Numancer vs Poodoku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Numancer
Test your perception and instinct with this game of number recognition. Progress through different modes, including classic timed challenges, relaxed endurance tests, and a unique mode focused on mathematical constants like Pi and the Golden Ratio. Track your progress, compete globally, and share your achievements.
- Number perception challenges
- Instinct-based gameplay
- Classic timed mode
- Endurance mode for relaxed play
- Mathematical constants mode (Pi, Phi, e)
- Learn mode for constants
- Global leaderboards
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Numancer is a game of perception and instinct. Sense the right number in the grid. Trust your instinct. Keep your focus to progress. ◉ Classic - Beat the clock. See through the distractions. ◉ Endurance - Focus at your own pace, without pressure. ◉ Constants - Numance the numbers that shape the universe: π (Pi), φ (Golden Ratio) and e (Euler's Number). Use Learn mode in Constants to study digits, practice with hints, and then test your memory. Each constant supports up to 100,000 digits. Track your best scores in each game mode, compete with Numancers around the world on global leaderboards, or share score report cards.
Poodoku
A cozy logic puzzle game blending Sudoku mechanics with a whodunit mystery. Solve daily puzzles by deducing suspect locations based on clues to find out who had an accident. Offers multiple difficulty levels and a full archive for offline play.
- Daily new puzzles
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Full puzzle archive
- Interactive tutorial
- Streak tracker
- Mark cells with X
- Light/dark mode
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Poodoku is a cozy logic-puzzle whodunit for the whole family. Someone pooped in the house. You have a small cast of suspects, a floor plan, and a handful of clues. Read each clue, place each suspect in the right room, and the last empty square is the poop — the room it's in reveals the culprit. Every day brings three fresh puzzles — Easy, Medium, and Hard — across a 365-day archive so you can catch up whenever life gets busy. When you're ready to level up, Hard+ teasers open the trickiest 5-room grids. WHAT MAKES IT TICK Poodoku borrows the "one per row, one per column" backbone from sudoku or queens and pairs it with logic clues from a whodunit — "I was on the sofa," "I was beside the plant," "I was in the same room as Milo." Every puzzle is uniquely solvable through pure deduction. No luck. No shortcuts to the answers. FEATURES • New puzzles every day + full archive • Three difficulties every day, plus Hard+ bonus grids • Interactive tutorial that teaches the whole clue vocabulary • Streak tracker with an optional 7pm reminder • Mark cells with an X while you think • Drag-and-drop, auto-mark, and candidate-location hints — pick the input style that fits you • Light + dark mode, storybook art, big-tap targets • Optional Cats Pack: swap the default cast for 20 hand-drawn cat suspects FAMILY FRIENDLY Poodoku's puzzles are kid-approachable without dumbing anything down. It's the kind of game a 7-year-old and a grown-up can solve together on the couch. Cute art, gentle stakes ("someone had an accident"), no violence, no ads. QUIET, RESPECTFUL DESIGN • No ads, ever • No account required, we respect your privacy and don't sell your information • No urgency timers, no lives to refill, no dark patterns • One-time purchases only — no subscriptions • Play offline; the archive ships in the app If you enjoy Sudoku, KenKen, Nurikabe, Picross, or a good whodunit, Poodoku will feel like home.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Poodoku at 100% against Numancer's 0%. Poodoku also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0) and ads (none vs shown). Numancer's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly) and iOS requirement (18.2 vs 26.5). On price, ratings volume, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Numancer sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Poodoku sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Poodoku holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Numancer's written reviews are positive against 100% of Poodoku's.
Numancer ships an update every 3 days, Poodoku weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Numancer | Poodoku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Weekly |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 — better | 26.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 54 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chandramohan Sudar | Nuthatch Networks LLC |
Customer experience
Numancer
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In-app purchases
Numancer
- Numancer Pro$1.99
Poodoku
- Cats Pack$1.99






