Advanced Crossword Solver vs Digi
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Advanced Crossword Solver
This app assists in solving complex cryptic crosswords and word puzzles. It offers advanced search functionalities beyond simple pattern matching, including anagrams, wildcards, and partial anagrams, utilizing a large database of words and phrases.
- Advanced pattern matching with regular expressions
- Combined pattern and anagram searches
- Wildcard and partial anagram solving
- Subset anagrams for longest word generation
- Search with multiple letter possibilities
- Vowel/consonant symbol searches
- Find near-miss words
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"...anyone grappling with the sort of evil cryptics with no black squares will appreciate its power." - The Sunday Times The Advanced Crossword Solver is a combination of a powerful regular expression-style word matcher and a user-customisable database of nearly 300,000 words and phrases. It is specifically designed to help with solving advanced thematic crosswords such as The Times’ Listener and The Sunday Telegraph’s Enigmatic Variations, but is also useful for word games such as Scrabble and Boggle, and indeed for any other word puzzles or games, for logic problems and as an aid to crossword setting. Unlike most crossword solving programs, this is far more than a simple pattern matcher for unknown letters. It can be used as a pattern matcher, and can solve simple anagrams, but in addition, some of its more powerful features include: • search for a combined pattern and anagram, when you know the answer is an anagram, and you also know where some of the letters are. • search with wildcards, when you know that an answer includes a particular letter or string of letters, but not where in the word they are. • solve partial anagrams, when you know that some of the letters of an answer are an anagram, but other letters are unknown. • solve subset anagrams, when you want to find the longest word you can make from a given set of letters. • search with multiple possibilities for letters, when you know a letter is one of a few possibilities, but not which one it is. • search with letter variables, when you know that several letters are the same, but not which letter it is. • search with vowel and consonant symbols, when you know that a letter is either a vowel or a consonant, but not which letter it is. • search for all the words which are one misprinted letter away from another word. • search for words which match a given pattern but which have one or more misprinted letters. • search for pairs of words (across and down) which cross at an unknown letter. Using the simple input syntax, complex combinations of the above can be searched to quickly narrow down to a solution. Even the most complex search takes no more than a few seconds, and results are clearly presented in a scrollable list. Tapping on a result from the solver shows a menu which allows the result to be looked up in a choice of iPhone dictionary and thesaurus applications, including Chambers and WordWeb, or online. This menu can be customised to add your own choice of applications and websites. (Note that in order to link to a dictionary, it must offer a URL that can be used by other apps - check with the publisher of your chosen dictionary that this is the case.) The word list used by the Solver is a combination of the UK Advanced Cryptics Dictionary (UKACD) and the Enhanced North American Benchmark LExicon (ENABLE). The UKACD is compiled by a crossword puzzle enthusiast from the words and phrases that are found in typical British advanced cryptic puzzles. ENABLE is an authoritative list of Scrabble words valid in both US and UK games. Between the two lists, the program searches a database of over 298,000 words and phrases. The word list used by the solver is stored as plain text files, and the files can be accessed via iTunes to allow them to be customised to your own requirements - words can be added or removed, or the entire word list can be replaced if desired. In addition, the symbols used to denote the input syntax can also be changed, making the entire operation of the solver customisable to your own requirements. If your taste in puzzles extends to the truly challenging, this is the application for you.
Digi
This app enables remote wireless Bluetooth connectivity to precision digital leveling devices. It allows for simultaneous 2-axis leveling, angle measurement, and 2D alignment, facilitating efficient one-person operation for machine installation.
- Remote wireless Bluetooth connectivity
- 2-Axis simultaneous leveling
- Angle measurement
- 2D concurrent alignment
- One-man operation
- Compatible with specific Digi-Pas devices
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Digi-Pas® Mobile App is a user-friendly app, easily installed in any compatible smartphones or tablets. Users can fully utilize the remote wireless Bluetooth mobile connectivity to various Digi-Pas® 2-axis precision digital levelling devices. This highly affordable app instantly empowers machine installers to perform remote 2-Axis simultaneous levelling task, angle measurement and 2D concurrent alignment activities with speed, precision and as a 'one-man-operation' that traditional single-axis digital or 'bubble' levels are unable to match. Compatible devices: -DWL8500XY 2-Axis Ultra Precision Digital Inclinometer Bluetooth Device (With Firmware version 3.4 and above!) -DWL3500XY 2-Axis High Precision Digital Machinist Level Bluetooth Device (With Firmware version 4.0 and above!) -DWL3000XY 2-Axis High Precision Digital Machinist Level Bluetooth Device (With Firmware version 4.0 and above!)
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Digi at Free against Advanced Crossword Solver's $4.99. Digi also leads on update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (80% vs 65%). Advanced Crossword Solver's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 3.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ratings volume, ads 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
Digi is free to download; Advanced Crossword Solver costs $4.99 up front. Digi sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Advanced Crossword Solver asks for nothing beyond the download.
Advanced Crossword Solver holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 65% of Advanced Crossword Solver's written reviews are positive against 80% of Digi's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Advanced Crossword Solver ships an update every 6 months, Digi every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 25, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Advanced Crossword Solver | Digi |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 64.7% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 8.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 325 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | KuDaTa Software | JSB Tech |
Customer experience
Advanced Crossword Solver
Digi
In-app purchases
Advanced Crossword Solver
No in-app purchases
Digi
- Full Features$24.99
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