Omni Crosswords1.9 - App Store

Crossword app for iOS that is simple, free, and quick. Puzzles from major outlets are automatically fetched, so all you need to worry about is solving them!

Currently, these outlets are supported:
* Los Angeles Times
* USA Today
* The Atlantic
* Newsday
* The New Yorker
* NYT Syndicated & Mini
* Universal Daily
* Vox
* Crossword Club

In addition to using your keyboard for text entry, the solver includes features such as error highlighting, skipping over completed squares, skipping to the next clue, and many more customizable settings. The solver includes a timer, so that you can compete with your friends! There's lots of settings to personalize your solving experience. OmniCrosswords also comes with dark mode supported - it follows the system preferences or you can edit the setting yourself. There's also a statistics view where you can see your solving statistics over time.

OmniCrosswords now supports rebus and uploading custom .puz files

Optional Setting: Games automatically sync between multiple devices with Game Center.

Version History * More iOS 27 design updates
* Add setting to move toggle and solve buttons out of clue bar, by default these are moved out of the clue bar 1.9 4d ago * iOS 27 design updates
* fix issue where loader would never disappear
* fix issue where users would have to force quit to trigger re-auth 1.8.16 Oct 5 * Picture-in-picture mode added
* Bug fixes + improvments 1.8.15 Sep 8 * Added new setting to allow users to customize what happens when they tap the clue (toggle direction / move to next clue) 1.8.14 Sep 4 * Fix bugs
* Add gold star for some completions 1.8.13 Jul 7 * Updated the share feature 1.8.12 Mar 30 - Increase toolbar button size
- better support for hardware keyboard tabs
- small performance improvements 1.8.11 Mar 15 - fix bug with help indicators setting not saving correctly 1.8.10 Feb 1 - fix bug introduces in 1.8.8 causing app crashes 1.8.9 Jan 28 - bug fixes and performance improvements
- add ability to mark as solved if solution isn't available
- support markdown in clue title
- create game center diagnostics view
- address issues in statistics view
- implement "helpTracking" indicators 1.8.8 Jan 28 - performance improvements and bug fixes
- make next/previous buttons bigger for iOS 26
- added pause button 1.8.7 Jan 25 - performance improvements and bug fixes
- replace navigation bar with custom navigation bar on small devices 1.8.6 Jan 22 * Upload View enhancements - add ability to open .puz files from other apps, add ability to customize outlet name
* Add ability to hide puzzles from list view
* Fix keyboard issue when navigating
* Add space between buttons on toolbar
* Performance improvements 1.8.5 Jan 11 * Better settings page standardization
* Added setting to allow zooming customization
* Removed "large print mode" setting
* Auto-scrolling improvements
* Better support for landscape mode 1.8.4 Jan 3 - reverted zoom changes made in last update 1.8.3 12/29/2025 * iOS26 design updates for Liquid Glass
* Crossword Club Support 1.8.2 12/27/2025 - fixed bug with some custom uploads crashing the app
- added support for rebus 1.8.1 12/14/2025 * Added support for Vox puzzles
* iOS 26 updates 1.8 12/05/2025 - Added zoom button 1.7.8 07/10/2024 - fix issue with crossword height on small screens 1.7.7 07/09/2024 * improve reliability by supporting more puzzle types
* add support for alternative keyboard setting
* fix color scheme override setting 1.7.6 07/07/2024 - solve cell moved to toolbar
- performance/battery improvements
- re-add last clue toggling directions
- slight improvement to game center sync to prevent overwriting progress 1.7.5 11/05/2023 - address recent WSJ solutions by stating that solution isn't available
- lazy loading of list view 1.7.4 10/30/2023 - more performance improvements 1.7.3 10/10/2023 * Show day of the week in list view
* Refactoring to avoid re-rendering cells unnecessarily - this should mitigate some of the battery drain concerns brought up in reviews 1.7.2 09/16/2023