Crosswords

Name: Crosswords
Rating: 4.4 (574 reviews)
Author: Stand Alone, Inc.

By: Stand Alone, Inc.

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Features & Capabilities

Crosswords is a Chrome extension that brings daily crossword puzzles from top sources directly to your browser. Solve with hints, clue lookups, and flexible answer entry (ink or pencil). View clues, track your solve times, and organize puzzles by date, difficulty, or source.

Upgrade to automatically receive new puzzles each day and unlock a larger library from additional providers. Enjoy faster downloads, background updates, and access to older archives—perfect for serious puzzle fans.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App Games Education

By:

Stand Alone, Inc.

Rating:

4.40

(574) 1 new ratings

Version:

2026.3 Last updated: 2026-05-06

Version code:

885252915

Creation date:

2013-10-02

Compatible devices:

Size:

15.61MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-03

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 75,711 ▼ 98

Other platforms

Crosswords (v2.8.0.6)

16,888 4.13

(862)

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Developed by:

Stand Alone, Inc.

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/crosswords/id688876601

Website:

http://standalone.com/iphone/crosswords/

User Reviews

Across multiple reviews, Crosswords receives praise for starter puzzles and purchase bundles, a notebook/iPad-friendly UI, and responsive bug fixes. However, the app is hampered by frequent crashes and load failures after updates, inconsistent daily puzzle downloads, and broken or misleading in-app purchase flows. Several users report removal of NYT puzzle integration or required additional subscriptions, plus poor or no developer support. Clues and hints sometimes fail or misreport abbreviations, diminishing solving accuracy. Reliability and pricing clarity are the dominant pain points; UI is cited more positively.

Pros

Starter puzzles are included and additional puzzle bundles are available for purchase
Developers are quick to fix issues and respond to questions
Notebook/iPad-friendly UI with a responsive, modern layout

Cons

Crashes and load failures after updates
Daily puzzle downloads are inconsistent or fail and often require reinstall
In-app purchases/upgrades are broken or not delivered as advertised (activation issues, unexpected charges, discounts not applied)
NYT crosswords integration removed or requires a separate subscription; flow is misleading
Poor or no developer support / unanswered inquiries

Recent reviews

This latest update seems to have broken the app. Won’t open puz files or crashes and quits when trying to load.

by hh*****, 2026-02-05

Like others, I paid to “upgrade” to this new version because many of the providers were no longer loading in the old one. Some of the interface changes are annoying, but I can live with them. The real problem is the leaderboards. In short, they don’t work. I can get to the screen where it shows the top few times, and mine, but clicking on the all times button brings up a blank screen, 100% of the time. I tried to reach out to the developer for a fix, and was ignored.