Comparison

Across Crossword Trainer vs wurdweb

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Across Crossword Trainer

Learn to solve US-style English crosswords with this expertly designed app. It offers a collection of 75 specially crafted puzzles with learning notes to improve your skills, progressing from easy to advanced levels. Tackle published crosswords with confidence after completing the included challenges.

Highlights
  • Learn crossword solving techniques
  • 75 professionally constructed crosswords
  • Learning notes for each puzzle
  • Progression from easy to advanced levels
  • Unique interface like a printed crossword
  • Automated help for scanning and selecting clues
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Would you like to learn how to solve crosswords like an expert? This app is what you need. If you are frustrated with not being able to solve US-style English crosswords from respected newspapers and perhaps even doubting your ability, now there is an app for that. Join the thousands of people that have used this app to improve their skills enough to be able to solve published crosswords that they once thought were beyond their abilities. Exquisitely designed for the iPad by the creators of Across Lite, the most widely used crossword solver software since 1995, this crossword skill building kit will help you improve your skills considerably. Not with boring study material or tests - just by solving specially created crosswords. What it is: - The most enjoyable and sophisticated crossword solver ever built - An included collection of 75 crosswords professionally constructed to teach how to solve crosswords with learning notes for each crossword What it is NOT: - Crossword solver for Across Lite crosswords available on the web. Install our Across Lite Crosswords app from the store for this. Using a unique interface that looks like a printed crossword, the app lets you focus on improving your skills even if you have never used a crossword app before. Crossword solving skills are a combination of ability, technique and practice. The automated help in scanning and selecting clues to solve that captures techniques from expert solvers will help you incorporate those techniques into your solving. The carefully and professionally constructed 75 crosswords included in the kit take you through a progression of easy, medium and transitional levels, with increasing levels of word play and themes while familiarizing you with some of the oft-repeated crossword "cliches" that makes solving harder puzzles easier. Brief notes for each crossword provide learning points. You should be ready to tackle most reputable crosswords by the time you finish the included crosswords. If you need additional crosswords for practice, you can purchase more crosswords from renowned authors from inside the app. We hope you enjoy this lovingly-crafted app as much as we have enjoyed building it.

About

wurdweb

Engage in word puzzles with a relaxed atmosphere. Connect words from a list to form a web on the board, aiming to reach a finish tile or maximize word placement. Offers infinite unique puzzles, daily challenges, and custom puzzle creation.

Highlights
  • Infinite unique puzzles
  • Daily, Weekly, Monthly Puzzles
  • Custom puzzle creation
  • Controller support
  • Leaderboards
  • Multiple languages
Features
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Word puzzles with Sunday morning vibes. Grab words from a list and cross them with words on the board. Puzzle your way towards a Finish Tile, put down enough words, or put down as many words as you can! In this game, you'll find: • Infinite unique puzzles, generated by an intelligent algorithm. • Challenges, to let you try different play styles. • Daily, Weekly and Monthly Puzzles, where you put down as many words as you can! • Numbered Puzzles, a sequence of slightly harder puzzles. On top of that, you'll also find: • Cute little characters who walk around in your puzzles doing absolutely nothing. • Leaderboards for Daily, Weekly and Monthly Puzzles, for when you feel competitive. • Make Your Own Puzzle, where you get to pick the type of puzzle, the theme, and the optional variation. • Play with controllers compatible with your device. wurdweb can generate puzzles in the following languages: • Dutch • English (U.K.) • English (U.S.) • French (Canada) • French (France) • German • Italian • Portuguese (Brazil) • Russian • Spanish (Latin America) • Turkish • Swedish • Polish On top of the languages above, the interface (but not the puzzles!) is also available in the following languages: • Japanese • Arabic • Chinese (Simplified) • Chinese (Traditional) • Korean wurdweb is designed by Aran Koning and Adriaan de Jongh, two game designers and friends from the Netherlands.

Screenshots

wurdweb4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: wurdweb at none against Across Crossword Trainer's 6. wurdweb also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7) and price ($3.99 vs $6.99). On ratings volume, ads 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Across Crossword Trainer costs $6.99 and wurdweb $3.99 up front. Across Crossword Trainer sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. wurdweb asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

wurdweb holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 130 and 61 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Across Crossword Trainer versus wurdweb: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAcross Crossword Trainerwurdweb
Price$6.99$3.99 — better
Rating4.7 (130 ratings)5.0 (61 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings130 — better61
Update frequencyEvery 2 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#15 — better
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB220 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLiterate SoftwareAdriaan de Jongh

Bugs and requests

Across Crossword Trainer

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Split keyboard letter input is unreliable and requires excessive tapping
  • Letters on left side of screen don't always respond to first tap
  • App occasionally jumps to other squares unexpectedly
  • Accidental letter taps count as errors against user
  • Inconsistent tap detection requiring edge-of-key tapping

Requested features

6 requests
  • More puzzles and expanded content library
  • In-game dictionary or definition lookup for educational value
  • Traditional keyboard option for letter entry
  • Horizontal puzzle orientation support
  • Better international/non-American clue options
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  • Improved letter entry responsiveness and accuracy

wurdweb

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Across Crossword Trainer

One-time6
  • Gaffney's Mini Puzzles$0.99
  • Beguiling Bogglers$0.99
  • Confounding Challenges$0.99
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  • Crosswords You Can Finish$2.99
  • Gaffney's Minis Practice Pack$2.99
  • Jonesin' Omnibus$2.99
None

wurdweb

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Across Crossword Trainer free?
Across Crossword Trainer costs $6.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is wurdweb free?
wurdweb costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Across Crossword Trainer or wurdweb?
wurdweb is rated higher. Across Crossword Trainer averages 4.7 out of 5 from 130 ratings, while wurdweb averages 5.0 from 61 ratings.
Do Across Crossword Trainer or wurdweb have ads?
Neither Across Crossword Trainer nor wurdweb shows ads.

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