CrosswordMaker vs Mathematical Playground Lite
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CrosswordMaker
Design custom crossword puzzles with a flexible grid and cell coloring options. Edit clues in a dedicated view and share your creations with friends via email.
- Create crossword puzzles
- Random grid generation
- Cell coloring customization
- Dedicated clue editor
- Share puzzles via email
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You can create crossword puzzles freely. Place characters after the app makes grid randomly. If you can not come up with good word, you can change the color of cells. Clues are edited on another dedicated view. If you finish up a puzzle, you can send it to your friends by e-mail.
Mathematical Playground Lite
Explore three-dimensional shapes with this educational application. It aids in understanding and visualizing complex geometric forms, offering tools to manipulate and study them. This lite version provides access to all shapes and core functionalities.
- Explore 3D shapes
- Visualize geometric forms
- Cut and expand shapes
- Receive shape data from full version
- All shapes available
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This is an educational app that is useful for exploring three dimensional shapes. Have you ever had difficulty drawing three dimensional shapes? This app may help you study about shapes. Since this app is the lite version, less features are available than the full-version. But all shapes are available. And you can cut, expand shapes, and also receive shape data from the full-version of this app. --- This app runs on… [iPhone] iPhone 4s or newer. [iPad] iPad 2, iPad 3rd generation or newer, iPad mini series, iPad Air series, iPad Pro series. [iPod touch] iPod touch (5th generation or newer). [OS] iOS12.0 or elder.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mathematical Playground Lite at 4.0 against CrosswordMaker's 1.3. Mathematical Playground Lite also leads on ads (none vs shown) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). CrosswordMaker's advantage is ratings volume (11 vs 3). On price, in-app purchases, 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mathematical Playground Lite holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 1.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 11 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 24% of CrosswordMaker's written reviews are positive against 41% of Mathematical Playground Lite's.
CrosswordMaker ships an update every 5 months, Mathematical Playground Lite every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CrosswordMaker | Mathematical Playground Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.3 (11 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 24.0% of reviews | 40.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 11 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Satoshi Horiguchi | Jun Nakashima |
Customer experience
CrosswordMaker
Mathematical Playground Lite
In-app purchases
CrosswordMaker
No in-app purchases
Mathematical Playground Lite
No in-app purchases
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