Cipher Munch: Codebusters
Cryptogram Puzzle Practice
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Crack Atbash, Caesar, Pigpen, and the Dancing Men, Aristocrats, Patristocrats, Xenocrypt ciphers. Thousands of cipher puzzles - solve quotes sharpen your mind, repeat.
Cipher Munch is a hand-crafted cryptogram collection for code crackers, word game puzzle lovers, and curious minds from beginners to experts. Whether you want casual cryptogram practice or serious aristocrat practice for competition, each puzzle hides a memorable quote behind a classical cipher. Crack the code and enjoy the quote.
No ads. No Wi-Fi needed. Syncs your stats between iPhone, iPad, iPad on Mac when it can.
WHAT YOU'LL SOLVE
• Atbash & ROT13: basic mirror and shift-by-13 substitutions
• Visual ciphers: Pigpen, the Dancing Men from Sherlock Holmes, the Knights Templar cipher, and Standard Galactic
• Tap Code: the prisoners' knock-and-count cipher
• Caesar: the cipher Julius Caesar wrote with
• Aristocrats: classic letter-substitution cryptograms with spaces preserved
• Aristocrat K1, K2 & K3: keyword ciphers with a scrambled alphabet
• Patristocrats K1 & K2: letters regrouped into 5-letter blocks, no word boundaries
• Affine: number-based substitutions
• Vigenère & Porta: a repeating keyword shifts every letter differently
• Rail Fence: letters zigzag across 2 to 6 rails
• Xenocrypt: Spanish-language aristocrats (27-letter alphabet, with the Ñ)
EVERY PUZZLE IS A REAL QUOTE
Thousands of quotes from writers, scientists, philosophers, and statesmen, including Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Aristotle, and many more. It's cryptogram practice that leaves you a little smarter than it found you.
PERFECT FOR COMPETITION PRACTICE
Cipher Munch is purpose-built for the classical-cipher events at academic cryptography competitions. The formats covered (Aristocrat, Patristocrat, Xenocrypt, Caesar, Affine, Vigenère, and more) are standard at the high-school and collegiate level. If you need focused aristocrat practice, there are thousands of puzzles waiting.
The frequency grid, in-puzzle hints, per-cipher stats, and hardware-keyboard support turn solo aristocrat practice into real timed-event readiness.
BUILT FOR BEGINNERS AND SERIOUS SOLVERS
Lots of help, depending on your level:
• Frequency highlighting
• Multiple-letter highlighting
• Error highlighting
• Translation tables
• Caesar, Vigenère and Porta decoders
• Print & Share
• Custom keyboard tuned for fast letter-mapping
• Hardware-keyboard support
• Reference sheet, flashcards and a step-by-step guide for every cipher
• Adjustable puzzle text size
• Per-cipher progress tracking and stats
• Light and dark themes
• Works offline: no account, no tracking, no ads
ACHIEVEMENTS & DAILY STREAK
• Daily streak: your current solving streak lives right on the main menu; solve at least one puzzle a day to keep it going
• Achievements: unlock badges for total puzzles solved, milestones within each cipher type, and streak lengths
• Tap any achievement to see the details and your progress, and share the ones you've earned as a polished gold medallion image
BUILT FOR THE LONG HAUL
• Many packs per cipher type: a free Starter pack plus bundles by category, and a Mega Bundle
• iCloud sync: your progress and stats back up automatically and follow you to a new device, no account needed
PRIVACY FIRST
No ads, no tracking, no sign-up, and we don't collect your personal data. Your progress syncs through your own private iCloud account, so it follows you to a new phone and stays private (we can't see it).
UPGRADE WHEN YOU'RE READY
Start free with the Starter pack for every cipher type, plenty for daily cryptogram practice. Unlock more with:
• A single volume: one-time purchase
• A cipher-type subscription: all volumes of one cipher
• All Access: every cipher, every volume, unlimited hints
Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period and can be managed in your Apple ID settings.
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Terms of Use: https://CipherMunch.com/terms-of-use.html
Ratings & Reviews
This version of Cipher Munch - Codebusters Practice adds:
• Standard Galactic, a new cipher: the sci-fi symbol alphabet, with a key below the board.
• ROT13, a new cipher: every letter swaps with the one 13 places along.
• Flashcards for both new ciphers in Learn, and word patterns now lead the Learn list.
• Fixed a few Patristocrat starter puzzles where a letter stood for itself.
Happy decoding!
The developer, Mehra Pirzadeh, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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Information
- Seller
- Mehra Pirzadeh
- Size
- 88.7 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- All Access (Yearly) $39.90
- ROT13 Volume 7 $0.99
- ROT13 Volume 9 $0.99
- ROT13 Volume 11 $0.99
- ROT13 Volume 5 $0.99
- ROT13 Volume 8 $0.99
- ROT13 Volume 10 $0.99
- ROT13 Volume 2 $0.99
- ROT13 Volume 4 $0.99
- ROT13 Volume 3 $0.99
- Copyright
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