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24 alternatives to NYT Crossword Assistant

A Chrome Extension that provides hints for NYT puzzles.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. NYT Crossword Assistant launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
XW Stats▲62
Personalized and global statistics for NYT crossword puzzles
2022 · xwstats.com · its alternatives →
2
NYT Crossword Answer▲2
NYT Crossword Answers: Daily hints and puzzle analysis.
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
3
Letter Boxed Solver▲79
Solutions and hints for the NYTimes Letter Boxed word game.
2023 · letterboxedplus.com · its alternatives →
4
NYT Cooking▲278
iPhone app with 17,000 free recipes from The New York Times
2015 · cooking.nytimes.com · its alternatives →
5
New York Times APIs▲247
Why just read the news when you can hack it?
2014 · its alternatives →
6
Wordle Hint Today▲7
Sequentially input Wordle guesses to find all possible words
2025 · its alternatives →
7
NYT Solvers▲2
Solve all NYT puzzles & games daily!
Mar 2026 · nytsolvers.com · its alternatives →
8
WordHint▲4
Hints & Answers for NYT Puzzles like Wordle
2024 · wordhint.net · its alternatives →
9
Cross Search▲70
Crossword meets Word Search
2022 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
10
NYT Connections Hint▲8
Daily Updates on NY Times Connections Game Tips
2024 · nytconnectionshint.net · its alternatives →
11
Make Twitter Great Again▲222
Chrome extension that hides tweets about the 2016 election
2016 · maketwittergreatagain.weebly.com · its alternatives →
12
Connections Hintz▲12
Daily hints and answer to NYT connections
2025 · connectionshintz.com · its alternatives →
13
twitti▲112
ChatGPT extension on steroids for your chrome browser
2024 · its alternatives →
14
Wordlink▲124
Connect words across topics, race against time!
2025 · reddit.com · its alternatives →
15
NytConnectionsHints▲9
Daily NYT Connections hints, clues & answers—easy to find!
2025 · its alternatives →
16
zorsehint.com▲8
Zorse hints and answer today
2024 · zorsehint.com · its alternatives →
17
HackerNew for Chrome▲150
I've been working on and off on a Chrome Extension for Hacker News, the extension focusses on improved usability rather than design. I can almost guarantee that after a day you won't want to go back to regular Hacker News. Give it a try, features include: - Improved readability - Quick inline replies from comments page - Quick profiles with social network info when hovering over usernames - Filtering of stories based on terms and phrases / domain or user - Endless scrolling - Collapsible comment threads - Social sharing for Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Buffer Forks, improvements and comments…
2012 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
18
Not phone it in - NYT Crossword Solver▲7
solver for the NYT Mini Crossword clue 'Not phone it in'
2025 · notphoneitinnyt.online · its alternatives →
19
Stopaganda Plus▲77
Identify news source credibility on social media and search
2020 · addons.mozilla.org · its alternatives →
20
TabReadReminder▲105
We remind you to read the best articles from your open tabs
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
21
New Work Buzzwords▲74
Chrome Extension that highlights new work buzzwords
2020 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
22
GPTweet▲106
Reply to Tweets with ChatGPT, 100% free
2023 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
23
Letter Boxed Answers▲14
Get smarter with NYT Letter Boxed answers
2025 · its alternatives →
24
Chrome extension to summarize blogs and articles using ChatGPT▲116
Summarize web pages using OpenAI ChatGPT. Contribute to clmnin/summarize.site development by creating an account on GitHub.
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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