2022-05-28
Thanks very nice game
Thanks very nice game
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Description
Have fun and train your brain with one of the most downloaded sudoku apps in the AppStore! Millions of people play sudoku daily and it’s truly a game for everyone! Sudoku.com app has thousands of classic sudoku puzzles to help you keep your brain active, unwind from stress or relax. Install to play now!
Classic sudoku for beginners and advanced players. Whether you'd like to relax or keep your mind active – pass the time in a pleasant way! Get a short stimulating break or clear your head with Sudoku.com. Take your favourite game with you wherever you go. Playing Sudoku.com on mobile is as good as with a pencil and paper.
Choose any level you like. Play easier levels to challenge your brain, or try expert levels to give your mind a real workout. Sudoku.com has some features that make the game easier for you: hints, auto-check, and highlight duplicates. You can use them, or complete the challenge without help – it's up to you! What's more, in Sudoku.com each puzzle has one solution.
Get an amazing sudoku experience:
· Make notes to keep track of possible numbers. Each time you fill in a cell, your notes are automatically updated!
· Hints can guide you when you get stuck
· Complete Daily Challenges and get unique trophies
· Take part in Seasonal events and win unique medals
· View Statistics and track your progress
· Choose one of three appearances to play sudoku with more comfortably, even in the dark!
· Challenge yourself and figure out your mistakes, or enable Auto-Check to see your mistakes as you go
· Highlight duplicates to avoid repeating numbers in a row, column and block
· Express yourself with funny ninja stickers for iMessage!
Challenge your brain with Sudoku.com anywhere, anytime!
What's New in Version 4.12.0
- Performance and stability improvements
We hope that you enjoy playing Sudoku.com. We read all your reviews carefully to make the game even better for you. Please leave us some feedback to let us know why you love this game and what you'd like us to improve in it. Keep your mind active with Sudoku.com!
Seller
Name
Easybrain Ltd
Information
Developer
Categories
Version
4.12.0
Size
139.9 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated: 4+
Compatibility
iOS 11.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SEThirdGen, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad AirFifthGen, iPad AirFifthGenCellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Arabic, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.7 of 5 (236,975 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2022-05-28
Fiona
This is perfect just choose your own level and go for it having 3 mistakes is a great booster.
2022-05-28
DOESNT PLAY MUSIC SMOOTHLY
anytime i have music on and i go on the app the music crackles and then stops and when i try to start it either nothing happens or it crackles and stops again
PLEASE FIX THIS
2022-05-28
Getting used to keypad sudoku
Bit tricky for an old school pen and paper solver, keep making “mistakes” when it is me being useless on iPhone keypad!
2022-05-28
Great
Free sudoku, great
2022-05-27
Bertiebobsbaby
Great game, love it.
2022-05-27
Excellent
Always start my day with the daily challenge. Gets the brain into gear!
2022-05-26
Top game
I love this game. Even better with less adds.
GREAT
2022-05-25
Adverts now appear during timed games !
What a stupid idea to allow adverts during games which are against the clock ! No chance of beating your best times now
Great move developers .. well done Was a half decent version ruined by greed on the part of the developer.
The response is a same to all complaints so disregard the so called “genuine concern “ No end of reasonable dialogue to the developer results in the same response so I would advise you to look elsewhere.
Poor show would give it no stars
2022-05-24
Great game, but operating issues
This is perhaps the best Sudoku app I’ve used! Intuitive and usable. The ads are annoying, but completely understandable!
My one gripe is that after about 10 minutes, the app starts to slow down drastically; sometimes up to 5 seconds between tapping a square and its being highlighted. Once that starts happening, the only recourse is to switch off the app and restart, but the entire iPhone is clogged up by then, and the screen freezes as I try to shut down the app.
I wonder what’s going on behind the scenes to cause such a claggy mess!
2022-05-23
More adverts - therefore deleting
I’ve played this for a while, previously with an ad at the end of a game.
But now, there are ads galore, mid game.
You’ve ruined this - deleting it
2022-05-23
Dignity
Go
2022-05-22
Annoying adverts that interfere with the game
Annoying in-game adverts that interfere with the flow of the game. While the game itself generally works ok, although it can be a bit laggy, the adverts (full page and usually for other games) pause the game until you watch them; some lasting for up to a minute. I’m deleting the app now as I’ve had enough. In a previous review I said “I'd give it more stars (then 3*) if the ads were less obtrusive.” But as I’ve said I’m deleting the app.
New app users beware and be warned!
2022-05-20
Sudoku
A good game, I’m addicted to it.
2022-05-19
Why all the freezing?
Loved playing this game but recently it has started to freeze or not respond without a delay especially after an ad has popped up - really annoying - it’s not my iPad, I’ve got the latest iOS and it’s been checked out by apple - it happens on this game and the Easybrain ordinary Sudoku - shame I will have to download different app
2022-05-19
Too many ads, randomly freezes
Way too many ads, to the point the appear full screen in the middle of a game and you have to wait for the cross to appear to close them.
Today mid-game the app became incredibly slow and froze intermittently until quit and restarted.
Other than the above, a good app. I understand the need for ads but this is excessive.
2022-05-18
Ads that make you cancel them twice, if you can
This is a good game and improves your sudoku solving abilities, but when I get ads that I cancel and then they come up with a tiny cross in corner that doesn’t work or results in a black screen I seriously think about deleting the app
I take it back, these guys listen to complaints and do something about it, which makes it five stars for me.
2022-05-18
Billynomates
Probably the best sudoku I’ve played via an app but completely ruined by the amount of ads, I understand you need ads ‘to improve the game and allow it to be free for all players’ (you mean to make as much profit as possible) but there is no need for the mid game ads. Before and after ads I can cope with like any other app these days but mid game 🤬
2022-05-16
Too many adverts
Tooooo many adverts. Before, after and during every game. Also keeps crashing and stalling
2022-05-15
Brilliant
Dead easy to use and play. Love it.
2022-05-15
Enjoying it but ….
Enjoy the app but on my iPad the Evil level is not available. On my phone I can progress to the evil level by completing the requisite number of expert levels. On my ipad the evil level does not show. Does on my wife’s though ….
2022-05-14
Super Great
Just the game needed to challenge your brain
2022-05-13
Fail point
When it get’s to the point where it’s impossible to work out and there isn’t a logical way to solve the puzzle without guessing it defeats the point of the game.
It’s the only bad thing about this app.
2022-05-13
Needs an update.
Having played, and enjoyed this game for a few years, it’s rather frustrating that it seems to be ‘getting old’. It often, now, has to ‘think hard’ before it responds to your screen pokes and fills in the numbers or notes that you’ve selected. It’s the only game on my I pad that does this, so I think it needs updating. (The ordinary version, by the same people, was updated recently and has now stopped doing the very same thing) - sp please, EasyBrain, send us an update!
2022-05-11
Sudoko was wrong :/
Really want to like it but 2 times now and the Sudoko has been wrong! So sad!
2022-05-11
Too many ads
This makes playing so frustrating
2022-05-11
Sudoku.com very happy very entertaining
Five
2022-05-10
I hate auto notes
This game is great. However, it is far too easy to hit the auto notes button and you cannot undo this unless you start again. It’s so annoying. One slip and the game is ruined. Game needs to have the ability to turn off auto notes, undo it, or it needs to be much harder to activate.
2022-05-10
Crap
Why interrupt my concentration when I get all of one number by ‘rewarding’ me with an ad? That’s crap.
2022-05-09
Glitchy
Been playing this game for years now and thought my iPad was slowing down so downloaded it on my husbands much newer one and the game is still freezing, glitches, doesn’t allow the iPad to close the game or be functional (entire iPad freezes) and is just all round not playable.
2022-05-08
Sudoku
Excellent game
2022-05-07
Fun
Fun
2022-05-07
Nice app, too many ads
Title says everything
2022-05-05
Super glitchy
Never used to have any problems with this app but now keeps freezing. It’s now randomly crashing during the daily puzzle and when it reopens it hasn’t saved any of the completion so far. Happened so many times it took over an hour to complete the daily challenge. When it finally let me complete it, it was a couple of minutes past midnight so know I’ve lost my daily playing streak and it’s reset to 1. Really annoying
2022-05-04
Quality app
Nice graphics and different levels of difficulty
Recently too many ads
Dont know why these are on, I realise that the developers are trying to make some money but they are so annoying you would never buy anything that pops up
2022-05-02
Difficulty nerfed?
I’ve enjoyed this app for years, but sadly, since the latest change to the difficulty I’m not enjoying it much any more. I’ve given it time, but after 10 games on the new ‘Evil’ difficulty I’ve found them all a lot easier to solve than the old ‘Expert’ level. Perhaps you could try to accommodate those who enjoy a real challenge?
2022-05-02
Enjoyable but eats my battery
The game plays well, but seems to be taxing on my older iPhone 7. The game freezes at times for about 10 seconds and since installing it’s easily the number one battery consumer, even though I spend equal if not more time on video apps like TikTok. I’ve tried turning off some of the game assisting settings which feels like it made a small difference.
2022-05-01
Phone gets too hot
Game just freezes and my phone gets super hot and just stops working. It’s just a sudoku app as well. No amazing special features or anything like that. You should probably get another one
2022-04-30
5 quid to remove ads!
Annoying how many ads this game has! The fact you have to pay £5 to remove ads is just a joke.
Deleting
2022-04-30
❤️
❤️
2022-04-29
Great game
Not spoilt with an abundance of adverts.
2022-04-29
OK but…
I’m really enjoying the Sudoku, but the ads are a real pain. Coming in the middle of a game they destroy your train of thought, and I really don’t want a killing zombie game…
2022-04-28
Used to be great…
…but now it hangs and pauses continually, whilst my phone gets too hot to hold comfortably and the battery drains rapidly.
2022-04-26
Teds review
Whoop whoop chicken soup
2022-04-24
Suduko makes sense finally
I was useless at Suduko until I tried this app - now I am managing the easy ones and getting quicker. Finally found a way to enjoy this game 👍
2022-04-23
Favourite Suduko but freezes & kills my battery
Genuinely my favourite Sudoku & the ads are bearable as although often they are short unlike many others. BUT play for more than about 5 mins and it has dreadful lag, freezes a lot & I almost watch my battery tick down, and it’s a healthy battery. really want to carry on using this app but sadly I may have to defect to another.
2022-04-23
i used to love this
i redownloaded after taking a break and the devs have gotten greedy. was an ad in exchange for a hint not enough? its impossible to speedrun unless you're on airplane mode because even filling a square triggers ads now. congrats on solving part of the puzzle! your gift is an ad for another dodgy cash grab game. talk about disrupting the flow when you're trying to focus your brain.
if you're gonna be greedy and put ads MIDGAME like that, at least cater it to the audience and dont take payouts from braindead games that just sap the energy from your brain.
2022-04-22
Fifi
Sometimes it gave my brain workout!
2022-04-22
yum
i deleted the app by accident so is it possible that i could get all my progress back? like my trophies and medals?
2022-04-21
Painful
I’ve played this game religiously for several years, but not any more. Since Easybrain took over the game hangs randomly, eats battery like it’s mining crypto and overheats my phone. Worse, this doesn’t happen if you play in flight mode. So they’re only using that much power when the phone is connected to them. This is a simple game, it’s not graphics or processor intensive. So what are they doing?
Developer says they’re trying to fix this and wants me to change my rating.
Why would I when they are ruining my phone? The game is having a physical effect on the hardware.
There is no legitimate reason for it to do this, not even bad coding.
2022-02-06
Feature Request
My fault for not being more careful, but…
Sometimes I have to leave a game for a while and return to it later. I usually leave it with Notes turned on, but when I reopen the game, Notes is turned off. If I fail to check, and add a new note, it often triggers a mistake unless I’m really lucky. Would it be possible to have it default to Notes on after a restart, rather than Notes off (or remember the setting).
I’m enjoying the app otherwise. Cheers.
2022-02-01
Best sudoku app; but very glitchy, crashes my phone and freezes
The gameplay itself is really great when it works well; the only thing that I would recommend to the developers is to lock in a correct answer when it’s been entered. It’s very frustrating when you’re finishing a game and get a “mistake” when you click an already found answer - it can be undone and count against you, which just makes no sense. But the major issue with the game is that it has frozen my phone twice (so I can’t even lock it or turn it off; I had to figure out how to restart without using the screen). It also often generally freezes and slows down (so when I click on a box it takes about 5 seconds to react).
It’s unfortunate; I hope these things are fixed in future iterations. But thanks for the great gameplay all the same!
2022-01-26
Good but some problems
I have 2 problems with this app. One of which is that when you complete a certain amount of games on any difficulty, your best time turns to 0:00 and there’s no way to change it back. Because of this, every time I complete a game, it’ll say something along the lines of “you beat your best score, it’s now *insert any time*” and it’s a little annoying as I genuinely was interested in my best times.
The other problem is that whilst playing a game, if you get rid of certain numbers it’ll act as though you’ve completed the game (even though I still need to put more numbers in) and it’ll play an ad. It’s not that big of a problem but it’s kind of annoying.
Apart from that I genuinely enjoy it, there are regular side-games such as “holiday” sudokus or sudoku adventures as well as daily puzzles. Defo would recommend
2021-12-03
Getting worse
I got a reply about the constant adverts popping up during the game. It is a tiny bit better, but still happening all the time. But this morning I was really cross. I had this installation, that I got this three mistakes when I had a number wrong. This morning I thought I was doing quite well, everything worked out until I went with the last two numbers and obviously there was a mistake somewhere and the whole game did not work out. So obviously something has changed as I didn’t get the three wrong attempts.
I’m so done with this game. I started to play it in November 2018 and pleaded daily. I think that is to be quite a loyal customer. But I’m thrilled with that. It will be the second game this month that I will delete and not replace. It is annoying and I’m a bit disappointed, but I’m done with it
2021-10-30
A weird update that never went away
This is by far the best sudoku app on the appstore. Its simple, clear and fun with the events. But this one update that they did a while ago haunts me. The fact that you can’t press hold and lock a number in without highlighting the location of every other place that number is. They used to let you turn that setting off and you could just lock numbers, making it a lot easier to play with one hand on the train or when walking etc. I use the app regularly so this kind of change made me play a little less. Its almost perfect other than that one issue. I don’t know why not just add a setting to let us turn off that feature? Its really really bad :(
2021-10-28
Still good, but used to be better
This has been my favourite Sudoku game for a few years and I play it at least once a day. I get that the app is free and is supported by ads. At the start of a game or at the end of a game, watching a 30 second ad isn’t a problem. But recently, there are ads *during* the game too. For example, If you place all of one number on the grid, it takes you straight to an ad. On the more difficult games, I’m often thinking about several ‘moves’ at the same time; these mid-game ads sap my concentration and I wish they’d stop! I’ve no problem about ads paying for game developers, but these mid-game ads are ruining it now.
Suggestion to developers: add a way to auto note. I can do it manually, of course, but an auto-note feature would be very useful.
2021-10-25
Adverts spoil a great game
I have used and enjoyed this app over many months now. I put up with adverts at the start and end of the game as part of the price of development. Now, however, adverts appear with increasing frequency during the game itself, which is a real turn off. Given that the app says it is already using cookies to track
my activity, even though I’m not signed up, I reckon you’re already doing well enough selling my data without adverts taking up as much time as playing time. I’ll likely delete the app before long.
2021-10-24
Annoying adverts
I’ve been doing the daily challenge on both my iPhone and iPad for over a year and just recently it’s become intolerable because of all the interruptions and time wasted while ads for mostly stupid games are run for about 30 seconds. Now, whilst in the middle of a puzzle, ads are being run, which can interrupt a train of thought and are very annoying.
It never used to be like this - there were some ads but nothing like you have now. It is ruining the game for me, and I will be deleting both at the end of the month if things remain the same. I used to enjoy doing the daily challenge but I’m finding it annoys me more now instead of being fun.
2021-09-14
Even better than the web version
This is hands-down the best sudoku app out there. The UI makes the notations really clear by highlighting all of the selected numbers. I also really like that if you’re stuck, the hint button doesn’t just fill in a square, it shows you a move and explains to you step-by-step why it works. Don’t even bother with any other sudoku app as this one is miles ahead.
One thing I’d like to see added is expert-only events because easy/medium are boring if you’re used to hard/expert. Different types of sudoku would be a cool addition in the future too.
2021-09-06
Love love love
Best sudoku game ever, love that you can hold your finger down on a number and fill the boxes in quicker, The only downside is the challenge games are so easy, I’ve usually finished in a couple of days, so annoying that you have to wait 4-5 days or more to finish. Please please make them harder,
Also could a be good idea if you could make levels, so you start on 1 and continue to 1,000+, as I’m finding it’s boring waiting for the daily games, don’t always want to do statistics, so it’s more of a challenge seeing how quick you could get on in levels, using easy, hard etc.
2021-06-11
Best version out there
I really like this but I have a problem. When typing in a number it is very easy to hit the wrong one and make a “mistake” especially when you are on a roll and are completing the cells quickly.
There is plenty of space on the screen to split the numbers into two rows and have them spaced further apart to help prevent this.
It would be nice too if there was an option to automatically fill in the pencil marks. I know this is sometimes done when you choose hints, but it would be useful if there was an option for it.
2021-04-18
Great app. But...
It’s a brilliant little sudoku app, has everything I could ask for and the range of options is great but there lies a major fault. Several times when I’ve finished a puzzle, The game will load an Ad before bringing up the completed screen. It has caused my phone to completely freeze up. I’ve had to hard reset the phone which often causes it to not save and I’ll go back to a daily puzzle being incomplete or partially completed.
I’d probably remove ads if it was the price majority of App Store games charge, but other than the game crashing I wouldn’t have any issue with ignoring a 20-30 second advert for a game I have no interest in (or the 3 games with a different name that all have identical mechanics)
2021-01-28
Great game but
Great game and thoroughly enjoy (although it’d be great if once you placed a correct letter you couldn’t “overwrite” it with an incorrect one by accident!)...
Unfortunately recently I’ve had nothing but adverts for very sexist games (or the same game? Unclear). One advert tells me to select the age of my girlfriend, and then choose her temperament and closes with it saying “you own me now”. The other one is about hiring a secretary with a rating for body and intellect (where the 21 year old has a body rating about 80% and intellect of 12%, roughly reversed for the 40 year old...) and the screen selects the 21 year old then can choose to “punish” her when she makes an error. Obviously both of these adverts are extremely offensive and sexist and have put me off using the app.
2020-12-12
Great app and fabulous customer service
I play this most days, if only briefly, and it’s the best Sudoku game I have found.
After re-initialising my phone recently, I saw that the number buttons were now overlapping the icons on screen that enable you to flip into erase or notes mode. I raised the issue in a review and was immediately contacted by the developer and they were able to point out that I had enabled zoom mode when I initialised the phone. That was the problem and it was identified in less than 24 hours. THIS IS SIMPLY FABULOUS CUSTOMER SERVICE!!! OTHERS COULD LEARN FROM THESE GUYS!!!
I can’t give them 5 stars, as the game should really work on my phone but hopefully they will address this in a future update.
2020-12-10
Pretty good
Good app for sudoku. The only thing that I find bad is that the hints you can access when you are stuck often don’t make sense, ie it will tell you to pay attention to these numbers and by studying then you can tell that this cell is the only place a certain number can go. However on multiple occasions it’s obvious that that is not the case, and the number could be placed in numerous other cells which is bad because the point of the hint is that it is making an effort to teach you - so maybe don’t use this if you are trying to learn sudoku.
2020-11-10
Couple of missing features, pity!
Good, clear Sudoku puzzler. I particularly like the fact it's in landscape orientation which is how I prefer to use my iPad, and the hints help you learn some mastery techniques. Two big things for me, which loses it a star for each: 1) You can't login either via your Gamecentre profile or an email/facebook etc. This means if you pick it up on another device, you can't simply continue the daily or special challenges already completed as it doesn't know it's you. 2) It's just too easy to forget to revert nack to 'notes' mode rather than inputting a definite number (and if you make a mistake it's too easy to miss that fact - I've racked up my 3 mistakes in 1 second flat as I try and quickly add a single number to 3 squares as a note, not realising I'm no longer in notes mode). A feature I like in other Sudoku apps is the presence of two separate input pads, one is always a 3x3 grid of notes numbers (nicely denoted by the notes position of the number in its square) and the other for definite ones. If these two things were sorted it would get 5 stars and I would then also buy it to get rid of the ads!
2020-10-31
Enjoyable, but I’d like to see some improvements
This is the best sudoku app I’ve used. I can’t imagine going back to pen and paper now. However, I’d like to suggest some improvements:
- Make all stats available for every game. Every time I complete a sudoku l’d like to see how my score and time compares to the average - and I’d like to see how many players that average comprises, as well (getting a faster time than one one other player doesn’t mean much, but getting a faster time than lots is something to be proud of).
- Make the “life countdown” a configuration option. Sometimes I enjoy the jeopardy, sometimes I just want to complete the puzzle).
2020-09-17
Great version of the classic, except for ‘Bowman’s Bingo’
Fantastic version of the popular brain training puzzle. Perfect in every way, or so I thought, until I reached the Expert level....
Many puzzles now get to a point where the only way to solve it is in effect to guess or use ‘Bowman’s Bingo’, which often requires taking the hint option to confirm logic can no longer be applied. I hate this. It drives me mad.
I would like an option to eliminate all puzzles which cannot be solved using standard & advanced Sudoku methods.
Otherwise it’s great and worth paying to remove the annoying adverts popping up all the time.
Received a reply from the Easybrain team.
“ Hi! Thanks for your feedback. Our team is removing such layouts. Also, please note, these puzzles, that are suggested by our Hints to use Bowman's Bingo can also be solved with the help of other strategies. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions."
Excellent news! Thanks
2020-09-03
Updated review following developer response
Somehow auto check for mistakes was switched off in my app, following advice from the developer I checked my settings and switched it back on. Back to loving the game again; thank you! I have left my original comments below intact in case someone else has the same issue, if I switched it off it was purely by accident...
I love this game but recently I have had a couple of daily challenges that are allowing incorrect numbers to be accepting meaning you can’t complete the puzzle as the only place to put the remaining numbers is incorrect. I somehow managed to solve it the other day by systematically swapping previously accepted numbers but the 1st September challenge has allowed the same thing. Please fix it as prior to finding these bugs, I really enjoyed the app
2020-08-21
Expert games full of impossible games
The game play of this Sudoku is excellent. Really easy to populate the board, erase mistakes and the gaming levels validity set correctly.
There is a major issue with Expert level though - as others have reported. For example, I had one new board that did not have a single move. The “hint” showed nothing to fill. I logged a help ticket for this.
Another instance of the issues is that when you believe there are no more moves, press hint - you get a resolution that says, for example, put 7 in this square. When quite clearly the 7 could have also gone in another square in the same section. Again a ticket raised for this.
Too often you get a Hint that simply shows all the possible numbers that can go in each square given the progress you’ve made. Again this can be multiple options for every square so you have to guess at one with only 2 numbers in.
Not good enough. You never ever get this in a hard copy expert book so why on here?
The Helpdesk do respond quickly but have a denial slant to them.
Worth the purchase if you can cope with the frustration of knowing that if you start an Expert game there is no resolution.
2020-07-24
Excellent Sudoku puzzle - but would benefit from harder levels.
An excellent implementation of the ubiquitous sudoku puzzle. Simple and intuitive to use, and the occasional “killer” sudoku puzzles are a bonus. A couple of minor criticisms: the buttons are small (on iPhone) so I occasionally hit the wrong one by mistake, especially when against the clock - and it’s a “three strikes and you’re out” affair. Also, it would benefit from another level above “expert” - I’ve been playing it daily for about 12 months, and even the hardest levels now only take about 10 minutes.
2020-07-19
Challenges & Killer
The number of challenges has increased and seem to be constant one after the other which I am not enjoying. I am enjoying the killer sudoku challenges and would enjoy the developer releasing a separate app as I am particularly enjoying the ones where there are no numbers in at all.
It might also be good to allow users to choose the difficulty levels they would like for their daily challenge. I.e. so one could choose either hard or expert and only these would appear as the daily challenges from these two categories.
2020-07-01
Number Crunching ...
Most enjoyable puzzler overall on the “Expert” level other than the fact that the clock reverts fastest time back to zero after about 5 or six games and resetting “stats” does not change that situation. I doubt it is needed in reality. I just want to complete the puzzle. How long it takes me does not matter. Same with “mistakes” - they mean nothing, as with any kind of puzzle, if you’ve failed you try, try and try again until you are successful.
On many an occasion with Sudoku puzzles one reaches that point where only trial and error will reveal the right solution by elimination of candidates and one is lucky if it is achieved on first try. This should not be regarded has having “lost a game” just a method of completion after all sets and subsets have been exhausted. Further, I don’t see any point to “scoring of points” in a Sudoku puzzle. That’s meaningless. I’ve enjoyed completing my first 300 Expert Level puzzles, thank you, but that’s all I need to know.
2020-06-11
Best sudoku app out there!
Being in quarantine for a couple of months, I was desperate for some brain stimulation, and downloaded this app. I use it every day and I’ve gone from easy to hard, even being able to finish some expert level puzzles. I also love the special events that crop up here and there!
My only suggestion would be to maybe have the killer sudokus as a more permanent addition - they’re so much fun and it makes me sad that you can’t replay the levels once they’re completed.
2020-06-02
Pam JI
Sudoku has been a favourite game for me for many years, this particular site is very rewarding because you really do have to strategically work out the position of your numbers, if you try to cheat too often it’s game over. Also, you can play as many games as like each day, & I make full use of that. The challenge is as difficult as you can master, & I’m looking forward to being able to work out the most difficult ones. Updated 2/6/20. This is my absolute favourite game site, my first challenge each day. I really enjoy the extra game events held throughout the year. Keep it up team & many thanks for the pure enjoyment I experience each day!!
2020-05-24
Great game!
I downloaded this game less than a year ago, and it is my favourite thing to do whilst on calls, listening to audiobooks or podcasts.
I got tired of the ads, so decided to purchase it. Love it a lot more now. And well worth the price. (Ads are generally the reason I delete games as they can be too much and the frustration when you’re listening to an audiobook and the sound forces through even though you mute it?? Also when phone is on silent sometimes ads still start playing. Not ok. But no issues after paying for the app.)
Keep at it - and please have more events. I usually finish an event the same day it’s released😅 In an ideal world, there would be an event twice a week but maybe less levels per event? (I don’t mind many levels, but I do appreciate it’s a lot of work to develop.)
2020-05-13
Love Sudoku - Love This App
This app is great once you’ve applied the one off cost to remove the adds. I’ve done enough of the puzzles to make up the cost I’d have incurred buying a puzzle book anyway. The hints are also brilliantly incorporated into each puzzle to teach you new ways of completing them when you’re stuck. I’ve now up-skilled myself and can complete the Expert level puzzles without needing any hints! Woohoo!
Feature requests:
- re-do button (sometimes I click undo once too many times and forget where I was)
- clear all notes (sometime I mess up the notes and just want to start fresh!)
2020-05-10
Gets you thinking, but...
I’ve always loved sudoku, and I’ve always been fairly good, and nowadays you don’t exactly get the luxury of having a sudoku book and your favourite pencil. I love the app; it’s really easy to use, great interface, love dark mode. And all the different difficulty levels seem fair. However (and this is a big however). I think the “3 mistakes max” rule is a load of trash. Yes, I get that they have to earn money through adds, and once you’ve made 3 mistakes, you get the option of having a second chance by watching an add. I’m in full support of add revenue for a good app. But sudoku is about making mistakes. Traditional sudoku is thinking you have a square or the first three squares right and only finding out 2 squares later that you’ve messed up somewhere in the beginning. I feel like it would be more punishing to let the ‘player’ complete the entire puzzle, regardless of mistakes, and then at the end count how many mistakes there are, but don’t tell the player what they are, thus they are forced to restart. I don’t know; just a suggestion. But I’ve found that my mistakes are more often than not caused by a slip of the finger and inputting the wrong number even though I know what is actually the right number. Call it a silly mistake, sure. And yes, I do make genuine mistakes, but maybe don’t limit them to 3? Other than that, I genuinely love the app.
2020-05-01
Great game and great developers
I’ve been playing this game for a few months now, thoroughly enjoying making my brain work. Up until recently I have not needed to make contact with the developers, but recently I thought of a little tweak I thought they could make. I sent a message and had a reply within the same day. I’ve now sent a couple of messages on different threads and they always come back quickly and friendly. I can’t say I’ve had any response from any developer where I have sent feedback before. I am very impressed. Keep up the good work, and definitely a great app!!
2020-04-11
Love this but
A great app, calming and gets the brain working, only trouble is that it keeps freezing. Works ok for a few games then at the start of a new game nothing works. I delete the app and reload but lose all the progress I've made on the daily challenge. Also it would be good if the numbers could be marked when all are in place. But still good:). Thanks for your answer. Auto check does remove the numbers that are used but it also tells me when I've got it wrong. Had to turn it off, to easy to be lazy.
Since the update the continuous flashing ads at the bottom of the screen make it impossible to play this for any length of time. Thank you... you have cured my addiction to this game
2020-03-19
Game is excellent
It’s just me who can’t play it and becoming frustrated. It’s absolutely fine
Edit: many thanks for the response and offer of help. It’s just a case of me getting my head around the technique to solve the grids.
For what it’s worth, there have been issues with the screen going blank on the completion of a game sometimes. Also the Paddy’s day challenge has crashed on a couple of occasions. However I suspect that maybe more to my iPad having just the latest iOS upgrade and that it is a now an older model. Or even just issues with WiFi access given the current situation. Biggest gripe of course is the amount of adverts that pop up.
Finally on the iPhone 8 it is very small so makes seeing the notes harder. Possible to add a zoom facility?
Many thanks again.
2020-02-21
Great Sudoku app, but the ads served up are false and misleading
This is a really great Sudoku game. I play on easy mode against the clock to give my brain a quick workout, or expert mode when I want a long challenge. Game implementation is strong.
However the ads are a problem. I don't mind ads, I understand that this is an important revenue stream, but I do have two pieces of feedback.
Firstly, I would prefer to see an ad before my hame starts than at the end when I have succeeded with a puzzle... It feels like my reward for winning is to watch an ad, instead of celebrating a good result. I think i would be more tempted to play again if things worked this way around. Maybe worth trying?
Second, I am really put off by clearly misleading ads for games like gardenscapes, Fishdom and now Envoy. The ad agency supplying ads to your game depicts these games as logic puzzles where you move barriers to help a character escape or find treasure. These are nothing like the actual game play at all. I appreciate that some of this is not your direct responsibility but the ads are showing up in your game, and not elsewhere. I strongly doubt that the ads would be permitted in the App Store, for example.
Sorry for the negative review because it is a great and well written game, but people should be aware of the ad situation.
2020-02-16
Crashes and software glitches end game during play
This would be a fantastic app however I’d strongly recommend avoiding this app and trying an alternative until you can be sure that they have resolved the issue that causes games to disappear during play.
Sometimes it will freeze or come up with an error which causes the app to restart. Once this happens your game vanishes and you have to start a new one. This is frustrating, not least when you’ve spent so much time on a game and feel close to finishing. Reinstalling the software doesn’t resolve the issue so I only hope this can be fixed in the future as the rest of it seems great. Just pointless until you know you can securely finish a game!
2020-01-22
Keeps crashing
I really liked the app before but after the recent few updates it drains the battery very quickly, my phone gets super hot as soon as I start to use it and the battery can drop down by 40-50% in 1-2 games. And in the past week or so it started to crash every few seconds which is very frustrating. I also tend to use it whilst listening to podcasts or music, I’m no longer able to as it crashes or disrupts those apps too. The game itself is good, ive used it pretty much everyday for nearly a year. A few people complained about 30sec ads but you can exit them early most of the time. However due to the issues mentioned I am considering moving on to something different. Please fix it...
2019-11-25
Great app but going to delete because of ads
I’ve been using the app for a while and enjoy teaching my daughter to play sudoku. She now is able to complete the easy puzzles alone.
Naturally frustrated by the frequent ads but tolerated it in spite of their length. Often motivates me to move on to do something else because I dont have the patience to wait for the add to finish (which may be a good thing actually!!)
However today after playing a game one add came up which was for a game where the player seems to be changing the clothes of a very scantily dressed female and seemed to end with the option of removing her clothes. You promote this app for age 4+! Why on earth would you permit ads for games like that?
Needless to say I’ve deleted the app and will be using one with my daughter that does not provide a platform for such advertising.
2019-11-12
Sudoku, simple
It’s an easy to use and simple app for sudoku puzzles, with the ability to put notes in squares and a timer so you can note how long your game took. I mainly play the daily puzzle, but the recent addition of longer “challenges” has me playing a little more.
The one downside is hints - they’re sometimes great at giving a single number to get you out of a stick situation and these always explain why that square has to be that number. However, occasionally the hint fills in all the notes for every square and suddenly you just have to follow those notes without learning why those notes are there. That hint is vastly over-powered and the reason I hesitate to use hints to get me unstuck.
2019-10-25
One main improvement but mainly good
I am really enjoying this game but the one thing I feel would improve that enjoyment would be that numbers lock in place when you get them right. I make “mistakes” mostly when I think I’ve tapped on an empty box but actually my thumb has just slightly caught an adjacent one and I’ve not noticed. I then input the number I think it is and it flashes up in bold red that I’ve made a mistake. On the pre-existing numbers, that’s not possible to do. Given that you know if you’ve got it right because it doesn’t flash in red, I see no harm in locking the number because you know you haven’t got it wrong. That’s my least favourite part of an otherwise great game and it does dampen it when I’ve played a perfect game in reality but not on “paper”. Beyond ads of course, but that can’t be helped in this day and age unless I want to pay £4.99 and I get that salaries have to come from somewhere.
2019-10-10
Nearly perfect
Having played Sudoku on different platforms over a number of years I am enjoying this version. I particularly like the way candidates along columns, lines and in the 9x boxes are removed when numbers are entered into squares.
As far as I am concerned, the one downside is that the default is for the player to select the square first and then tap on a number for it to be entered, which is a slow and clumsy way to enter candidates. It is possible to select a number first by pressing and holding on it, but the two problems with this is that (a) it slows the game down and (b) it is far too easy to accidentally touch another number or not hold it for long enough and get the wrong number unintentionally entered into a box and not notice - so it is only when the game doesn’t work out that you discover this. I wish there was an option in settings to change the default to ‘select number first’.
It also would appear that in the more advanced levels the only way to solve it is by guessing a number and then backtracking if it works out wrong. This was certainly the clue I was given when asking for a hint. But Sudoku is supposed to be about calculation not guesswork.
Having said all that I am enjoying playing this version and would certainly recommend it.
2019-09-09
Brilliant but
As previously mentioned comments re 3 mistakes. However I prefer it that way as this is your target; do not have as many mistakes.
The only thing that annoys me now is when you have solved it and it is a matter of filling the last number in each box. I wish once you have put the right number, it doesn’t change and be ones fixed. Just like the original ones. So if press the correct number by mistake, it wouldn’t change again. Hence, I don’t have the mistakes 😊
One more suggestion. At some stage of the game, it becomes a matter of filling in the remaining numbers to completely solve it. This is where sometimes we can make mistakes when typing in the wrong number by accident I think. Can you make it as auto fill like in some games? Or would that kill the joy!
2019-08-24
Love the app but one thing
Thank you for a great straightforward app! For the past few weeks, I’ve been using it when I wake up, and before I fall asleep. One problem though, sometimes I fall asleep while playing it, and I realize a few hours later that my phone did not lock while the game is on, so I wake up to a hot phone that has been on the whole night. That is not good for the phone, nor for me. Why does this happen only with this app? Can you add a feature that it dims or allows the phone to lock after x amount of time? Thank you!
2019-08-11
Great but typos are counted as mistakes
I don't know if it is just me, but I keep making errors in typing. These errors are usually just one number from the one I was supposed to write, like eight when I try to type nine, but it counts as mistakes and when there are only three mistakes allowed. I don't think that there should be a limit to how many mistakes you can make.
Also, if it is not asking too much, developers could add a system that makes it that it levels you up from easy to expert. It would be cool, to have a game tell you that the skills are better. It would mean that the next difficulty up would be the default. So on and so forth.
Other than that, it is an amazing game and it would be five stars if the mistakes are not limited.
2019-07-09
Excellent app.
Love this, simple and not packed with nonsense like most apps. It’s a sudoku app and that’s what it does. The only thing I’d say is the numbers are a little small so it’s easy to hit the wrong number (and I can’t stand it saying I’ve made a mistake because I’m like that) & why can you edit a field when you already have the right number filled in? I occasionally tap the wrong cell and enter the number before realising — this is annoying when it’s an empty cell but infuriating when you’ve already filled it in (why would I edit that?!) You should set it like the numbers in at the beginning so you can’t overwrite them.
2019-03-04
Best, but.
This is the best sudoku game I have encountered so far. It deletes the notes when you put in a number, saving a lot of time and hassle. This is amazing, and well done for that. However, one fault in this game is the 3 mistakes that if you make you cannot continue playing. A lot of the time I accidentally forget to switch back to notes and end up making the three mistakes, which is really annoying. There is another sudoku app that I have tried before that had 2 boxes next to each other at the bottom, one in big, one in small making it easy to switch between notes and numbers and not forget to switch back. If you could change this it would be very much appreciated.
2019-02-28
Great app, only one wish
This app is great for sudoku, but on expert I often find I have to screenshot the board and edit it in my photos to be able to distinguish my pointing pairs with my other possible numbers and such. If it could be possible to also choose the colour of the possible numbers in a square, then it would make it a lot easier to catagorise and solve the puzzles. Another feature that would improve the game would be the option to put “temporary” numbers (that will not tell you if it’s correct or not and not count toward the 3 mistakes) in squares, to solve what would happen should a square be that number. That way I wouldn’t have to do that in an image editor.
The colour change of the possible numbers should be an easy tweak and the option to use “temporary” numbers may take some work, but I think it’s what is needed to be the best app and to beat competing software.
Thank you.
2019-01-23
Well done, but.
Thanks for the 3 ‘mistakes’ you added a while back. For playing at Expert, they are often needed as guesses. What happened to the feature where the numbers disappeared as you got all nine of them, that was very useful towards the end of the game, it saved a lot of wasted time, and careless losses.
Still works on my old iPad2, well done. Some developers, it seems like they are just Apple agents, making us buy the latest kit!
Any chance of having a ‘maybe’ feature in ‘Notes’ mode? Perhaps cycle black, amber, off, instead of just black, off? Or an extra box at the ends of each row and column?
Still 6 stars if I could!
2018-12-12
Sudoku
Hi I’m Elizabeth and I really enjoy this app. I like how it has different difficulties and challenges you. I always play this game in the morning so it helps me focus in school. I also play it at night to relax me and it works. Me and my dad have it so we have a little bonding session and we have races to see who can complete one the fastest! Only one downside is that you could put a little symbol in the corner -clock- and then when you press it it comes up with all of your best times so you know what time to bet. Overall I really enjoy the game and I will definitely recommend this app to my friends and family.
2018-12-08
Good but drains battery ridiculously fast!
I enjoy this game and competing against myself to get faster. It has lots of handy features to help you, which you can turn off if you wish, and lots of difficulty levels. However it drains my battery ridiculously fast! I have my phone settings so as to maximise battery (screen as dim as I can, apps not background refreshing, location off, WiFi on etc.) but after one ‘easy’ game which takes me under 5 minutes, my phone battery drops to under 20% even if it’s been on 60% or 80% five minutes previously. No other app does this to my phone. For this reason I can only play when my phone is on charge, which is very limiting!
2018-06-10
Great app but.....
I have used this app daily for some weeks now and find it quite addictive. I accept the ads. Are part of it even though they seem to go on a bit - even longer for the ‘second chance’ option. The ads at the bottom of the page when you are playing can be intrusive to the game but the worse are when you get flashing.
I have now deleted this app because of an ad./video that appeared at the end of a game....I did not watch it through but mentioned the words ‘for the sake of allah’....sorry but I did not sign up for religious or political ads of any sort.....TBF it might have been seeking donations for good causes but I did not wait to see.
I would rate this app as 4/5* but the ads. bring it right down.
2018-04-21
Is a great app done by good people
I have rewritten this review. As my first one was a negative review. However the app support of this app have came back to me with a resolution to my situation.
Where you can switch of the three mistake rule in the settings. I didn’t know this.
So I would firstly want apologies for any negative comment made by me towards the developer of this is app.
Secondly thank you for advising me how to solve this.
This app is a really good app. To have them help a fool like me understand little more I have to admit I feel like the people are better. So again thank you
2017-10-17
Best sudoku app I’ve tried, but..
It’s really easy to play, very intuitive. Also adds a bit of competitiveness with the daily challenges, which is great. I’ve played it for a few weeks and really got to love it.
However, strangely the app started playing seriously loud alarm sounds out of nowhere. Not sure if it goes off to internet and plays an alarm mp3 or somehow launches an alarm sound from within but it’s incredibly deafening. This has sadly stopped me from playing the game completely - I will gladly return to it when that’s fixed but won’t launch it again till then.