Foolscap.

One beautiful clue-ladder a day — composed on your iPhone, and yours alone.

Each morning Foolscap sets a fresh ladder of cryptic clues, never repeating. Solve a rung and the next inherits a letter, so the day's sheet is one connected climb. Each solve reveals its wordplay — the "why" a good crossword editor would point to — so the tricks start to click.

What makes it different

• A fresh, fair cryptic ladder every day, composed on your phone — never a re-run, never a download.
• No streak, no leaderboard, no XP, no badges. What keeps you coming back is the puzzle, not a number you're afraid to break.
• Fully offline. No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking. Nothing leaves your phone.
• Every clue is checked on your device before you see it — the wordplay leads to the answer, and no other word also solves it.

Free, and paid

A taste of every day's ladder is free, plus the full ladder for your first days. Foolscap Plus opens the complete daily ladder, the wordplay decompositions, and the archive of every past day — each one recomposed on your phone, never stored.

Foolscap is a calm word game from Hadger studio. It makes no brain-training or cognitive-improvement claim. Questions: hadger.support@gmail.com.