Comparison

Fireworks Sudoku vs SYNTAX

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

Head to head
About

Fireworks Sudoku

This free puzzle game offers over 25,000 Sudoku boards with a unique cascading fireworks celebration for your progress. It streamlines gameplay with features like automatic note filling and unlimited hints, making it enjoyable for all skill levels.

Highlights
  • Over 25,000 Sudoku boards
  • Cascading fireworks celebration
  • Automatic note filling
  • Unlimited hints
  • Duplicate highlighting
  • Offline play
  • Multiple difficulty levels
Features
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Fireworks Sudoku is a free puzzle game with over 25,000 boards that streamlines Sudoku to make it more fun and less work. Cascading fireworks celebrate your progress and your satisfaction will be sky high! By automatically filling in single remaining notes in the current row, column or region the fireworks can cascade throughout the board which rewards your earlier work (this can be disabled if you wish). This free and fully offline Sudoku puzzle game has many features to make solving logic puzzles more enjoyable and rewarding, including unlimited hints, duplicate highlighting and automatic removal of notes. Many settings allow you to tailor the game to suit you perfectly. Fireworks Sudoku contains over 25,000 classic 9 x 9 Sudoku boards. Every board only has one solution. There are 7 difficulty levels with hints from Beginner to Expert, and also a hardcore mode with hints disabled. Exercise your brain and logical thinking with the perfect difficulty level for you now and increase the challenge later if you wish. The entire app is offline and free. Free and unlimited hints help you learn and keep you solving. Hints can teach you more advanced strategies and explain the logic. By default you are shown a vague hint first (can be disabled) showing you the cells you should look at, and then if you choose you can see the detailed hint which explains why the action can be taken. You can choose to have the game apply the hint action or do it yourself. Learn how to become a Sudoku puzzle master! Features: • Unique fun cascade feature with fireworks which celebrates your progress and rewards your earlier elimination work • Fireworks Sudoku can prevent mistakes and highlight the conflict (can be disabled) • Entering numbers and notes is fast, easy and more intuitive than most Sudoku games • Help pages teach you how to play Sudoku and how to enter numbers and notes in the game • Notes are easier to use than on paper as they are automatically removed when you enter numbers • Button to automatically enter all notes if you wish • Manually removing notes is a one tap action • Both entered numbers and notes of the current number are highlighted for easy visibility • Free and unlimited hints help you out so you're never stuck • Vague hints are given first to show you which part of the board to look at next (can be disabled) • Multiple undo's allow you to roll back the game if you made a mistake • The game automatically saves so you never lose any progress • This Sudoku puzzle game will quickly resume where you left off • You can optionally enable highlighting of all rows, columns and regions covered by the current number Highlights: • More than 25,000 Sudoku number puzzle games each with a single solution • Intuitive and fast number and notes input • Fully offline • Free • Classic Sudoku 9 x 9 grid • Designed for iPhones and iPads • Elegant and intuitive design

About

SYNTAX

Features
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BREACH THE CODE. MASTER THE SYNTAX. Step into the terminal. In SYNTAX: Logic Breach, you are an elite operative tasked with infiltrating highly secure data sectors. This isn't just a puzzle game, it’s a test of your logical processing power. Can you manipulate the strings of reality to bypass the firewall? [THE MISSION] Navigate through 100 increasingly complex sectors. Each level presents a logic-based string manipulation challenge. Use your wit to solve the syntax, unlock the nodes, and progress deeper into the system. [GAMEPLAY FEATURES] - 100% Logic-Based Puzzles: No luck, just pure strategy and pattern recognition. - Terminal Aesthetic: A sleek, minimal hacker interface designed for focus. - Sectors & Nodes: Progress through various security tiers, each introducing new logical mechanics. - Sync Your Progress: Use Sign in with Apple to securely save your breach progress and credits across all your iOS devices. [THE OPERATIVE’S EDGE] Stuck on a high-level firewall? - Data Nodes: Watch rewarded transmissions to earn quick credits. - The Secure Shop: Access high-capacity Credit Packs to unlock hints and solution nodes when the system gets too tough. SYSTEM STATUS: READY FOR INFILTRATION. Download SYNTAX: Logic Breach and begin the hack.

Screenshots

Fireworks Sudoku4 screens
SYNTAX4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Fireworks Sudoku at none against SYNTAX's 4. Fireworks Sudoku also leads on ads (none vs shown). SYNTAX's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). On price, 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

Both are free to download. SYNTAX sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Fireworks Sudoku asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Fireworks Sudoku ships an update weekly, SYNTAX every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Fireworks Sudoku versus SYNTAX: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFireworks SudokuSYNTAX
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better13.0
Further details — not scored
Size72 MB55 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGuy MiddletonAmit Kumar

In-app purchases

None

Fireworks Sudoku

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

SYNTAX

One-time4
  • Starter Pack$0.99
  • Pro Pack$2.99
  • Master Pack$4.99
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  • Whale Pack$9.99

Questions

Is Fireworks Sudoku free?
Fireworks Sudoku is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SYNTAX free?
SYNTAX is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Fireworks Sudoku or SYNTAX have ads?
SYNTAX shows ads; Fireworks Sudoku does not.
Which is updated more often, Fireworks Sudoku or SYNTAX?
Fireworks Sudoku ships an update weekly, and SYNTAX every 2 days. Most recently, Fireworks Sudoku was updated on November 4, 2026 and SYNTAX on November 9, 2026.

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