Comparison

Match It vs Apparent Sudoku

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Match It

An engaging educational game designed to enhance children's visual, problem-solving, and cognitive skills. It features interactive matching activities with colorful images and sounds, rewarding progress with stars and awards.

Highlights
  • Visual spatial skill development
  • Problem-solving activities
  • Cognitive skill enhancement
  • Interactive matching games
  • Rewards and star ratings
  • Alphabet, animal, and shape learning
Features
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Match it is a fun educational game for kids. This app has been developed to improve Visual Spatial Skills, Problem Solving Skills, Cognitive Skills and confidence through activities such as identifying pictures, words, letters of the alphabet, colours, animals, vehicle names and much more. Match it uses colourful designs, pictures and sounds to make it fun and interactive. On this app, kids can play matching games involving colours, shapes, animals etc. and with touch and trace, it's simple and easy to use! its all there and its fun to do with beautiful images. After completing all the matches, the child receives star ratings, applause and awards for certain achievements. How to play: Just draw line between two images and the correct match will be connected with the line. App Features: • A simple and easy to understand game. • Listen to the words by clicking object • Images keep changing to extend the learning and keep the child interested. • Interactive designs and sounds to make playing fun! • Rewards achievements the more times you play • Receive a ‘Star’ after a level has been completed • Really helpful for learning Alphabets, Animals, Birds, Flowers, Shapes, Colours, Vehicles, Fruits, Vegetables Do experience this app and be part of the fun learning play of your child first stage!!

About

Apparent Sudoku

Experience classic Sudoku puzzles without any distractions. This app offers a clean interface, multiple difficulty levels, and advanced features like pencil marks and smart highlighting. Track your progress and compete globally with Game Center leaderboards.

Highlights
  • Four difficulty levels
  • Game Center Leaderboards
  • 50,000+ puzzles
  • Clean, intuitive interface
  • Pencil marks and smart highlighting
  • iCloud sync
  • iPad Apple Pencil support
Features
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Take a break, clear your mind, and solve the puzzle of the day. Apparent Sudoku pairs classic Sudoku with a calm, carefully made experience on iPhone and iPad. Version 2.5 lets you race your friends on every puzzle. FOUR DAILY CHALLENGES • The Daily: solve the day's board and keep your streak. • Daily Mini: a quick, nearly complete puzzle. • Daily X: every row, column, box and diagonal holds all nine digits. • The Twist: replay the Daily's board with one extra rule. It unlocks when you finish the Daily. RACE YOUR FRIENDS • See your Game Center friends' times on every puzzle you've both played: before you start, while you play and when you finish. • New games start on a puzzle a friend has solved, and the clock shows the next friend to beat. • Send a friend your time in a tap, see who's ahead this week, and keep a record against each friend. • Challenge friends on each Daily, and share any puzzle as a head-to-head race. • Each hint adds 30 seconds, so everyone gets a time. PLAY YOUR WAY • Choose a cell and then a digit, or pick up a brush and fill cells with a single tap. • Add pencil marks and erase mistakes easily. • On iPad, write right on the board with Apple Pencil. • On iPhone Duo, the board and keypad each take their own half, and your game carries across as you open and close it. • Larger text, VoiceOver, Increase Contrast and Reduce Motion are supported throughout. • Try Hardcore, 3 Strikes or Zen in regular games. A NEW LOOK Paper, ink and one bold color for each difficulty. Every Daily has its own geometric composition, and your win card shows the order you finished the boxes. UNLOCK SUDOKU PRO A one-time purchase unlocks the full library of 51,400 puzzles, Extreme difficulty and more board styles, including shapes, fruit and Wordoku, on iPhone, iPad and Mac. No ads and no tracking. No account needed to play. Game Center and iCloud are optional. Your puzzle times are shared with your Game Center friends, and you can turn off Share My Times anytime. Feedback is optional and sent only when you tap Send.

Screenshots

Match It4 screens
Apparent Sudoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Apparent Sudoku at Free against Match It's $0.99. Apparent Sudoku also leads on review sentiment (43% vs 0%) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 38 months). Match It's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 26.0). On ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Apparent Sudoku is free to download; Match It costs $0.99 up front. Apparent Sudoku sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Match It asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Match It ships an update every 38 months, Apparent Sudoku every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on November 11, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Match It versus Apparent Sudoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMatch ItApparent Sudoku
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating—3.4 (10 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews42.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—10 — better
Update frequencyEvery 38 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFreemium — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB15 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperRAYO INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITEDApparent Logic, LLC

Customer experience

Match It

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Apparent Sudoku

All ratings10 ratings
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative57.1%

In-app purchases

None

Match It

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Apparent Sudoku

One-time1
  • Sudoku Pro$4.99

Questions

Is Match It free?
Match It costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Apparent Sudoku free?
Apparent Sudoku is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Match It or Apparent Sudoku have ads?
Neither Match It nor Apparent Sudoku shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Match It or Apparent Sudoku?
Match It ships an update every 38 months, and Apparent Sudoku every 10 days. Most recently, Match It was updated on November 11, 2026 and Apparent Sudoku on November 7, 2026.

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