iPad · iPhone
Chai & Jadval
The Persian newspaper crossword, with a cup of tea
A Persian crossword (جدول) for iPad and iPhone, made for relaxed everyday play. A fresh newspaper-style grid every time, clues from Persian poetry and the Iranian kitchen, large letters and a big Persian keyboard. Free, with no ads.
Free, with no ads, no in-app purchases and no account. Requires iPadOS or iOS 16 or later.
چای و جدول
Like the newspaper puzzle, with a cup of tea.
For many Iranians the morning paper meant a jadval and a glass of tea. Chai & Jadval brings that small daily ritual to the iPad, for parents and grandparents who now live far from those newspapers.
Everything is in Persian: the grid, the clues, the buttons and the keyboard.
A new puzzle every time
It never runs out.
Chai & Jadval builds a fresh grid whenever you ask: the classic newspaper style with black squares and numbered rows and columns, or a free-form style where words cross one another. Three sizes, from a quick 7×7 to a full 11×11.
More than 2,000 words, with clues written for Persian speakers: Hafez and Saadi, heroes of the Shahnameh, Iranian cities and rivers, classic singers and films, Nowruz and Yalda, and dishes from the Persian kitchen.
Easy on the eyes and hands
Large letters. A big Persian keyboard.
The keyboard is built into the app, in alphabet order, with keys large enough for any finger. There is no Apple Pencil to find and no keyboard language to switch.
A text-size button makes clues and buttons larger, and the app runs on older iPads with iPadOS 16.
Help without penalties
Stuck? Ask for a letter.
Reveal one letter, check a word, show a whole word or check the entire grid. Mistakes turn red, given letters turn green, and there are no timers and no scores.
An unfinished puzzle is saved automatically, so tomorrow morning starts where today stopped.
For the whole family
Send the solved puzzle home.
The puzzle of the day is the same for everyone, dated in the Persian calendar, so family members in different cities can solve it together.
When a grid is finished, one tap makes a picture of it to send to children and grandchildren by WhatsApp or Messages. Nothing is sent unless you choose to send it.
Private by design
No ads. No account. No internet.
Chai & Jadval contains no advertising, no analytics and no third-party code, and it never connects to the internet. The puzzles are made on the device itself, and the game in progress is saved only there.
The only ways out of the app are ones you choose: the share sheet, and the About page's links to this website.
The rest of it
Small things that matter.
Two styles
Newspaper style with black squares, or free-form crossing words. Switch any time.
Persian calendar
Today's puzzle is labelled with the Persian date, and numbers are written in Persian digits.
iPad, both ways
Upright, the grid sits above the keyboard. Turned sideways, the grid and the keyboard sit side by side.
iPhone too
The same puzzles on iPhone, with the settings tucked behind one button.
Specifications
- Platforms
- iPad and iPhone, iPadOS or iOS 16 or later
- Price
- Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- Language
- Persian (Farsi) puzzles and interface
- Puzzles
- Made on the device, without end; more than 2,000 words and clues
- Account required
- None
- Network connections
- None. Links on the About page open this website in Safari only when tapped
- Data collected
- None