CryptoQuote vs Countless Calming Cryptograms
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.
Countless Calming Cryptograms
Engage your logic and puzzle-solving skills with this word game. Decipher quotes by substituting letters, offering a relaxing mental workout. Enjoy daily challenges, endless puzzles, and customizable serene landscapes.
- Cryptogram puzzle solving
- Daily and endless game modes
- Hint system with Lotus Points
- Customizable backgrounds and themes
- Offline play capability
- Brain training and logic development
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Enjoy the relaxing puzzle-solving experience of Countless Calming Cryptograms. Cryptograms are simple substitution-code puzzles in which each letter in a quote is substituted for a different, random letter. The object is to use your logic to decipher the code and reveal the hidden quote. Look for common, simple words like 'A', 'I', and 'THE', and decode the puzzle letter by letter. Like crosswords and word searches, cryptograms are excellent word games to train your logic and puzzle-solving skills, and to give your brain a workout to keep it strong. Play the Daily puzzle for your daily inspiration, and share it with your friends! Then play the tens of thousands of word games available in Countless mode, for endless motivation and serenity. Get unlimited hints to make the word games easier! Win Lotus Points as you play, and use them to reveal letters or skip puzzles as you wish. You can always watch an ad to win more Lotus Points without having to solve a puzzle. Or skip the hints altogether if you like a challenge. Take a spa day for your mind. Countless Calming Cryptograms is designed to be a relaxing word game experience, with calming and serene landscapes to enjoy while you solve the nearly endless puzzles. There are tons of customization options available, including beautiful landscape backgrounds, color themes, day/night mode, and gameplay settings. It's easy to change the font size if you prefer it bigger or smaller. You can also play offline, making it easy to play while you're traveling or on the go. Take a break with word games in a beautiful environment, and keep your mind sharp all at once. Keep calm and cryptogram on!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Countless Calming Cryptograms at 100% against CryptoQuote's 33%. Countless Calming Cryptograms also leads on rating (4.9 vs 2.6) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 months). CryptoQuote's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs ad-supported). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and device support 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.
Countless Calming Cryptograms holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 41 and 22 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of CryptoQuote's written reviews are positive against 100% of Countless Calming Cryptograms's.
CryptoQuote ships an update every 3 months, Countless Calming Cryptograms every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on September 3, 2026 and August 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CryptoQuote | Countless Calming Cryptograms |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.6 (41 ratings) | 4.9 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 41 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.3 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Apps From Outer Space, LLC | David Michael Chatelain |
Customer experience
CryptoQuote
Countless Calming Cryptograms
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
Countless Calming Cryptograms
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
CryptoQuote
No in-app purchases
Countless Calming Cryptograms
No in-app purchases
Questions
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