Best Nytimes Crosswords Apps &amp; Games

4.5😐(63K ratings)

FreeAdsIn-App Purchases

#20in Games

Engage your mind with daily crossword puzzles featuring themes from current entertainment, pop culture, and sports. Compete with friends, earn rewards, and access a vast archive of puzzles. Offers mini and midi puzzles alongside themed daily challenges.

What We Love

🎮 Fun and challenging puzzles
🧠 Keeps the brain active
🕰️ Great daily routine
💻 Decent crossword game

Room to Improve

💰 Difficult to earn free coins
🛑 Too many ads and paywalls
🇺🇸 Heavily American-centric
🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
🔄 Repetitive clues and content
🔍 Difficult to navigate and find features

Penny Dell Daily Crossword by PuzzleNation

3 Daily Puzzles! Fun & Easy!

Strong Contender

4.6😊(8.9K ratings)

FreeIn-App Purchases

#100in Games

Engage your mind with three free daily crossword puzzles of varying difficulty. Access over 10,000 additional puzzles offline, with optional hints and smart solving features. Enjoy a fun and challenging way to exercise your cognitive skills.

What We Love

🚀 Fast and easy to use
👍 Great for brain stimulation
👍 Variety of difficulty levels
👍 Enjoyable and relaxing
👍 Helps improve vocabulary and spelling

Room to Improve

🐛 Ads freeze the app or take too long to load
🐛 Glitches and crashes require frequent reinstalling
🔋 Excessive ads and in-app purchases
👎 Some puzzles use obscure or outdated words

Omni Crosswords by Rohan Narayan

Solve good crosswords daily

Worth Considering

Daily Crosswords and Puzzles

4.3😊(233 ratings)

Free

Enjoy daily crosswords from major publications with this free and simple iOS app. It offers a quick solving experience with helpful features like error highlighting and customizable settings. Track your progress with statistics and compete with friends using the built-in timer.

What We Love

👍 Best on the go crossword app
👍 No ads, can be played without WiFi
👍 Free and as advertised
👍 Wonderful, no notes
👍 All-in-one crossword app with daily updates
👍 Fixed crashing issues
👍 Great app, no childish reward system
👍 Perfect app, no annoying ads
👍 Best app after NYT changes, free
👍 Simple and clear interface, no clutter
👍 Excellent crossword app, free

Room to Improve

🐛 Buggy, needs to be refreshed many times
🔋 Overheats phone, drains battery quickly
🐛 Puzzles not loading, app crashes
🐛 Missing puzzles from certain sources
🐛 Delay in updating latest puzzles
🐛 Clues not showing up
🐛 Freezes and becomes unresponsive
🐛 Progress gets reset, puzzles duplicated
🐛 Keyboard issues, text box too small

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Crossword Puzzles!

Daily new puzzlesThousands of puzzles for all skill levelsBeautiful travel destination backgrounds

Enjoy daily crossword puzzles with stunning travel destination backgrounds. Thousands of puzzles are available for all skill levels, with hints and solution checking. Unlock more content and features with an optional subscription.

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Easy Mini Crosswords & Games

Daily Crossword Puzzles·

New crossword puzzles dailyZoom feature for easy viewingDark mode for nighttime play

Engage your mind daily with new crossword puzzles designed to enhance spelling and vocabulary. Enjoy a user-friendly interface with zoom and dark mode options, plus helpful hints to tackle challenging clues. This app offers a fun way to improve cognitive skills with a fresh puzzle every day.

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Crosswords

by Stand Alone, Inc.

Daily newspaper crossword puzzlesHints and clue lookupsProgress tracking

Engage with daily crossword puzzles from various newspapers, offering hints, clue lookups, and progress tracking. Upgrade for automatic puzzle delivery, access to extensive archives, and a wider selection of premium puzzle sources.

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Tiny daily crosswords, timed.

Mini Crossword Daily

Daily mini-crossword puzzlesTimed gameplayMultiple difficulty levels

Engage in a daily mini-crossword puzzle where speed is key. Solve puzzles against the clock to maintain your win streak. Offers multiple difficulty levels and an untimed option for all skill levels.

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NYT Games: Wordle & Crossword

Word, Number and Logic Puzzles

Daily Crossword puzzlesWordle word-guessing gameConnections category grouping

Engage your mind with a daily collection of popular word, number, and logic puzzles. Enjoy classic challenges like Wordle and The Crossword, alongside new brain teasers. Track your progress and compete with friends.

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Crossword Light

Crosswords to go!

Daily crossword puzzlesHints availableView clues

Solve daily crossword puzzles from various newspapers on your mobile device. Get hints, view clues, and track your progress. This light version includes 40 puzzles, with more available in the full version.

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Crossword - by puzzling.com

The World's Biggest Puzzle

Thousands of unique cluesHundreds of original puzzlesDaily themed puzzles

Engage your mind with a vast collection of crossword puzzles and word games. Solve thousands of clues, complete daily challenges, and collect trophies across multiple game modes. Enjoy a new puzzle experience every day with this extensive library of brain-teasing fun.

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Penny Dell Jumbo Crosswords – Crossword Puzzles for Everyone!

by PuzzleNation

$4.99

Enjoy a vast collection of crossword puzzles with adjustable difficulty levels and unique alternate clues. This app offers helpful features like hints, smart navigation, and error checking to enhance your solving experience.

150+ crossword puzzlesAlternate clues includedEasy, Medium, and Hard difficulty

(99)

Crossword Puzzle Universe

Relax playing Crossword puzzle

Thousands of puzzles for all levelsPinch to zoom functionalityDaily Classic and Mini Crosswords

Engage in challenging American-style grid crossword puzzles with fresh content added monthly. Perfect for all skill levels, this app offers a fun way to expand vocabulary and sharpen your mind. Enjoy daily themes, rewards, and a zoom feature for an enhanced experience.

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Crossword Puzzles...

72 layouts included

Vocabulary testingGuessing skills challengeFill empty squares with letters

Challenge your vocabulary and deduction abilities by filling in blank squares with letters to complete crosswords. Each word is accompanied by a helpful hint phrase to guide your solving process.

1,800 Crossword Puzzles

1,800 crossword puzzlesClues in puzzle gridClassic British English

Enjoy a classic crossword experience designed for iOS devices. This app offers 1,800 puzzles with clues directly in the grid for easy viewing and play. It provides weeks of challenging fun in a clean, British English format.

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Classic crossword word puzzles

Crossword Puzzles +

800+ free crossword puzzlesMultiple puzzle types (classic, keywords, anagrams, scandinavian)Modern design with multitouch gestures

Enjoy a vast collection of classic crossword puzzles on your iPhone and iPad. This app offers over 800 puzzles across various types, with a modern design and intuitive controls. Participate in a community rating system with thousands of players.

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Puzzazz Crossword & Puzzle

Best UI + Sudoku, KenKen, more

Ad-free puzzle experienceDaily KenKen and Sudoku puzzlesFaithful NYT Crossword reproduction

Solve a vast library of puzzles, including daily KenKen and Sudoku, plus the NYT Crossword faithfully reproduced. Features innovative handwriting recognition and an optimized user experience designed for puzzle enthusiasts.

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Daily Crosswords

by Pyrosphere, Lda

Daily new crossword puzzlesOver a thousand accessible puzzlesHint system for assistance

Engage your mind with a new, original crossword puzzle every day. Access over a thousand puzzles instantly and play at your own pace. Use hints to overcome challenges and earn more by playing daily.

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Daily POP Crossword Puzzles

Play Fun & Easy Crosswords!

Daily themed crossword puzzlesPop culture and celebrity triviaBrain and logic games

Engage your mind with daily themed crossword puzzles focused on pop culture. These free brain games offer a fun way to test your knowledge of movies, TV, music, and celebrities while sharpening your cognitive skills. Enjoy a variety of puzzles suitable for all skill levels.

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Word Craze - Trivia crosswords

Trivia Crossword Puzzle Game

Trivia crossword puzzlesWorld travel themed levelsDaily trivia challenges

Engage your brain with a fun trivia crossword puzzle game. Explore different countries, learn new facts, and solve riddles. Collect book buddies and enjoy classic art and music for a relaxing, enriching experience.

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Unlimited 5 letter puzzles!

Word Guess - Word Games

Unlimited 5-letter puzzles6 tries per wordColor-coded letter hints

Challenge yourself to find a hidden five-letter word within six attempts. Receive color-coded feedback on each letter to guide your next guess. Play an unlimited number of free puzzles.