CryptoQuote vs CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CryptoQuote
Decode encrypted quotes where each letter is replaced by another. Solve puzzles at your own pace or compete in daily challenges. Features include a custom keyboard, letter frequency tools, and the ability to create your own puzzles.
- Over 2000 quotes
- Daily Challenge Puzzle
- Custom keyboard
- Letter frequency tool
- Create your own puzzle
- Share puzzles
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If you love it in the newspaper, you’ll love it even more in a format you can access any place, any time. In this popular game, each letter is replaced with a different one. Your challenge is to decode the puzzle and figure out the quote. You can work at your own pace or compete against other players in a Daily Speed Challenge. CryptoQuote will show you conflicts such as attempting to use the same solution letter twice. Features: * More than 2000 carefully selected quotes, plus a new Daily Challenge Puzzle each day * Custom keyboard to see the entire puzzle * Share puzzles or quotes with others * Quote of the Day widget * Create your own puzzle or enter one from a newspaper * Letter frequency tool * Word search tool * Physical keyboard support Great if you like: Sudoku, Crossword puzzles, word search, cipher, encryption, code solving and decoding.
CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM
A unique word game blending crossword and cryptogram puzzles. Solve puzzles with no clues, revealing parts of the solution as you progress through increasing difficulty levels. Hints are available to assist with challenging stages.
- Crossword and cryptogram puzzle blend
- Three difficulty modes (Easy, Medium, Hard)
- Progressive difficulty with level-ups
- Partial solution exposure per level
- Five hints per level
- Challenging word puzzle gameplay
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Crossword Cryptogram is a unique word game, that combines elements of crossword and cryptogram word puzzles. You are given a crossword with no clues, The challenge is to complete the puzzle with a cryptogramesque gameplay. Three Difficulty modes. (Easy, Medium, Hard), The early levels of the Easy category will get you up to speed with the gameplay. Each Level exposes part of the solution. The higher the level the less exposed solution. Incrementing difficulty as you level up! Easy - 50% to 75% of correct letters exposed. Medium - 25% to 49% of correct letters exposed. Hard - 0% to 24% of correct letters exposed. To help you complete the most difficult levels, five hints are provided for each level. Use Hints wisely, Each hint will expose a wrong letter placement or notify you that all letter placements are correct. This is a very challenging word puzzle game. A real workout for your gray matter.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM at 89% against CryptoQuote's 33%. CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM also leads on rating (4.6 vs 2.6) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 15.3). CryptoQuote's advantage is ratings volume (41 vs 9). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 41 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of CryptoQuote's written reviews are positive against 89% of CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM's.
CryptoQuote ships an update every 3 months, CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and September 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CryptoQuote | CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (41 ratings) | 4.6 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.0% of reviews | 89.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.3 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Apps From Outer Space, LLC | ROBERTO MANONGDO |
Customer experience
CryptoQuote
CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM
Bugs and requests
CryptoQuote
Reported bugs
27 issues- Keyboard does not fit screen
- Daily challenge button is grayed out or inaccessible
- App crashes upon opening or during gameplay
- Unable to see time vs. others in daily challenge
- Game freezes on a blank screen
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- Interface is wonky and doesn't fit screen
- Letters are squeezed together, keyboard too tiny
- Saved puzzles are gone after updates
- App reads clipboard content on startup
- Stuck on a level, keeps returning to the same one
- Sound cuts out during ads and puzzle transitions
- Letters don't get replaced correctly
- App crashes when trying to play new puzzle
- Custom puzzle feature does not work on iPad
- Letters are huge and screen won't turn
- Daily Time Challenge is unreliable (no puzzles, already completed message)
- Spelling/grammatical errors and weird symbols
- App locks up after completing daily challenge on newer iPhones
- Interface is clunky
- Keyboard lags badly during challenges
- Leaderboard scores seem impossible (cheating)
- Custom puzzle input screen is unusable (stuck, no solve button)
- Game freezes on a blank screen
- Constant crashes after updates
- Surnames of quoted individuals are cut off
- App no longer works after OS updates
- Lost purchased version after OS update, now has ads
Requested features
13 requests- Fix keyboard display issues
- Ensure daily challenge is always accessible and functional
- Restore ability to input puzzles from newspapers
- Add more quotes/puzzles
- Improve typography and interface aesthetics
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- Add dark mode
- Allow disabling spelling corrector
- Add OCR for newspaper cryptograms
- Add frequency table and dictionary search (like Mac version)
- Add an 'expert' level
- More variety of quote topics
- Fix sound cutting out during ads/transitions
- Allow giving up on daily puzzle to see solution
CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CryptoQuote
No in-app purchases
CROSSWORD CRYPTOGRAM
No in-app purchases
Questions
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