Cozy Crosswords vs wurdweb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cozy Crosswords
Engage in a calming crossword puzzle game with a unique tile-dragging mechanic. Solve small, themed grids with a gentle soundtrack and customize your experience with various visual options. Enjoy daily challenges and adjustable difficulty for a peaceful play session.
- Tactile tile dragging gameplay
- Themed mini-crossword puzzles
- Lo-fi soundtrack
- Extensive visual customization
- Daily challenges with leaderboards
- Adjustable difficulty settings
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Cozy Crosswords is a calm, relaxing crossword puzzle game designed for slow, satisfying play. Each puzzle is a small crossword made up of 5 connected words, all related to a single clue. You solve the grid by dragging and placing letter tiles, creating a smooth, tactile experience that feels great to play. With 250 clues and over 500 different crosswords, Cozy Crosswords offers a wide mix of literal and thought-provoking challenges, all set to a gentle lo-fi soundtrack. FEATURES: Cozy Experience: Every interaction is designed to feel soft and satisfying, from smooth tile dragging to subtle sound effects and haptic feedback. The relaxed pace and calming music create a cozy space to think and unwind. Customization: Make the game your own with 40+ background colors, multiple tile colors and tilesets, different tile shapes, and a variety of fonts. Completing achievements unlocks new tilesets with carefully curated color palettes. Daily Crossword: A brand-new, randomly generated crossword is available every day. Solve it at your own pace and compare your time on the online daily leaderboard. Adjustable Difficulty: Adjust your difficulty as you choose. Pick easy for a simple, straightforward experience, or hard for a slower and thought provoking play. Normal difficulty provides the perfect middle ground. No ads. No in-app purchases. No power-ups or gimmicks. Cozy Crosswords is a clean, focused experience built around relaxing, bite-sized crossword puzzles. Whether you play for a minute or settle in for a longer session, Cozy Crosswords is meant to feel warm, peaceful, and deeply satisfying.
wurdweb
Engage in word puzzles with a relaxed atmosphere. Connect words from a list to form a web on the board, aiming to reach a finish tile or maximize word placement. Offers infinite unique puzzles, daily challenges, and custom puzzle creation.
- Infinite unique puzzles
- Daily, Weekly, Monthly Puzzles
- Custom puzzle creation
- Controller support
- Leaderboards
- Multiple languages
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Word puzzles with Sunday morning vibes. Grab words from a list and cross them with words on the board. Puzzle your way towards a Finish Tile, put down enough words, or put down as many words as you can! In this game, you'll find: • Infinite unique puzzles, generated by an intelligent algorithm. • Challenges, to let you try different play styles. • Daily, Weekly and Monthly Puzzles, where you put down as many words as you can! • Numbered Puzzles, a sequence of slightly harder puzzles. On top of that, you'll also find: • Cute little characters who walk around in your puzzles doing absolutely nothing. • Leaderboards for Daily, Weekly and Monthly Puzzles, for when you feel competitive. • Make Your Own Puzzle, where you get to pick the type of puzzle, the theme, and the optional variation. • Play with controllers compatible with your device. wurdweb can generate puzzles in the following languages: • Dutch • English (U.K.) • English (U.S.) • French (Canada) • French (France) • German • Italian • Portuguese (Brazil) • Russian • Spanish (Latin America) • Turkish • Swedish • Polish On top of the languages above, the interface (but not the puzzles!) is also available in the following languages: • Japanese • Arabic • Chinese (Simplified) • Chinese (Traditional) • Korean wurdweb is designed by Aran Koning and Adriaan de Jongh, two game designers and friends from the Netherlands.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: wurdweb at 5.0 against Cozy Crosswords's 4.6. Cozy Crosswords's advantage is price ($1.99 vs $3.99) and chart position (#6 vs #30). On ratings volume, 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
Cozy Crosswords costs $1.99 and wurdweb $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
wurdweb holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 34 and 61 respectively.
| Parameter | Cozy Crosswords | wurdweb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 — better | $3.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (34 ratings) | 5.0 (61 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 88.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 34 | 61 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #6 — better | #30 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 371 MB | 220 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Mulberry Tree Games, LLC | Adriaan de Jongh |
In-app purchases
Cozy Crosswords
No in-app purchases
wurdweb
No in-app purchases









