Crossword Solver Silver vs CrossWords 10
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Crossword Solver Silver
This app helps you solve challenging crossword puzzles quickly and easily. Enter known letters to instantly find solutions from an extensive word database. Perfect for when you need a little help with difficult crosswords.
- Solve puzzles quickly
- Enter known letters for solutions
- Instant results
- Access over 280,000 words
- Multiple word sets (Standard, Expanded, Jargon, Names)
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Solve the toughest crossword puzzles FAST and EASILY on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch now with Crossword Solver! Do you enjoy playing those challenging crossword puzzles online and in our daily newspapers, but after you've given it your best and still can't find the answer don't you wish you had a little help? Now you do! Just enter the known letters in to the text box and press Solve Crossword. That's it... within seconds the solution is presented in the results text box! Select from our Standard, Expanded, Jargon, and Names word sets... giving you instant access to over 280,000 words at your fingertips!
CrossWords 10
A light and educational crossword puzzle game with a variety of subjects and difficulty levels. Enjoy a relaxing soundtrack and offline play, with options to purchase an ad-free experience.
- Multiple difficulty levels (Easy, Medium, Hard)
- Assorted subjects for learning
- Offline play available
- Help options (highlight wrong letters, reveal words)
- Relaxing soundtrack
- 10x10 boards
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Enjoy your free time learning new words! Cross Words 10 is like this: • Light and practical: occupies little space on your phone; • Smart: selected words that will increase your knowledge; • Challenging: by difficulty level: Easy, Medium, Hard; • Help options: allows you to highlight wrong letters, filter the keyboard, or reveal words; • Relaxing: listen to the soundtrack while you play; • Fast evolution: 10x10 boards, small not to get bored; • Minimalist keyboard: only the necessary keys; • Assorted subjects: general knowledge, animals, geography, history, politics, music, philosophy, astronomy, famous artists, sports, languages, cuisine, curiosities, technology and others; • Educational: for children, teens or adults; • Always available: does not depend on internet access. This is the free version, but all levels are available (375 levels, 4,500 terms). You can also play the game without ads and without error limits by purchasing the full version (Crosswords 10 Pro). Invite your friends and family to this challenge!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: CrossWords 10 at 88% against Crossword Solver Silver's 33%. CrossWords 10 also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.5) and monetization model (ad-supported vs paid). Crossword Solver Silver's advantage is ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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.
CrossWords 10 holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CrossWords 10 has 85 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Crossword Solver Silver's written reviews are positive against 88% of CrossWords 10's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Crossword Solver Silver | CrossWords 10 |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (11 ratings) | 4.7 (85 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.0% of reviews | 87.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 | 85 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 12.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Procypher Software Co. | Deschamps Aplicativos de Software Ltda |
Customer experience
Crossword Solver Silver
CrossWords 10
Bugs and requests
Crossword Solver Silver
Reported bugs
35 issues- App closes when checking second word
- Does not work in portrait orientation
- SOLVE button behind camera on iPhone
- App closes after using 'look up' facility
- Display issues on iPhone 11 screen notch
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- Switch to landscape from portrait is poor
- 'Look up' facility loses app functionality
- Ads across input space, won't go away
- No keyboard
- Ads cause app to lock up
- Partially blank screen after update
- White square on screen, cannot type
- Freezes if not connected to internet
- Ads obliterate top section, nowhere to type
- Keyboard disappears after closing ad
- Keyboard does not pop up
- Ads pop up over whole screen
- Keyboard disappears without trace
- App freezes after closing ad apps
- Keyboard does not appear after closing ad
- Ads intrude to the point of making it unusable
- Ads gone balmy, can't clear screen
- Keyboard doesn't appear, ads annoying
- Ads pop up then keyboard is lost
- Ads screw up keyboard access
- Keyboard does not appear, useless
- Cannot type in a '?', iPad keyboard issue
- Cannot rotate or deselect text entry box
- App won't work after OS upgrade
- Lite version won't do anything without purchase
- Stumped by simple words or swamps with useless words
- Doesn't do anything, interactive with keyboard
- Cannot see crossword, no help
- Doesn't solve anything
- Expired after short trial, asked to buy full version
Requested features
7 requests- Add missing words to dictionary
- Option to pay for ad-free version
- Add '?' to letter keyboard
- Ability to explore multiple words
- Add clue input functionality
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- Fix cursor placement for '?'
- Fix iOS dictionary integration
CrossWords 10
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Crossword Solver Silver
No in-app purchases
CrossWords 10
No in-app purchases
Questions
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