Crossword Light vs Crossword Scanner
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 Scanner
Capture crosswords from physical media or digital screenshots and solve them on your device. Features a live preview for accurate scanning and an intuitive interface for inputting answers.
- Scan crosswords with live preview
- Import from device gallery
- Solve scanned crosswords on device
- Tap to edit horizontally/vertically
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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Scan and solve crosswords from newspapers, magazines and the likes directly on your iPhone or iPad! * Scan * Use the amazing 4K live preview to capture accurate representations of your crosswords from magazines or newspapers. Import directly from the device gallery to use screenshots from your digital subscriptions. Always make sure you only scan crosswords you either own or are allowed to copy. * Solve * Once you have scanned your crossword, it is available for solving on your device. Tap a character spot once to edit horizontally; once more on the same spot to edit vertically.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Crossword Light at 3.0 against Crossword Scanner's 1.3. Crossword Light also leads on review sentiment (53% vs 33%) and ratings volume (54 vs 3). Crossword Scanner's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). 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 Scanner sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Crossword Light holds the better App Store score, 3.0 against 1.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crossword Light has 54 ratings behind it against 3, 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 33% of Crossword Scanner's.
Crossword Light ships an update every 3 months, Crossword Scanner every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crossword Light | Crossword Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (54 ratings) — better | 1.3 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 52.7% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Stand Alone, Inc. | Havnør |
Customer experience
Crossword Light
Crossword Scanner
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 Scanner
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Quarterly$4.993 Months
- Yearly$14.991 Year
- Lifetime$29.99
- Enable sharing$39.99
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