Jigsaw Puzzles for Adults HD

I have tried several apps. This one is my favorite. The puzzles are beautiful and well designed for jigsaw puzzles (not all blue sky), it has a lot of options (choose number of pieces, edges first), flashing the pieces on the board. But, some other apps have this too. What makes them stand out is the value. The deals for getting a lot of puzzles for a low price, the vast number of puzzles, plus a daily free puzzles and the occasional free puzzle in the library keeps me coming back. It is also nice that there are no annoyances. They have offers for more puzzles that pops up when you first open the app, but that’s it. This means that you can take a look at the picture while putting together the puzzle and not have to wait through ads. And, it does not immediately wisk you away to another ad as soon as you are finished with a puzzle. My wishes are (1) that we can see the puzzles inside the daily deals before buying (2) that the tray could be white so that the shape is easier to see. It has the option of choosing the background color, but the color in the tray is a darker version of this. (This is less of an issue now that I have discovered the Edges option, however.). (3) I wish that it showed the number of puzzles that I have purchased and which ones I have completed some puzzles in.

Updates since the big one done around Thanksgiving have gradually turn this back into the app I loved!! I play it nearly every day again. The only new function I still don’t care for is the screen rotation. I would prefer it stay locked in a horizontal position. I also added app to my phone but doubt I’ll ever use it there as screen is just too small for puzzles. *** Before yesterday I loved this app, and hope things will eventually get fixed so I love it again. With the current update it has become difficult to even get a piece to move. I often have to select it numerous times to get it to go anywhere (I’ve used both my finger and a pen). I really don’t like that the board rotates when you rotate your ipad. It keeps me from looking at my puzzle at a new angle. Don’t really care for the new slightly smaller board, or that what when you want to preview the image it fills the screen. It was often helpful to see the preview and the work I’d already done at the same time. I lost all my statistics except total puzzles played (no longer have time averages or counts for each size puzzle). But what upsets me the most (other than the pieces not responding like they use to) is that almost half the puzzle packets I’ve accumulated over time (250+) I can’t seem to access now.

My wife and I downloaded this app and, although the ads were annoying at first, the rest of the app was good enough to make up for it. An ad comes up, you wait a few seconds for a tiny, minuscule “x” to pop in the corner, you hit the “x” and the ad goes away and you go back to the puzzle. Now, at least once or twice an hour we get malicious adware on this app trying to convince us that there are multiple viruses on our iPad Pro due to visiting “adult websites” and we need to go immediately to their website and pay them to remove it. We’ve never been to any “adult websites” and, as it turns out, there are no viruses on our iPad either. A little online research showed that there are several disreputable apps out there that allow this sort of malicious adware to be used within their apps. Unfortunately, this otherwise nice puzzle app is one of the ones that allow this sort of malicious material to appear in their app. If it were just another ad, the “x” would appear and you could get rid of it like the rest of the ads. This malicious adware doesn’t do that. It locks the app completely, forcing you to kill the app and start all over again. I would definitely avoid this app like the plague until these types of ads are no longer allowed within the app.

For years I used a different puzzle app and actually I still do. But I decided to see what else was available and I found this one. I love the pictures and the way the pieces are arranged so they are so easy to get to. When using actual puzzles I always started with the edge pieces first. This puzzle app makes this easy. They are arranged in a edge column so you can drag each piece into the workspace easily. You can even separate the edge pieces from inside pieces with just a tap of a choice button. I can pull them out quickly and get started, unlike the other puzzle app where I have to spend more time arranging the pieces. The internal pieces are just as easy to get to to complete the puzzle. I have 2 improvements to suggest: 1) add choices of background colors. Any puzzle that have grey colors blend with the background making it difficult to see the pieces. I just finished the free puzzle of the day, 4/18, and I ran into that problem. For a while I thought I had run into a glitch when I could not find an edge piece because it was so close in color to the background or work board space. 2). Add a name or some description to each puzzle. Sometimes when I do a scenic puzzle, I would love to know where it is in the world. Finally, thanks for a great puzzle app.!

I have used this app for years and always enjoyed it, but the latest couple of upgrades have been frustrating and today’s even more so. The changing of where things are is frustrating when you have worked it for years and your fingers automatically go. I liked the pieces on the side and do not like them at the bottom! Imagine my dismay when a puzzle I had spent hours working on suddenly had no pieces on the board they had gone to the pieces area. When I went out to figure out what had happened and if there was a way to undo the action for I did not even think I had touched anything. When I found where they had out the in progress puzzles, the one I had just been working on was not even there. I can’t seem to find it! Sorry guys, but this is not acceptable, that you can accidentally lose all the work you have done and there is no way to put it back! I am amazed that I received a response to this review from the company. I appreciate their answers and concerns about my experience and willingness to take into account what I am concerned about. This is why I am updating my review. There is one comment they made which is not true in my case. If all the pieces have exited your board accidentally, and you close down the free daily puzzle it does not save it in the puzzle in progress, it just disappears.