5 Daily Puzzles vs Str8ts Solver
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
5 Daily Puzzles
Engage your mind with a variety of daily logic puzzles, including Sudoku, Str8ts, and Kakuro. Progress is automatically saved, allowing you to return to unfinished games anytime. Puzzles are designed for all skill levels, from beginners to experts.
- Multiple puzzle types
- Daily new puzzle sets
- Progress saving
- Undo/redo functionality
- Difficulty grading
- Guaranteed single solution
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Solve Sudoku, Str8ts, Killer Sudoku, Jigsaw Sudoku and Kakuro on your iPad with these daily puzzles from Andrew Stuart and Jeff Widderich. These puzzles will suit beginners to experts because within each puzzle are four grades - making a total of twenty puzzles available. Every day you can request a new set of each puzzle (use the "New" button on each player) or you can keep working on the current puzzles. Progress is always saved for each puzzle. Leave or quit the app at any time and come back to an unfinished puzzle. There is a full undo/redo and you can check your progress if you are stuck. We're very proud of these puzzles - they come from the same stock we regularly send for print in newspapers around the world so we know pretty quickly if we're not producing the best puzzles. We have been making classic puzzles since 2005 and Str8ts since 2008 and hundreds of solvers have helped us hone the logical strategies we use to make them. Because we use logic to make and grade them we are very confident of the grade spectrum they have been placed on and we can also say that the different between the easiest and the hardest should be very noticeable. So whether you are a novice or a pro there is a puzzle to match your skill. We absolutely guarantee a single solution and theoretically you should never need to guess. Because of the strategy logic we use, even the hardest puzzles have a logical pathway to the end, although it might be obscure to say the least. If you want to check the puzzles or are stuck, we have Sudoku solvers at www.sudokuwiki.org and a Str8ts solver at www.str8ts.com. In fact you can find a wealth of information about us, the puzzles and tips and strategies at these two websites.
Str8ts Solver
Solve logic puzzles similar to Sudoku by filling grids with numbers 1-9. Offers daily new puzzles of varying difficulty, an integrated solver for hints, and the ability to manually input or import puzzles.
- Daily new puzzles
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Integrated solver
- Manual puzzle entry
- Text format import
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Jeff Widderich had the idea for Str8ts in 2008. Together with Andrew Stuart, he developed a new puzzle that is a successful successor to Sudoku. It is a puzzle where you have to enter the numbers 1 to 9 in the fields, where each digit may occur only once per line and column. With the app you can daily download new puzzles and solve them for free. There are puzzles in different difficulty levels, so that everyone will find something for their level of knowledge. If you can not find a solution, the integrated solver helps to find the next steps. The integrated solver is able to solve even the most extreme str8ts puzzles with a backtracking algorithm. So far, we've only found two puzzles where the one-step backtracking algorithm did not find a solution and needed support from the user. As a further function, you can even enter puzzles, which are available for example in printed form, by hand. An import via a text format is also possible. We thank Jeff Widderich and Andrew Stuart, who gave us permission to use the name "Str8ts". A highlight, of course, is the link from Andrew, through which he daily provides us with new puzzles for the app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: 5 Daily Puzzles at every 2 months against Str8ts Solver's every 17 months. 5 Daily Puzzles also leads on review sentiment (63% vs 50%). Str8ts Solver's advantage is price ($2.99 vs $4.99) and device support (3 vs 1). On 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
5 Daily Puzzles costs $4.99 and Str8ts Solver $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
5 Daily Puzzles ships an update every 2 months, Str8ts Solver every 17 months. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 5 Daily Puzzles | Str8ts Solver |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $4.99 | $2.99 — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 17 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Scanraid Ltd | Th. Wolf |
Customer experience
5 Daily Puzzles
Str8ts Solver
In-app purchases
5 Daily Puzzles
No in-app purchases
Str8ts Solver
No in-app purchases
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