Crostix Pro vs Qualuff Puzzles
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.
Qualuff Puzzles
Engage your mind with a collection of acrostic puzzles designed to test trivia and vocabulary. Solve clues and a linked quote, with the option to create and share your own puzzles. Enjoy a digital twist on word puzzles, perfect for brain exercise.
- Acrostic puzzles
- Trivia and vocabulary challenges
- Quote solving
- Create and share custom puzzles
- Digital convenience (check answers, get help, undo)
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Challenge your vocabulary, test your trivia knowledge, and uncover hidden quotes with Qualuff Puzzles—an acrostic puzzle experience designed for real word lovers. Solve clever clues to reveal letters in a quotation, bouncing back and forth between clues and the larger quote until the full text is unraveled. Why You'll Love Qualuff Puzzles: -100% Pure Gameplay: No ads, no timers, and no in-app purchases—ever. -300+ Handcrafted Puzzles: Hours of offline, brain-teasing content in English. -Crostics & Acrostics: Play standard quote-reveal puzzles or tackle traditional acrostics where the first letters of each answer spell out the source. -Earn Rewards: Complete puzzles to unlock unique profile titles and custom designs. -Built-in Puzzle Builder: Create your own custom puzzles with an intuitive, guided creator, then play and test them yourself. Whether you are looking to unwind or give your brain a serious workout, Qualuff Puzzles offers a clean, distraction-free puzzle experience.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Qualuff Puzzles at none against Crostix Pro's 14. Qualuff Puzzles also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 4 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Crostix Pro's advantage is ratings volume (53 vs 2) and chart position (#103 vs unranked). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Crostix Pro costs $4.99 and Qualuff Puzzles $3.99 up front. Crostix Pro sells 14 one-off in-app purchases. Qualuff Puzzles asks for nothing beyond the download.
Qualuff Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Crostix Pro has 53 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 87% of Crostix Pro's written reviews are positive against 89% of Qualuff Puzzles's.
Crostix Pro ships an update every 4 months, Qualuff Puzzles every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crostix Pro | Qualuff Puzzles |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $3.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.7 (53 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 87.1% of reviews | 88.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 53 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #103 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 16.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Brian Mountford | Eric Phillips |
Customer experience
Crostix Pro
Qualuff Puzzles
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
Qualuff Puzzles
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Qualuff Puzzles
No in-app purchases
Questions
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