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 +
Enjoy a vast collection of classic crossword puzzles on your iPhone and iPad. This app offers over 800 puzzles across various types, with a modern design and intuitive controls. Participate in a community rating system with thousands of players.
- 800+ free crossword puzzles
- Multiple puzzle types (classic, keywords, anagrams, scandinavian)
- Modern design with multitouch gestures
- In-game rating system with 8000+ participants
- Hint modes
- Sound and vibration support
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Huge crossword puzzle collection now comes to iPhone and iPad! At the moment here is 800+ free crossword puzzles including but not limited to classic crosswords, keywords, anagrams, scandinavian crosswords and much more! Blazingly fast with modern design and support for multitouch gestures. This app have it’s own rating system with more than 8000 participants. * full support for iPad and iPhone * six different crossword puzzle types * frequently updated database with 800+ puzzles * different hint modes * sound and vibration support * in-game settings
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crossword Puzzles + at 3.5 against Crossword Light's 3.0. Crossword Puzzles + also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 12.0). Crossword Light's advantage is review sentiment (53% vs 21%) and ratings volume (54 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 Crossword Puzzles + sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Crossword Puzzles + holds the better App Store score, 3.5 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crossword Light has 54 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Crossword Light's written reviews are positive against 21% of Crossword Puzzles +'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 Puzzles + every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crossword Light | Crossword Puzzles + |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (54 ratings) | 3.5 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews — better | 21.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| 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 | 10.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Stand Alone, Inc. | Oleksii Harbuzenko |
Customer experience
Crossword Light
Crossword Puzzles +
Bugs and requests
Crossword Light
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Crossword Puzzles +
Reported bugs
15 issues- Unable to download puzzles
- App crashes immediately on opening
- Ads cover puzzle clues
- In-app purchase to remove ads fails
- Progress lost after updates
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- Clues are too small to read
- App freezes
- Grid errors when downloading puzzles
- No way to exit puzzles or return to main menu
- Pop-up ads are unclosable
- Randomly closing of the game
- Controls not explained
- Inconsistent answers for mythology questions
- Game freezes when hint button is used too often
- Tiles with clues are cut short
Requested features
11 requests- Fix ads covering clues
- Restore lost progress
- Increase font size for clues
- Add option to change font size
- Improve navigation and controls
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- Add a way to exit puzzles/return to main menu
- Add an answer key
- Fix puzzle download issues
- Ensure in-app purchases work
- Improve accuracy of mythology questions
- Make puzzles easier for younger players
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 advertising$0.99
- Hints$0.99
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