Comparison

Sudoku ++ vs Sudoku·Mate

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

Head to head
About

Sudoku ++

Engage your logic with a classic 9x9 puzzle experience. This app offers multiple difficulty levels, fast note-taking, and helpful hints. Track your progress with detailed statistics and customize your play with various themes. Enjoy a calm and satisfying number puzzle every time.

Highlights
  • Classic 9x9 Sudoku puzzles
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Fast note-taking and pencil marks
  • Highlighting for rows, columns, and numbers
  • Undo, redo, and erase functions
  • Hint system and mistake checking
  • Progress tracking statistics
  • Customizable themes
Features
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Train your logic with a polished classic Sudoku app built for comfortable mobile play. Sudoku++ gives you a clean 9x9 puzzle board, fast pencil marks, clear highlighting, useful hints, lessons, and stats in one focused number puzzle experience. Start an easy puzzle for a quick break or step up to harder challenges when you want deeper logic. Why players like it: • Classic 9x9 Sudoku with multiple difficulty levels • Fast notes and pencil marks for serious solving • Highlighting for rows, columns, boxes, and matching numbers • Undo, redo, erase, pause, timer, and resume • Helpful hint system and mistake checking options • Learn tab with short lessons for rules and solving patterns • Statistics to track progress and best times • Light, dark, system, and extra board themes • Save unfinished games automatically Free play includes classic puzzles, notes, undo, timer, basic stats, and limited hints. Pro is a one-time upgrade for unlimited puzzles, advanced difficulty, deeper assistance, auto notes, full statistics, and extra customization. Whether you call it Sudoku, number place, or a daily brain puzzle, Sudoku++ is designed to feel calm, readable, and satisfying every time you open the board.

About

Sudoku·Mate

This app offers an endless supply of Sudoku puzzles with guided solutions. It caters to all skill levels, from beginners to advanced players, providing step-by-step hints and detailed strategy lessons. Enjoy daily challenges and custom puzzle entry.

Highlights
  • Endless Sudoku puzzles
  • Guided hints and strategy lessons
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Daily and custom puzzles
  • Coloring mode
  • Reveal errors option
Features
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You can solve sudoku puzzles! Sudoku·Mate is an app that not only gives you endless sudoku puzzles to solve, it can guide you through how to solve them. Whether you’re new to sudoku puzzles or a seasoned solver, there’s something for you with Sudoku·Mate! This app can keep the best solvers challenged, but its real strength is taking you to the next level, wherever you’re starting from. Sudoku·Mate not only gives you the puzzle, but it helps you see how to solve it. Text hints direct you to the next step. Tapping on the hint text will give you more detail. Tapping one more time will display a lesson in how the strategy works. Sudoku·Mate covers common strategies hands-on, including: * cross-hatching * locked candidates * x-wing * skyscraper * kite * unique rectangles * chains And with three different user levels, each with three puzzle levels, Sudoku·Mate will keep you entertained and challenged for years to come! Features include: — All levels: — Free version with ads, convertible to no ads with one-time in-app purchase — Wifi not required (after in-app purchase) — Instructions and lessons built-in (no wifi connections required) — Unlimited games — The ability to fill in starting pencil marks — Coloring mode (also shows strong and weak links when pencil marks are used) — Text hints lead you to next steps (but can be turned off) — Daily puzzles allow you to play against friends, increases in difficulty as the week progresses — Custom puzzles lets you enter puzzles you find and get help solving them — Beginner level features: — Reveal errors option shows errors immediately so you don’t get off track — Undo to solvable allows you to automatically undo to a point the puzzle can solved — Colored numbering to see what numbers are needed — Higher level features: — Auto fill pencil marks (fills in marks and updates them for changes automatically) so you can focus on strategies — Auto pencil mark hints (points out naked and hidden singles) so you can focus on strategies Works on iPad and iPhone.

Screenshots

Sudoku ++4 screens
Sudoku·Mate2 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Sudoku ++ at none against Sudoku·Mate's shown. Sudoku ++ also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). Sudoku·Mate's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On price, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

Both are free to download. Sudoku ++ sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sudoku·Mate sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sudoku·Mate holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sudoku ++ has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sudoku ++ ships an update weekly, Sudoku·Mate every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Sudoku ++ versus Sudoku·Mate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoku ++Sudoku·Mate
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews11.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 5 months
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size35 MB24 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperVM Mobile TeamDavid Figge

Customer experience

Sudoku ++

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews59 reviews
Positive11.9%
Neutral6.8%
Negative81.4%

Sudoku·Mate

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sudoku ++

One-time1
  • Premium$4.99
1 purchases

Sudoku·Mate

One-time1
  • Remove Ads$4.99

Questions

Is Sudoku ++ free?
Sudoku ++ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sudoku·Mate free?
Sudoku·Mate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sudoku ++ or Sudoku·Mate?
Sudoku·Mate is rated higher. Sudoku ++ averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Sudoku·Mate averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sudoku ++ or Sudoku·Mate have ads?
Sudoku·Mate shows ads; Sudoku ++ does not.
Which is updated more often, Sudoku ++ or Sudoku·Mate?
Sudoku ++ ships an update weekly, and Sudoku·Mate every 5 months. Most recently, Sudoku ++ was updated on November 2, 2026 and Sudoku·Mate on November 4, 2026.

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