Cipher Munch
Cryptogram Puzzles & Ciphers
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Crack Atbash, Caesar, Pigpen, and the Dancing Men, Aristocrats, Patristocrats, Xenocrypt ciphers. Thousands of cipher puzzles - solve quotes sharpen your mind, repeat.
Cipher Munch is a hand-crafted cryptogram collection for code crackers, word game puzzle lovers, and curious minds from beginners to experts. Whether you want casual cryptogram practice or serious aristocrat practice for competition, each puzzle hides a memorable quote behind a classical cipher. Crack the code and enjoy the quote. Designed for cipher competition coaches and students.
No ads. No Wi-Fi needed. Syncs your stats between iPhone, iPad, iPad on Mac when it can.
WHAT YOU'LL SOLVE
• Atbash: basic mirror substitutions
• Visual ciphers: Pigpen, the Dancing Men from Sherlock Holmes, and the Knights Templar cipher
• Caesar: the cipher Julius Caesar wrote with
• Aristocrats: classic letter-substitution cryptograms with spaces preserved
• Aristocrat K1 & K2: keyword ciphers with a scrambled alphabet
• Patristocrats K1 & K2: letters regrouped into 5-letter blocks, no word boundaries
• Affine: number-based substitutions
• Xenocrypt: Spanish-language aristocrats (27-letter alphabet, with the Ñ)
EVERY PUZZLE IS A REAL QUOTE
Thousands of quotes from writers, scientists, philosophers, and statesmen, including Mark Twain, Maya Angelou, Aristotle, and many more. It's cryptogram practice that leaves you a little smarter than it found you.
PERFECT FOR COMPETITION PRACTICE
Cipher Munch is purpose-built for the classical-cipher events at academic cryptography competitions. The formats covered (Aristocrat, Patristocrat, Xenocrypt, Caesar, Affine, Atbash, and keyword variants) are standard at the high-school and collegiate level. If you need focused aristocrat practice, there are thousands of puzzles waiting.
The frequency grid, in-puzzle hints, per-cipher stats, and hardware-keyboard support turn solo aristocrat practice into real timed-event readiness.
BUILT FOR BEGINNERS AND SERIOUS SOLVERS
Lots of help, depending on your level:
• Frequency highlighting
• Multiple-letter highlighting
• Error highlighting
• Translation tables
• Caesar decoder
• Print & Share
• Custom keyboard tuned for fast letter-mapping
• Hardware-keyboard support
• Cipher reference sheet
• Adjustable puzzle text size
• Per-cipher progress tracking and stats
• Light and dark themes that look great
• Works completely offline: no account, no tracking, no ads
Every tool is there to make your cryptogram practice faster and your code cracking sharper.
ACHIEVEMENTS & DAILY STREAK
• Daily streak: your current solving streak lives right on the main menu; solve at least one puzzle a day to keep it going
• Achievements: unlock badges for total puzzles solved, milestones within each cipher type, and streak lengths
• Tap any achievement to see the details and your progress, and share the ones you've earned as a polished gold medallion image
BUILT FOR THE LONG HAUL
• Many packs per cipher type: a free Starter pack plus bundles by category, and a Mega Bundle
• iCloud sync: your progress and stats back up automatically and follow you to a new device, no account needed
PRIVACY FIRST
No ads, no tracking, no sign-up, and we don't collect your personal data. Your progress syncs through your own private iCloud account, so it follows you to a new phone and stays private (we can't see it).
UPGRADE WHEN YOU'RE READY
Start free with the Starter pack for every cipher type, plenty for daily cryptogram practice. Unlock more with:
• A single volume: one-time purchase
• A cipher-type subscription: all volumes of one cipher
• All Access: every cipher, every volume, unlimited hints
Whether you're a weekend code cracker or training for a title, there's a path for you.
Subscriptions auto-renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the period and can be managed in your Apple ID settings.
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Information
- Provider
- Mehra Pirzadeh
- Size
- 130 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Xenocrypt Access USD 3.99
- Pigpen Access USD 3.99
- Dancing Men Access USD 3.99
- Patristocrat K2 Access USD 3.99
- Knights Templar Access USD 3.99
- Atbash Access USD 3.99
- Affine Access USD 3.99
- Patristocrat K1 Access USD 3.99
- Aristocrat K1 Access USD 3.99
- Caesar Access USD 3.99
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