Comparison

Good Sudoku+ vs Flow Free+

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

Head to head
About

Good Sudoku+

This app transforms your device into an AI-powered Sudoku companion. It offers a vast library of high-quality puzzles, intelligent hints, and tools to reduce tedious tasks, making the game more enjoyable and educational for all skill levels.

Highlights
  • AI-powered hint system
  • Over 70,000 high-quality puzzles
  • Tools to reduce busywork
  • 3 standard game modes
  • 3 daily puzzle modes with leaderboards
  • 6 difficulty levels
  • Import and share custom puzzles
Features
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You’ve never played Sudoku like this. Good Sudoku turns your iOS device into an AI powered Sudoku genius whose only mission is to help you learn and love this classic game. Whether you’ve never tried Sudoku, or you play every day, Good Sudoku’s elegant layout, intelligent hint system, and busywork reducing tweaks will help you play better and have more fun. - Over 70,000 of the highest quality puzzles you’ll see anywhere - Optional tools to reduce busywork - AI powered hint support to continuously boost your skills - 3 standard modes: Good, Arcade, and Eternal - 3 Daily puzzle modes that get harder throughout the week + global leaderboards - 6 levels of difficulty - Import your own puzzles from elsewhere in Custom mode (and share them with friends!) --- We put everything we could into making the best digital Sudoku game ever released: - We wrote a puzzle generator from scratch to create over 70,000 of the highest quality puzzles you’ll see anywhere. We spent weeks figuring out how to generate intricate and complex puzzles you won’t find in other Sudoku apps. Our hardest puzzles require wild techniques like “XYZ Wings”, “Hidden Quadrouples”, “Jellyfish”, and “Swordfish”. - Most people don’t know this but Sudoku puzzles are actually generated by programatic Sudoku solvers. The fastest way to know how hard your puzzle is, or if it’s valid, is to write a solver that knows all the strategies that can try it. With Good Sudoku, we run our solver as you are playing, so if you get stuck, it can detect what you know by looking at your answers and your notes, and then help you find the next technique you need to solve the puzzle. - Most Sudoku games classify difficulty into vague Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulties — But what do these difficulties mean? Typically they refer to the kinds of solving techniques that are required to solve a given puzzle without resorting to guess-and-check. In Good Sudoku we aren’t vague about it at all. We lay out exactly which techniques are required for each difficulty level. Good Sudoku allows you to practice them individually outside of puzzles, and keeps track of which ones you’ve learned! - When we first got interested in Sudoku we noticed that a lot of players spend most of their time looking at the board and counting. On easy puzzles, this counting serves as a way to increase the difficulty by making the puzzle take longer. We know some sudoku players love the counting but we found it a bit tedious and designed some tools to alleviate the busywork. At first these tools might feel a bit like cheating, but once your mind is freed up from counting you’ll have space to see the much deeper more fascinating side of Sudoku: all of the beautiful technique structures. Freed from the burden of busywork Sudoku becomes one of the best search-style games we’ve ever played. More fun than word-searches and solitaire, high-level Sudoku is a real treat — and with Good Sudoku and a little practice, anyone can learn it! - We noticed when looking at other Sudoku apps although there are often daily puzzle modes, those modes never include global leaderboards. Weird! Good Sudoku remedies this problem! - We wanted to make the best Sudoku out there, and while we’re proud of our puzzles, we recognize that puzzles come from all places. That’s why we built a quick and easy custom puzzle mode into Good Sudoku, so if you have a paper puzzle that you’re stuck on, or you’re trying some wild variant (Like the Miracle Sudoku!) it’s easy to put it into the game, play it, and share it with your friends. If the puzzle follows standard Sudoku rules, our hint system will even help you get unstuck! We truly hope Good Sudoku can introduce you to, or deepen your love for this great game. -Zach and Jack

About

Flow Free+

Connect matching colored pipes to fill the board and solve puzzles. Enjoy over 9,000 levels, daily challenges, and a relaxing yet engaging gameplay experience. Race against the clock or play at your own pace.

Highlights
  • Over 9,000 puzzles
  • Daily puzzles
  • Relaxing to extreme difficulty levels
  • Optimized touch controls
  • Game Center achievements
  • Cloud sync progress
Features
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Flow Free® is a simple yet addictive puzzle game. Connect matching colors with pipe to create a Flow®. Pair all colors, and cover the entire board to solve each puzzle. But watch out, pipes will break if they cross or overlap! Free play through hundreds of levels, or race against the clock in Time Trial mode. Gameplay ranges from simple and relaxed, to challenging and frenetic, and everywhere in between. How you play is up to you. So, give Flow Free a try, and experience "mind like water"! Flow Free+ features: * Over 9,000 puzzles! * Daily puzzles: new levels every day, never run out * Carefully crafted, high-quality puzzles ranging from easy to extreme! * Optimized touch controls for smooth, satisfying play * Game Center achievements and cloud sync of your progress * Clean, colorful graphics and fun sound effects Enjoy!

Screenshots

Good Sudoku+4 screens
Flow Free+4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Flow Free+ at 4.8 against Good Sudoku+'s 4.1. Flow Free+ also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and review sentiment (91% vs 59%). Good Sudoku+'s advantage is update cadence (every 2 months vs every 4 months) and iOS requirement (13.6 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Flow Free+ holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Flow Free+ has 20K ratings behind it against 652, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Good Sudoku+'s written reviews are positive against 91% of Flow Free+'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Good Sudoku+ ships an update every 2 months, Flow Free+ every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Good Sudoku+ versus Flow Free+: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGood Sudoku+Flow Free+
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (652 ratings)4.8 (20K ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.6% of reviews91.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings65220K — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 months — betterEvery 4 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.6 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size164 MB20 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperZach GageBig Duck Games LLC

Customer experience

Good Sudoku+

All ratings643 ratings
Positive74.8%
Neutral7.6%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews338 reviews
Positive58.6%
Neutral13.0%
Negative28.4%

Flow Free+

All ratings19,272 ratings
Positive94.4%
Neutral2.6%
Negative2.9%
Written reviews518 reviews
Positive91.1%
Neutral3.5%
Negative5.4%

Bugs and requests

Good Sudoku+

Reported bugs

5 issues
  • Crashes when opening/closing app
  • Inconsistent behavior of note-taking tools
  • Leaderboard scores not updating properly
  • Inability to rotate on certain iPad models
  • Disappearing UI elements (back button)

Requested features

5 requests
  • Automatic iCloud/cloud sync between devices
  • More color theme options
  • Ability to disable auto-fill/auto-note features
  • Clearer explanations for advanced techniques
  • Confirmation prompts for actions like hints

Flow Free+

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Good Sudoku+

No in-app purchases

None

Flow Free+

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Good Sudoku+ free?
Good Sudoku+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Flow Free+ free?
Flow Free+ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Good Sudoku+ or Flow Free+?
Flow Free+ is rated higher. Good Sudoku+ averages 4.1 out of 5 from 652 ratings, while Flow Free+ averages 4.8 from 20K ratings.
Do Good Sudoku+ or Flow Free+ have ads?
Neither Good Sudoku+ nor Flow Free+ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Good Sudoku+ or Flow Free+?
Good Sudoku+ ships an update every 2 months, and Flow Free+ every 4 months. Most recently, Good Sudoku+ was updated on November 3, 2026 and Flow Free+ on November 8, 2026.

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