Crossword Guru
Daily Word Search Puzzles
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Challenge a friend to beat your daily time and find out the moment they finish. 3,000 levels, a fresh daily puzzle, streaks, and no ads or anything to buy.
Crossword Guru is a swipe word search. Every level hides a list of words in a grid of letters, and you drag across the letters in any straight line to find them.
Start with a 4x4 grid and three words. Work up through 3,000 levels to 10x10 grids and lists of up to seventeen words. Early levels only hide words across and down. Later levels add diagonals and reversed words until all eight directions are in play. There is no timer to beat and no way to lose a level. The clock only decides how many stars and bonus points you earn.
Every day brings one shared 12x12 puzzle. Everyone in the world gets the same grid, so the daily leaderboard compares solve times fairly. Finish it to extend your streak and see your rank, the fastest time and the average.
Points come from the letters you find. Longer words score more, quick finds multiply the score, bigger grids multiply it again, and finishing under the target time adds a completion bonus. The bonus orb on screen shows your live multiplier from Lightning down to Normal.
Stuck on a word? Hints are free and unlimited. A hint lights up one letter of a word you have not found yet.
Play with friends. Search by username, send requests, and compare levels, points and stars. Share a score card from your profile. The global leaderboard ranks every player by total points, and each level shows where your time stands among everyone who solved it.
Your progress follows your account. Sign in with Apple, Google or email and continue on any phone or tablet.
Features
Level grids from 4x4 to 10x10 across eight named phases from Tutorial to Master, plus a 12x12 daily puzzle
One shared daily puzzle with streaks and a daily leaderboard
Three star rating and a completion bonus on every level
Free unlimited hints
Global leaderboard and per level rankings
Friends, requests and a public or private profile
Light and dark themes and a reduce motion option
Interface in English, Spanish, French, German, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and Japanese
Word lists are in English
No ads, no in app purchases, no subscriptions
An account is needed to play because leaderboards, friends, daily rankings and cloud sync are all tied to it. You can delete your account and its data from Settings at any time.
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Friend challenges are here.
Finish the daily puzzle, then challenge a friend to beat your time. They get a notification, and when they finish you see who won, with both times and ranks side by side.
Friend notifications now let you know when someone sends you a friend request, accepts yours, finishes the daily, or reaches a streak milestone. You can turn them off any time in Settings.
A new Challenges button on the home screen keeps your results in one place and shows a badge when a new one arrives.
Plus cleaner layouts on smaller phones and a round of fixes.
The developer, Haider Ali, 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 Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- User Content
- Identifiers
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Haider Ali
- Size
- 74.5 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 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+
- Infrequent
Contests
- Copyright
- © 2026 Haider Ali