Comparison

Smart Sudoku vs Pong

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

Head to head
About

Smart Sudoku

This app offers advanced Sudoku solving assistance by identifying complex patterns and providing professional tips to eliminate candidates. It features a unique scoring system based on solution efficiency and allows for quick manual puzzle entry and import.

Highlights
  • Powerful hint system for solving strategies
  • Fast manual puzzle entry
  • Simultaneous multiple square handling
  • Show/hide candidates
  • Innovative efficiency-based scoring
  • Import puzzles from text and internet
  • Unlimited undo/redo
Features
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Are you familiar with terms like "X-Wing", "2-String Kite", or "Locked Candidates"? If yes, Smart Sudoku is for you. If not, even more so. Unlike most Sudoku apps, Smart Sudoku helps you solve tough puzzles by not simply revealing cell solutions, but by giving you professional tips. It tells you what patterns to look for in order to eliminate candidates. Smart Sudokus' unique scoring system ranks your solution not by the time you spent, but by how efficiently you solved the puzzle. Smart Sudoku comes with hundreds of challenging puzzles built-in. Copying a puzzle from a newspaper is a breeze – think of typing in a few phone numbers. "Excellent. Very simple to enter puzzles from the newspaper. Candidate numbers are displayed, allowing solutions to really tough puzzles to be solved without the laborious job of setting up candidates." (UK user) Features: • Powerful hint system based on the most popular solving strategies • Very fast manual puzzle entry method (typically 40 seconds or less) • Multiple squares may be handled simultaneously • Show or hide candidates anytime while solving the puzzle • Innovative scoring, based on efficiency of solving instead of time spent • Copy/paste puzzles in standard text format, incl. "HoDoKu Library Format" and "Simple Sudoku Format" • Import puzzles from the Internet • Share partially or fully solved puzzles via e-mail • 509 puzzles built-in, from easy to almost unsolvable • Unlimited undo/redo • Built-in user's manual • Landscape mode (iPad, Mac, Vision Pro) Hints Learn how to eliminate candidates by finding standard patterns. Let Smart Sudoku tell you what pattern to look for next. Still stuck? Smart Sudoku can even show you the squares and numbers involved. The affected squares are selected automatically, so eliminating candidates is a snap. Patterns handled by Smart Sudoku include: • Naked and Hidden Singles, Pairs, Triples, Quads, and Quintuples • Locked Candidates Type 1 and 2 • X-Wing • XY-Wing • XYZ-Wing • W-Wing • Skyscraper • 2-String Kite • Swordfish • Jellyfish • Empty Rectangle • Unique Rectangle Type 1 and 2 Input checking After copying a printed puzzle, Smart Sudoku will tell you whether the puzzle has a unique solution or not (usually caused by a typo or missing number.) Efficient solving Smart Sudoku helps you solve Sudokus in a professional way. Never add candidates, only remove them, even from multiple squares in one step. Should you ever get stuck (and no hints are available), let Smart Sudoku solve any square you wish. Or all squares for a given number. Or even the entire puzzle. Novel scoring method Unlike many Sudoku apps, Smart Sudoku rates your efficiency in solving a puzzle, not how quickly you do it. Solve one square at a time and your score will remain at zero. Solve as many squares as possible for a given number simultaneously and watch the progress bar grow. To get the maximum of 1000 points requires you to finish each number in a single step. The current score is shown in the title. Share puzzles Send an e-mail of a puzzle at any stage to your friends. If partially or fully solved, they'll also get the original puzzle. And, of course, they'll see your score, even a message about your making use of candidates. Recipients may paste the puzzle into their own copy of Smart Sudoku. Puzzles from the Internet Smart Sudoku supports the well-established text format for Sudokus (a string of 81 digits and decimal points), as well as export formats used by programs like HoDoKu and Simple Sudoku, giving you access to thousands of puzzles available on the Internet. Just download the text strings and paste them into Smart Sudoku.

About

Pong

Experience a visually stunning rendition of the classic Pong game, powered by advanced neural rendering and real-time ray tracing on mobile devices. Explore realistic lighting effects and dynamic material properties, with gameplay that evolves as you score.

Highlights
  • Real-time ray tracing
  • Neural rendering
  • Global illumination
  • PBR materials
  • Dynamic themes
  • Adjustable settings
Features
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Pong-RT is a simple game of Pong that showcases the power of neural rendering by running ray tracing on phones. Real-time GI, sub-surface scattering, refraction, reflections, and caustics with PBR materials are showcased in this tech demo. Change the theme by scoring points. First to 3 points, wins. Tap the cog on the top right and adjust settings to improve quality or performance. Also try changing the device to CPU/GPU.

Screenshots

Smart Sudoku4 screens
Pong4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Pong at Free against Smart Sudoku's $0.99. Pong also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and ratings volume (11 vs 3). Smart Sudoku's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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

Pong is free to download; Smart Sudoku costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Smart Sudoku holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 11 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 60% of Smart Sudoku's written reviews are positive against 100% of Pong's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Smart Sudoku versus Pong: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSmart SudokuPong
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better4.3 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings311 — better
Update frequencyEvery 9 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size11 MB588 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperCuVee SoftwareAmrithkiran Manavedan

Customer experience

Smart Sudoku

All ratings3 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative20.0%

Pong

All ratings7 ratings
Positive85.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative14.3%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Smart Sudoku

No in-app purchases

None

Pong

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Smart Sudoku free?
Smart Sudoku costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Pong free?
Pong is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Smart Sudoku or Pong?
Smart Sudoku is rated higher. Smart Sudoku averages 5.0 out of 5 from 3 ratings, while Pong averages 4.3 from 11 ratings.
Do Smart Sudoku or Pong have ads?
Neither Smart Sudoku nor Pong shows ads.

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