Orixo vs Sumaddle
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Orixo
Engage your mind with a unique puzzle game featuring hundreds of levels. Swipe to fill cells based on numbered instructions, navigating around existing filled cells. Enjoy a relaxing experience with beautiful visuals and a meditative soundtrack.
- Hundreds of hand-crafted puzzles
- Relaxing and meditative soundtrack
- Improves focus and creativity
- Beautiful and immersive visuals
- Cloud saving and achievements
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Welcome to Orixo - your new favourite puzzle game! This simple, yet challenging game combines relaxing gameplay with mind-bending puzzles. Dive into hundreds of carefully designed levels, all set to calming background music, offering a delightful gaming experience. How to Play: Just swipe your finger over cells that have a number. The number tells you how many cells you can fill in any direction (up, down, left, right). If a cell is already full, don't worry! Your line will just move to the next open cell. And as you drag, you'll see a highlight showing you which cells will fill up. Features: - Hundreds of hand-crafted puzzles - Beautiful and immersive visuals - A relaxing and meditative soundtrack - Improves your focus and creativity - Cloud saving and achievements Enjoy!
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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• “Brilliant puzzle game”, UK App Store review Apr 2025 • “Best Puzzle Game I’ve Ever Played”, US App Store review Jan 2025 • “The ONLY iOS game I've never gotten tired of”, Reddit review Apr 2024 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 adding the essential element of interaction. This transforms the puzzles into intriguing 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 can focus on using logic to narrow down the combinations and find a fitting arrangement. Some reasons why you will enjoy playing Sumaddle: • puzzles range in size and difficulty from small and simple to large and mind-blowing • 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 ads: Sumaddle at none against Orixo's shown. Sumaddle also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.7). Orixo's advantage is ratings volume (4.2K vs 767) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On price, in-app purchases, monetization model 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. Orixo sells 8 one-off in-app purchases and Sumaddle sells 15 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sumaddle holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Orixo has 4.2K ratings behind it against 767, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Orixo's written reviews are positive against 95% of Sumaddle's.
Orixo ships an update every 2 months, Sumaddle every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Orixo | Sumaddle |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (4.2K ratings) | 4.9 (767 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.8% of reviews | 94.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4.2K — better | 767 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Logisk Studio Inc. | Jonathan Buchanan |
Customer experience
Orixo
Sumaddle
User reviews
Orixo
From 4.2K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Relaxing and calming experience
- 🧠 Challenging and mentally stimulating
- 💎 Elegant and minimalist design
- 🎶 Soothing background music
- 🔓 Unobtrusive ads with option to remove
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and crashes
- 🔒 Hidden undo/restart controls
- 📱 Lack of landscape mode support
- 💰 Ads can be disruptive for some users
Sumaddle
From 767 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
Orixo
Reported bugs
2 issues- Ads not closing properly
- Levels not loading correctly on some devices
Requested features
3 requests- More level packs and increased difficulty
- Ability to keep undo/restart controls visible
- Cross-device progress sync
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
Orixo
- Unlimited Hints$0.99
- Unlock Portal Pack2 variants$0.99
- Unlock Classic Pack3 variants$0.99
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- Remove Ads$1.99
- Buy Me a Coffee$3.99
- Treat Me to Lunch$7.99
- Support a Coding Session$11.99
- Fund My Future Projects$15.99
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









