“Too Many Ads — It’s ridiculous and annoying”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 200 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-05.
4.5 ★8,838 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
110 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Play classic American crossword puzzles games! The puzzles are are separated into six different grid sizes, to suit players of any ability.
Crossword Rules: A crossword consists of black and white shaded squares that form a square grid. The challenge of the puzzle is to fill the white squares with letters, forming words or phrases by solving the clues that will lead you to the answers.
Puzzles For Everyone: 6 grid sizes of 5x5 (beginner), 7x7 (beginner), 9x9 (beginner), 11x11 (novice), 13x13 (novice) and 15x15 (expert) are available, so whether you've never played a crossword or you play them all the time - you can be sure that this is the crossword app for you!…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 2.9 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-05 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 2.9, updated 2025-06-04.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Says how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
65–79% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 2
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (5 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 28 distinct reviewers (14.0% of 200 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many ads — Way too many interruptions with ads interrupting during games. No I don’t want to pay to not have ads interrupt the middle of a game.”
“I love it! — I have enjoyed this app. I love crosswords. I wish there wasn’t so many adds. You can pay to shut them off. I am short on cash since 2020 lol. I really have enjoyed the puzzles and the adds aren’t too bad. Give it a try.”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 2.9.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.