Tiny Tinker vs Sudoku Lab
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tiny Tinker
A unique game where you repair customer devices to earn money. Invest your earnings to unlock new repair areas and fix more phone parts, ultimately increasing your income and having fun.
- Device repair simulation
- Customer service
- Money earning and investment
- Unlockable repair areas
- Progressive gameplay
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See and immediately detect problems with the devices of customers who come for repair. In this unique game, you have to go to the repair area at the back and make repairs with the machines there. Deliver the phone after making the necessary repairs. Earn money. You need to open new repair areas with the money we earn. Opening new repair areas allows you to repair different phone parts and you earn more. Work, invest, earn a lot of money and best of all, have fun.
Sudoku Lab
Engage with over 50,000 unique Sudoku puzzles and a practice mode featuring 24 distinct strategies. Utilize a 'Forward' command to automate simple moves and a three-stage hint system to guide your strategic thinking. Enjoy offline play with no internet connection required and a commitment to user privacy.
- 50,000+ unique Sudoku puzzles
- Practice Mode with 24 strategies
- Automated 'Forward' command
- Three-stage hint system
- Offline play, no internet needed
- Private, no data collection
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50,000+ unique puzzles. Convenient Practice Mode with 24 strategies so far, with more coming. “Forward” command to auto-perform trivial actions (solve Naked or Hidden Singles), so that you can concentrate on the strategy. Three-stage Hint system with the first stage just giving you the strategy name, so you can have another look at the board. No Internet connection is ever needed. After you install the app :) Private - no tracking, no data collection of any kind. No adds!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Tiny Tinker at none against Sudoku Lab's 4. Tiny Tinker also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.2). Sudoku Lab's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 24 months). On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Sudoku Lab sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Tiny Tinker asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Tiny Tinker against 5.0 for Sudoku Lab. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Tiny Tinker ships an update every 24 months, Sudoku Lab every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 14, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tiny Tinker | Sudoku Lab |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 24 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 18.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 7 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | omer cetin | Vlad Feinstein |
Customer experience
Tiny Tinker
Sudoku Lab
In-app purchases
Tiny Tinker
No in-app purchases
Sudoku Lab
- Basic Strategies$0.99
- Advanced Strategies$1.99
- Master Strategies$2.99
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- All Strategies$4.99
