Comparison

No2g vs JCross Nonogram

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

Head to head
About

No2g

This app offers a vast collection of logic puzzles, featuring a variety of grid sizes from 10x10 to 30x30. It supports both touch and virtual joystick controls, includes achievements through Game Center, and synchronizes progress with iCloud.

Highlights
  • Thousands of puzzles
  • Multiple grid sizes
  • Touch and virtual joystick support
  • Game Center achievements
  • iCloud synchronization
Features
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The best Nonogram app ever! - About 2000 puzzles of 10x10, 15x15, 20x20, 25x25, 30x30 pics. - Touch and virtual Joypad support. - Game Center achievements. - Sync with iCloud. Please visit our Facebook page!: https://www.facebook.com/no2gapp

About

JCross Nonogram

Solve logic puzzles where numbers guide you to fill in cells and reveal a hidden picture. Offers thousands of puzzles in various sizes with helpful tools like zoom and undo.

Highlights
  • Thousands of free puzzles
  • Multiple grid sizes
  • Zoom mode for large puzzles
  • Undo option
  • Light and dark themes
  • Portrait and landscape support
Features
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Nonograms appeared at the end of the 20th century and became popular all over the world. They are also known as Japanese crosswords, Japanese puzzles, Japanese drawings, PathPix, Griddlers, Paint by Numbers, Picross, hanjie etc. Japanese crossword is a very popular puzzle game.  In the Nonograms, unlike conventional crosswords and arrowwords, a picture instead of words is conceal by means of numbers. Please have a look at these black-n-white Nonograms. They are divided into several groups by resolution depending on the crossword width and height. If you like Philippine puzzles, you will definitely like Nonograms too. All Nonograms have their own single solution. The grid is formed by horizontal and vertical lines. Numbers on the top and on the left show the sequence order of blocks of filled-in squares horizontally and vertically correspondingly. The blocks are unbroken, and two nearby blocks must have at least one empty (unfilled) cell in between. The blocks follow one another exactly in the order shown by the corresponding numbers. Nonograms are solved in the following way: – First, you need to determine which cells are to be filled; – Second, you need to determine which cells cannot be filled: these are marked with crosses. This process is repeated until the crossword is solved. App features: – More than a thousand of free Japanese crosswords of various width and height sizes (10x10, 15x15, 20x20, 25x25, 30x30 etc); – Zoom mode allows you to solve even large Japanese crosswords; – Portrait and landscape orientation support; – Undo option (up to 100 actions can be undone); – Light and dark color scheme support; – Font size is automatically changed depending on the size of the crossword and your device screen orientation and size. If you think of yourself as a genuine enthusiast of Nonograms you absolutely have to give JCross a try! This original Crossword Painter is without any doubt a remarkable representative of its genre. Just think about it: why download several different apps when you can have one with tons of various Picrosses already in it and a lot more on their way. It really doesn’t matter whether you want to rack your brains by doing a sophisticated Nonogram or you need a trivial Paint by Numbers to kill time – JCross has all of them! Put it all together with some nice intuitive interface tempered in the best testing rooms and JCross is what you get. My God, can this app be more awesome? Just download it already while it’s still free! Please visit our web site to find detailed instructions on solving Nonograms: http://popapp.org/Apps/Details?id=3#tutorial To view leaderboards, you need log in Game Center. To do this go to the settings of your device. To automatically save solved puzzles to the cloud and share them across your devices you need an iCloud account and enabled iCloud Drive option in your iCloud settings

Screenshots

No2g4 screens
JCross Nonogram4 screens

Verdict

The call

No2g and JCross Nonogram are too close to call on the numbers: across 10 compared parameters — price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. No2g sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and JCross Nonogram sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for No2g against 4.8 for JCross Nonogram. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 61 and 73 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 79% of No2g's written reviews are positive against 81% of JCross Nonogram's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
No2g versus JCross Nonogram: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNo2gJCross Nonogram
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (61 ratings)4.8 (73 ratings) — better
Positive reviews79.4% of reviews81.5% of reviews — better
Number of ratings6173 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyMonthly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.013.0
Further details — not scored
Size28 MB42 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperSE JOONG KIMAmir Kadyrov

Customer experience

No2g

All ratings61 ratings
Positive90.2%
Neutral6.6%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews170 reviews
Positive79.4%
Neutral7.6%
Negative12.9%

JCross Nonogram

All ratings73 ratings
Positive97.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews151 reviews
Positive81.5%
Neutral6.0%
Negative12.6%

Bugs and requests

No2g

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

JCross Nonogram

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App freezes and kicks users off mid-puzzle
  • Crashes when selecting certain grid sizes
  • Puzzle display obscured by notch on newer iPhones
  • Control buttons unresponsive at screen edges
  • Music continues playing after ads stop
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  • Data loss when reinstalling app
  • Unsolvable puzzles due to incorrect numbering
  • Display issues in landscape mode on iPhone XR

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ruler or row/column tracker for larger boards
  • Redo button for undoing undo actions
  • Hint system showing completed picture
  • Ad blocker in-app purchase functionality
  • Fix for music playback during gameplay

In-app purchases

9 purchases

No2g

One-time9
  • Animals I$0.99
  • Animals II$0.99
  • Foods I$0.99
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  • Foods II$0.99
  • Life I$0.99
  • Life II$0.99
  • RPG I$0.99
  • RPG II$0.99
  • Remove Ads.$9.99
6 purchases

JCross Nonogram

One-time6
  • Turn off ads$0.99
  • XSmall puzzle solution$0.99
  • Small puzzle solution$0.99
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  • Medium puzzle solution$0.99
  • Large puzzle solution$0.99
  • XLarge puzzle solution$0.99

Questions

Is No2g free?
No2g is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is JCross Nonogram free?
JCross Nonogram is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, No2g or JCross Nonogram?
JCross Nonogram is rated higher. No2g averages 4.7 out of 5 from 61 ratings, while JCross Nonogram averages 4.8 from 73 ratings.
Do No2g or JCross Nonogram have ads?
Both No2g and JCross Nonogram show ads.
Which is updated more often, No2g or JCross Nonogram?
No2g ships an update monthly, and JCross Nonogram monthly. Most recently, No2g was updated on October 15, 2026 and JCross Nonogram on October 17, 2026.

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