vs 11). On price, update cadence, 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 Solver Silver asks for nothing beyond the download.
Crossword Solver Silver holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 54 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Crossword Light's written reviews are positive against 32% of Crossword Solver Silver's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Crossword Light ships an update every 3 months, Crossword Solver Silver every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crossword Light | Crossword Solver Silver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (54 ratings) | 3.5 (11 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews — better | 32.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stand Alone, Inc. | Procypher Software Co. |
Customer experience
Crossword Light
Crossword Solver Silver
Bugs and requests
Crossword Light
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Crossword Solver Silver
Reported bugs
35 issues- App closes when checking second word
- Does not work in portrait orientation
- SOLVE button behind camera on iPhone
- App closes after using 'look up' facility
- Display issues on iPhone 11 screen notch
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- Switch to landscape from portrait is poor
- 'Look up' facility loses app functionality
- Ads across input space, won't go away
- No keyboard
- Ads cause app to lock up
- Partially blank screen after update
- White square on screen, cannot type
- Freezes if not connected to internet
- Ads obliterate top section, nowhere to type
- Keyboard disappears after closing ad
- Keyboard does not pop up
- Ads pop up over whole screen
- Keyboard disappears without trace
- App freezes after closing ad apps
- Keyboard does not appear after closing ad
- Ads intrude to the point of making it unusable
- Ads gone balmy, can't clear screen
- Keyboard doesn't appear, ads annoying
- Ads pop up then keyboard is lost
- Ads screw up keyboard access
- Keyboard does not appear, useless
- Cannot type in a '?', iPad keyboard issue
- Cannot rotate or deselect text entry box
- App won't work after OS upgrade
- Lite version won't do anything without purchase
- Stumped by simple words or swamps with useless words
- Doesn't do anything, interactive with keyboard
- Cannot see crossword, no help
- Doesn't solve anything
- Expired after short trial, asked to buy full version
Requested features
7 requests- Add missing words to dictionary
- Option to pay for ad-free version
- Add '?' to letter keyboard
- Ability to explore multiple words
- Add clue input functionality
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- Fix cursor placement for '?'
- Fix iOS dictionary integration
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 Solver Silver
No in-app purchases
Questions
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