Comparison

Sudoku Labs vs Spellbound Grimoire

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

Head to head
About

Sudoku Labs

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

Spellbound Grimoire

Features
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Open the grimoire. Spell words from a hand of letter tiles, clear each round's score threshold, and build a vocabulary engine that snowballs out of control. Every run is a fresh draft. Collect charms that bend the rules — quadruple your rare letters, multiply palindromes, gild a vowel — then stack them into combos that turn a five-letter word into thousands of points. Level your favorite word lengths with Codices. Aim tile packs at the exact letters you want. And inscribe your OWN words into the dictionary, where they score for the rest of the run. Then face the Reckoning. Twelve bosses bend the rules — vowels score nothing, your hand shrinks, a letter is forbidden — and you see each one coming from the start of the chapter, so you can build against it. FEATURES • A deep word-roguelike: 50+ charms, 12 bosses, and dozens of synergies to find • Five deck archetypes that reshape your run from the very first tile • Inscribe custom words — the one thing only you can do • Seeded runs with shareable codes — race a friend on the exact same deal • Ascension stakes and an Endless mode for the score-chasers • Designed for one hand, in portrait NO NONSENSE • No ads. No in-app purchases. No timers, no energy, no daily-streak guilt. • No accounts, no login, no tracking, no data collection. • Opens straight into a game. It's a word game with the depth of a roguelike deckbuilder. Spell something spectacular.

Screenshots

Sudoku Labs4 screens
Spellbound Grimoire4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spellbound Grimoire at none against Sudoku Labs's 1. On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. Sudoku Labs sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Spellbound Grimoire asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Sudoku Labs versus Spellbound Grimoire: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoku LabsSpellbound Grimoire
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJustin van WijngaardenKHADEM KADE BADIYAN

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sudoku Labs

One-time1
  • Sudoku Labs$3.99
None

Spellbound Grimoire

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Sudoku Labs free?
Sudoku Labs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spellbound Grimoire free?
Spellbound Grimoire is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Sudoku Labs or Spellbound Grimoire have ads?
Neither Sudoku Labs nor Spellbound Grimoire shows ads.

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