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
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
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
First snapshot captured. The trend line starts after the next crawler price observation.
- First observed Aug 7, 2026 · 9:57 PM Free