Comparison

Chess Tutor vs Sudoku

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

Head to head
About

Chess Tutor

This app guides new players from novice to skilled chess players through interactive tutorials, mini-games, and puzzles. It offers various learning modules, practice challenges, and the ability to play full games against a computer opponent with adjustable difficulty.

Highlights
  • Interactive tutorials on piece movement and rules
  • Skill-honing mini-games and puzzles
  • Checkmate challenges for all skill levels
  • Play against a computer opponent with 5 difficulty levels
  • Customizable board colors and piece sets
  • Knight's Tour puzzle
Features
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Chess Tutor has been specifically developed for beginners and new chess players. It can take you through from complete novice to a good chess player. It makes learning and developing in chess fun by a range of tutorials, mini-games and puzzles that hone skills before the full chess game is tackled. Of course, you can just play it at chess if you please! The main features are: >Tutor Levels - How pieces move - The rules of the game - Special moves such as forks, pins, skewers and en-passant - Practice challenges to be completed in less than 1 minute - Puzzles - Can you check mate in as few moves as challenged - Ranging from beginner to advanced - Complete puzzles to unlock more > Minigames - Play games against the computer - Games for beginners and more experienced players - Games that teach end game techniques and practice specific pieces - Complete games to unlock more games and challenges > Challenges - Challenge style puzzles - Puzzles for beginners and more advanced players - The famous "Knight's Tour" puzzle > Play Chess - Computer opponent with 5 levels of difficulty - 3 piece sets to choose from - 3 board colours - animated pieces - Sounds - Undo/take back - Play White or Black - Integrated opening book

About

Sudoku

Engage your mind with a classic logic puzzle game. Offers both traditional Sudoku and a more challenging Killer Sudoku mode with customizable difficulty levels. Enjoy endless unique puzzles with an intuitive interface.

Highlights
  • Classic Sudoku puzzles
  • Killer Sudoku mode
  • Adjustable difficulty levels
  • Intuitive user interface
  • Endless unique puzzles
Features
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Challenge your mind with the ultimate logic puzzle board game - Sudoku! With this app, you can create and play almost endless unique puzzles. Sudoku is the world's favorite number puzzle game! Our app takes the classic game to the next level with a Killer Sudoku game mode, offering a unique challenge for experienced Sudoku players. With an intuitive and user-friendly interface, you can easily adjust the difficulty level from easy to hard, allowing you to find the perfect challenge. Whether you're a casual player or a Sudoku master, you'll find hours of fun with the app. Introducing Sudoku and Killer Sudoku – the ultimate brain-teasers! Sudoku is a logic puzzle game where you must fill a 9x9 grid with numbers 1-9. Each row, column, and 3x3 box must contain all of the numbers 1-9. The challenge is to fill the grid without repeating any numbers in any row, column, or 3x3 box. Killer Sudoku is a variant of the classic Sudoku game that adds an extra level of difficulty. The goal is to fill the grid with numbers from 1-9 and the sum of the numbers in each highlighted cage must match the clue given at the top of the cage. What makes this game so challenging is that the sum of the numbers in the cage must not contain any repeated numbers. Long-lasting fun guaranteed! How to play: * Fill the complete playing field with the numbers 1 - 9. * Every column, every row and every block must contain all numbers from 1 to 9. * No column, row or block may contain two or more cells with the same number.

Screenshots

Chess Tutor4 screens
Sudoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Sudoku at 100% against Chess Tutor's 0%. Sudoku also leads on rating (4.8 vs 2.3) and update cadence (weekly vs every 2 weeks). Chess Tutor's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Chess Tutor sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sudoku sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Sudoku holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 2.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 17 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Chess Tutor's written reviews are positive against 100% of Sudoku's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Chess Tutor ships an update every 2 weeks, Sudoku weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Chess Tutor versus Sudoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChess TutorSudoku
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.3 (4 ratings)4.8 (17 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings417 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksWeekly — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.013.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB128 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperR.D. HareFelix Schuessler

Customer experience

Chess Tutor

All ratings4 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative75.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Sudoku

All ratings17 ratings
Positive94.1%
Neutral5.9%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Chess Tutor

One-time1
  • Remove ads$1.99
1 purchases

Sudoku

One-time1
  • Sudoku Premium$5.99

Questions

Is Chess Tutor free?
Chess Tutor is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sudoku free?
Sudoku is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Chess Tutor or Sudoku?
Sudoku is rated higher. Chess Tutor averages 2.3 out of 5 from 4 ratings, while Sudoku averages 4.8 from 17 ratings.
Do Chess Tutor or Sudoku have ads?
Both Chess Tutor and Sudoku show ads.
Which is updated more often, Chess Tutor or Sudoku?
Chess Tutor ships an update every 2 weeks, and Sudoku weekly. Most recently, Chess Tutor was updated on November 1, 2026 and Sudoku on November 3, 2026.

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