Comparison

Crossword vs Punderful

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

Head to head
About

Crossword

Enjoy over 750 professional crossword puzzles designed for casual play. This app offers a clean, ad-free experience with features like pinch zooming and landscape mode to enhance your word-solving sessions.

Highlights
  • 750+ professional puzzles
  • 45 free puzzles
  • Pinch zooming grid
  • Landscape mode with clue list
  • Cheats and answer checking
  • No ads
Features
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A brand new crossword puzzle every day, plus 750+ professional puzzles for your coffee break. These are casual level puzzles suitable for all. DAILY PUZZLES A brand new crossword published every day. Build a streak by playing daily, earn coins, and unlock puzzles at your own pace. Four weeks of daily puzzles are available to catch up on. SUBSCRIBE FOR FULL ACCESS Subscribe for unlimited access to every daily puzzle and all archive packs, with no coins needed. Available as monthly, quarterly, or annual plans. 750+ ARCHIVE PUZZLES Fifteen packs of professional crosswords suitable for all levels. Great for a quick coffee break or a longer session. EARN COINS & STREAKS Open the app each day to earn bonus coins. The longer your streak, the bigger the bonus. Spend coins to unlock daily puzzles, or watch a short ad for extra coins whenever you choose. Features: - a brand new crossword every day - daily login bonus with streak rewards - earn coins by playing daily, or watch a short ad for extra coins - unlock puzzles with coins, or subscribe for unlimited access - great for iPads and iPhones - pinch zooming grid - landscape mode with clue list - hints, highlight mistakes and answer checking - Backup and restore If you're looking for US-style grids, why not try our 'Crossword US' apps. The Terms of Use (EULA) can be found here: https://www.teazel.com/crossword_terms/ios_terms_en.html

About

Punderful

Engage in a daily word game where you create puns based on clues. Compete against others on leaderboards and discover creative wordplay. Offers classic, situation, and cryptic modes for varied challenges.

Highlights
  • Daily pun challenges
  • Classic, Situation, and Cryptic modes
  • Timed gameplay
  • Scoring and voting system
  • Private group play
  • Seasonal leaderboards
  • Hall of Fame for best puns
Features
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A daily pun game. Here's how it works. You get a clue with two ideas hiding inside it — take "Cats have feelings too," which holds cats on one side and emotions on the other. Somewhere in the gap between them, a pun is waiting. (Ours would be "I'm feline a little fragile today.") You have three minutes to find yours and type as many as you can before the buzzer. Then the judging. Each pun is scored out of ten: on theme, on context, on whether it lands as a phrase, and on sheer cleverness. Hit only one side and you're capped at five. After that you vote on what everyone else came up with, and the votes decide the day's leaderboard. THREE CLUES, THREE KINDS Classic — two subjects collide. Write puns that land on both at once. Situation — a subject meets a setting. Same job: hit both halves. Cryptic — no writing, no scoring, no waiting for anyone else. One exact answer, typed into a row of blanks, the way a crossword works. The answer sounds like a familiar phrase but means something else entirely: COD ALMIGHTY, say, for "God almighty". The numbers tell you the word lengths, wrong guesses cost you nothing but time, and the moment you get it you know. PLAY WITH PEOPLE YOU KNOW Start a private group, share the six-character code, and you get your own daily leaderboard alongside the public one. Points build into a running season table — including ten for solving the cryptic. HALL OF FAME At midnight the best pun for each clue is crowned and kept. Past Winners holds the ones that earned it. FREE AND PREMIUM Everyone plays all three clues, every day. Premium adds a bonus pun after the buzzer and removes the ads. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Crossword4 screens
Punderful4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Punderful at every 6 days against Crossword's every 5 months. Punderful also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 82%). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Crossword sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Punderful sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crossword ships an update every 5 months, Punderful every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Crossword versus Punderful: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrosswordPunderful
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5.5K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews82.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings5.5K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 6 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB43 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperTeazel4:30 Limited

Customer experience

Crossword

All ratings5,531 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral5.9%
Negative2.0%
Written reviews344 reviews
Positive82.3%
Neutral7.3%
Negative10.5%

Punderful

Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Crossword

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Purchased content not restoring properly on new devices
  • Keyboard not working correctly in some cases

Requested features

3 requests
  • Option to adjust puzzle and clue size
  • Ability to sync progress across devices
  • More free puzzles or a free trial period

Punderful

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

10 purchases

Crossword

Subscriptions1
  • Monthly$1.991 Month
One-time9
  • pack of Crosswords (Pack 1)$0.99
  • pack of Crosswords (Pack 2)$0.99
  • pack of Crosswords (Pack 3)$0.99
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  • pack of Crosswords (Pack 4)$0.99
  • pack of Crosswords (Pack 5)$0.99
  • pack of Crosswords (Pack 6)$0.99
  • pack of Crosswords (Pack 10)$0.99
  • pack (Pack 14 of 50 puzzles)$0.99
  • full set of Crossword packs$3.99
3 purchases

Punderful

Subscriptions3
  • Punderful premium$1.991 Month
  • Punderful premium$7.996 Months
  • Punderful premium$11.991 Year

Questions

Is Crossword free?
Crossword is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Punderful free?
Punderful is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Crossword or Punderful have ads?
Neither Crossword nor Punderful shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Crossword or Punderful?
Crossword ships an update every 5 months, and Punderful every 6 days. Most recently, Crossword was updated on November 13, 2026 and Punderful on November 5, 2026.

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