Black Ink 2
macOS / Jeux
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, including macOS Catalina.
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.
Quoi de neuf dans la dernière version ?
This update includes the following general improvements:
- Fix a bug that prevented the puzzle chooser from defaulting to the previously selected month and year
- Non-applicable comments in some visual NYT clues are no longer displayed
- Printing improvements to avoid splitting a clue's text across pages or wrapping prematurely
- Puzzle timer now records puzzle solve timing even if timer is not visible
- If the app is opened in the background, puzzle timer won't start until app is activated
Accessibility Improvements:
- Puzzle square status such as being circled or shaded, marked incorrect, etc., are now announced by VoiceOver
- Fix a bug that could prevent changed values to cells being reflected by VoiceOver
Version 2.3.2 fixed a bug, introduced in 2.3.1, that caused an alert to appear after every entry if "Auto check" is enabled and the puzzle has no answers included.
The 2.3.1 update included the following changes:
- New puzzle sources: Lex's Minis and Lex's Crosswords
- Improved the accuracy of overlay image drawing over puzzle grid
- Fixed the drawing of overlay image drawing in printed puzzles
- Attempting to check or reveal answers on puzzles with no answers now displays an explanatory alert
- Improve performance when opening the puzzle chooser when it has to search many years for an unsolved puzzle
- Now adapts the window size more precisely when screen resolution changes
- Fix a glitch that caused the Puzzle Notes text to no longer fit in the popover when detached from window
- Puzzle chooser now ensures the selected source name is visible
- Fix an issue that caused excessive memory use when opening and closing many puzzles
- Now supports entering a hyphen or a period as a special entry answer
Black Ink 2.3 included the following changes:
- Now supports puzzles that specify graphical overlays on the puzzle
- Now supports puzzles that specify multiple correct answers for a given square
- Blank answers that are correct are now treated as such
- Small adjustments to size and layout of puzzle title and copyright
- Fix a bug that caused puzzles to close without being saved in some cases
- Now requires macOS 10.15.4 or later
