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Crossword Solver vs Crossword Solver King

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

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About

Crossword Solver

Solve challenging English crosswords and word games with this comprehensive helper. It uses your known letters to suggest answers and includes extensive databases of proper nouns, synonyms, and foreign words. Features multiple solving modes and filters to narrow down possibilities.

Highlights
  • Extensive proper noun database
  • Filters for narrowing answers
  • Multiple solving modes (crosswords, anagrams, etc.)
  • Solves two-word answers
  • Downloadable dictionaries for 36 languages
  • Offline functionality
Features
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This app will help you solve English crosswords and other similar word games. The application uses the letters you already know to find a list of possible answers. It has many advantages compared to similar applications: 1) Contains many thousands of Proper Nouns, including full names, professions, nationality, date of birth and death for about 60,000 famous people, plus around 26,000 places, i.e. countries, cities, rivers, mountains etc. It also knows the names and other data of 90,000 popular movies, books, comics, bands, songs, albums, works of art, deities and fictional characters. These proper nouns are essential for solving general knowledge clues, which can make up to 20-25% of crossword clues. These clues are the type that you either know them or you don't, i.e. difficult to just guess, so if you do not know a particular person you are usually stuck 2) Provides filters to reduce the list of possible answers. This is essential when only a few letters are known. For example, you can filter out rarely used words. 3) Choose the language of the word list, from a large range of downloadable dictionaries. 36 languages are currently available (see below) 4) Contains 5 different modes for help solving Crosswords, Anagrams, Synonyms, Codewords and Cryptic Crosswords. Codeword mode allows the user to specify which letters are already known (and hence not considered for the unknown letters), and which unknown letters are the same (i.e have the same Codeword number). Cryptic mode contains extra help with many examples 5) Solves "two word" answers. This is very useful in combination with first and last names of famous people. It also finds "two word" anagrams 6) View answers in multiple columns. Optimized use of screen space. Takes full advantage of size of tablet 7) Can be played in portrait or landscape mode. Just rotate your device and the display adjusts automatically 8) The dictionary also contains some foreign language words. These are often found in some crosswords. Foreign words are English, French, German, Spanish, Italian and Latin 9) Contains about 150,000 synonyms, using the built-in thesaurus, to help find the solution from the clue. All of these features are available without an internet connection, and are rarely found in similar applications. Other features unique to this app: - Lightning fast search engine. No search button needed as possible matches are displayed instantly as you type - Comprehensive list of 300,000+ normal words, split into common and rare lists to help you find the right match - View detailed word definition of the possible answers (internet connection required) - Link to the wiki page for famous people, places, films, books etc. (internet connection required) - App can be downloaded onto an SD card The following dictionaries are supported: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Croatian, Greek, Indonesian, Romanian, Serbian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovak, Slovene, Turkish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans, Albanian, Azeri, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Catalan, Galician, Tagalog

About

Crossword Solver King

This app assists with various word games and puzzles by providing powerful word-finding and solving tools. It helps users find words for crosswords, Scrabble, Wordle, and more with a vast database and advanced search filters.

Highlights
  • Find words with missing letters
  • Solve anagrams
  • Crossword clue solver
  • Wordle helper
  • Scrabble and blank tile solver
  • Built-in dictionary with definitions
Features
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FEATURES • Search over 500,000 words, phrases and synonyms • Enter crossword clues to search the built-in thesaurus • Find words with missing letters • Solves anagrams and codewords • Powerful filters to refine your searches • Built-in dictionary, look up over 100,000 definitions CROSSWORDS Use ? (press space) to represent a missing letter, try c????w??? to find clockwork and crossword CROSSWORD CLUES Use the built in thesaurus to find related words, try condiment to find ketchup, mustard, wasabi... CROSSWORD PHRASES Search over 100K built-in phrases, use a hyphen to denote a space, try m????-???-?????? to find motte and bailey, miles per gallon and milky way galaxy ANAGRAMS Try vegdances to find scavenged, also finds smaller words such as seance. WORDLE Green letters use the crossword search, eg ??e?t Grey letters, add them to the Excludes filter Yellow letters, add them to the Contains filter CODEWORDS Try ??112332 to find cassette and pallette, the numbers represent the same repeated letters. Combine these searches with filters to exclude words with letters you already have found. BLANK LETTERS Use + to represent blank letters, enter scrabb++ to find crabbers and scrabbly. SPELLING BEE Spelling Bee puzzles are where you only use the letters provided but as many times as you like. Try $qntuaei to find: quinquina, aquanaut and queenie DEFINITIONS Press a word to view its definition, example usages and synonyms. You can click on the synonyms to view their definitions, press the speak button to listen to the word being spoken by the app. Note, if no definition is found the app will search the web for a definition.

Screenshots

Crossword Solver4 screens
Crossword Solver King4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Crossword Solver King at 4.7 against Crossword Solver's 4.3. Crossword Solver King also leads on review sentiment (84% vs 73%) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 7 months). Crossword Solver's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, ads 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. Crossword Solver sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year and Crossword Solver King sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Crossword Solver King holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 149 and 112 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Crossword Solver's written reviews are positive against 84% of Crossword Solver King's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Crossword Solver ships an update every 7 months, Crossword Solver King every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Crossword Solver versus Crossword Solver King: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCrossword SolverCrossword Solver King
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (149 ratings)4.7 (112 ratings) — better
Positive reviews73.4% of reviews84.2% of reviews — better
Number of ratings149 — better112
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size105 MB40 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperHavosMark Bailey

Customer experience

Crossword Solver

All ratings149 ratings
Positive83.2%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.1%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive73.4%
Neutral7.6%
Negative19.0%

Crossword Solver King

All ratings112 ratings
Positive94.6%
Neutral0.9%
Negative4.5%
Written reviews19 reviews
Positive84.2%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.8%

Bugs and requests

Crossword Solver

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • App redirects to App Store
  • Enforced full-screen ad timeouts
  • Screen fitting issues (landscape/portrait)
  • App not working on iPad
  • Cannot report problems
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  • Not recognizing simple words
  • Keyboard issues (spaces, cases)
  • Game Center forced login
  • App Store redirection on launch

Requested features

7 requests
  • Option to submit words
  • Improve keyboard input
  • Add definition input
  • Allow input of word length
  • Update UI to be more professional
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  • Fix screen fitting issues on various devices
  • Allow users to input definitions

Crossword Solver King

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Crossword Solver

Subscriptions1
  • Supporter (no ads)$4.991 Year
1 purchases

Crossword Solver King

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Crossword Solver free?
Crossword Solver is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Crossword Solver King free?
Crossword Solver King is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Crossword Solver or Crossword Solver King?
Crossword Solver King is rated higher. Crossword Solver averages 4.3 out of 5 from 149 ratings, while Crossword Solver King averages 4.7 from 112 ratings.
Do Crossword Solver or Crossword Solver King have ads?
Both Crossword Solver and Crossword Solver King show ads.
Which is updated more often, Crossword Solver or Crossword Solver King?
Crossword Solver ships an update every 7 months, and Crossword Solver King every 3 months. Most recently, Crossword Solver was updated on September 18, 2026 and Crossword Solver King on September 23, 2026.

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