Crosswords
Classic themed crosswords with symmetric grids and straightforward British cluing. If you'd like, the clues can be read aloud.
A Manchester-made iOS app
A daily puzzle paper for people who love words.
Six kinds of puzzle. Fifty themed packs. A fresh edition every morning on your iPhone or iPad. Wordalo is built for people who grew up doing the back-page crossword, and still enjoy a proper puzzle with their morning tea.
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Puzzle Types
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Inside today's paper
Six familiar puzzles. Built properly.
You get six kinds of puzzle, all of them classics from the back pages of newspapers. Each grid is themed, each clue is written in plain British English, and none of them bother you while you solve.
Word Search
Find the hidden words. Easy, medium, or hard. Diagonals and reverse words are optional if you want a harder grid.
Anagrams
Unscramble a jumble of letters to reveal the word. Use a hint if you get stuck. There's no timer, so take as long as you like.
Fill In
A single clue and a word with some letters missing. Type in what you think it is. Good for the short gaps in a day.
Word Connect
Draw lines between letters on a wheel to spell words. Find every word that can be made from the set.
Codewords
Each letter of the alphabet has been swapped for a number. You get three to start with. Work out the rest one word at a time.
Clear grids. Big type. Clues that make sense. The puzzle page of a good newspaper, on your phone. The Wordalo brief
Fifty themed packs
A puzzle paper with a sense of place.
Every puzzle is drawn from one of fifty themed word packs. The theme changes, the style doesn't. Here are a few of them.
Royal BritainTea & BiscuitsClassic CinemaThe CountrysideGardens & NatureBritish HistoryThe SeasideLiteratureLondonThe Lake DistrictPub QuizShakespeareBirdsongMarket DaysThe RailwayWartime YearsProverbsGreat InventionsFolk SongsPoetryand thirty more
Printable broadsheet
Print the puzzles onto real paper.
With a subscription you can generate a four-page PDF puzzle paper every morning. Word search on page one, crossword on page two, anagrams on page three, solutions on the back.
AirPrint it from your phone, put it in an envelope, or fold it for the train. Some of us still prefer a pencil.
Today's Paper
- Page One. Word Search.
- Page Two. The Daily Crossword.
- Page Three. Anagrams & a Puzzler.
- Page Four. Solutions. No peeking.
On your phone
It looks the way the puzzle page used to look.
★★★★★
"Finally, a puzzle app that looks like it was made for grown-ups."Early reader
★★★★★
"The clues are good. The type is big enough. I've been printing the paper version to take to my allotment."Early reader
★★★★★
"Quiet, calm, no adverts. That alone is worth the price."Tester
What you won't find
A quieter sort of puzzle app.
No adverts
Not at the top, not at the bottom, not between levels. If you subscribe, you support the app directly. If you don't, you still get five puzzles a day.
No tracking
Your progress lives on your device and in your own iCloud. We don't operate an analytics server or share anything with anybody.
No confetti
When you solve a puzzle, the app says "solved" and moves on. There are no animations designed to make a toddler happy.