Comparison

Grammar Ghosts vs Just Crosswords

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

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About

Grammar Ghosts

Engage in daily grammar quizzes where you help spirits find peace by correcting their fatal linguistic errors. Earn in-game currency to decorate your graveyard and unlock new content. This game offers a unique blend of word puzzles, grammar challenges, and dark humor.

Highlights
  • Daily grammar quizzes
  • Help spirits rest in peace
  • Earn Crypt Coins
  • Decorate your graveyard
  • Learn grammar rules
  • Unlock Pro puzzles and relics
Features
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Test your grammar skills and help ghosts solve their unfinished business. Every day, a new spirit awaits—each felled by a fatal grammar mistake. Solve their puzzles to help them rest in peace and prove you’re among the grammatically living. ABOUT THE GAME Grammar Ghosts is a daily puzzle game. Each puzzle reveals a witty, darkly humorous story about someone whose misuse of words turned fatal. Your job? Identify the correct answers to earn Crypt Coins and lay the spirits to rest. It’s equal parts word game, grammar challenge, and spooky trivia show—perfect for anyone who secretly enjoys correcting typos on tombstones. HOW IT WORKS • Solve Daily Puzzles: 5 free questions a day • Earn Crypt Coins: Collect coins for every correct answer and streak • Decorate Your Graveyard: Spend your coins in the CryptMart to unlock eerie decorations and keep your pet ghost happy • Meet Doomed Wordsmiths: Each puzzle introduces a ghost with a deliciously dark past • Improve Your Writing: Learn the rules behind every mistake—without feeling like you’re back in class UPRADGE TO PRO TO UNLOCK EVEN MORE • Access premium Pro Puzzles (10 additional questions per day) • Earn up to 3x Crypt Coins per day for faster progress • Unlock exclusive CryptMart relics and rare decorations • Score more bonus coins for streaks on the Pro puzzle • Access the Pro Archive—replay more puzzles to improve your ghost’s mood WHY YOU'LL LOVE IT • A macabre twist on classic word and trivia games • Clever writing that makes grammar actually fun • No ads, no stress—just you, your wits, and a few lingering souls Perfect for fans of Wordle, Trivia Crack, and the Oxford comma. Download Grammar Ghosts today and prove your grammar is good enough to cheat death. Terms of Use: https://grammarghosts.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://grammarghosts.com/privacy

About

Just Crosswords

Enjoy over 1,000 well-crafted crosswords with no ads, subscriptions, or accounts. Choose from multiple difficulty levels and sizes, with new puzzles added regularly. Play offline and track your progress with local profiles.

Highlights
  • Over 1,000 puzzles
  • Four difficulty tiers
  • Three puzzle sizes
  • Offline play
  • Local profiles
  • Party and challenge modes
  • Hints that teach
Features
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Just Crosswords is exactly what the name says. No ads, no subscription, no pop-ups selling coin packs. Open the app, solve a puzzle, and enjoy. Over 1,000 well-made crosswords at launch, with more added free. Four difficulty tiers and three sizes, so there's something for a two-minute coffee break and something that will fight you for an afternoon. Buy it once for $2.99 and it's yours. Every puzzle in the catalog, every puzzle we publish later, every difficulty, all hints, all profiles. No asterisks. WHAT YOU GET - Over 1,000 puzzles, Easy through Extreme - Three sizes: Mini 5x5, Midi 11x11, and Full 15x15 - More puzzles added free, forever - Fully offline. No account, no server, no signal required - Built for iPhone and iPad, with tablets treated as first class SOLVING THAT FEELS GOOD Graph paper and ink, a grid that stays out of your way, and a keyboard built for solving. Every puzzle has a par time. Beat it for stars, build XP, and watch your Solver Rating climb. No streaks, and nothing nags you to come back. HINTS THAT TEACH Stuck on a clue? Two graded hints nudge you toward the answer instead of just handing it over, so you still get the satisfaction of finishing. FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE Local profiles keep each person's progress, stars, and rating separate. Family Sharing covers your household on one purchase. SOLO BY DEFAULT, SOCIAL WHEN YOU WANT No sign-ups, no friend requests, nothing to set up. - Party mode: everyone races the same puzzle in the same room. Host a grid, friends scan to join, and you all start on the countdown. - Challenge a friend: send a link and they solve the exact same puzzle. The app shows whose time won. - Compare standings: keep a friendly leaderboard of stars, ratings, and times, side by side. TRY BEFORE YOU BUY Pick any five puzzles free. If it's your kind of app, $2.99 makes the whole thing yours.

Screenshots

Grammar Ghosts4 screens
Just Crosswords4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Just Crosswords at 100% against Grammar Ghosts's 0%. Just Crosswords also leads on rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). Grammar Ghosts's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs paid) and iOS requirement (14.0 vs 16.4). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Grammar Ghosts sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Just Crosswords 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

Just Crosswords holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 6 and 13 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Grammar Ghosts's written reviews are positive against 100% of Just Crosswords's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Grammar Ghosts versus Just Crosswords: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGrammar GhostsJust Crosswords
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (6 ratings)4.7 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings613 — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS14.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB76 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperDEVON HENNIGTebros Systems, LLC

Customer experience

Grammar Ghosts

All ratings5 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Just Crosswords

All ratings6 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 purchases

Grammar Ghosts

Subscriptions2
  • Grammar Ghosts Pro - Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Grammar Ghosts Pro - Yearly$49.991 Year
One-time3
  • Coin Pack - Small$9.99
  • Coin Pack - Medium$19.99
  • Coin Pack - Large$49.99
1 purchases

Just Crosswords

One-time1
  • Unlock Everything$2.99

Questions

Is Grammar Ghosts free?
Grammar Ghosts is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Just Crosswords free?
Just Crosswords is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Grammar Ghosts or Just Crosswords?
Just Crosswords is rated higher. Grammar Ghosts averages 4.0 out of 5 from 6 ratings, while Just Crosswords averages 4.7 from 13 ratings.
Do Grammar Ghosts or Just Crosswords have ads?
Grammar Ghosts shows ads; Just Crosswords does not.

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