Comparison

Sudoku SE vs Sudoku Mega Bundle

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

Head to head
About

Sudoku SE

Engage in a classic number-placement puzzle with handcrafted challenges across four skill levels. Features include error highlighting, smart note-taking, and hints to aid your solving. Compete with friends and track your progress with detailed statistics.

Highlights
  • Handcrafted puzzles
  • Four skill levels
  • Show incorrect answers
  • Smart buttons and notes
  • All notes feature
  • Hints available
  • Challenge a friend
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Top 100 free app for over a year. Rated "Best Sudoku Game of the Year" by Apple. Rated #9 Game of the Year by Apple. Rated #24 App of the Year by Apple with over 10,000 apps competing! With unique handcrafted puzzles across four different skill levels, Sudoku (Free) is a great introduction to the fun and puzzle solving challenge of Sudoku. OPTIONS All options are on by default, but you can turn them off in the Options menu • Show Incorrect :: Shows incorrect answers in red. • Smart Buttons :: Disables the number button when that number is completed on the game board. • Smart Notes :: Removes the number from the notes in the box, column, and row that contains the cell with your correct answer. FEATURES • Multiple color schemes • Unique handcrafted puzzles • Four different skill levels • Challenge a friend • ALL puzzles are solvable WITHOUT guessing • 4 color schemes • "ALL notes": tap the "All notes" button on to show all the possible answers for each square. Tap the "All notes" button off to remove the notes. • Hints: shows the answer for the selected square or a random square when one is not selected • Pause the game at any time and resume where you left off • Best times, progress statistics, and much more Do you want more? Try one of our other versions of sudoku which have all the same great features! * Look for our paid edition of Sudoku with 800 puzzles and more unique color schemes. * Or try Color Sudoku for a fun twist to solving sudoku puzzles. * For advanced puzzle solving, try Expert Sudoku to challenge your sudoku solving skills.

About

Sudoku Mega Bundle

Explore hundreds of unique Sudoku variations beyond the classic grid. Challenge yourself with diverse puzzle types, difficulty levels, and helpful tools. Enjoy customizable gameplay and track your progress with leaderboards and achievements.

Highlights
  • Hundreds of unique Sudoku variations
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • Hints and smart notes
  • Savepoint functionality
  • Zoom and customization options
  • Leaderboards and achievements
Features
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Hundreds of unique sudoku varations!!! Including: Killer, Jigsaw, Skyscrapers, 16x16, Samurai, Kropki, Word, Duplex and many more! • Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert difficulties for every game type! • Tons of puzzles guarenteed to have only one solution! • Hints to help when you're stuck, or automatically fill all notes! • Create Savepoints for when you want to make a guess! • Smart notes are automatically removed when placing another cell's correct number! • Easy note taking! Select multiple cells at once! • Zoom in and out of any puzzle to see the numbers better! • Leaderboard and achievements! • Completely customize the game's appearance to your liking! • Current Game Types: 0-9 2-3-4 3D 3D Bishop 3D Black Knight 4-5 4x4 6x6 8x8 10x10 12x12 16x16 16x16 X 37 123 147 12345 Anti Knight Anti Knight Boxless Anti White Knight Jigsaw Anti X Anti X Boxless Ascension Asterisk Atypical Atypical Fractures Big Killer Binary Bishop Black Knight Blackout Blind Killer Boxless Boxless Frame Boxless Pseudoku Brick Butterfly Centers Circular Circular 10 Circular Box Clock Color Columndoku Compressed Consecutive Cross Cube Cube Bishop Cube Black Knight Cube White Knight Deficit Dependency Diamond Digital Disjointed Disjointed Irregular Double Double Cell Double Cube Double Cube Bishop Double Cube Black Knight Double Line Double Ring Doubledoku Doubledoku Bishop Doubledoku Black Knight Doubledoku White Knight Duplex Difference Duplex Plex Duplex Sum Even Extra Space Extra Staircase Flower Fortress Fractured Bridge Fractured Spiral Fractured Staircase Fractured Target Fractured Web Fractures Frame Gattai 3 Gattai 3 Mix NPS Gattai 4 Gattai 4 Mix AMDE Greater Than Greater Than Killer Greater Than Killer Samurai Greater Than Samurai Heptagram Hexadoku Hexagon Hexagram Hexagram Bishop Hexagram Black Knight Hexagram White Knight Isodoku Isodoku Black Knight Isosudoku Jigsaw Jigsaw 6x6 Jigsaw Cube Jigsaw Skyscrapers Killer Killer 16x16 Killer Jigsaw Killer Modulo Killer Parity Killer Product Killer Samurai Killer Skyscrapers Kropki Kropki 16x16 Krychle Krychle 9x9 Layers 4x4x4 Layers 6x6x6 Lean Box Lean Cross Lean Gear Lean Patch Lean Wheel Lean Windoku Little Killer Lucky Seven Mathdoku Min Max Missing Musketry No Touch Nonconsecutive Nonconsecutive Boxless Nonconsecutive Circular Odd Odd Even Big Small Odd Even Big Small Boxless Outside Outside Boxless Palindrome Parquet Block Parquet Block Boxless Parquet Square Parquet Twist Pencil Mark Pentagram Pseudoku Quadruple Quadruple Boxless Queen Regular Samurai Samurai 9-Grid Samurai 9-Grid Kropki Samurai 13-Grid Kropki Samurai 16-Grid Kropki Samurai Kropki Samurai Mix WKSOT Samurai Mix XKJFO Sandwich Scatter Scatter 6x6 Search Nine Search Nine Boxless Sensei Sigma Sigma Circle Skyscrapers Snowflake Snowflake X Sohei Staircase Star Subtwodoku Subtwodoku 6x6 Suguru 5x5 Suguru 6x6 Suguru 7x7 Suguru 8x8 Suguru 9x9 Surplus Swap Symbol Tape Thermo Threedoku Threedoku Mix CFM Tight Fit Touchless Triangle Tricky Tridoku Trinary Triple Triple Mix SVQ Tripledoku Tripledoku Mix OGS Twin Boxes Twodoku Vudoku White Knight White Knight Jigsaw White Knight X Windmill Windoku Wing 3 Wing 5 Word X

Screenshots

Sudoku SE4 screens
Sudoku Mega Bundle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sudoku SE at none against Sudoku Mega Bundle's 4. Sudoku SE also leads on review sentiment (91% vs 78%) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 17.1). Sudoku Mega Bundle's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 Mega Bundle sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Sudoku SE asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sudoku Mega Bundle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1.9K and 2.9K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 91% of Sudoku SE's written reviews are positive against 78% of Sudoku Mega Bundle's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sudoku SE ships an update every 5 weeks, Sudoku Mega Bundle every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sudoku SE versus Sudoku Mega Bundle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoku SESudoku Mega Bundle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (1.9K ratings)4.8 (2.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.6% of reviews — better78.0% of reviews
Number of ratings1.9K2.9K — better
Update frequencyEvery 5 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationAd-supported — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better17.1
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB94 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMighty Mighty Good GamesGammaLateral LLC

Customer experience

Sudoku SE

All ratings1,875 ratings
Positive90.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews513 reviews
Positive90.6%
Neutral3.7%
Negative5.7%

Sudoku Mega Bundle

All ratings2,889 ratings
Positive96.6%
Neutral2.1%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews141 reviews
Positive78.0%
Neutral7.1%
Negative14.9%

User reviews

Sudoku SE

From 1.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Easy to navigate and play
  • 🚀 No annoying ads
  • 👍 Intuitive play and options
  • 👍 Great for memory training
  • 👍 Minimal ads, just a banner

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Small buttons for big fingers
  • 🐛 Inconsistent difficulty levels
  • 🐛 Puzzles require guessing at times

Sudoku Mega Bundle

From 2.9K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Variety of games
  • 👍 Customizable options
  • 🚀 Challenging puzzles
  • 👍 User-friendly interface

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Bugs and glitches
  • 💸 Intrusive ads
  • 🔒 Locked difficulty levels
  • 🔒 Inability to close ads

Bugs and requests

Sudoku SE

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Resume function not always working
  • Crashes when continuing a game
  • Input sometimes doesn't register correctly

Requested features

3 requests
  • Dark mode option
  • Ability to input own puzzles
  • Automated entry for last remaining possibility

Sudoku Mega Bundle

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App crashes after update
  • Ads causing game to freeze or redirect
  • Incorrect puzzle solutions
  • Pencil marks not working as expected

Requested features

5 requests
  • Ability to input game seed
  • Option to turn off zoom
  • Ability to modify color of lines in Killer Sudoku
  • Addition of 6x6 Killer Sudoku
  • Ability to take notes in pencil mode without errors

In-app purchases

None

Sudoku SE

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Sudoku Mega Bundle

Subscriptions1
  • Remove Ads$1.991 Month
One-time3
  • Get 20 Hints$0.99
  • Get 50 Hints$1.99
  • Remove Ads$9.99

Questions

Is Sudoku SE free?
Sudoku SE is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sudoku Mega Bundle free?
Sudoku Mega Bundle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sudoku SE or Sudoku Mega Bundle?
Sudoku Mega Bundle is rated higher. Sudoku SE averages 4.6 out of 5 from 1.9K ratings, while Sudoku Mega Bundle averages 4.8 from 2.9K ratings.
Do Sudoku SE or Sudoku Mega Bundle have ads?
Both Sudoku SE and Sudoku Mega Bundle show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sudoku SE or Sudoku Mega Bundle?
Sudoku SE ships an update every 5 weeks, and Sudoku Mega Bundle every 2 months. Most recently, Sudoku SE was updated on October 15, 2026 and Sudoku Mega Bundle on October 13, 2026.

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