Kakuro Endless vs Sumaddle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Kakuro Endless
Engage in a vast collection of free number logic puzzles. This game challenges you to use deduction and elimination to fill cells with digits that match row and column sum clues. Enjoy a user-friendly interface with helpful tools for a seamless puzzle-solving experience.
- Over 17,000 free puzzles
- Logic and elimination gameplay
- Easy-to-use game board
- Zooming functionality
- Pencil mark notes
- Hide-able cheat sheet
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Over seventeen thousand completely free Kakuro puzzles! Access a practically unlimited library of challenging logic puzzles! Kakuro is a numbers puzzle that plays like a cross between Sudoku and a crossword puzzle. Utilize logic and the process of elimination to place digits in columns and rows such that their sum matches their clues and no digit is placed twice within any column or row. Kakuro Endless contains over seventeen thousand full free puzzles, displayed within an aesthetically pleasing and easy to use game board. It features zooming for easier play, pencil marks for making notes within cells, and a hide-able cheat sheet that displays digit combinations for tricky sums.
Sumaddle
This logic puzzle game transforms pencil-and-paper challenges into interactive brain teasers. Fit number combinations to clues using pure logic, with no mental arithmetic required. Enjoy over 150 free puzzles of varying difficulty, with built-in help and offline play.
- Interactive logic puzzles
- Number combination fitting
- Pure logic solving
- Built-in help and mistake correction
- Over 150 free puzzles
- Offline play
- Ad-free experience
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This type of logical puzzle was first seen in the Japan Puzzle Championship 2006 and is sometimes known as Doppelblock, or Smashed Sums. When played with pencil and paper, these puzzles can be hard work to solve. Sumaddle changes that by transforming the puzzles into interactive brain teasers that unfold before your eyes. Each puzzle has a unique solution. Finding the solution involves fitting the number combinations to the clues. The app makes it easy to view the possible combinations, you don’t need to do any sums in your head. Instead, you are able to focus on using logic to narrow down the combinations and find a fitting arrangement. The puzzles come in a range of sizes and difficulties, to suit all levels of skill and puzzling purposes. Choose a small puzzle to idle away a minute or two while waiting in a queue, or a big puzzle to give your brain some exercise during a coffee break! Some reasons why you will enjoy playing Sumaddle: • more than 150 puzzles are included for free • all puzzles can be solved with pure logic, no mental arithmetic required • the sophisticated built-in help can explain the logical reasoning at each step and also fix mistakes if you go wrong • the built-in help is completely free, use it as much as you like • works offline (great for long journeys) • a high standard of accessibility, including comprehensive support for VoiceOver • ad-free play - there are absolutely no ads! IGRS age rating (Indonesia Game Rating System): 3+ Designed and developed in Winterthur, Switzerland
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kakuro Endless at none against Sumaddle's 15. Kakuro Endless also leads on iOS requirement (14.0 vs 17.0). Sumaddle's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (95% vs 76%). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Sumaddle sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Kakuro Endless asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sumaddle holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 449 and 769 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of Kakuro Endless's written reviews are positive against 95% of Sumaddle's.
Kakuro Endless ships an update every 4 months, Sumaddle every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Kakuro Endless | Sumaddle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (449 ratings) | 4.9 (769 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 76.2% of reviews | 94.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 449 | 769 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 87 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | John Detloff | Jonathan Buchanan |
Customer experience
Kakuro Endless
Sumaddle
User reviews
Kakuro Endless
From 449 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Beautiful and clean design
- 🚀 Smooth gameplay
- 🔒 No ads or monetization
- 💡 Helpful hints and explanations
- 🧠 Challenging but rewarding puzzles
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional puzzle errors
- 🔍 Difficulty reading light-colored candidate numbers
- ⏱️ Lack of undo/redo functionality
- 🔍 Accessibility issues with color contrast
Sumaddle
From 769 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and challenging game
- 👍 Clean and intuitive interface
- 👍 Helpful hint system
- 🚀 No ads or data collection
- 💡 Unique puzzle concept
Room to improve
- 🐛 Automatic hints can be intrusive
- 🐛 Inability to replay completed puzzles
- 💡 Need more free/sample puzzles
- 💡 Difficulty progression could be improved
Bugs and requests
Kakuro Endless
Reported bugs
2 issues- Puzzles sometimes marked as unsolvable
- App crashes when trying to access certain puzzles
Requested features
5 requests- Add undo/redo functionality
- Implement a dedicated notes mode
- Introduce a dark mode option
- Provide progress tracking and statistics
- Allow for puzzle rotation on tablets
Sumaddle
Reported bugs
2 issues- Losing progress when minimizing the app
- Inconsistent difficulty ratings
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to selectively pencil in notes
- More difficult puzzle options
- Synced progress across devices
- Detailed statistics and leaderboard
In-app purchases
Kakuro Endless
No in-app purchases
Sumaddle
- Quirky, Pack 5$0.99
- Very Difficult Puzzles$0.99
- Quirky, Pack 1$0.99
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- Premium 9x9 Puzzles, Pack 1$0.99
- Crafty, Pack 1$0.99
- Crafty, Pack 2$0.99
- Crafty, Pack 3$0.99
- Sneaky, Pack 1$0.99
- Sneaky, Pack 2$0.99
- Sneaky, Pack 3$0.99
- Tricky, Pack 1$0.99
- Tricky, Pack 2$0.99
- Tricky, Pack 3$0.99
- Assorted Puzzles$0.99
- Puzzle Generator$9.99
Questions
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