Crostix Pro vs Crostics
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crostix Pro
This app offers a digital library of acrostic puzzles, a word game similar to crosswords where letters from answers form a hidden quote. It provides automatic letter placement and features like hints, scoring, and adjustable font sizes for an engaging puzzle experience.
- Automatic letter placement
- 150+ included puzzles
- In-app puzzle purchases
- Hint system for letters/words
- Scoring based on hints used
- Adjustable font size
- Device rotation support
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Welcome to the world of acrostics! An acrostic, also called a crostic or double crostic, is a cousin of crossword puzzles, with clues and answers whose letters are rearranged to form a quote from a famous (or not-so-famous) author. If you're familiar with acrostics, you will quickly see how convenient they are on the iPhone, because letters are automatically copied to the correct place as you type them in. Crostix, the online library of acrostic puzzles, is now available for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It includes 150 puzzles, from easy to fiendishly hard, and you can buy more puzzles right in the application. The program has all the features you'd expect: - get hints for a single letter or an entire word, - see your score, based on how many hints you needed, - change the font size by pinching, - rotate the device as you like, and - get help on all program options. If you're new to the world of acrostics, the application also includes a short tutorial to get you started.
Crostics
Engaging word puzzles that combine crosswords and quote deciphering. Solve clues to reveal a hidden quote, or use parts of the quote to solve the clues. Enjoy a beautifully designed, ad-free experience with adjustable difficulty.
- Reveal hidden quotes
- Decipher clues using quote
- Unlimited hints
- Undo functionality
- Light and Dark mode
- Help section
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Like word games? Crossword puzzles? Then you’ll love Crostics, the new word game where you reveal a hidden quote by answering clues, and decipher clues by filling in the quote! Letter in the answers are linked to letters in the quote—answer the clues, and you uncover more and more of the quote, or fill in more of the quote to decipher the clues. Beautifully designed for iPhone and iPad, Crostics puts engaging puzzles at your fingertips without the pain of erasing pencil marks from paper. The result is more fun with less distraction. And no ads! Crostics includes a free book of 24 puzzles and you can buy more right in the app. There are a wide range of difficultly levels, so whether you’re a beginner or a seasoned player you’ll find a good challenge to stretch your brain! If you like word games, you’re going to love Crostics! Features - Unlimited hints - Undo - Play in portrait (and in landscape on iPad) - Play in Light or Dark mode - Learn how to play with the included help
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Crostics at Free against Crostix Pro's $4.99. Crostics also leads on ratings volume (628 vs 53) and review sentiment (96% vs 87%). Crostix Pro's advantage is chart position (#105 vs unranked). On rating, 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
Crostics is free to download; Crostix Pro costs $4.99 up front. Crostix Pro sells 14 one-off in-app purchases and Crostics sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Crostix Pro against 4.8 for Crostics. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crostics has 628 ratings behind it against 53, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 87% of Crostix Pro's written reviews are positive against 96% of Crostics's.
Crostix Pro ships an update every 4 months, Crostics every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crostix Pro | Crostics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (53 ratings) | 4.8 (628 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 96.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 | 628 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #105 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Mountford | John Blackburn |
Customer experience
Crostix Pro
Crostics
User reviews
Crostix Pro
From 53 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great game/app
- 💡 Challenging puzzles
- 👍 Fun to complete
- 💡 Good variety of puzzles
- 👍 Easy to use interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes
- 🐛 Puzzles not opening
- 🐛 In-app purchases not working
- 🐛 Data waiting errors
- 🐛 Lost progress after reinstall
Crostics
From 628 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Clean, intuitive, and modern interface
- 🎮 Fun and engaging gameplay mechanics
- 💡 Custom keyboard for faster input
- 🔇 Minimal, delightful sound effects
- ⭐ High-quality puzzle content
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional freezing and resizing issues
- 😴 Repetitive content across 100 levels
- ⚠️ Very easy difficulty level
- 📏 Shorter puzzles than traditional magazines
- 🔤 Unclear multi-word answer formatting
Bugs and requests
Crostix Pro
Reported bugs
13 issues- Library is gone, no record of puzzles
- App not working with latest iOS
- In-app purchases do not all work
- Books 10 & 11 will not open
- AppStore shows purchased but app says waiting for data
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- App crashes
- In-app purchase feature does not work
- Paid for book, charged again after update
- Completed puzzles show blank after update
- App is waiting for data
- Misspelling in puzzle quote
- Cannot buy Book 5
- App only checks for new puzzles every 30 days
Requested features
10 requests- Add more puzzles
- Add free starting letters
- Add ability to skip filled squares
- Add display for first letters of clue answers
- Add score tracking
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- Add more challenging puzzles
- Add more US-centric puzzles
- Add more religious references
- Add dark mode
- Add puzzle title in top bar
Crostics
Reported bugs
3 issues- App freezes occasionally
- Unexpected resizing of interface elements
- Delete function requires multiple presses (workaround: long press available)
Requested features
11 requests- More puzzle books and content
- Word count indicators in clues (e.g., '2 words', '3 words')
- Spaces in clues for multi-word answers
- Author attribution guessing feature
- Ability to view solved puzzles after completion
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- Toggle option to disable correct answer notifications
- Automatic dark/light mode switching
- First letters of clues spelling author names
- More challenging and scholarly clues
- Bulk delete function for clue answers
- Lower pricing for puzzle packs
In-app purchases
Crostix Pro
- Crostix Book Thirteen$0.99
- Crostix Book Twelve$0.99
- HeadLines$1.99
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- Crostix Book Four$1.99
- Guest Author: Gordon Frakes$1.99
- Crostix Book Five$1.99
- Crostix Book Six$1.99
- Crostix Book Seven$1.99
- Guest Author: Gordon Frakes 2$1.99
- Crostix Book Eight$1.99
- Crostix Book Nine$1.99
- Crostix Book Ten$1.99
- Crostix Book Eleven$1.99
- The Golden Treasury$1.99
Crostics
- 1 Book7 variants$1.99
- 2 Books3 variants$3.99
- 4 Books2 variants$5.99
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- 8 Books$9.99
Questions
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