Mini Sudoku vs CipherBreaker
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mini Sudoku
Engage in a quick and satisfying logic challenge with a smaller grid size. This game offers four difficulty levels and a daily puzzle to keep your mind sharp. Enjoy helpful tools and an ad-free experience with a one-time purchase.
- 6x6 grid size
- Four difficulty levels
- Daily puzzle
- Notes and hints
- Auto-check mistakes
- Ad-free experience
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The friendlier 6×6 number puzzle — a quick brain workout, any time. Now with Classic 9×9 too. Smaller grid. Same satisfying logic. Mini Sudoku is perfect for players who want a fast, focused challenge without hours of commitment. FOUR DIFFICULTY LEVELS • Easy — great for beginners • Medium — a step up • Hard — think carefully • Expert — sharpen your mind NEW: CLASSIC 9×9 Want the full-size grid? Switch to Classic 9×9 on the home screen — the same clean design, notes and hints, four levels of its own, and your game saved if you're interrupted. A short tutorial walks you through the 9×9 rules. DAILY PUZZLE A fresh puzzle every morning. Track your streak, build the habit. HELPFUL TOOLS • Notes to plan your moves • Hints when you're stuck • Auto-check highlights mistakes instantly • Timer to track your personal best CLEAN & AD-FREE No ads. No clutter. Just you and the puzzle. UNLOCK ONCE, PLAY FOREVER Start with a free trial. Love it? One small payment unlocks everything — for life. No subscription, ever.
CipherBreaker
Engage in a pure deduction game where every puzzle is solvable through logic alone. Investigate cases, gather evidence, and crack hidden codes using smart reasoning. This app offers a variety of challenges to test and sharpen your thinking skills.
- Pure logic deduction
- Case Files investigations
- Seven distinct game modes
- Daily Challenge with streaks
- AI opponents for practice
- Clean, focused design
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Think you're sharp? Prove it. CipherBreaker is a pure deduction game with zero luck involved. Every code can be cracked by logic alone — if you're good enough. Read the clues, eliminate the impossible, and close in on the answer one calculated guess at a time. This isn't another match-three with a brain-game label slapped on it. It's the real thing: a test of reasoning that rewards how you think, not how lucky you are. WHY CIPHERBREAKER - Pure logic, zero luck — every puzzle is solvable by deduction alone - Case Files — seven investigations: work the scene for evidence, then deduce the Final Code - 7 distinct modes — from gentle warm-ups to brutal challenges that will humble you - Daily Challenge — one shared puzzle a day, build your streak, prove your consistency - Sharpen up against AI opponents that push you to think faster and cleaner - A clean, focused design that gets out of your way and lets you think HOW IT WORKS Crack a hidden code using feedback after each guess. Sounds simple. It isn't. The best players don't guess more — they guess smarter, turning every clue into the next deduction. Master the logic and the codes fall fast. Get sloppy and they'll bury you. CASE FILES Chapter 1, FIRST SHIFT: seven cases on one night floor, and nobody else is awake. Every stage you solve recovers a piece of evidence, and the clues you earn are what let you deduce the case's Final Code. Miss a stage and that lead goes cold — you close the case with less to go on. Stars, XP and tokens per case, and a Detective Rank that climbs from Rookie to Master Cipherbreaker. FOR PEOPLE WHO LIKE TO THINK If you love logic puzzles, number games, code-breaking, or anything that makes your brain actually work, CipherBreaker was built for you. No filler. No fluff. Just deduction, sharpened to a point. Can you crack every code — or will the code crack you? Download CipherBreaker and find out how sharp you really are.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Mini Sudoku at none against CipherBreaker's shown. Mini Sudoku also leads on ratings volume (23 vs 1). CipherBreaker's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs fortnightly) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. Mini Sudoku sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and CipherBreaker sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Mini Sudoku against 5.0 for CipherBreaker. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mini Sudoku has 23 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Mini Sudoku ships an update fortnightly, CipherBreaker every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mini Sudoku | CipherBreaker |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (23 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 23 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 60 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Le Duc Hung | Ozgur Cetintas |
Customer experience
Mini Sudoku
CipherBreaker
In-app purchases
Mini Sudoku
- Unlock Full Version (Lifetime)$2.99
CipherBreaker
- Pocket Pack$0.99
- Standard Pack$2.99
- Remove Ads$2.99
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- Starter Pack$2.99
- Premium Pack$7.99
- Mega Pack$19.99








