Comparison

Sudoktor vs Sudoku

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

Head to head
About

Sudoktor

This app assists in solving Sudoku puzzles, offering features to generate unlimited puzzles of varying difficulty, analyze existing ones, and provide detailed solving strategies. It allows manual puzzle entry and includes advanced tools for a deeper understanding of Sudoku mechanics.

Highlights
  • Generates unlimited Sudoku puzzles
  • Rates puzzle difficulty
  • Manual puzzle entry and copy-paste
  • Automatic pencil mark updates
  • Full Undo/Redo functionality
  • Advanced analysis (candidates, subsets, chains)
Features
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Sudoktor is a Sudoku solving assistant. It helps you to solve and understand Sudoku puzzles but it can also be used to create and solve unlimited Sudoku puzzles. See the support page for more details and screenshots. App's key features: - generates valid 9x9 sudoku puzzles of any choosen level (from easy to fiendish) - allows to rate objectively the difficulty of the current puzzle - allows to enter to enter standard 9x9 Sudokus manually or by copy-and-paste - offers an intuitive and quick entry method - shows or hides pencil marks, updates them automatically - full Undo/Redo feature - offers advanced analysis on demand: - candidates - wrong values - solution - subsets, grid analysis, forcing chains, almost locked subsets... - ability to save and to reopen the games

About

Sudoku

Features
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Sudoku that teaches you to solve, not just a grid to fill in. SCAN A PUZZLE FROM PAPER Are you stuck in a Sudoku ? Point your camera at a sudoku scan it and see how to unlock the next move. Recognition runs entirely on your device using a neural network trained specifically for this app — nothing is uploaded, and it works with no internet connection at all. Because no scanner is perfect, every scan stops at a review screen before it reaches the board. You see the photo with the detected grid drawn over it, all 81 cell crops next to what was read from each one, and the confidence behind every digit. Anything misread can be corrected with a tap. Cells that repeat a digit in their row, column, or box are flagged in red, so a bad scan can never become an unplayable board. UNDERSTAND EVERY MOVE Ask for a solution and you don't just get answers — you get reasoning. Each digit is placed one step at a time, and the technique behind it is named and explained in plain English as it happens: • Naked Single — a cell has only one candidate left • Hidden Single — a digit fits only one cell in its row, column, or box • Pointing Pair and Box/Line Reduction — locked candidates • Naked Pair, Hidden Pair, Naked Triple • X-Wing and XY-Wing • Nishio — trial and contradiction, used only as a last resort Pause the solver at any point to study the board yourself, step backwards and forwards through the reasoning, then resume when you're ready. The running commentary makes it a tutor rather than a cheat button. PUZZLES THAT ARE ACTUALLY FAIR Every generated puzzle is checked to have exactly one solution — never two, never ambiguous. Each is also graded by the hardest technique it genuinely requires, and any puzzle that can only be finished by trial and error is thrown away. If you reach a wall, there is always a logical way through. Five levels, from a single match to a full volcano: Easy, Casual, Medium, Hard, Expert. The harder tiers are harder to think about, not merely emptier. BUILT FOR COMFORTABLE PLAY • Pencil marks, with automatic clean-up as you place digits • Auto-notes to fill in candidates for a cell • Safe mode highlights a conflict the moment you create one • Hint button points out a cell that has only one possibility left • Full undo and redo history • Four colour themes: Midnight Focus, Warm Paper, Forest Minimal, Slate Contrast • Portrait and landscape • Progress stats for solved puzzles and help used PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No ads. No tracking. No analytics. No network access of any kind — the app has no code to reach the internet. Your photos are read on your device and never leave it.

Screenshots

Sudoktor4 screens
Sudoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Sudoku at Free against Sudoktor's $0.99. Sudoku also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 36 months). Sudoktor's advantage is iOS requirement (8.0 vs 17.0). On 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

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

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sudoktor ships an update every 36 months, Sudoku monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Sudoktor versus Sudoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoktorSudoku
Price$0.99Free — better
Rating3.3 (7 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings7 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 36 monthsMonthly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS8.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size2 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTablEditPIETRO ANDREA BRAMBILLA

In-app purchases

None

Sudoktor

No in-app purchases

None

Sudoku

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sudoktor free?
Sudoktor costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Sudoku free?
Sudoku is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sudoktor or Sudoku have ads?
Neither Sudoktor nor Sudoku shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sudoktor or Sudoku?
Sudoktor ships an update every 36 months, and Sudoku monthly. Most recently, Sudoktor was updated on November 1, 2026 and Sudoku on October 31, 2026.

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