Crosswords Classic アプリのレビュー

Original (5-star review): There's really no contest among iPad crossword apps. This one's the best by far. The daily stream of top-flight puzzles makes it well worth the price, and the interface is the best in the business - even better than the NY Times app. New review (one-star): For many months now, every other time you click on the help button the app crashes. This problem has NOT been fixed, despite many, many complaints by users. I really want this app to go back to being the best crossword app on the iPad, but as it is now I cannot recommend it to anyone. Please fix that bloody bug!!

I love the endless stream of puzzles and can choose source/difficulty. The UI is great as you can use left thumb on arrows to scroll through clues and it always shows both directional clues on whatever square youre on. One of the oldest apps ive owned and amazed its held up so long, just had to finally post a review! Also appreciate diff options like i enjoy the red letter mode for incorrect letters life is too short to have to wrangle a puzzle to trip over bad guesses!

They updated it yesterday, and now it won’t work correctly with my bluetooth keyboard.

This app needs night mode.

It would be so much easier to be able to filter the difficulty list by source and also to filter the source list by digit. Could you please add this in? Thank you!

I’ve used this app for years and its been great. However, I’ve noticed that crossword providers have been shrinking and lately none of the Newsday Crosswords are available. What’s going on?

Was a good app with support. Now missing puzzles and developer does not reply to support submissions.

I have had this app on both my iPhone and iPad for several years now and I love it. Recently the app on my iPad got messed up so I deleted it and reinstalled. The options gear was missing on the reinstall and I was unable to change the settings to my liking. I contacted Customer Service (Ben) who investigated the issue and created an update to fix it. I’m a happy Crosswords Classic geek again!

I use this almost daily. The one issue I have are the occasional puzzles where there are apparently several letters in one box as part of the solution. There’s no way to enter that, so there’s no way to solve the puzzle. It’s rather irritating and I end up deleting them/not bothering when I come across them—it’s just not obvious at first.

I’ve had this app for a few years but it has recently quit downloading new puzzles. Haven’t been able to download one since May 27. Disappointing.

The free cw from sai works for me in braille using ipad, voiceover and a braille display. Imagine my shock and horror then (eek!) when, after plunking down my ten sheckels, I find the classic version totally inaccessible. I considered suicide :) but lack the energy since I quit coffee. Please, pleas, pretty please, with sugar and spit, fix the classic version so voiceover users can use it. If not may a thousand ernes defile your windshield. If you need beta testing or feedback just holler. --Brian Tew

It seems like the developers just walked away from this app. There is no support whatsoever. I’ve been waiting months for them to fix the problem of being unable to print out the puzzles. I get a generic answer that “they are aware of the problem and working on it” but.....months??? C’mon guys, you charge a pretty steep price for an app that has no developer support. Wish I could get my money back. Won’t be downloading any more apps from Standalone, that’s for sure!

Ben whatever the heck his name is, wrote ALL the “beginner” crossword and let me tell you, a college educated woman , can’t do one of them. It is frustrating to the point of wanting to throw the whole thing out the window. I knew answers for some of these but he used obscure words and people the average person couldn’t possibly know. If you’re a PhD geek, or a new york times player, great, I chose it for beginning puzzles . No way.

One of the first apps I ever got on my iPad, really love it. Recently not downloading all the puzzles I used to get. Only problem

Used this app for 10 years. After paying for it, they lost most of their good puzzle providers. Then frequent syncing issues between iPhone & iPad. Developer very hard to deal with & constant issues. Lost thousands of puzzles today - just disappeared - I’m done now. I will never, ever buy any app from standalone inc again!

Year after year, this has been the best iOS crossword app. Don’t know what I’d do without it. The gameplay, the configurability, the use of screen real estate... all best in class. I just wish it still handled NYT subscriptions like other crossword apps do.

Used for years but last update deleted all this years puzzles I had planned on doing. Never update again.

Latest versions no longer load the LA Times puzzles. Why? What happened?

With the last update or two, delete all errors does not work.

They don’t have any 24x24 grids anymore, expect maybe once or twice a week. Updates have not delivered any significant improvements or features over the years. They’re just not trying.

I've been using this app on an almost daily basis since the original app on my Palm PDA. The latest iOS broke the ability to send a .puz file to this app, but the developers have emailed me that they have notified Apple of the problem. Fortunately, it’s very easy to download .puz files to a Dropbox\Apps\Crossword directory on my laptop, then select Import From Dropbox to download those files to this app. By the way, I do crossword puzzles from the New York Times, LATimes, Universal, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and the Chronicle of Higher Education in this app. You can get the LATimes puzzle by signing up (free) at cruciverb.com and there are links to the other puzzles at Crosswordfiend.com/download.

I used to have no problem with new puzzles being imported and then????? all of a sudden puzzles stopped com8ng in...annoying

I love this app but the shrinking supply of puzzles is a concern. Many of my favorite titles no longer seem to be available. Is anything being done to increase the supply?

This used to be my favorite crossword app. And it has worked fairly well: I find it easier to operate than other apps. My main concern is the supply of puzzles. My favorite puzzle provider is no longer available , and for a number of the providers that I selected, I haven’t seen a new download in years. The puzzles that are still available no longer interest me, so I’ve subscribed to the NYT puzzles and use their app to work them. It’s not as convenient as this app, but they supply a steady stream of interesting puzzles.

The rating says it’s for ages 4+, but I’ve come across multiple puzzles with profanity in the clues.

I am crazy about this app!

Been using this app for years and now when trying to download new puzzles I get a message that says I must connect to the internet to download puzzles. However I am always connected to the internet.

On Monday,July 2, the Newsday puzzles don’t seem to be downloading anymore. What happened.

I love this app, but I have been unable to download additional puzzles since Memorial Day 2018.

I’ve had this app and enjoyed it for years. This is the second time I have not been able to receive new puzzles. This is been going on for weeks. I have sent in two different queries asking why this is happening and what I can do. No one ever writes back. Maybe they’ve gone out of business?

I’ve used this app for years and appreciate its many great features and I still prefer it to alternative apps but over the past months I’ve experienced and reported problems to the developer. The worst problem is occasionally when solving a puzzle and then switching to another app and then returning to this one all of my entries disappear. Not good! As commented by other reviewers the formatting within the app is inconsistent with titles not been fully displayed and most annoyingly on the iPad the puzzle grid continually re-sizes itself when checking clues.

I love the fact this app exists and has existed forever and I love the flow of it (how you jump clues, how you input text, etc). But to be honest, I don't understand why this app is so buggy. Every update in the last 5 years brings missing buttons, misaligned toolbars, disappearing puzzles, or some such.

I have been using this app since 2011/2012, been using it almost nightly for the past 4 years. This is THE crossword app to have!

I second what Artemus reported: can no longer see the top of the puzzle - app is unusable. Once again we have to wait for them to fix the upgrade.

Right now, not one of my favorite apps. Major problems since the last update, there are a few glitches in it. The latest update makes it so you can't even see the top line across because it's shaded by the toolbar and the puzzle won't move.

I like this app a lot! But every once in a while it has a puzzle that requires more than 1 letter per square. How are we supposed to fill them all in?

Crashes when the puzzle is solved, no menu to delete the solved and open new.

Enjoy all the puzzles. There are challenges for everyone.

The latest version of the app silently removed support for the New York Times crossword as a premium puzzle, which was the only thing I used the app for. Very disappointing.

Looks like The New York Times crossword is no longer an option. Subscription or not. Yet it's still listed as a premium provider. It seems like that should be corrected. I hope removing that puzzle provider wasn't by the choice of the app designers. That would be a poor choice. The app does have a nice clean interface.

The New York Times no longer allows their crosswords to appear directly here on the app. You must download and import.

Where is The NY Times Crossword?

Ouch! Love this app, but what happened to the NYTimes daily puzzle?

Glad to know I'm not the only who can no longer download NYT xwords. Please fix!!!!

Loved the app until June 1. Since then cannot download NYT crosswords. Can't even open account to verify subscription.

Also no longer able to download nyt puzzles! Chiming in as well so that creator knows this is across many users.

Terrific app but can't download NY Times puzzles anymore. What's going on?

NYT puzzle just went away--Poof! And now I've probably bought two subscriptions. Keeps telling me my account's not valid and now NYT isn't even among the list of puzzles for this app to download. Big disappointment.

Great app. Excellent support. A pleasure to use. . Excellent app. Plenty of free crosswords easily accessed and the interface has many choices to satisfy at least myself. Most expensive app I've purchased but it's the one I use the most. Latest update. Big problems. When checking on Washington Post Puzzles there is no way to navigate away from the info page. I had to delete and reinstall which deleted all of unsolved puzzles and added puzzles I had already solved and deleted earlier. Just happened a 2nd time. No response from bug report. Update. App closed and the puzzle I was working on vanished.