Sudoku· vs Sudoku Tutor
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sudoku·
Engage your mind with a classic Sudoku puzzle game. Enjoy a clean interface and multiple difficulty levels. Track your progress and compete with others.
- Daily Challenge
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Note taking
- Hint system
- Highlight incorrect values
- Individual statistics
- Game Center leaderboard
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Pass the time while you challenge your mind with this classic Sudoku game. The clean, simple layout makes it easy to play for hours at a time. The objective is simple, fill the 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, row, and the nine 3×3 sub-grids contains all of the digits from 1 to 9. Sudoku· features: - Daily Challenge - Four levels (easy, medium, hard, and expert) - Disable numbers once all 9 instances are entered - Note taking ability - Hint (fill in missing number when you are stuck) - Highlight Incorrect Values - Auto Reveal all potential notes - Individual statistics - Game Center with Leaderboard and Achievements Download today for mind-challenging fun.
Sudoku Tutor
This app guides you through solving classic Sudoku puzzles of all difficulties. It provides step-by-step hints, grid visualizations, and AI-powered scanning to help you learn strategies and improve your skills. Track your progress and share puzzles with friends.
- Step-by-step hints
- Grid visualizations
- AI puzzle scanning
- Puzzle generation
- Progress tracking
- Puzzle sharing
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Sudoku Tutor will teach you how to solve classic Sudoku puzzles, from the easiest to the hardest. It offers step by step hints and grid visualizations to make it easy to figure out what to do next. Highlights include: - A user friendly interface to make it easy and fun to solve even the hardest puzzles. - Learn the strategies to solve easy and very complex classic Sudoku puzzles. - Provides varying levels of support while solving puzzles through hints and grid highlights. - Uses Artificial Intelligence to scan puzzles using the camera or from a picture. - Generate your own puzzles with levels of difficulty from Easy to Insane. - Create a puzzle by manually entering the given numbers or pasting in a puzzle text string. - Track your progress as you improve, with detailed statistics for every puzzle complexity. - Share puzzles with your friends. - Save puzzles to work on later. - Keeps completed puzzles so that you can solve them again or send them to friends. - Supports multiple user interface options for working with puzzles.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Sudoku· at none against Sudoku Tutor's 3. Sudoku· also leads on ratings volume (17K vs 151) and iOS requirement (13 vs 17.6). Sudoku Tutor's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 66%). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Sudoku Tutor sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. Sudoku· asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Sudoku· against 4.8 for Sudoku Tutor. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sudoku· has 17K ratings behind it against 151, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 66% of Sudoku·'s written reviews are positive against 91% of Sudoku Tutor's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sudoku· | Sudoku Tutor |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (17K ratings) | 4.8 (151 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.7% of reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 17K — better | 151 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 2 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tim O's Studios, LLC | Quatrian Inc. |
Customer experience
Sudoku·
Sudoku Tutor
Bugs and requests
Sudoku·
Reported bugs
4 issues- Game freezes or crashes after updates
- Timer issues due to ads
- Difficulty closing ads or navigating UI
- Incompatibility with newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- Option to pay for ad-free version
- Ability to pause and restart games
- More detailed performance tracking
- Customizable color themes
Sudoku Tutor
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sudoku·
No in-app purchases
Sudoku Tutor
- Bronze$1.991 Year
- Silver Subscription$3.991 Year
- Gold Subscription$4.991 Year









