Nonograms Unlimited

I’ve spent years playing this every day - amazing contribution to the game puzzle world!

Of all the nonogram apps I’ve tried, this one is hands-down the best. The interface is effectively simple. No frills. A welcome sight for a world largely gone made with flashy/glitzy complexity and distraction. I play this daily, on my iPad mini, often multiple times. I alternate with solitaire forever (forty thieves for the win- similar simple, not over-sophisticated interface, just lets you get in and play). The ads are increasingly causing trouble: maybe it is the age of the app. The APIs starting to show their age with backend changes Apple has implemented in recent years. Occasionally trying to pull up the ads will crash the app. I have to try multiple times to get it to open. If I remember to just hop into airplane mode, cutting off all internet, it usually fixes the problem. I echo the sentiment of other reviewers: I’d gladly pay a one-time price for an ad-free version. I was honestly surprised not to see one. Especially if it continues not to see at least a yearly update (ie compile against latest iPadOS SDKs to prevent bit rot as is now starting to occur at time of this writing). An app like this is golden: it doesn’t require new features. It is near perfection in its current state. At the least give us a fresh compile against recent SDKs so ad pulls stop crashing the app. Or give us a one-time < $5 ad-free version. Some feature/functionality improvements I wouldn’t balk at, but don’t NEED; I’ll still be playing daily regardless: - landscape mode. This is really the ONLY app I use that forces me into portrait mode. Clearly not a dealbreaker (on my iPad mini, but does generally prevent me from using it on my big iPad with attached keyboard) - higher resolution grids. I’m only playing 20x20 at this point. And that’s only because it is the largest option currently available. - some comment on the difficulty: Honestly, I love how I can get through each game. But if you wanted to add a difficulty mode to allow for more challenging games (turn off some/whatever constraints you perform for current grid generation) some would appreciate it. And it wouldn’t be that intrusive a change to the interface. Honestly this is an ideal app to use. And for a developer? An ideal app to maintain: your users don’t need glitz and shininess, they just want to continue playing a familiar game, with simple, no frills interface. Most of the time you really only have to test it against updates to the API/SDK, and submit it as an update, which at a minimum of a year in frequency should ward off bitrot. If for whatever reason you don’t want to continue supporting it, I’d offer to take the reigns: these mindful, mindless joy apps are important to maintain. Require little maintenance, don’t need constant new features, but maybe occasional tweaks as the underlying technology allows (larger grids, maybe landscape mode, maybe difficulty toggle depending on how the grid is populated), and do things like an ad-free mode.

There is nothing I can say that hasn’t already been said, this game is perfect.