Daily Puzzles vs Cryptogram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Daily Puzzles
This app offers a daily selection of six different types of puzzles, including cryptograms, Sudoku, and word searches. Enjoy a variety of topical challenges each day without any ads or timers, focusing purely on the satisfaction of solving.
- Six puzzle types daily
- Cryptogram puzzles
- Sudoku puzzles
- Word search puzzles
- No scores or timers
- Topical daily challenges
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Welcome to Daily Puzzles where you can enjoy six puzzles in one app. Each day at midnight you’ll find, new, often topical puzzles, it's like always having a variety puzzle magazine with you. The design is simple, and, just like a magazine, there aren't scores or timers to worry about - you can focus on the joy of solving the puzzles. Exercise your mind everyday, for free, without ads. See why thousands of people play everyday and why our loyal users have played 80 million puzzles!
Cryptogram
Decrypt famous quotes in this engaging word puzzle game. Solve cryptograms to unlock wisdom, motivation, and inspiration. Features various categories, authors, difficulty levels, and customization options.
- Decrypt famous quotes
- Select categories and authors
- Four difficulty levels
- Save favorite quotes
- Hints available
- Share solved quotes
- Multiple color schemes
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Crack the code. Discover the quote. Cryptogram is a word puzzle game where solving a cipher reveals a quote worth keeping. Each coded letter stands for another letter. Spot patterns, fill the gaps and reveal the quote. FIND YOUR KIND OF CHALLENGE Choose Easy, Normal, Hard or Legendary. Start with more letters revealed or take on a tougher cryptogram. When you need a nudge, use a hint to uncover a letter. A REASON TO SOLVE EVERY DAY Take on the daily puzzle, build your solving streak and earn hints at milestones. Pick up an unfinished puzzle whenever you're ready, then see your solve time and the points you earned. A WORLD OF WORDS TO DISCOVER Explore thousands of quotes across seven languages. Browse themes such as life, love and wisdom, or discover words from authors including Oscar Wilde and William Shakespeare. Return to your recent categories and see your progress as you solve. BUILD A COLLECTION WORTH KEEPING Your solved quotes are saved to your collection. Revisit a discovery, mark a favorite or search for an author or phrase. Look back at your solve time, difficulty, points and hints used. MAKE A QUOTE YOUR OWN Choose a quote style, adjust its appearance and share it as an image. Add a home-screen widget for quotes from your collection. PLAY YOUR WAY Settle into light or dark mode and choose your puzzle font. Solve bundled puzzles offline and revisit your saved collection wherever you are. Online categories, leagues and other connected features need an internet connection. SEVEN LANGUAGES Play in English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Russian or Turkish. If you enjoy word games, secret messages and code-breaking puzzles, there's a quote waiting to be uncovered. Free to play, with ads and optional in-app purchases. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Daily Puzzles at none against Cryptogram's 8. Daily Puzzles also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (98% vs 71%). On price, update cadence 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. Cryptogram sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Daily Puzzles asks for nothing beyond the download.
Daily Puzzles holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Daily Puzzles has 11K ratings behind it against 482, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 98% of Daily Puzzles's written reviews are positive against 71% of Cryptogram's.
Daily Puzzles ships an update every 6 weeks, Cryptogram every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 24, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Daily Puzzles | Cryptogram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (11K ratings) — better | 4.7 (482 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 98.0% of reviews — better | 70.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 11K — better | 482 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 50 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Norman Basham | Berkay Saglam |
Customer experience
Daily Puzzles
Cryptogram
User reviews
Daily Puzzles
From 11K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 No ads or in-app purchases
- 🧠 Mentally rewarding
- 🎨 Variety of puzzles
- 🕰️ Quick daily brain exercise
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sudoku puzzles sometimes unsolvable
- 🔊 Loud ending sounds
- 🌐 Crypto-families too US-centric
Cryptogram
From 482 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and intuitive user interface
- 🎮 Multiple difficulty levels for all skill levels
- 📚 Wide variety of quote categories
- 💰 Minimal ads compared to other apps
- 🧠 Engaging and mentally stimulating gameplay
Room to improve
- 📺 Inappropriate and explicit ads appearing
- 🐛 Ads freezing the app mid-gameplay
- 📊 Data server issues affecting leaderboards
- ⚠️ GDPR compliance and data privacy concerns
- 💳 Payment issues with hint purchases
Bugs and requests
Daily Puzzles
Reported bugs
2 issues- Occasional server connectivity issues
- Compatibility problems with newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- Access to previous days' puzzles
- Ability to track performance/scores
- More puzzle variety and difficulty levels
- Customizable sound options
Cryptogram
Reported bugs
9 issues- Ads freezing application and preventing progress
- Game completion not registering despite solving puzzle
- Hint system providing letters not in cryptogram
- Settings reverting to default after closing app
- Keyboard layout settings not saving properly
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- Hints charging payment without delivering hints
- Progress not syncing across devices
- Leaderboard showing impossible scores suggesting cheating
- Puzzle categories and leaderboards unavailable
Requested features
10 requests- Home screen widget functionality
- Filter and search for favorite quotes
- Ad-free premium version option
- Color-coded cipher letters for pattern recognition
- Landscape mode support for tablets
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- League chat functionality
- Ability to change username
- Legendary mode for competitive battles
- User-submitted quote categories
- Set progression levels for sense of completion
In-app purchases
Daily Puzzles
No in-app purchases
Cryptogram
- Cryptogram Plus$0.991 Month
- Cryptogram Plus$2.991 Month
- Cryptogram Plus$9.991 Year
- 5 Hints$0.99
- 15 Hints$1.99
- 30 Hints$3.99
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- Remove Ads$4.99
- 80 Hints$8.99
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