Comparison

Sudoku Labs vs Extended Minesweeper

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

Head to head
About

Sudoku Labs

Enjoy a clean, fast, and distraction-free Sudoku experience with daily puzzles across six difficulty levels. Features include smart notes, conflict highlighting, and unlimited undo. Play offline with no ads or accounts required.

Highlights
  • Six difficulty tiers
  • Global daily puzzle
  • Smart pencil notes
  • Conflict highlighting
  • Unlimited undo/redo
  • Offline play
Features
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Sudoku Labs is built for players who want clean, fast, distraction-free Sudoku. No ads. No accounts. No subscriptions. Just pure Sudoku. • Six difficulty tiers: Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert (Premium) and Extreme (Premium) • One global daily puzzle — the same challenge for everyone, every day • Smart pencil notes • Conflict highlighting • Optional mistake detection • Unlimited undo/redo • Offline play — no internet required • Puzzle history library Premium unlock gives you: • Expert & Extreme difficulty • +2 hints per difficulty • Increased mistake allowance • One-time purchase — no subscription, ever • Support independent development — no subscriptions, ever. Designed for focus. Built for performance. If you love Sudoku without clutter, this is your app.

About

Extended Minesweeper

Features
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Minesweeper Extended is the classic mine-hunting puzzle you grew up with — rebuilt natively for iPhone, sharpened with one small but game-changing rule. THE EXTENDED RULE In classic Minesweeper, a closed cell tells you nothing until you tap it. In Minesweeper Extended, the moment any of a cell's neighbors is opened, that closed cell starts showing how many mines sit around it. Nothing is faked, nothing is leaked — the hint is just the cell's own honest adjacency count, surfaced earlier. The result is a game with the same pure logic, far less blind guessing, and a flow that feels closer to a real puzzle than a coin flip. THREE DIFFICULTIES • Easy — 8 × 8 board, 10 mines. A coffee-break game. • Medium — 16 × 16 board, 40 mines. The classic challenge. • Hard — 16 × 30 board, 99 mines. For when you want to actually think. BUILT FOR IPHONE • First tap is always safe — no instant losses, no restarts on move one. • Tap to open. Long-press to cycle flag → question mark → clear. • Crisp haptic feedback on every open, flag and explosion. • Best times saved per difficulty so you can chase your own record. • Auto-save: close the app mid-game and pick up exactly where you left off. • Clean, native SwiftUI interface — no clutter, no popups, no nonsense. NO ACCOUNTS. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. The full game is free. There are no banners, no rewarded videos, no subscriptions, no accounts, no analytics. Everything runs locally on your device — your best times never leave your phone. OPTIONAL TIP JAR If you genuinely enjoy the game and want to support an independent developer, there's a Support screen with three optional tip tiers. They unlock absolutely nothing — they're just a thank-you. The game is exactly the same whether you tip or not. Made by a solo developer who still thinks Minesweeper is the best puzzle game ever shipped. Have fun.

Screenshots

Sudoku Labs4 screens
Extended Minesweeper3 screens

Verdict

The call

Sudoku Labs and Extended Minesweeper are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. Sudoku Labs sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Extended Minesweeper sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Sudoku Labs versus Extended Minesweeper: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoku LabsExtended Minesweeper
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB1 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin van WijngaardenIvan Chernov

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sudoku Labs

One-time1
  • Sudoku Labs$3.99
3 purchases

Extended Minesweeper

One-time3
  • Small tip$0.99
  • Nice tip$2.99
  • Generous tip$4.99

Questions

Is Sudoku Labs free?
Sudoku Labs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Extended Minesweeper free?
Extended Minesweeper is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sudoku Labs or Extended Minesweeper have ads?
Neither Sudoku Labs nor Extended Minesweeper shows ads.

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