
Black Ink Crosswords 4+
Solve crosswords with style
Red Sweater Software
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Black Ink, the popular Mac crossword-solving app, is now available for iOS! Enjoy the stunningly beautiful grids and elegant solving mechanics of this beloved app. Works with multiple free puzzles available on the web, and with paid puzzles including the New York Times, American Values Club, Inkubator, Crossword Nation, and more.
What’s New
Version 2.3.3
Version 2.3.3 includes the following changes:
- Fix a bug that caused puzzles to appear unsorted in the puzzle list
- Fix a bug that caused newly downloaded puzzles to disappear from the list after reopening the app
- Fix a bug that could cause previously solved puzzles to appear blank
Version 2.3.2 fixed a bug that prevented notifications from being displayed when a puzzle is solved correctly.
Version 2.3.1 included the following important fixes:
- Fix a bug that caused slow typing response in some puzzles
- Fix a bug that could cause some "imported" (directly downloaded from web) puzzles to show blank titles
Version 2.3 included a significant number of new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
Among the major improvements are the ability to hide solved puzzles and view puzzle notes, but the update also includes all the following changes:
- Redesigned "Actions" menu with standard menu interface
- Added a menu item for opening Settings to the Actions menu
- Clue text is now "Smartened" for prettier quotes, dashes, and ellipses (“”, ‘’, —, …)
- Puzzle notes can now be viewed when available for a puzzle
- Puzzle date and completion status are now shown along with the puzzle title
- Puzzle lists can be filtered to show only puzzles that have not been completed
- A progress indicator is now shown after clicking the download puzzle button
- Overlay images are now drawn on top of the puzzle grid contents and clue numbers
- Restored header and footer sections on printed pages
- Multi-character answers are now inset slightly more from the edge of the square
- Fixed a bug that could cause overlay images to draw outside the bounds of the puzzle grid
- Fixed a bug that caused special answer entry to sometimes fill adjacent squares
- Improved performance when loading a list with lots of puzzles
- Improved performance of puzzle printing
Enjoy!
Ratings and Reviews
Kudos for including a one time purchase
I like that there’s an option to buy the premium features once instead of subscribe
My Daily Dose
I use Black Ink on my phone every morning to complete the NYT and WSJ crosswords. It’s simple and straight-forward, and never gets in my way. Try it!
my preferred crossword app
my favourite feature is being able to solve nyt puzzles without all the graphical hints that lessen the solving experience. i want the focus on the solving experience—not circles, animations, or other constructor conceits which shout “look at what i made”.
i often begin trying to solve downs-only, so a way to (initially) avoid showing acrosses would be useful. an across-only mode would make sense as well.
i appreciate the regular-sized keyboard. it results in fewer fat-fingered typos.
requests
- timing statistics for tracking mental changes. being able to export to numbers would be great.
- option to reduce the clue type size to avoid the 3-lines puzzle “bounce”
App Privacy
The developer, Red Sweater Software, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Red Sweater Software
- Size
- 9.8 MB
- Category
- Games
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 14.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2009-2025 Red Sweater Software
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Premium Features $1.99
- Annual Premium Features $19.99
- One-Time Purchase $99.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.