Wordalo: Word Puzzle Games
Daily Crossword & Word Search
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Wordalo is a proper word puzzle app for people who actually like puzzles.
Six classic puzzle types. Themed categories worth reading. No ads, no subscription, no pop-ups asking you to rate the app. Just the puzzles, done properly.
THE SIX PUZZLES
CROSSWORD
The daily classic. Clean grids, themed clues, real vocabulary.
WORD SEARCH
Eight directions, forward and back. Drag to mark. Pick your difficulty.
ANAGRAM
Unscramble the letters. Shuffle when you're stuck. Accepts every valid anagram of the word, so MEAT when the answer is TEAM still counts.
WORD CONNECT
Letters in a circle, drag through to spell every word you can find. Target words unlock the round; bonus words are for showing off.
CODEWORD
The cipher crossword. Every letter replaced by a number from 1 to 26. A few starter letters revealed, work out the rest.
FILL-IN
A word with some letters missing, a clue to nudge you, three free hints a day if you get properly stuck.
WHAT'S DIFFERENT
- No subscription. No ads. No coins, no fake currencies, no streak-guilt notifications.
- Curated themed categories: Animals, Food, Science, Space, Mythology, Movies & TV, and more. Every category hand-built, not a random dump of words.
- Printable PDF puzzle paper, including a version sized for e-ink tablets. Export any puzzle as a clean multi-page sheet, perfect for the commute, the kitchen table, or your favorite e-reader.
- Share your daily result. A spoiler-free emoji grid you can drop into any chat, your time and stars, answer hidden.
- Fully offline. Puzzles generate on your device. Play on a plane, on the subway, or anywhere with no signal.
- Private by design. No analytics, no tracking, no data collection. Your progress lives on your device (or your own iCloud, if you choose).
HOW IT WORKS
FREE: Three puzzles a day, drawn from a random themed category. Three free hints per puzzle type per day. Daily challenges, streaks, and achievements all work on the free tier.
UNLOCK EVERYTHING: A one-time purchase removes the three-per-day cap, unlocks every themed category so you can pick what to play, and gives unlimited hints. Yours forever. No subscription, no recurring charges.
PLAY IN YOUR LANGUAGE
The app is available in 17 languages. Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese also get their own hand-built puzzle content, thousands of native words and clues written for that language rather than machine-translated from English. Other languages use the English puzzle set with a fully translated interface.
MADE BY CHARDIE
Wordalo is built by a solo developer. Every clue is hand-curated. Every theme is chosen because it's genuinely interesting, not because it hits a demographic target. If something needs fixing, email contact@chardie.co.uk, it comes straight to my inbox.
Requires iPhone or iPad running iOS 17 or later. AirPrint-compatible printer required for PDF export (optional).
Happy solving.
Ratings & Reviews
Four more seasons.
Valentine's Day and Easter puzzles join Halloween and Christmas, plus a general Summer pack for the warmer months. Thanksgiving is here too. Same as before: 100 clued words each, part of the one-time Wordalo unlock, with a banner on the Today tab whenever a season is live.
Easter moves with the calendar every year, so the app now works out the actual date rather than using a fixed window.
The developer, Christopher Hardy, 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.
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Christopher Hardy
- Size
- 11.5 MB
- Category
- Puzzle
- 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 and 16 more
- English, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlock Everything $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Chris Hardy
