Doku Lite vs Bare Sudoku
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Doku Lite
Enjoy classic Sudoku puzzles with a vast collection of over 1000 challenges across multiple difficulty levels. This streamlined version offers a no-frills gaming experience for Sudoku enthusiasts.
- Over 1000 Sudoku puzzles
- Multiple difficulty levels
- No-frills gameplay
- Available on iOS devices
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Doku is sudoku for iOS. It is simply the game you love with no frills. Included with the app is over 1000 puzzles, with several hundred in each difficulty. You'll never run out of puzzles! This lite version is ad supported. If you dislike the ads, please consider upgrading to the paid version! It's ad free!
Bare Sudoku
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Bare Sudoku is Sudoku with nothing in the way. No ads, no account, no tracking, no internet. Open it and play. FOUR LEVELS Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert. Every puzzle has exactly one solution and can be solved by logic alone; you never have to guess. HINTS THAT TEACH A hint points to the next cell you can fill and names the technique: a single candidate, the only place for a digit in a row, column or box, locked candidates, pairs and triples, X-Wing, Y-Wing, Swordfish or XYZ-Wing. Tap again to place the digit. FAST INPUT Tap a cell then a digit, or tap a digit twice to lock it and fill several cells in a row. Notes, undo, erase, fill all notes with one tap, mistake marking you can turn off, and highlights for the row, column, box and same digits. SMALL AND HONEST The whole app is about 150 KB. Your game is saved on the device and continues where you left off. Dark mode, landscape, English and Turkish. Open source under the MIT license.
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Verdict
Doku Lite and Bare Sudoku both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 100% of Bare Sudoku's written reviews are positive against 50% of Doku Lite's. Bare Sudoku also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 13 months) and device support (6 vs 3). Doku Lite's advantage is iOS requirement (9.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Doku Lite against 5.0 for Bare Sudoku. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of Doku Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Bare Sudoku's.
Doku Lite ships an update every 13 months, Bare Sudoku weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 18, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Doku Lite | Bare Sudoku |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 13 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac, Apple TV, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Redig | Alparslan Selcuk Develioglu |
Customer experience
Doku Lite
Bare Sudoku
In-app purchases
Doku Lite
No in-app purchases
Bare Sudoku
No in-app purchases
