Scan Sudoku vs Bare Sudoku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scan Sudoku
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Take a picture then play it on your device. It is AI powered scan sudoku app. It give you hints and you can add notes. It will solve it if you ask it to.
Bare Sudoku
Enjoy a pure Sudoku experience with no distractions. This app offers four difficulty levels, intelligent hints that teach solving techniques, and fast input options. Play offline with your game saved directly on your device.
- Four difficulty levels
- Hints that teach techniques
- Fast input and note-taking
- Offline play
- Mistake marking option
- Dark mode and landscape support
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Bare Sudoku is Sudoku with nothing in the way. No ads, no account, no tracking, no internet. Open it and play. FOUR LEVELS Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert. Every puzzle has exactly one solution and can be solved by logic alone; you never have to guess. HINTS THAT TEACH A hint points to the next cell you can fill and names the technique: a single candidate, the only place for a digit in a row, column or box, locked candidates, pairs and triples, X-Wing, Y-Wing, Swordfish or XYZ-Wing. Tap again to place the digit. FAST INPUT Tap a cell then a digit, or tap a digit twice to lock it and fill several cells in a row. Notes, undo, erase, fill all notes with one tap, mistake marking you can turn off, and highlights for the row, column, box and same digits. SMALL AND HONEST The whole app is about 150 KB. Your game is saved on the device and continues where you left off. Dark mode, landscape, English and Turkish. Open source under the MIT license.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Bare Sudoku at none against Scan Sudoku's shown. Bare Sudoku also leads on device support (6 vs 2) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). Scan Sudoku's advantage is update cadence (daily vs weekly). On price and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Scan Sudoku ships an update daily, Bare Sudoku weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scan Sudoku | Bare Sudoku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | — | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | — | 1 — better |
| Update frequency | Daily — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hailemedhn Tegegne | Alparslan Selcuk Develioglu |
In-app purchases
Scan Sudoku
No in-app purchases
Bare Sudoku
No in-app purchases









