Comparison

Sudoku Haven vs Lattern

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

Head to head
About

Sudoku Haven

Enjoy a peaceful Sudoku experience with over 450,000 hand-graded puzzles, daily challenges, and 20 calming themes. Play offline with smart hints, built-in trainers, and progress tracking. Optional purchase removes ads and unlocks all features.

Highlights
  • 450,000+ hand-graded puzzles
  • Daily Challenge mode
  • 20 quiet themes
  • Offline play
  • Smart hints and trainers
  • Progress tracking and stats
  • Apple Watch and iMessage integration
Features
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Sudoku Haven is a calmer way to play Sudoku — 450,000+ hand-graded puzzles, a daily challenge, and 20 quiet themes, free and offline. It's a quiet place for your mind on iPhone and iPad, too: soft light, unhurried numbers, and room to breathe between moves. Every puzzle is hand-graded across five difficulties, from gentle Beginner grids to genuinely challenging Extreme. Play a fresh Daily Challenge every day, return to any puzzle in the archive, or generate endless random puzzles whenever you like. Everything is built to keep you in flow: • Smart hints that nudge you forward instead of handing you the answer • Notes, auto-candidates, and gentle highlighting that make tough puzzles approachable • Built-in trainers that teach real solving techniques — hidden singles, naked pairs, X-Wing, and more • 20 hand-tuned themes, light and dark — make the board truly yours • Stats, streaks, and stars that quietly track your progress • A relaxing brain workout you can play offline, with soothing music and soft sound No clutter, no pressure — just you and the next square. Sudoku Haven goes everywhere you do. Glance at the daily puzzle and your streak on your Apple Watch, and challenge a friend to a board right inside iMessage. Compare solve times on Game Center leaderboards, earn achievements, and keep everything in sync across iPhone and iPad with iCloud. A friendly head-to-head multiplayer mode is in mind, too — and the more players who find the Haven, the sooner it arrives. Free to play, with one optional purchase that removes ads and opens up everything. Find your calm and start solving.

About

Lattern

Features
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Lattern is a 60-second daily memory ritual. Calm, precise, and deliberately not brain training. Each day, a grid lights its cells one by one. After it rests, you light the same path back from memory. The sequence builds as you go: three for the day, a little longer each round. Get it, and your Lattice fills in, a quiet pattern of light that grows day by day. • One new Lattern every day, the same for everyone • A gentle build-up, a few tries, never a harsh fail • The Lattice: your streak, as a calendar of light • Apple Watch and home-screen widgets • No accounts, no noise, no pressure Lattern+ unlocks practice grids, 1,000 training levels, your full history, and removes ads. Quiet work. Same time tomorrow. Privacy policy: https://lattern.app/privacy Terms of use: https://lattern.app/terms

Screenshots

Sudoku Haven4 screens
Lattern4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Lattern at every 3 days against Sudoku Haven's every 10 days. Sudoku Haven's advantage is device support (6 vs 3). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sudoku Haven sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Lattern sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sudoku Haven ships an update every 10 days, Lattern every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Sudoku Haven versus Lattern: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSudoku HavenLattern
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 daysEvery 3 days — better
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad, Apple Watch
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size193 MB24 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperEmu WTFJ AND B CREATIONS LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

Sudoku Haven

One-time1
  • Premium Unlock$2.99
4 purchases

Lattern

Subscriptions2
  • Lattern+ Weekly$2.997 Days
  • Lattern+ Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time2
  • Remove Ads$2.99
  • Lattern+ Lifetime$19.99

Questions

Is Sudoku Haven free?
Sudoku Haven is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Lattern free?
Lattern is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Sudoku Haven or Lattern have ads?
Both Sudoku Haven and Lattern show ads.
Which is updated more often, Sudoku Haven or Lattern?
Sudoku Haven ships an update every 10 days, and Lattern every 3 days. Most recently, Sudoku Haven was updated on October 31, 2026 and Lattern on November 5, 2026.

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