Comparison

DokuDoo vs Sudokoi

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

Head to head
About

DokuDoo

Enjoy a Sudoku experience designed for all players, particularly seniors, with a senior-friendly interface and large fonts. Get daily puzzles and hints for free, with an optional one-time purchase for unlimited content and advanced features.

Highlights
  • Ad-free experience
  • Senior-friendly design with large fonts
  • Free daily puzzles and hints
  • One-time purchase for premium features
  • Apple Pencil support
  • Accessibility optimized
Features
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DokuDoo offers the best Sudoku experience for all players and especially those over 50: * No ads ever - even in free version * One-time $4.99 purchase vs $9.99+ elsewhere * 4 free daily puzzles (more than competitors) * Senior-friendly design with large fonts * No confusing subscriptions FREE FEATURES: * 3 daily puzzles with midnight reset * 3 daily hints with explanations * All difficulty levels * Apple Pencil support * Accessibility optimized PREMIUM UPGRADE ($4.99): * Unlimited daily puzzles * Unlimited hints * Beautiful color themes * Regional leaderboards * Advanced statistics * Cloud backup & sync Terms of Service: https://www.onethum.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://www.onethum.com/privacy-policy

About

Sudokoi

This app offers a calm and respectful daily Sudoku experience, focusing on a single puzzle played at your own pace. It provides four daily puzzles with honest difficulty ratings and detailed technique-based hints. Enjoy a distraction-free environment with optional sound and haptic feedback.

Highlights
  • Four new daily puzzles
  • Four difficulty tiers
  • Technique-based hints
  • Non-punitive mistake counter
  • Per-difficulty stats
  • Optional sound and haptics
Features
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Sudokoi started from one question: what if a sudoku app actually respected the player? The ones that dominate the store today are built to maximize taps — to interrupt, to nudge, to monetize the next 30 seconds of your attention. Sudokoi is built for the opposite: a single quiet puzzle, played at your own pace, that's still waiting for you when you come back. WHAT'S INSIDE • Four new daily puzzles every day • Four difficulty tiers — Easy, Medium, Hard, and Nightmare — generated, then verified by a human-style technique solver so the ratings are honest • Corner notes, center notes, and auto-erase across peers (or turn that off and pencil it yourself) • A "Fill Notes" shortcut for when you'd rather skip the bookkeeping • Hints that don't just point at a cell — they explain the technique. Naked Single. Hidden Pair. X-Wing. Y-Wing. The hint sheet shows the digits, the cells, and the reasoning, so the next puzzle gets easier • A non-punitive mistake counter. We track if you placed a wrong digit, but we never lock you out or end the game • Per-difficulty stats: best time, average time, games won • Music, sound effects, and haptics — all optional, all togglable in Settings WHAT'S NOT INSIDE • No ads. Not banners, not interstitials, not "watch an ad to continue." Nothing. • No 3-strikes-and-out. No restart-from-scratch. • No identity tracking. We use anonymous diagnostics to tune defaults and you can turn even that off in Settings. • No subscription. Sudokoi is free. If we ever add paid features, they'll be additive — your daily puzzle, your four difficulties, and your stats stay free forever. THE ENGINE Sudokoi's puzzles come from a backtracking generator that produces a unique solution for every grid, then verifies the difficulty with a logical solver — the same code that powers the hints. The solver knows every standard sudoku technique through Jellyfish and beyond, which is why Hard and Nightmare actually feel like Hard and Nightmare. ONE PERSON, IN THE OPEN Sudokoi is built by one person. The privacy policy and terms are honest documents you can actually read at sudokoi.com. Feedback goes to a real inbox at feedback@sudokoi.com and gets a real reply. If you've ever wished a sudoku app would just shut up and let you solve, this one's for you.

Screenshots

DokuDoo4 screens
Sudokoi4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sudokoi at none against DokuDoo's 1. On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. DokuDoo sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Sudokoi asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for DokuDoo against 5.0 for Sudokoi. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 7 level
DokuDoo versus Sudokoi: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDokuDooSudokoi
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings)
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 6 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperOne Thum Software, LLCMichael Righi

In-app purchases

1 purchases

DokuDoo

One-time1
  • DokuDoo Premium$4.99
None

Sudokoi

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is DokuDoo free?
DokuDoo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sudokoi free?
Sudokoi is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, DokuDoo or Sudokoi?
DokuDoo and Sudokoi are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 2 ratings respectively.
Do DokuDoo or Sudokoi have ads?
Neither DokuDoo nor Sudokoi shows ads.

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