Comparison

Hedgemaze vs Sumhow

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

Head to head
About

Hedgemaze

A relaxing logic puzzle game where you use grid clues to create a single path through various serene environments. It offers over 2,000 puzzles with increasing difficulty and a daily challenge mode with leaderboards. Enjoy a pure puzzle experience with no ads or timers.

Highlights
  • Logic-based grid puzzles
  • Build a single perfect path
  • 2,000+ puzzles
  • Four difficulty levels
  • Daily challenges with leaderboards
  • No ads or timers
Features
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Hedgemaze is a relaxing logic puzzle inspired by nonograms, picross, and traditional paper puzzles. Use row and column clues to build a single perfect path through flowers, zen gardens, torii gates, and winding rivers. Each puzzle challenges you to determine exactly which cells become hedge and which become path. Every puzzle has one unique solution and can be solved with logic alone. No guessing required. Play 2,000+ puzzles across four difficulties. Start with 6×6 Easy grids and work your way up to challenging 12×12 Expert puzzles with rivers, bridges, and new twists to master. Take on a new Daily Challenge every day. Solve three puzzles that reset at midnight, compete on global leaderboards for the fastest times, and track your streaks and best solves while earning achievements. No ads. No energy timers. Just puzzles.

About

Sumhow

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Somebody left you a calculator. Most of the keys are gone. Sumhow hands you a target and a handful of surviving keys, and asks you to make the number anyway. Three, plus and times are enough to get started. Then the machine starts changing the rules on you. HOW IT PLAYS • Every unit has a par: the fewest presses it can possibly be done in. Match it for three stars. • The machine resolves left to right, with no order of operations. On this unit, 3 + 4 × 2 is 14. • Undo and Clear are free, so experiment. There are no timers, no lives and no fail state. TEN CHAPTERS, ONE RULE EACH Roots, where √ only lands on whole numbers. Echo, where equals repeats the last operation. Decay, where the × key dies after two uses. Stutter, Memory, Wraparound, The Toll, Below Zero, Blind. And Word Mode: ninety-six trivia questions whose answers you spell by typing the number that reads as the word when the screen is upside down. The first four chapters are free. Each of the ten that follow is a single purchase, or earn it: every unit in a chapter at three stars pays for the next one in gold. HINTS THAT COST SOMETHING A nudge shows your next press. A route shows the whole solution. Both cost gold and cap the stars you can earn on that unit, so a hint is a choice, not a shortcut. SKINS Wear the calculator you want. Forty-three skins in seven packs, from leopard print to a synthwave sunset, tried on before you buy. THE QUIET PART The unit reacts to certain numbers. None of them are listed. Scratch mode is a fully working calculator with no target; that is where you go looking. Find enough and a chapter opens that is not for sale. No ads. No account. No energy meter. Just a calculator with a problem, and you.

Screenshots

Hedgemaze4 screens
Sumhow4 screens

Verdict

The call

Hedgemaze and Sumhow 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. Hedgemaze sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Sumhow sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Hedgemaze versus Sumhow: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHedgemazeSumhow
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (19 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings19 — better—
Update frequencyFortnightly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB16 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDrew KoontzTimothy Palladino

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Hedgemaze

One-time1
  • Hedgemaze Pro$4.99
10 purchases

Sumhow

One-time10
  • Skins: Café$1.99
  • Desk skin pack$1.99
  • 80s skin pack$1.99
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  • Night Shift skin pack$1.99
  • Seaside skin pack$1.99
  • Wild skin pack$1.99
  • Sweet Shop skin pack$1.99
  • Chapter 8: The Toll$4.99
  • Chapter 7: Word Mode$4.99
  • Chapter 6: Wraparound$4.99

Questions

Is Hedgemaze free?
Hedgemaze is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Sumhow free?
Sumhow is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Hedgemaze or Sumhow have ads?
Neither Hedgemaze nor Sumhow shows ads.

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