CryptoQuote Game Reviews

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Pretty good for daily paper puzzle. But after laborious manual entry of the day's "Custom" crypto quip it's too easy to touch some wrong menu item and have your work all vanish and find yourself stuck in menus from which there is no exit, except Custom Puzzle, and have to type it all in again. Aargh. And while fighting the spelling corrector. Could that be disabled, at least? I wish there was an easier way to enter the newspaper's Cryptoquip for a given date. Subscription? Perhaps OCR it via the camera. It's much more pleasant using the iphone than a pencil, except for these complaints.

New app not working. I have played the Daily Challenge every morning and it is no longer available. The Daily Challenge button is ghosted out.

Daily puzzle STILL not working!. Please fix so I can play on my new iPhone 14.

Fun app, but not sure about latest version. I have enjoyed this app for months at least and should have rated it earlier as it would have been a 4- or 5-star review. Since the latest update, I'm having trouble getting used to the changes. Normally I would just give it more time, but I'm experiencing more bugs than before. The keyboard is freezing up for a couple seconds at a time, and this is happening several times a minute. It's hard to try all the features when each puzzle causes logistic frustrations that have nothing to do with solving the puzzle. I'll keep trying, but in the meantime, I can only give 3 stars until the hang-ups go away.

I like it... I like it.... I stumbled upon this by accident and I am SO very glad I found it. Finally something to work an older brain. A BIG thank you to the developers for making something that's not just another silly game, but something that actually makes you think !!!!! If I could give 10 stars I would. Thanks again!!

Don't pay for it. I completed a level & it went blank. The game said it would reset itself, it did not. Went to another level, same thing happened. Went to another level, same thing happened. Asked creator of game got an appology but no fix. Don't waste your time or money for this game that doesn't work beyond three weeks of repetitive political puke.

Not compatible with IOS 17.1.2. Looks like they have not kept pace with iPhone IOS changes. I am deleting and will check back later to see if the app is updated. Sorry to lose this one. It used to be pretty good.

Can’t open the daily challenge. Can’t open the daily challenge.

I liked the old version. Please tell me that you are going to add back the feature of inputting the CryptoQuote from various sources like the daily paper, if not, I think I will be deleting the app, have enjoyed immensely over the years, but not now.

I'd pay $5 for this. I probably spend over an hour playing this every day and it'll likely get me killed not watching where I'm going! I've done hundreds of them and only ever seen a couple repeats or typos. I only wish there were a no-clues option like the time challenge. seriously, the most I've ever gotten out of a buck!

Challenging puzzlers. I'm usually not one for word games but I do like famous quotes. So getting to try and figure out the quote is great fun when you have to work at it by swapping out letters. Time challenge is a cool idea and let's you know how good you are against others. Great to pick up for a quick puzzle or two on train rides. Overall... A great buy for a dollar.

Excellent Game!. Absolutely love this game! This is my go to app when I’m winding down my day and getting ready for bed. I always find it interesting that the shorter ones seem to be so much harder to solve than the longer ones!

Poor Quality Interface. Very poor interface and no updates in over 2 years should tell you something. At least I was only ripped off for 99 cents! Tough to type in the keyboard of select items on the screen. The easy games have tiny fonts. The first time I used this it locked up my 3GS running 4.0.1. - if you like wasting a buck then by all means I suggest you buy it.

Hasn’t been updated in 4 years. Won’t run.. This app hasn’t been updated for 4 years and now it won’t run. I remember reading that a beta version was in the works but at this rate I’m probably better off finding something else. Everything from my old review still stands, though the typos are less common I guess. I use this app mostly for the daily time challenge and sometimes to do the regular puzzles. Most of this review goes toward the daily time challenge. This is a below average app at best. It is frequently unreliable (no puzzles, unable to save your time/rank, frequently told "already completed" when it not). Also there are often spelling/grammatical errors and weird symbols instead of apostrophes/other punctuation that are severe enough to impede properly completing the challenges (and these are not errors that are within well known quotes, these are errors based on incorrect input wherein the overall famous quote is quoted wrong). Overall, I do enjoy the way the set up is but this is a haphazardly thrown together. Definitely not worth the $3 I spent on it.

Nice app. Yay they seem to have fixed all the bugs! It no longer thinks I already played the daily challenge and the timer is fixed too. Works great, and it's well layer out. A little small for big fingers but not bad!

Fun app. Downloaded app about a week ago, and it's a great way to pass time easily. I challenge my hubby every day in the time challenge. It's easy to play and challenging for all with the 3 levels and hint ability Looking forward to the next version with new features

Quirky. I like to listen to music or books while playing. EVery ad and every time you move to a new puzzle, the sound cuts out. This is irritating and will make me stop using this app,

Bring back the old format. I miss the old format where the new letter appeared above the replaced letter. With this current format, the replacement letter joins the jumbled word making it more confusing and less like an actual pen and paper cryptogram. I’m not certain what was wrong with the original formatted puzzle? This format is more frustrating than fun. I can’t recommend your app in this format.

I love this game!. I play it all the time. I don't care if the UI is plain; more than that would be too much of a distraction. My three complaints: 1) the quotes fall into only 3 or so categories of topics; 2) I'm doing the "hard" puzzles and not having much difficulty; and 3) there should be more quotes provided, especially at the "hard" level. An update of additional quotes, more variety of topics and an "expert" level would be nice.

What happened. I guess there was an update now it totally doesn’t work the letters don’t get replace just a complete mess for me and I’m getting something else do not recommend it

Upgrade does not show full screen. I loved the old version, 4.5 stars. Today I noticed an upgrade was available and now the app is unplayable. On my iPad there is only a partial keyboard viewable even if I change the font size. Once I was able to pull the keyboard up so I could see the bottom row of key but I am still missing the letters on the right edge of the keyboard. I can not find the old options, for letter count, etc. I have deleted the app because it is no longer playable. I sent an email with screens captures of the problems through your web site but have not received a reply.

Horrible update.. All of my saver puzzles are gone . I can no longer input a scrambled puzzle to solve. You have desecrated this app

Too much. Your left leaning quotes get tiresome. How about being a little less political and let us all enjoy solving your puzzles.

this app snoops. This app reads whatever is in your Cut and Paste buffer every time it starts up and does God-knows-what with it. Given Apple’s “paste from laptop” feature this can be very dangerous.

Makes me feel smarter than I am!. At first glance I was intimidated, but with in a few seconds of figuring out my first word I was hooked. I keep playing to read the next quote - they're great! Fun game!

Revision Stinks. You had a simple, easy to read font. Now it is large and does not fit the window.

Great App, But .... I've had this app for a couple years and it's become my favorite time-waster, with interesting and intelligent quotes. I especially like the feature that allows me to enter a crypt I've found elsewhere. But the current version crashes repeatedly. Wait to download til it's fixed.

Daily Challenge. In the new app the Daily Challenge is a gray button telling me I have missed the puzzle and a new one will be available ‘hours’ from now! It has said the same thing every day since the new app launched. Please fix. I have really enjoyed this puzzle for a long time now and miss it.

Cryptoquote. Since the revision of the app, it no longer fits on my ipad. Terrible. I have to scroll, print is huge, very confusing.

Crap. After waiting years -- YEARS -- for this simple but well designed game to offer an upgrade that would just add a round of new quotes to solve (you know like they did in newspapers for DECADES), the idiots at this company decide instead to completely redesign the game to make it much harder to read, harder to tell the colors apart (in both dark AND light modes) and....... drum roll.... added NO NEW PUZZLES. Here's a puzzle... who is this stupid?

Ruined by ads update. Another great app that I’ve had a lot of fun playing in the past, that I now have to delete because it shoves ads in your face. I just want the app I used to have so much fun playing.

Nice Cryptogram App. I've been using the Mac version of Cryptoquote for a a few years and on the strength of that experience decided to buy the iPhone version. The two apps are similar, but the iphone lacks the frequency table of the original (hint, hint) and the dictionary search function. I'd like to see both features added in future releases. I think the plaintext/ciphertext entry mode is a very nice feature. It will change colors to indicate whether a letter has been solved, used or given via the hint function. Bottom Line: Buy it!! John Haney writes very nice stuff and I've been a loyal customer for years.

Fix iPad version please. I really enjoyed using this app on my iPad, but it only works in custom puzzle mode on the iPhone version. I've submitted lots of requests to fix it but nothing has changed. The custom puzzle screen needs to have a Solve and Scramble button on it or else it is unusable. It has all those features on the iPhone version, but prefer larger keys. Fix it and I'd rate it a 5.

It’s changed. How come you can’t “give up” on the daily puzzle and find out what it says?????

Great game for for killing time. Great word game for killing a few minutes while you're stuck waiting for something. There are three levels: Easy, Medium, and Hard. There's also a Daily Time Challenge where you compete against other people for the top time of the day. The hint feature is great for people like me. You can ask for as many (or as little) as you like. There's even an option to turn off the initial hint if you like. Great value for very little dough!

I love the game but it has a bug. I love this game but I’m stuck on a level where every time I beat it I go to the next level but it keeps me at the same level.

OK for awhile. After you've done them for awhile you get quotes you've seen before. The Daily Time Challenge is a hit or miss. About half the time the quote is so long you can barely read it on the screen as it gets scrunched. It's interesting to note that a few people seem to get these long unreadable ones done in 30 seconds or so. If I had the answer in front of me I couldn't type it out that fast.

Now I get ads. I purchased this app several years ago but lost it when I updated my operating system and the developers did not keep up with the new operating systems. Now it is back, in a somewhat clunkier format, but it is full of ads! Where is the version I paid for?

Daily time challenge. I love the app, but the daily time challenge is too easy to cheat at. Just start it, solve almost to completion - but before entering the last letter, exit the app and start again. It then becomes a "how fast can you type" challenge instead of how fast to solve. Those with 2 devices and copies of the app will always be able to "cheat" (they probably cheat at solitaire too). I'd say once you start a daily challenge, you either finish it or lose your chance to submit an "official" score that day. Another improvement would be to show a distribution of # users by solution time to see what percentile your solution time falls in if you did not make the top ten.

PLEASE. Please update your great app so that it will continue to work on newer devices and future updates. I start my day with your daily challenge.

Long time fan. I was happy when the app was finally updated for whichever ios update that was. However, I am unable to record and see my rank in the daily challenge. Very frustrating!! I've tried emailing multiple times and have gotten no response. Please fix this issue or I'm deleting the app. It's been months...

Frustrating service. The app constantly going down non working daily challenge. Too bad i ve been playing for years and loved the game

Bring back the ORIGINAL!!!. I canNOT tell you how p__s'd I am every time I see this app on my Touch!! This game was a JOY when I first got it...LOTS of puzzles, hints didn't vanish if you had to reset...you couldn't enter the newspapers' quotes (they got me with THAT hook, and I've SO regretted it!!), but neither were you frustrated by the glitches so many people are complaining about. Take the advise I've since found in another app's reviews: If it works, DON'T "fix" (update) it. Usually you'll be sorry. Either it won't do want's promised, or it'll be glitchy!

I loved this app until the update. I have always enjoyed this app. But since the latest update it has way to many bugs. During the challenge the Keyboard lags bad. I would also like to have more challenges. Hope the developer reads these reviews. Last review I wrote I gave 5 stars now it's a 3. Sorry.

Super happy that a new version is on its way. I really like the daily time challenge, especially that I can see where I ranked. I also love the feature of making your own puzzles.

Maybe the last update improved iPad function, but.... I’ve enjoyed this app for a long time, but the daily challenge now no longer functions. It appears to have something to do with newer iPhones with no home button. After completing the challenge, the app simply locks up and there’s nothing one can do but force quit out.

Love the game/glitches are frustrating. I’ve enjoyed your app for years. However I haven’t been able to see my time v others for a very long time. Your app says you use GameStop. I’ve been registered with it for years but I can’t see my results on your app. Finally I have to ask what’s going on? It used to be so simple.

Love words. This is one of my favorite apps. I play for about an hour a day. I've come to use it like reading before I sleep. I've been playing for a long time and I don't seem to get tired of it. Love it.

Great, except for keyboard!. I was thrilled to find such a great cryptogram app, having loved these puzzles for a long time. As other reviewers have mentioned, it's got great puzzles in three different levels of difficulty, with few repeats. However, the only thing that drives me crazy is the keyboard! I know it has to be crammed in pretty small to fit (especially with longer puzzles), but I end up mistyping every letter and it drves me nuts. If the developer can work out a better solution to the keyboard problem (I should probably mention, I have no problems tapping away on the default iPhone keyboard), I'll happily give it 5 stars. As it is, I'll keep playing and having fun with the app, I just won't bother trying the daily time challenge... Just too frustrating when I can't hit the keys I want.

CryptoQuote-Great App. This is a great app for train rides. The interface is easy to use and it delivers what it promises. There is a satisfying payoff when you solve the puzzle and receive a very thought provoking quote in return.

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Not very good. The custom puzzle feature does not work on iPad. I have complained to designer with no response. Works reasonably well on iPhone but overall rather clumsy for custom puzzles

Nicely done, but.... Nice interface and easy to use. Because of the newspaper version, I personally much prefer my translation to go under the crypto, so I am having difficulty getting used to it being above. But that's just me being nit picky. The daily challenge is a great idea, but needs work to prevent people from cheating. Sorry, but I do not believe that the entire leader board can solve the puzzle in under 30 seconds. But I don't know how you can do that with people having access to multi phones where they can solve at their leisure and then breeze through the solution on another phone. Too bad for people who have to cheat so much to feel good about themselves!

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Buggy update. Constant crashes in this update. Surnames of those quoted are cut off. Wait to download until bugs are fixed.

Politically slanted. The daily challenge always had a political message in it and I found it to be disturbing and finally deleted the app.

This has stopped working for several days!!!. This is the only app I've paid for and it hasn't been working for several days!! Refund my money or get this working again!!

What's wrong?. Been getting "no puzzle today" error message for a week now.

Doesn't work with iPhone7. It started crashing and I could only do the daily timed challenge. Now I can't even do that - the whole site crashes. I love cryptoquote puzzles but this got frustrating. The creator is a nice guy - I've had to contact him before, so I hope he will fix the issue.

Solid. Love the update. Love the new interface and features. Happy to have the daily puzzle working again. Great customer service as well.

I love this program!!!. I think this is rhe greatest program .. I'm addicted to it. Every moment I get I'm playing it. I have told everyone about it... Thank you, Thank you,Thank you !!!

Deal!. Favorite $0.99 game. Very easy on your battery -- if you have your backlight turned down -- great game to play anywhere.

Used to be terrific, but v3.0 for iPad is unusable.. I used to use this program every day to solve cryptograms. But when the author upgraded it in version 3.0, it was impossible to get out of the screen that had you input custom puzzles. So you would be stuck there. I've stopped using it, but I will be hoping for a workable upgrade some day.

No more daily puzzles. What has happened to the daily puzzles? They have been unavailable for over a week.

Custom puzzles?. What happened to the solve button in the input custom puzzle screen? You can type in a puzzle, but with no way to solve it! This is one of the most useful features of this app, being able to enter puzzles from the newspaper. Please fix it ASAP. Thanks.

CryptoQuote. I am very disappointed with the update! The original version was great! The updated quotes are way too long making them so easy that they are no longer challenging. And, often the letters won't "stick" - very frustrating.

Love app; Bugs killing it!!!. Love the app itself, but whatever you do, don't hit "share on Facebook" or you'll be stuck in crypto-hell. Have to reboot phone to get app to release so I can play again. Better fix it or I'm moving on and getting a refund!!

Great!. Just started the daily challenges. But I've been playing this game for about five years and enjoy it. UPDATE 8/25/16 I can't play the next puzzle because the game crashes. But the daily challenges still work. I'll go back to 5 stars when fixed.

Freezes up. OK quotes but game freezes on a blank screen. Frustrating.

DeaconMast. Oh my, where are the daily puzzles?

Doesn't rate scores accurately at all!. The puzzles are adequate but the scoring is frustrating.

I miss it :-(. This had been the only app I used every day for, geez, years. I want to say 6 years since I got my first iPad.

Rip off. Wish I could get my money back! Promises everything but gives little! Email forget it + plenty of the other promises. Waste of $$$

Quit working. After the last OS update, it does not work. It just opens and immediately closes.

No DTC long time!. No Daily Time Challenge for more than a week. I like this game, but what is up? Delete/reinstall no help.

Great Program. I love this program. I have been doing cryptoquotes most of my life out of the paper. Having the app fill in the letters is awesome.

Crashes immediately upon opening!. Won't run

Ok. Generally fun puzzles - but the same letters are used too often: "A" is frequently represented by the letter "R" B=T, F=E, Q=C, etc.

Os11 - please update so we can enjoy the game!. I used to play this game almost every morning- Please update so I can continue to enjoy.

Awesome. I love this app! My favorite is the daily challenge!

Notsogood. Used to be good. Often there is no daily challenge. Other times it says I did the puzzle but I didn't. Rarely does it work. I give it no stars and will remove it from my screen.

GREAT GAME!!!!. Great game. Love the Daily Time Challenge. Whenever there is a problem with the app it is fixed quickly.

No good!. Just bought this app and closed it and deleted it. Letters are huge and screen will not turn. A terrible waste of money......

So annoying. Every time I hit "play new puzzle" the app crashes and closes. I open it again and send an error report and the not crashes again. This has been happening for weeks. Unacceptable; I paid money for this app, I should be able to play these puzzle whenever I want. This needs to be addressed immediately.

Love it. Just what I was looking for. Not very good graphics, actually it couldn't be plainer and not professional looking, but great fun! Exactly what I was looking for, exactly!!!!

Quote fan. I loved the game and the quotes, some that I will always remember. The game did quit after the last game and the online game was too long and I had problems hitting the letters I wanted. All and all, this game was fun.

Please bring back the old spacings!. I’ve been playing this game for more years that I care to admit, and the thing I liked about it was the spacing of the letters.It was visually a much more comfortable game to play than many of its competitors. Now the letters are squeezed together and the keyboard is so tiny that it’s hard to hit the right word with my big fingers. I feel bad complaining because you said you spent a lot of time redesigning it, but I don’t think it was time well spent. Also, if there are 2000 quotes, why did you start off with that same tired Erica Jong quote about advice being something you ask for when you already know the answer? I’ve seen that one come up so many times and that was the first one I got today.

Great app. Really like this app. The changes in v2 are great.

Great. Just what I was looking for. The only problem is the letters are so close together it's hard to hit the correct one.

Great Game but . . .. It doesn't have enough quotes. They need to be changed once in a while so the game can continue to be challenging. There are millions of quotes out there and comparatively few in the game. I love word games and do 2 or 3 crypto-quotes a day, but am getting lots of repeats. PLEASE ADD NEW QUOTES or we'll have to go to the OTHER crypto-quote game! :)