Comparison

Pawdoku vs Doku!

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

Head to head
About

Pawdoku

Solve Sudoku-style puzzles to find hidden cats and complete your pet collection. This game offers a unique twist on the classic logic puzzle with adorable feline companions.

Highlights
  • Sudoku-style puzzles
  • Hidden cat discovery
  • Pet collection
  • Logic challenges
  • Casual gameplay
Features
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Find the cats hidden in the cells. Complete your pet collection by solving puzzles in this sudoku-style game with cats.

About

Doku!

This logic puzzle game challenges you to place dots on a board based on color regions and symbol clues. It offers a daily puzzle to maintain a streak and a journey mode with 150 levels across 11 chapters. Accessibility features and leaderboards are included.

Highlights
  • Daily logic puzzles
  • 150 levels across 11 chapters
  • Color vision palettes
  • Lettered regions for colorblindness
  • Daily and journey leaderboards
  • Offline puzzle solving
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Every colored region on the board hides one dot. The symbols on each tile tell you where a dot cannot go. Tap a square to pencil a note on it. Tap it twice to put a dot down. THE DAILY One board a day, the same board for everybody. Solve it and your streak goes up. The last seven days sit on the front page, so you can see which ones you got clean. THE JOURNEY 300 levels across 21 chapters, from a 4x4 that teaches you one rule at a time to the 9x9 boards at the end. Three chances per level. Solve one in the fewest moves it can be done in and it is marked perfect. ALSO IN IT - Palettes for deutan, protan and tritan color vision - A letter on every region for when the colors are hard to tell apart - Daily and journey leaderboards through Game Center - Every puzzle ships inside the app - No account and no sign up

Screenshots

Pawdoku4 screens
Doku!4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Doku! at 100% against Pawdoku's 43%. Doku! also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). Pawdoku's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs fortnightly) and ratings volume (8 vs 2). On price, ads, device support 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. Pawdoku sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Doku! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Doku! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Pawdoku's written reviews are positive against 100% of Doku!'s.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pawdoku ships an update weekly, Doku! fortnightly. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Pawdoku versus Doku!: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPawdokuDoku!
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.8 (8 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews42.9% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings8 — better2
Update frequencyWeekly — betterFortnightly
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesAd-supported — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size232 MB81 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperIndigo BuntingPoliglot

Customer experience

Pawdoku

All ratings8 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive42.9%
Neutral28.6%
Negative28.6%

Doku!

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Pawdoku

One-time4
  • 800 Coins$4.99
  • No Ads$7.99
  • 3200 Coins$14.99
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  • 26000 Coins$49.99
None

Doku!

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pawdoku free?
Pawdoku is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Doku! free?
Doku! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pawdoku or Doku!?
Doku! is rated higher. Pawdoku averages 3.8 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Doku! averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Pawdoku or Doku! have ads?
Both Pawdoku and Doku! show ads.
Which is updated more often, Pawdoku or Doku!?
Pawdoku ships an update weekly, and Doku! fortnightly. Most recently, Pawdoku was updated on November 10, 2026 and Doku! on November 10, 2026.

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