I made bad words in an earlier review. I now eat my words. These guys really take care of their app. My favorite crossword ( and only) game!

Excellent support. I reported a problem with one of the updates, had a response within a couple of hours and a fix was released a few days later. Other app developers could learn a lot about customer service from this company.

Ignore the complaints. They had a bad update, but fixed it in less than a day. Been using this for years, and they are the most responsive developer in this store. Way better than the new NYT app for doing the NYT puzzle.

this is my favorite crossword puzzle app that i've ever used! the last update really messed with touch calibration on puzzles though, hopefully that can be easily fixed 😥

Had it on my iPhone, had to get it on my new droid. Very, very few problems overall in the last couple of years. Edit: 9/10/17 New update fixes touch issue.

This is an app I've loved loads, for a long time, it's got a great ui for selecting clues - 'it just works'.

Looks like they fixed the bug recently. Back to a five star app!

Used to be my favorite, but now after the OS update or whatever it's called, I can't play anymore. Loss of touch sensitivity. I hate updates, they are stupid and they are forced upon us. I hope Stand Alone, Inc. is able to fix this, though :(

Puzzle sync has stopped working for me. I've tried reconfiguring my account on both devices, to no avail. Anyone else having this problem? LATER: Never mind, I'll just use it on my tablet, since it's glitching now on my phone.

The app on my android device has also stopped working. Hope this will be fixed soon so I can still get my Crossword fix. Why do updates always cause more problems then they solve?

Touch screen is messed up after most recent update. Can't select specific squares or clues. Makes it impossible to play.

As of September 6 2017, taps no longer select the square being tapped - they select some other random square instead, sometimes changing the direction of the answer.

Touch is messed up. Can't select squares I want..

Use this app daily but last update hosed it.

Touch puts cursor in wrong place. Fix it! Unusable!

Completely f**ked up after last update! Want my money back!

Touch calibration is broken.

App is decent, but has two issues: 1) the list of providers is smaller every year, and 2) there's nothing to mitigate cheating, so many puzzles have obvious cheaters that regularly take the top spot(s) on the leaderboards. Really frustrating to be honest.

Don't bother paying or downloading. I bought it, sources have disappeared and now I can't reinstall it.

The only reason I purchased this app (twice in fact, once on iOS) was to play the NYT. Now that source is no longer available, the app is sadly of no use to me. Uninstalling.

No New York Times.

What happened to the NYT? Having to use more than one app for crosswords sucks, and this was better than NYT's app anyway!

I like the New York puzzle too. You need to get permission to put those back. I even paid a while back for some and I never received them.

Unquestionably the best interface across multiple platforms. This is the ideal Crossword app.

Standalone Crosswords has the best solving interface of any Android crossword app I've found. It packs a lot of info into a small space (including showing both clues for a square, though you can turn this off if you want) and has a lot of little subtle touches like moving between squares by sliding your finger across the clue area. The downloading and other puzzle organizing features are a little wonky but they work. Unfortunately the NYT has recently cut their paying customers off from direct integration with this app to force their customers onto their own crappy app and hide from them the fact that there are other good crosswords in the world. I encourage upset users of this app to give the NYT app the 1 star rating that this new policy has earned them.

If I can't download NYT puzzles, what's the point of using this app? I'll be getting my puzzles elsewhere going forward!

Get back the NY Times puzzles - that's the only reason I use the app. Your app interface is fantastic, the one for NY Times is very poorly designed. But again, without the NY Times puzzles, I'm ot inclined to use this app either. Thank you!

Any update on support for NYT?

Great crossword app that downloads various daily crosswords. Still being maintained, and as far as I'm aware it's the only Android app you can use to play The Daily Telegraph (UK) cryptic crossword on (with subscription to the paper's puzzle sure).

The app is broken. I contacted the devs. First response had nothing to do with Android version which they only admitted about after 6 months. The issue is that the app will NOT update the puzzles unless you're IN the list of puzzles page. The iPhone version does actually update puzzles every 6 hours as indicated in the settings. This setting is useless even if set to update puzzles automatically in Android. The dev seems to think that explaining some technical functionality would make it obfuscated enough to make me stop asking. If it works one way in iPhone why can't it work the same way in Android? Answer, because it's too much work apparently. Otherwise, the program is a crossword program. Just know, on Android you have enough to be on the list of puzzles to update the list of them. Doesn't do it automatically even if set to do so.

In the past two weeks it has stopped downloading NY Times crosswords on both devices.

New York Times puzzle download stopped working around 5/16/2017.

With the last upgrade, the curse is very slow to move and completed squares are not skipped. It is very annoying.

New York Times no longer downloads or updates because of authentication problems.

Used to be my fave app, won't install on my new phone😢

I bought this YEARS ago and it's still being issued and new puzzles are continuously added every day. The few times I had issues the dev contacted me directly I wish I could say that about more apps.

Used to love this app. Now cannot open. Always crashes. Now is working again. Loving app again.

Great app but lately I've noticed that my progress will be erased. It can happen when closing the app entirely, leaving the individual puzzle or even just checking the info, its really frustrating

This is a great Crossword app. I love it, use it daily and have about 800 puzzles backed up. The only complaint and why it's not getting 5 stars is that they still, for a $10 app, haven't made a decent cross-device sync. The sync they do have is useless. We need an update with Google Play cloud saving! UPDATE: Normal syncing in the app does nothing. I've tried and have never gotten it to work. There is really no built in sync that works, at least for me. I have set up the syncing included in the current app but it has never done anything for me and it's a "progress" only sync. I go from a tablet to a phone and back a lot, and at this point, I rarely use apps that don't cloud sync. I use this app almost daily, I've rooted phones just to use DataSync and Helium with this one app. I think I need to start looking for a more modern app that allows me to cloud sync.

Once I was able to install it, Crosswords has become one of the top five apps I use daily. Lots of great puzzles to enjoy. It is definitely worth every penny!