Barred Crossword vs QuERTY
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Barred Crossword
This app offers an unlimited supply of automatically generated crosswords with customizable grids and difficulty. It supports multiple languages and features aids to help you solve puzzles, making it ideal for crossword enthusiasts.
- Unlimited auto-generated crosswords
- Configurable grid size and difficulty
- Multiple crossword grid types (Barred, British, Arrow)
- Thousands of clues
- Multi-language support
- Zoom and pan grid functionality
- Save and reload games
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Barred crosswords are similar to traditional crosswords, but they use black lines instead of black squares to separate the words. Advantages of barred crosswords are: • More words in the grid • Larger number of cross-overs for the words • You do not lose half the screen with black squares Other features include: • Each new game is created by the app automatically. Therefore you can play an unlimited number of crosswords!! • Very configurable game generator. You decide the grid size, difficulty and many other things • Many 1000's of clues • You can choose from three different types of crossword grid: British, Barred and Arrow • Generate crosswords tailored to your interests, ability, nationality and device size • You can zoom in & out of the grid, and move around. Play with large grids on small screens! • Ability to save games and reload games. Play many games at once, just like a crossword book! • Many aids to help you complete the crossword • Play crosswords in these languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, Polish, Hungarian, Czech, Russian Also known as compact crosswords and word maze.
QuERTY
Engage your vocabulary with a daily word puzzle. Find hidden words to test your linguistic skills. Enjoy a new challenge every day.
- Daily word puzzles
- Word finding challenges
- Vocabulary testing
- New game daily
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A daily word finding game
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Barred Crossword at 58% against QuERTY's 0%. Barred Crossword also leads on rating (4.2 vs 1.0) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 11 months). QuERTY's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price, device support and iOS requirement 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. Barred Crossword sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per year. QuERTY asks for nothing beyond the download.
Barred Crossword holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Barred Crossword has 21 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 58% of Barred Crossword's written reviews are positive against 0% of QuERTY's.
Barred Crossword ships an update every 3 months, QuERTY every 11 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Barred Crossword | QuERTY |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (21 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 57.9% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 21 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 11 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 99 MB | 18 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Havos | Urbany Solutions |
Customer experience
Barred Crossword
QuERTY
In-app purchases
Barred Crossword
- Supporter (no ads)$4.991 Year
QuERTY
No in-app purchases









