Comparison

Sudoku・ 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・

Experience Sudoku in a feudal Japan setting with beautiful graphics and advanced features. This app offers dual keypad entry, smart note-taking, and error checking to enhance your puzzle-solving. With multiple difficulty levels and thousands of puzzles, it caters to all skill levels.

Highlights
  • Dual keypad entry
  • Smart notes (auto-notes & manual deletion)
  • Optional error checking
  • Multiple difficulty levels
  • 3,000+ puzzles
  • Feudal Japan theme
Features
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Take a journey to feudal Japan with Sudoku Free! With beautiful graphics and killer features, Sudoku Free! is the best Sudoku app available for iOS. DUAL KEYPAD ENTRY Two separate keypads, one for entries and one for notes, allow you to enter values quickly and easily. No more tedious switching between entry mode and note mode to complete your puzzle. SMART NOTES The optional auto-notes feature enters all of the notes into the puzzle for you and keeps them updated as you solve. If you don't want that much help, the optional smart notes feature automatically deletes values from notes you have entered manually when they are no longer valid. ERROR CHECKING The optional error checker tells you when you have entered an incorrect or illogical value, allowing you to catch errors early and preventing needless frustration. MULTIPLE DIFFICULTY LEVELS Five difficulty levels, from easy to insane, ensure that you will be able to find a puzzle that matches your skill level. With 3,000 total puzzles, you won't run out of puzzles any time soon. Download Sudoku Free! for free today and start playing Sudoku the way it was meant to be played!

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・4 screens
Sudoku Mega Bundle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Sudoku Mega Bundle at 4.8 against Sudoku・'s 4.6. Sudoku Mega Bundle also leads on update cadence (every 2 months vs every 5 months). Sudoku・'s advantage is review sentiment (88% vs 78%) and ratings volume (11K vs 2.9K). On price, ads, 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 10 one-off in-app purchases and Sudoku Mega Bundle sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 — 11K and 2.9K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 88% of Sudoku・'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・ ships an update every 5 months, Sudoku Mega Bundle every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Sudoku・ versus Sudoku Mega Bundle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoku・Sudoku Mega Bundle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (11K ratings)4.8 (2.9K ratings) — better
Positive reviews88.3% of reviews — better78.0% of reviews
Number of ratings11K — better2.9K
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS11.0 — better17.1
Further details — not scored
Size133 MB94 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperOptime Software LLCGammaLateral LLC

Customer experience

Sudoku・

All ratings10,877 ratings
Positive90.0%
Neutral4.9%
Negative5.1%
Written reviews1,927 reviews
Positive88.3%
Neutral4.3%
Negative7.4%

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・

From 11K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Great game
  • 👍 User-friendly interface
  • 👍 Challenging levels
  • 👍 Ability to make notes
  • 🤓 Keeps mind active

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Crashes/freezes
  • 💰 Excessive ads/in-app purchases
  • 🔍 Difficult to see numbers/highlights
  • 🔄 Timer issues (doesn't reset)
  • 🙄 Unnecessary changes to UI

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・

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • App crashes when trying to access higher difficulty levels
  • Inability to restore previously purchased content
  • Clipboard data being accessed without user permission

Requested features

4 requests
  • Option to disable ads/in-app purchases
  • More customization options (colors, themes, etc.)
  • Ability to listen to own music during gameplay
  • Better handling of saved progress/purchases across devices

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

10 purchases

Sudoku・

One-time10
  • Puzzle Pack - Genpei$0.99
  • Puzzle Pack - Norada$0.99
  • Puzzle Pack - Meiji$0.99
Show 7 more
  • Puzzle Pack - Taisho$0.99
  • Puzzle Pack - Showa$0.99
  • Puzzle Pack - Sakai$0.99
  • Puzzle Pack - Subushi$0.99
  • Puzzle Pack - Kurikara$0.99
  • Puzzle Pack - Miura$0.99
  • Puzzle Pack - Ishizu$0.99
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・ free?
Sudoku・ is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sudoku Mega Bundle free?
Sudoku Mega Bundle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sudoku・ or Sudoku Mega Bundle?
Sudoku Mega Bundle is rated higher. Sudoku・ averages 4.6 out of 5 from 11K ratings, while Sudoku Mega Bundle averages 4.8 from 2.9K ratings.
Do Sudoku・ or Sudoku Mega Bundle have ads?
Both Sudoku・ and Sudoku Mega Bundle show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sudoku・ or Sudoku Mega Bundle?
Sudoku・ ships an update every 5 months, and Sudoku Mega Bundle every 2 months. Most recently, Sudoku・ was updated on October 14, 2026 and Sudoku Mega Bundle on October 13, 2026.

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