Across Lite Crosswords

🇺🇸 United States
Literate Software LLC  | 
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App Rating
4.3
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5.82K
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App Age
14y
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Last Update
Apr 30, 2021
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iAP
$1.99 - 4.99

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Rating
4.43
4.62
-4%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
5.8K
465.6K
-99%
App Age
13y 12m
6y 6m
+115%
In-app Purchases Price
$3
$17
-80 %
Update Frequency
1688d
79d
+2 043%
Title Length
22
25
-12%
Subtitle Length
25
27
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Description Length
3 984
2 234
+78%
Number of Screenshots
172
1162
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Size
0MB
275MB

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Title (
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Across Lite Crosswords
Subtitle (
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Gold standard for solvers
Description (
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TL;DR: The app for unlimited solving of crosswords published online for Across Lite by major publishers and renowned authors. Across Lite is hand-crafted with an eye for detail that only people who love both software and crosswords can create. Version 4 is state-of-the-art in features and aesthetics. Since 1995, more crosswords are published for Across Lite than any other format. Loyal users have enjoyed our software for decades. Whether you are a beginner or a fanatical expert, you will be able to enjoy the best in crosswords daily. If you find published puzzles difficult, you can purchase our highly acclaimed trainer crossword series inside the app. INTRODUCTION: Across Lite is the de facto standard for publishing crosswords on the web - from newspapers such as The New York Times to independent authors - free or with subscription. The app includes a set of bookmarks to some of the well-known sources crosswords published for Across Lite. Downloading crosswords into Across Lite is easy. Puzzles can be downloaded and available to solve even when offline. HIGHLIGHTS: People who have used Across Lite on any platform know there is nothing Lite about it. It has more user-friendly and advanced features than any other software out there. In addition to Across Lite signature features that has set the standard such as pen and pencil modes, extensive check and reveal commands, or ink saver for printing, there are ground-breaking features that are much copied but never equaled: - For the traditionalists, the unique Page View mode allows you to view and solve the crossword just like a printed crossword, the closest you can come to solving on paper. The List View provides the conventional computer-like interface for the gamers. But here is the best part - with single taps you can instantaneously switch back and forth between them allowing a type of solving never before possible. Once you get used to solving like this, nothing less will do. - The app contains our original invention - SmartMove™ - which captures a method experts instinctively use to solve in a criss-cross manner leveraging previously entered letters. Use it for a while and you will develop that habit for fast and effective solving. - Because no two solvers are alike, the app provides the most flexible and customizable interfaces. Both left-handed and right-handed people can find a layout that caters to them. UPGRADE: We request serious solvers and those who appreciate our efforts to consider purchasing an upgrade from inside the app. The upgrade enables the following: - An embedded web browser for easy downloading of puzzles - A timer for those who wish to measure themselves. - Ability to enter multiple characters for rebus puzzles. - A unique color and contrast setting feature designed to reduce eye strain from looking at the traditional white background (perhaps because we, at Litsoft, are getting older!). It can be customized to personal tastes and to light conditions, so for example, solving in the dark does not turn you into a lighthouse for your spouse. Just try it out and we are certain that over time you will discover and come to appreciate all the small touches we have embedded in the app. Enjoy! NOTE about availability of crosswords: - This app is a solver for independent crosswords published online in Across Lite format. Other than any crosswords for sale inside the app, it is NOT a supplier of crosswords. - To respect a publishing site's terms of service and to avoid copyright infringement, it does NOT automatically fetch crosswords for you without visiting the site. Doing so is a violation of publisher copyrights and reputable software will not do this. - It does NOT guarantee availability of crosswords from publishers who make their own decisions on availability and access including charging for them on their web sites. If there are any problems with the access to crosswords on any site, please contact the site directly.}
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4.3
5 815 voters

Some Latest Reviews

Sstjet
18 Sep, 2025
4
Can anyone explain why the Wall Street Journal puzzle no,longer functions?
Big Mike Big 8
05 Sep, 2025
3
Love the crossword software. Can’t understand why every WSJ Friday puzzle will only accept “X” in any space. If I reveal the solution to the entire puzzle, it’s “X” in every space. This would seem to be a simple fix, but it’s been FIVE YEARS since the last update?? C’mon guys, give your loyal solvers a little help.
Raketheyard
15 May, 2025
1
This app, on iPad, used to provide rebus capability but for some reason now makes you pay for it. On a MacBook it doesn’t cost extra. Why should a function that crossword designers build into their puzzles require me to upgrade?
Wordfreinder
28 Jan, 2025
5
I use this every day. It makes a puzzle a bit easy but early in the morning that’s a good thing. I’ve been using Across Lite for Years
Germanderspeedwell
17 Jan, 2025
1
I love the puzzles but, hate the ones where the answers are all XEs. Those are frustrating and a complete waste of time for me. Please stop doing that. Just please give me your usual, fun crosswords.
Big Mike Big 8
23 Oct, 2024
3
Good crossword app. Still getting WSJ puzzle on Fridays that will only accept X in any space. Could be corrected with update but it’s apparently been 4 YEARS since the last update?? Come on, guys.
MarkLeedsUK
30 Aug, 2024
2
Bought the premium to support it. Few issues: 1) feedback apparently queues into the apple mail app, something I never use, ridiculous. I have 4000+ apps and have never seen anything his silly. Use the url scheme and open in the default app, don’t stick it in a black hole where it will never be delivered - or is that the point? 2) it doesn’t display multi-word answers. Other apps either change the cell colours per word or put the heavy bars in between words, so an answer (4,3) or (3,3,3) is much easier to visualise. 3) if I drag multiple .puz files from Files to acrosslite, it imports the first one!! I have a few thousand to add to the library, it would be nice if it came into the 21st century and allowed me to do more than one at a time. 4) nice if double tapping a cell selected the whole answer and toggled across/down if applicable. 5) switching out of the app and then back presents me with an empty grid. The only way to repopulate it is to go to the library and re-open it. That’s very annoying. It really, really, needs updating. 2024 update - years on and none of these have been addressed.
Big Mike Big 8
02 Jul, 2024
3
The best crossword app out there. Still getting WSJ puzzle on Fridays that will only accept X in any space. Those are puzzles with the paper clip clue attached.
Anon ee Mouse
23 May, 2024
5
I run the app on an iPad and so it goes with me all of the time… Popping it open even for just a few minutes is fun. If you go through either all the vertical words or the horizontal words first, it becomes a speed game of filling in the blanks. Its a great app. Five stars.

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Additional Information
Rating:
4.28
Voted: 5.82K
App Store Link:
Website:
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Categories: Word, Games, Education, Puzzle
Size: -
iAP: 1.99 - 4.99 $
App Age: 14 years
Release Date: Dec 21, 2011
Last Update: Apr 30, 2021
Version: 6.26.1
Version history
6.26.1
Apr 30, 2021
Поправили ошибки и оптимизировали внутренние алгоритмы.
4.1.3
Apr 02, 2020
Minimum iOS required raised to 11.x, since new updates to the App Store will not run on older (32-bit) iPads with iOS 10 or earlier. People with older iPads should see the last known running version v 4.1 available to them for install.

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