Comparison

Sudoku Summit vs McDOKU Sudoku

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

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Sudoku Summit

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Discover the perfect balance of simplicity and sophistication in this beautifully crafted Sudoku game. Designed for puzzle lovers of all skill levels, Sudoku Summit offers a premium experience without the distractions โ€“ completely free and forever ad-free. Why Sudoku Summit? โ€ข Always Free - No hidden costs, premium tiers, or in-app purchases โ€ข Modern, Clean Design - Elegant interface that puts your puzzle first โ€ข Beginner to Expert - Four difficulty levels with intelligent hint system โ€ข Smart Learning Tools - Step-by-step hints that teach real Sudoku strategies โ€ข Comprehensive Statistics - Track your progress, best times, and win streaks โ€ข Mistake Management - Optional error checking with up to 3 mistakes allowed โ€ข Flexible Gameplay - Pencil mode for notes, unlimited undo, pause & resume โ€ข Dark Mode Support - Easy on the eyes for extended puzzle sessions โ€ข Offline Play - No internet required once downloaded Whether you're learning your first puzzle or mastering expert techniques, Sudoku Summit provides the tools and guidance you need. Experience Sudoku the way it was meant to be: pure, focused, and endlessly engaging.

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McDOKU Sudoku

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McDOKU is a clean, fast-paced Sudoku experience built for players who love to compete. Pick your difficulty โ€” from CHILL to EXTREME โ€” and race against the clock. When you finish, your time goes up on the global leaderboard. See where you stand today, this week, this month, or all-time. -- 5 DIFFICULTY LEVELS -- ยท CHILL โ€” 15 blanks, perfect for warming up ยท EASY โ€” 25 blanks, great for beginners ยท MEDIUM โ€” 35 blanks, a solid challenge ยท HARD โ€” 45 blanks, for experienced solvers ยท EXTREME โ€” 52 blanks, the ultimate test -- SMART TOOLS -- ยท Hint โ€” stuck? Get up to 3 hints per game (time penalty keeps it fair) ยท Undo โ€” made a mistake? Roll it back instantly ยท Memo โ€” jot down candidate numbers in each cell ยท Auto-Fill โ€” instantly pencil in all candidates ยท Pause โ€” take a break, your progress is safe -- COMPETE GLOBALLY -- ยท Time-based rankings updated in real time ยท Filter by period: Today ยท Weekly ยท Monthly ยท All-Time ยท Separate leaderboard for each difficulty level ยท Your rank is highlighted so you can find it at a glance -- CLEAN EXPERIENCE -- ยท Dark mode support ยท Timer with mistake counter ยท Satisfying sound feedback ยท No ads โ€” just puzzles McDOKU. Solve fast. Rank high. McDOKU๋Š” ๊ฒฝ์Ÿ์„ ์ฆ๊ธฐ๋Š” ํ”Œ๋ ˆ์ด์–ด๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊น”๋”ํ•˜๊ณ  ๋น ๋ฅธ ์Šค๋„์ฟ  ์•ฑ์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๋‚œ์ด๋„๋ฅผ ์„ ํƒํ•˜๊ณ  โ€” CHILL๋ถ€ํ„ฐ EXTREME๊นŒ์ง€ โ€” ์‹œ๊ฐ„๊ณผ ์‹ธ์šฐ์„ธ์š”. ์™„๋ฃŒํ•˜๋ฉด ๊ธฐ๋ก์ด ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋žญํ‚น์— ์ž๋™ ๋“ฑ๋ก๋ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์˜ค๋Š˜, ์ด๋ฒˆ ์ฃผ, ์ด๋ฒˆ ๋‹ฌ, ์ „์ฒด ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„์—์„œ ๋‚ด ์ˆœ์œ„๋ฅผ ํ™•์ธํ•˜์„ธ์š”. -- 5๊ฐ€์ง€ ๋‚œ์ด๋„ -- ยท CHILL โ€” ๋นˆ์นธ 15๊ฐœ, ๊ฐ€๋ณ๊ฒŒ ์‹œ์ž‘ํ•˜๊ธฐ ๋”ฑ ์ข‹์€ ๋‚œ์ด๋„ ยท EASY โ€” ๋นˆ์นธ 25๊ฐœ, ์ž…๋ฌธ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‚œ์ด๋„ ยท MEDIUM โ€” ๋นˆ์นธ 35๊ฐœ, ํƒ„ํƒ„ํ•œ ๋„์ „ ยท HARD โ€” ๋นˆ์นธ 45๊ฐœ, ์ˆ™๋ จ์ž๋ฅผ ์œ„ํ•œ ๋‚œ์ด๋„ ยท EXTREME โ€” ๋นˆ์นธ 52๊ฐœ, ์ตœ๊ณ ์˜ ๋„์ „ -- ์Šค๋งˆํŠธ ๋„๊ตฌ -- ยท ํžŒํŠธ โ€” ๊ฒŒ์ž„๋‹น ์ตœ๋Œ€ 3ํšŒ, ๋ง‰ํ˜”์„ ๋•Œ ์ •๋‹ต ํ‘œ์‹œ (์‹œ๊ฐ„ ํŽ˜๋„ํ‹ฐ ์žˆ์Œ) ยท ์‹คํ–‰์ทจ์†Œ โ€” ์‹ค์ˆ˜ํ–ˆ๋‹ค๋ฉด ๋ฐ”๋กœ ๋˜๋Œ๋ฆฌ๊ธฐ ยท ๋ฉ”๋ชจ โ€” ์…€์— ํ›„๋ณด ์ˆซ์ž ๊ธฐ๋ก ยท ์ž๋™์ฑ„์šฐ๊ธฐ โ€” ๋ชจ๋“  ํ›„๋ณด ์ˆซ์ž ํ•œ ๋ฒˆ์— ์ฑ„์šฐ๊ธฐ ยท ์ผ์‹œ์ •์ง€ โ€” ์–ธ์ œ๋“  ์ค‘๋‹จ, ์ง„ํ–‰ ์ƒํ™ฉ์€ ๊ทธ๋Œ€๋กœ -- ๊ธ€๋กœ๋ฒŒ ๋žญํ‚น -- ยท ์‹ค์‹œ๊ฐ„ ์—…๋ฐ์ดํŠธ๋˜๋Š” ์‹œ๊ฐ„ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜ ๋žญํ‚น ยท ๊ธฐ๊ฐ„๋ณ„ ํ•„ํ„ฐ: ์˜ค๋Š˜ ยท ์ฃผ๊ฐ„ ยท ์›”๊ฐ„ ยท ์ „์ฒด ยท ๋‚œ์ด๋„๋ณ„ ๋…๋ฆฝ ๋ฆฌ๋”๋ณด๋“œ ยท ๋‚ด ๊ธฐ๋ก์€ ๋…ธ๋ž€์ƒ‰์œผ๋กœ ์ฆ‰์‹œ ํ™•์ธ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ -- ๊น”๋”ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ -- ยท ๋‹คํฌ๋ชจ๋“œ ์ง€์› ยท ์˜ค๋‹ต ์นด์šดํ„ฐ ํฌํ•จ ํƒ€์ด๋จธ ยท ์ง๊ด€์ ์ธ ์‚ฌ์šด๋“œ ํ”ผ๋“œ๋ฐฑ ยท ๊ด‘๊ณ  ์—†์Œ โ€” ์˜ค์ง ํผ์ฆ๋งŒ McDOKU. ๋น ๋ฅด๊ฒŒ ํ’€๊ณ , ๋†’์ด ์˜ฌ๋ผ๊ฐ€์„ธ์š”.

Screenshots

Sudoku Summit4 screens
McDOKU Sudoku4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: McDOKU Sudoku at daily against Sudoku Summit's every 3 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price ยท Rating ยท Positive reviews ยท Number of ratings ยท Update frequency ยท Ads ยท In-app purchases ยท Monetization ยท Best chart rank ยท Devices ยท Requires iOS

CostPrice ยท In-app purchases ยท Ads ยท Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sudoku Summit ships an update every 3 weeks, McDOKU Sudoku daily. Both last shipped on October 28, 2026.

Scorecard1 real difference ยท 5 level
Sudoku Summit versus McDOKU Sudoku: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoku SummitMcDOKU Sudoku
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksDaily โ€” better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.1 โ€” better15.6
Further details โ€” not scored
Size40 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLake Solutions Inc.SUNG TAE KIM

In-app purchases

None

Sudoku Summit

No in-app purchases

None

McDOKU Sudoku

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sudoku Summit free?
Sudoku Summit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is McDOKU Sudoku free?
McDOKU Sudoku is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sudoku Summit or McDOKU Sudoku have ads?
Neither Sudoku Summit nor McDOKU Sudoku shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sudoku Summit or McDOKU Sudoku?
Sudoku Summit ships an update every 3 weeks, and McDOKU Sudoku daily. Most recently, Sudoku Summit was updated on October 28, 2026 and McDOKU Sudoku on October 28, 2026.

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