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Black Ink 2

Red Sweater Software

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Open on Apple

About this app

Solve Crossword Puzzles in Style: free to download and use, with optional paid upgrade for premium features. Try all the premium features for 14 days with a free in-app-trial "purchase."  NOTE: You will only be charged if you choose to unlock premium features permanently. Everything you need to download, solve, and print puzzles on your Mac. Compatible with macOS 10.12 and later. Black Ink is free to use indefinitely with some premium features disabled. Unlock Black Ink's premium features with a one-time purchase to enjoy these additional features: - Check your answers with most puzzles - Race the clock with our puzzle timer - Print book-quality copies of puzzles for solving on paper Black Ink opens and solves puzzles that use the Across Lite format, which are distributed by several free and paid sources in the United States, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Values Club, and others.

Latest release

What’s New

Version 2.4.8 May 23, 2026

This update restores expected functionality when the "Mark incorrect answers as they are entered" setting is enabled. The previous 2.4.7 update included these changes: - Fixed a bug that could prevent the focused clue from being made visible in the clue list - Fixed a bug that prevented UTF-8 characters from being saved correctly to Across Lite format - Fixed an issue where puzzle files were being repeatedly reloaded from the archive - Fixed a bug that caused the premium features restriction notice to appear when finishing a puzzle - Fixed a visual alignment problem with the Startup settings pane content - Clues with literal newlines are now interpreted and formatted correctly

Audience growth

Ratings growth

Steady
7-day gain +0
Ratings / day 0.0
30-day gain +0
US rating-count history
0 ratings
0 Aug 7, 2026 · 0 ratings Aug 7, 2026

Baseline captured. Growth appears after the crawler observes a changed rating count.

Momentum comes from crawler snapshots for the tracked storefront. “Viral growth signal” means unusually fast recent rating gains; it is an indicator, not download data.

Price tracking

Price intelligence

1 captured event
Current Free
Historical low Free
Paid → free
Price history
Current Free
Free Aug 7, 2026 · Free Aug 7, 2026

First snapshot captured. The trend line starts after the next crawler price observation.

  1. First observed Aug 7, 2026 · 9:57 PM Free

Screenshots

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