Sudoku Ignite vs Loomwork

A Sudoku game without annoying ads that teaches you how to play! Every hint names the technique and explains why it works, so you improve. Every hint names the technique it used and explains the reasoning in a sentence. It reads your own pencil marks, tells you when one of them rules out the right answer, and when a position genuinely cannot be settled by logic it says so instead of quietly handing you the answer. A built-in Techniques reference explains every strategy the guide can use, in the order it tries them, each with a worked example. LEARN TO SOLVE A campaign of 13 lessons takes the techniques in the order a solver meets them — singles, locking a symbol, pairs, then the patterns that reach across the grid — and teaches each one on the simplest board it applies to, finishing with a harder board to prove it stuck. NINE KINDS OF BOARD, 3,300 PUZZLES • 6×6 - the place to start. Same rules, less than half the squares. • 9×9 - classic sudoku in five difficulties, from easy to guru. • 16×16 and 25×25 - large grids with pinch-to-zoom, in five difficulties. • Jigsaw - nine irregular regions replace the boxes. • Killer - cages that add up to a total, with only a handful of starting digits. • Odd/Even - circled squares hold even numbers, so every square starts with about half its options ruled out. • Thermo - values rise along each thermometer, shown as a cool-to-warm gradient. • Samurai - five overlapping 9×9 grids on one board, in three difficulties. Every puzzle is distinct and has exactly one solution. On boards up to 16x16, difficulty is graded by the techniques a board actually needs, not by counting clues, and each tier is kept tight so two boards at the same level feel the same. DAILY, WEEKLY, ENDLESS • A Daily Challenge on any of the six small boards, Easy or Medium, the same for everyone that day. Build a streak, catch up from a 30-day archive, and turn on a reminder if you want one. • Share a picture of your result, with your time and streak. • A Weekly Challenge every Monday: one easy 16×16 or Samurai for everyone. • Endless 6×6 and 9×9, which build a fresh board every time you finish one. 135 ACHIEVEMENTS From your first clean solve to things only the obsessive will ever see. They are worked out from your own statistics, so everything you have already solved counts. PLAY YOUR WAY • Free input by default: enter what you think, then Undo, Redo or Erase. • Optional guided input that only accepts correct entries. • Optional mistake checking and a three-mistake limit. • Pencil marks that stay legible: up to four per square, drawn large, or automatic candidates for every empty square. • A color tool for following a chain by hand. • Number keys show how many of each number are still missing. STATISTICS Best and average times for every board type and difficulty, total solves, perfect solves, and your daily streak on a calendar. MADE TO BE READ A warm, calm design with light, dark and high-contrast themes, a reduce-motion option, and clear board markings for every variant: dashed cages, tinted overlaps, gradient thermometers. Works entirely offline. No account, no ads, no tracking.

Nonograms the way they should feel: calm, fair and beautiful. EVERY PUZZLE CAN BE SOLVED BY LOGIC Fill the grid from the number clues to reveal a hidden picture. Each Loomwork puzzle has exactly one solution, and a solver checks that it can be reached by line logic alone. No guessing, no 50/50s. NO ADS. NO LIVES. NO NAGS. No banners, no videos, no energy to wait out. A wrong mark never costs you anything. Choose Gentle (a wrong mark shows in soft red at once) or Classic (no checking until the grid is complete, as on paper). PICTURES THAT WEAVE INTO CLOTH Over 280 original pixel pictures, from 5×5 up to 40×40 showpieces, among them a Floating World of Japan, from a lucky cat to the Great Wave. Finish a picture and it weaves into its full-colour textile and joins your Loom gallery. SEASONAL PACKS Seasonal packs arrive through the year, each free to everyone in its season. A new picture comes out each day, with time after the last to finish them all. Weave a whole pack in its season and it becomes a keepsake quilt in your Loom. Pictures you start in season stay yours, and Loomwork Plus keeps every seasonal pack open after its season. PUZZLES WITH COLOURED CLUES In the colour packs, each clue number is coloured like its run. Runs of different colours can touch, and runs of the same colour need a gap, so colour becomes part of the logic. Paint with the puzzle's own threads. The free First Colours pack teaches the rules. BIG PUZZLES THAT FEEL GOOD ON A PHONE - Pinch to zoom and drag with two fingers to pan - Drag to fill a run, locked to its row or column - The row and column under your finger are highlighted - A magnifying lens shows the cells under your finger on big grids - The biggest grids open where their clues can be read, with the whole picture one tap away - Clue numbers cross themselves out as you complete runs, and finished lines cross off their empty cells - Lock finished lines if you like, so a stray tap can't change them - Soft, woven sounds and gentle haptics, each with its own switch ON IPAD TOO Play on iPad in any orientation, in Split View beside another app, in Slide Over or in Stage Manager. On a wide screen the grid takes the full height, with your tools beside it. HELP THAT TEACHES Stuck? A hint finds the next deduction and explains it in plain words, for example which cells a long run must cover. Hints and undo are unlimited (puzzles solved with hints are marked as assisted). ENDLESS AND DAILY - Endless: generated puzzles from 10×10 to 50×50, graded Easy to Expert, so there is always another - Each Endless puzzle is a named textile pattern, such as Herringbone, Tartan or Fair Isle, in one colour or in colour - The Sampler: a swatch book with a place for every Endless look at every grade, filled by the first one you weave - A daily puzzle, the same for everyone, with a streak and a calendar of the pictures you've woven - A daily reminder at a time you choose, if you want one (it's off until you turn it on) - A Home Screen and Lock Screen widget with today's puzzle and your streak - iCloud sync keeps your pictures, bests and streak in step across your devices - Times, bests and your solve history in Stats LOOKS THE PART Linen light theme and Indigo Night dark theme, both free, following your phone. Text scales with your system text size. LOOMWORK PLUS (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) Every picture pack and colour pack, every seasonal pack after its season, Endless from 20×20 to 50×50 in one colour and in colour, the Rosewater, Saffron and Graphite themes, your full solve history and the daily archive. The free game includes First Threads, the Garden and Kitchen packs, the First Colours colour pack, each seasonal pack in its season, the daily, Endless up to 15×15 in one colour and in colour, and every control and assist. Loomwork collects no data and works fully offline. iCloud sync keeps your records in your own iCloud account, not with us, and you can turn it off in Settings.