# Sudoku: Sudoku Puzzle — user reviews > 86 indexed App Store user reviews of Sudoku by 原 高, rated 4.70/5 from 365 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sudoku-sudoku-puzzle/id1415474002/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sudoku-sudoku-puzzle/id1415474002.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 290 · 4★ 50 · 3★ 16 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 3 ## What do users think of Sudoku? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Easy to use and intuitive interface - 🧠 Great brain exercise and mental workout - 🎮 Multiple difficulty levels for all skill levels - ⚡ Fast and responsive gameplay - 🎨 Clean, simple design without unnecessary features - 🌙 Dark mode available - 📊 Helpful number highlighting and row/column indicators - 🎯 Notes system for strategic gameplay - 😌 Relaxing and stress-relieving experience - 🔇 Minimal ads compared to other apps (some users) - 📱 Variety of grid sizes (6x6, 9x9, etc.) **Cons** - 📢 Excessive and intrusive advertisements - 🎬 Ads with audio that startle users - 🎯 Misleading ad placement (subscribe button overlaps start button) - 💰 Expensive subscription pricing (£9.99/week) - 🐛 Input registration issues with numbers - 🔄 UI toggle between notes and numbers is confusing - ⏱️ Ads interrupt game timer and best time tracking - 🎵 Repetitive music that becomes tedious - 🎮 Interface overhaul made gameplay worse for some users - 💬 Excessive push notifications promoting the app - ❌ Hint button non-functional or misleading **Commonly reported bugs** - Numbers don't always register when entered - Game doesn't recognize completion and timer continues - Pencil notes unresponsive (at least 50% of the time for some users) - Puzzle logic errors - won't accept correct answers - Ad overlay blocks close button on settings page - Ad appears after page load, causing accidental subscription clicks - Highlighting makes concentration difficult and cannot be toggled off - Tips/hints feature doesn't work properly **Most requested features** - Restart/start over button for games - Daily challenge feature - Ability to increase difficulty beyond current maximum - Better hint system that suggests strategy rather than revealing answers - Center notation option - Multiple square highlight feature - Color pencil marks for notes - Prevention of adding notes to rows/columns that already contain the number - Game completion recognition (timer should stop automatically) - Improved definition of highlighted numbers - Circle highlight for other numbers being worked on ## Newest reviews (19 of 86) ### 4/5 — Se puede jugar con publicidad apropiada. *2024-01-24* Bueno ### 4/5 — Entertaining game *2022-11-27, version 1.53* Keeps my brain going ### 3/5 — Start over button. *2022-11-01* A re-start game button would be nice. ### 4/5 — Great *2021-06-22, version 1.45* Helps me with my overthinking issues lol ### 5/5 — Excelente desestresáremos *2021-05-12, version 1.45* Me encanta que tengas aciertas de opciones de Casillas y múltiples opciones de juegos ### 5/5 — Thanks *2021-03-24, version 1.45* Exceptional. ### 5/5 — Mr *2021-03-17, version 1.37* Top game, intuitive, high level of learning SODUKO....... ### 5/5 — Nandyals *2021-03-14, version 1.40* Most faverable ### 4/5 — So fun!!! *2021-02-16, version 1.37* Love this game so much. So fun and amazing!! Love it ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🖤🤍🤎❣️💕💞💓💗💖💘💝💟 ### 4/5 — 4star review *2021-02-15, version 1.37* Great games with lots to do. Beware - it gets addictive - trist me, I know! ### 5/5 — Really good! *2021-02-13, version 1.37* I didn’t know how to play at first but with the different levels I am now playing at 9x9 ### 5/5 — Love it *2021-02-08, version 1.37* ❤️ ### 5/5 — Fab app *2021-01-26, version 1.37* Love this app! ### 5/5 — Brill *2021-01-21, version 1.37* Great game for all levels with different grid settings and difficulties. Gives you three mistakes then you lose the game and has the ‘notes’ system. I love it! ### 5/5 — Great game *2021-01-19, version 1.37* It’s fun and easy to use unlike other versions of sudoku ### 5/5 — Great layout *2021-01-08, version 1.36* Better than playing hard copy. Column and row highlight is very helpful allowing easy reference reducing time to complete. Tried many other Sudoku apps, but this is the best by far. ### 4/5 — Great game! A lot of ads in free version though *2020-12-22, version 1.36* This is a great game, I love how it keeps track of your stats - I’m constantly trying to beat my best time. It’s also relaxing and enjoyable - and I can play different modes depending on the time I have available. The ads are quite annoying though, especially since an ad at the beginning of the game runs into my time for that game, which means I have to start over if I want to beat my best time. ### 5/5 — Really enjoy it *2020-12-16, version 1.36* Really nice simple and fun ### 5/5 — Sudoku *2020-12-13, version 1.35* Good game ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — I’d rate it higher but… *2021-07-01, version 1.45* There is a pop-up that has the subscribe button over where the start game button is. And it appears a second or two after the page has loaded. Which means that as you go to press the start button to begin the game, you end up hitting the subscribe button as the pop-up appears. I feel this is a sneaky and underhanded way to get players to subscribe to the game which is a real turn-off and spoils the game. And they are asking for £9.99 a week subscription which is about £520 a year… I feel is ridiculously expensive for a Sudoku game ### 1/5 — Adverts anyone *2020-10-26, version 1.33* Download app, open it, hit settings. Shown full page advert and as the timer gets to 1 an advert overlays the close button at the top of the screen. No thanks. ### 1/5 — Crape *2020-10-21, version 1.33* Very tasty for what it can’t do ### 1/5 — Terrible, terrible update *2020-04-30, version 1.31* I’d been playing this app for a long time, but it has been a little while recently since I’ve opened it. In that time there has been a major overhaul to the app and the interface. The single line of numbers and the toggle switch for notes, rather than the two side-by-side number pads, is absolutely abysmal and a ridiculous mistake to make. One of the things I enjoyed was trying to beat my best time. That was only possible by having the notes and numbers separate. Secondly, the ads. I get the desire for revenue but it makes me so frustrated how EVERY app now bombards you with adverts. I would gladly have paid for the previous rendition of this app as a one-off, because it was worth it. Now, it’s a steaming wreck. Thanks for that. I hope you revert it back, but to be honest by then I’ll have hopefully found something else that resembles what this used to be. Such a terrible shame ### 1/5 — Bad Update !!!! *2020-04-05, version 1.30* Loved the app before youse decided to change it and update without consent. Hate it now. Finding a new one ### 1/5 — Frustrating. *2020-01-16, version 1.20* Fairly feature light. No center notation option, no multiple square highlight. No colour pencil marks. Hints are dumb and just reveal a square not an actual hint. ### 1/5 — Game OK constant texts irritating *2020-01-06, version 1.20* Puzzle ok but being promoted 20 times a day to play is irritating!! ### 1/5 — Poop *2019-10-13, version 1.20* If I could give it no stars I would ### 1/5 — bad *2019-08-29, version 1.20* theres so many better sudoko apps out there, i played at least 8 games on my flight today that weren’t possible!! wouldnt let me put in the only possible right answer, then after looking around i realized that there was a mistake in the game. download a different app ### 1/5 — Unresponsive *2019-01-13* Downloaded this game, but deleted it almost immediately. At least half the time, the game would not respond to attempts to set pencil notes. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Sodoku *2024-03-18, version 1.53* Excelente presentación ágil con la notable ausencia de resultados estadísticos. Gracias por el servicio. ### 5/5 — Buena App *2024-03-07, version 1.53* Lo más importante es que no tiene comerciales es rápida y me gusta mucho! ### 5/5 — Its okay *2023-07-17, version 1.53* The platform is easy and clear ### 5/5 — Interesante e intuitiva *2023-05-31, version 1.53* Buenos momentos, relaja te e intuitiva!!! ### 5/5 — Sudoku *2023-01-13, version 1.53* Best sudoku ever ### 5/5 — Best sudoku game *2022-01-20, version 1.52* Excellent game if you like sudoku you will like this Easy to play ### 5/5 — Review *2022-01-13, version 1.51* Gradually increasing the challenge., ### 5/5 — Superb game *2021-11-01, version 1.51* This is a great game ### 5/5 — Soduko fun *2021-07-16, version 1.45* This app provides a variety of levels and grid sizes and setting options. Making the game fun and open to your own challenge and difficulty choices. ### 5/5 — Soduko Easy *2021-06-02, version 1.45* Very pleasant experience for a newcomer to Soduko. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-07-17.*