OneDown - Premium Crosswords

This app is poorly conceived, poorly designed, and poorly executed. 1. The scrolling is sluggish. I’ve narrowed this down to an issue with the app and not my phone. 2. For some reason this uses a proprietary keyboard aesthetic vs the normal Apple one. It HAS to be Android derived. 3. When typing in a clue it has NO awareness of the clues around it. For instance if you have all of the across filled save a few boxes and those are all in the same down clue, when you start typing is just automatically starts in your across box and starts typing over your current correct answer. 4. When you start typing ALL OF THE CLUES ARE COVERED BY THE OBNOXIOUS KEYBOARD! 5. There is NO easy way to get from across to down. If I fill out 1 across I wanna look to see what 1 down is, but to do that you have to scroll ALL THE WAY through the across clues to get to the down ones. 6. You can’t even rotate the game to get more space! This is just a clunky ill-conceived mess. I can credit the developer for their attempt, but can’t recommend this app. To anyone. I was going to give them the benefit of the doubt but it’s not been updated in over a year. They don’t care about it and it shows, and that’s unfortunate because with a lot of work this could be a decent crossword game. Don’t waste your money. Even if it’s free it’s not worth the space.

I enjoyed solving the puzzles. For me, some words were hard but solvable if you put your mind to them. Some words were difficult, but not impossible. All crosswords makers have a style they use, I like the way this maker designed these.