Comparison

Devarai Crosswords vs Barred Crossword

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

Head to head
About

Devarai Crosswords

Enjoy a wide variety of high-quality American crosswords on your mobile device. This app offers puzzles ranging from easy to difficult, with features designed for a smooth and engaging experience. Improve your vocabulary, concentration, and general knowledge with daily challenges.

Highlights
  • Weekly puzzles in multiple languages
  • Full-screen puzzle view
  • Landscape and portrait mode
  • Easy clue toggling
  • Pen/pencil writing modes
  • Immediate error highlighting
  • Hint system
Features
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“Great game. Excellent.” “Love this crossword” “I have several crossword puzzle apps, but this is the one I use the most often. Easy to navigate, interesting puzzles that rank from easy/moderate to slightly difficult." Crossword-friends behold: With the new crossword puzzles app, it will be hard to be bored! Our crosswords to go, wherever you go. Play many high quality crosswords anytime anywhere on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod! This app is easy to use and is a lot of fun. By playing crosswords you can not only improve your general education and also practice vocabulary skills and learn to concentrate even better. Main features: - Weekly puzzles in many languages - Hide keyboard for a full screen puzzle view - Landscape and portrait mode support - One click toggle between across and down clues - Write in ‘pen’ or ‘pencil’ - Errors are immediately highlighted in red - Option to skip completed squares - Automatically jump to the next clue if a word is finished - Receive hints - Pinch grid to zoom in and out - High scores - Puzzle rating system - Player comments … and much more!

About

Barred Crossword

This app offers an unlimited supply of automatically generated crosswords with customizable grids and difficulty. It supports multiple languages and features aids to help you solve puzzles, making it ideal for crossword enthusiasts.

Highlights
  • Unlimited auto-generated crosswords
  • Configurable grid size and difficulty
  • Multiple crossword grid types (Barred, British, Arrow)
  • Thousands of clues
  • Multi-language support
  • Zoom and pan grid functionality
  • Save and reload games
Features
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Barred crosswords are similar to traditional crosswords, but they use black lines instead of black squares to separate the words. Advantages of barred crosswords are: • More words in the grid • Larger number of cross-overs for the words • You do not lose half the screen with black squares Other features include: • Each new game is created by the app automatically. Therefore you can play an unlimited number of crosswords!! • Very configurable game generator. You decide the grid size, difficulty and many other things • Many 1000's of clues • You can choose from three different types of crossword grid: British, Barred and Arrow • Generate crosswords tailored to your interests, ability, nationality and device size • You can zoom in & out of the grid, and move around. Play with large grids on small screens! • Ability to save games and reload games. Play many games at once, just like a crossword book! • Many aids to help you complete the crossword • Play crosswords in these languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian Also known as compact crosswords and word maze.

Screenshots

Devarai Crosswords4 screens
Barred Crossword4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Devarai Crosswords at none against Barred Crossword's shown. Devarai Crosswords also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (148 vs 21). On price, rating, review sentiment and in-app purchases 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. Devarai Crosswords sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Barred Crossword sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Barred Crossword holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Devarai Crosswords has 148 ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 59% of Devarai Crosswords's written reviews are positive against 58% of Barred Crossword's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Devarai Crosswords ships an update every 3 weeks, Barred Crossword every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Devarai Crosswords versus Barred Crossword: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDevarai CrosswordsBarred Crossword
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (148 ratings)4.2 (21 ratings) — better
Positive reviews59.3% of reviews — better57.9% of reviews
Number of ratings148 — better21
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB99 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperDevaraiHavos

Customer experience

Devarai Crosswords

All ratings148 ratings
Positive73.6%
Neutral14.9%
Negative11.5%
Written reviews113 reviews
Positive59.3%
Neutral15.9%
Negative24.8%

Barred Crossword

All ratings20 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive57.9%
Neutral10.5%
Negative31.6%

Bugs and requests

Devarai Crosswords

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes frequently
  • Unresponsive on iPad
  • Puzzle progress not saved
  • Compatibility issues with updates

Requested features

4 requests
  • More free puzzles/coins
  • Ability to type full words
  • Daily/more frequent puzzles
  • Improved clue quality

Barred Crossword

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Devarai Crosswords

One-time9
  • 30 coins pack$0.99
  • Unlock English Puzzles2 variants$2.99
  • Unlock German Puzzles$2.99
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  • Unlock Spanish Puzzles$2.99
  • Unlock Spanish puzzles$2.99
  • 240 coins pack$4.99
  • 600 coins pack$9.99
  • 1800 coins pack$24.99
  • 8000 coins pack$99.99
1 purchases

Barred Crossword

Subscriptions1
  • Supporter (no ads)$4.991 Year

Questions

Is Devarai Crosswords free?
Devarai Crosswords is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Barred Crossword free?
Barred Crossword is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Devarai Crosswords or Barred Crossword?
Barred Crossword is rated higher. Devarai Crosswords averages 4.0 out of 5 from 148 ratings, while Barred Crossword averages 4.2 from 21 ratings.
Do Devarai Crosswords or Barred Crossword have ads?
Barred Crossword shows ads; Devarai Crosswords does not.
Which is updated more often, Devarai Crosswords or Barred Crossword?
Devarai Crosswords ships an update every 3 weeks, and Barred Crossword every 3 months. Most recently, Devarai Crosswords was updated on October 23, 2026 and Barred Crossword on October 24, 2026.

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