Sudoku Mega Bundle vs Cracking the Cryptic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sudoku Mega Bundle
Explore hundreds of unique Sudoku variations beyond the classic grid. Challenge yourself with diverse puzzle types, difficulty levels, and helpful tools. Enjoy customizable gameplay and track your progress with leaderboards and achievements.
- Hundreds of unique Sudoku variations
- Multiple difficulty levels
- Hints and smart notes
- Savepoint functionality
- Zoom and customization options
- Leaderboards and achievements
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Hundreds of unique sudoku varations!!! Including: Killer, Jigsaw, Skyscrapers, 16x16, Samurai, Kropki, Word, Duplex and many more! • Easy, Medium, Hard and Expert difficulties for every game type! • Tons of puzzles guarenteed to have only one solution! • Hints to help when you're stuck, or automatically fill all notes! • Create Savepoints for when you want to make a guess! • Smart notes are automatically removed when placing another cell's correct number! • Easy note taking! Select multiple cells at once! • Zoom in and out of any puzzle to see the numbers better! • Leaderboard and achievements! • Completely customize the game's appearance to your liking! • Current Game Types: 0-9 2-3-4 3D 3D Bishop 3D Black Knight 4-5 4x4 6x6 8x8 10x10 12x12 16x16 16x16 X 37 123 147 12345 Anti Knight Anti Knight Boxless Anti White Knight Jigsaw Anti X Anti X Boxless Ascension Asterisk Atypical Atypical Fractures Big Killer Binary Bishop Black Knight Blackout Blind Killer Boxless Boxless Frame Boxless Pseudoku Brick Butterfly Centers Circular Circular 10 Circular Box Clock Color Columndoku Compressed Consecutive Cross Cube Cube Bishop Cube Black Knight Cube White Knight Deficit Dependency Diamond Digital Disjointed Disjointed Irregular Double Double Cell Double Cube Double Cube Bishop Double Cube Black Knight Double Line Double Ring Doubledoku Doubledoku Bishop Doubledoku Black Knight Doubledoku White Knight Duplex Difference Duplex Plex Duplex Sum Even Extra Space Extra Staircase Flower Fortress Fractured Bridge Fractured Spiral Fractured Staircase Fractured Target Fractured Web Fractures Frame Gattai 3 Gattai 3 Mix NPS Gattai 4 Gattai 4 Mix AMDE Greater Than Greater Than Killer Greater Than Killer Samurai Greater Than Samurai Heptagram Hexadoku Hexagon Hexagram Hexagram Bishop Hexagram Black Knight Hexagram White Knight Isodoku Isodoku Black Knight Isosudoku Jigsaw Jigsaw 6x6 Jigsaw Cube Jigsaw Skyscrapers Killer Killer 16x16 Killer Jigsaw Killer Modulo Killer Parity Killer Product Killer Samurai Killer Skyscrapers Kropki Kropki 16x16 Krychle Krychle 9x9 Layers 4x4x4 Layers 6x6x6 Lean Box Lean Cross Lean Gear Lean Patch Lean Wheel Lean Windoku Little Killer Lucky Seven Mathdoku Min Max Missing Musketry No Touch Nonconsecutive Nonconsecutive Boxless Nonconsecutive Circular Odd Odd Even Big Small Odd Even Big Small Boxless Outside Outside Boxless Palindrome Parquet Block Parquet Block Boxless Parquet Square Parquet Twist Pencil Mark Pentagram Pseudoku Quadruple Quadruple Boxless Queen Regular Samurai Samurai 9-Grid Samurai 9-Grid Kropki Samurai 13-Grid Kropki Samurai 16-Grid Kropki Samurai Kropki Samurai Mix WKSOT Samurai Mix XKJFO Sandwich Scatter Scatter 6x6 Search Nine Search Nine Boxless Sensei Sigma Sigma Circle Skyscrapers Snowflake Snowflake X Sohei Staircase Star Subtwodoku Subtwodoku 6x6 Suguru 5x5 Suguru 6x6 Suguru 7x7 Suguru 8x8 Suguru 9x9 Surplus Swap Symbol Tape Thermo Threedoku Threedoku Mix CFM Tight Fit Touchless Triangle Tricky Tridoku Trinary Triple Triple Mix SVQ Tripledoku Tripledoku Mix OGS Twin Boxes Twodoku Vudoku White Knight White Knight Jigsaw White Knight X Windmill Windoku Wing 3 Wing 5 Word X
Cracking the Cryptic
This app offers a curated collection of handcrafted Sudoku puzzles from world-renowned constructors. Explore classic and unique variants, with new puzzle packs released regularly. A free introductory pack is included with download.
- Handcrafted Sudoku puzzles
- Curated by expert constructors
- Classic and unique variants
- Regularly released puzzle packs
- Free introductory puzzle pack
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OUR NEWEST PACK – CLASSIC VOLUME #2! Classic sudoku is where it all began, and there is still lots of skill to be deployed to solve classic puzzles, and new techniques to be explored. Nikoli, the Japanese puzzle house, named and popularised sudoku from 1984, and we have commissioned 20 puzzles from them for this Classic Sudoku 2 app. We have also created 20 ourselves, and sourced 20 more from Sam Cappleman-Lynes, the brilliant British sudoku expert. The result is a wonderful 60-puzzle pack which will delight and challenge you. -------------------- Welcome to the brand new Sudoku app from the most popular Sudoku channel, Cracking The Cryptic. Unlike other Sudoku apps, we feature handcrafted and curated puzzles from the world’s best Sudoku constructors. Each collection features puzzles made by various authors that are now familiar names to those who follow the channel. Authors like Phistomefel, Clover, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Christoph Seeliger, Richard Stolk, jovi_al, Qodec, Prasanna Seshadri and of course, Simon and Mark! Downloading Cracking the Cryptic will give you access to our first free collection – a variety pack by Prasanna Seshadri featuring 7 puzzles inspired from our previous Sudoku apps; Sandwich, Classic, Chess, Thermo, Miracle, Killer and Arrow Sudoku. We also have purchasable packs designed for all skill levels and featuring many unique variants not seen previously. We’ll be releasing more free and paid packs in the future so keep an eye on the app for more Sudoku content from Cracking The Cryptic!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Cracking the Cryptic at none against Sudoku Mega Bundle's shown. Cracking the Cryptic also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.1). Sudoku Mega Bundle's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and ratings volume (2.9K vs 208). On price, review sentiment, 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. Sudoku Mega Bundle sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Cracking the Cryptic sells 13 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Sudoku Mega Bundle holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sudoku Mega Bundle has 2.9K ratings behind it against 208, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 78% of Sudoku Mega Bundle's written reviews are positive against 72% of Cracking the Cryptic's.
Sudoku Mega Bundle ships an update every 2 months, Cracking the Cryptic every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sudoku Mega Bundle | Cracking the Cryptic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (2.9K ratings) — better | 4.4 (208 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 78.0% of reviews — better | 72.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 2.9K — better | 208 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| 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, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 94 MB | 234 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GammaLateral LLC | Nick Carney |
Customer experience
Sudoku Mega Bundle
Cracking the Cryptic
User reviews
Sudoku Mega Bundle
From 2.9K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Variety of games
- 👍 Customizable options
- 🚀 Challenging puzzles
- 👍 User-friendly interface
Room to improve
- 🐛 Bugs and glitches
- 💸 Intrusive ads
- 🔒 Locked difficulty levels
- 🔒 Inability to close ads
Cracking the Cryptic
From 208 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Best sudoku app
- 👍 Great variety of puzzles
- 👍 Excellent user interface
- 👍 Challenging and fun puzzles
- 👍 Constant updates with new puzzles
Room to improve
- 🐛 Hints are often incorrect or unhelpful
- 🐛 Bugs and crashes, especially after updates
- 🔋 Battery draining issues
- 🔒 Too many in-app purchases required to access content
Bugs and requests
Sudoku Mega Bundle
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes after update
- Ads causing game to freeze or redirect
- Incorrect puzzle solutions
- Pencil marks not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to input game seed
- Option to turn off zoom
- Ability to modify color of lines in Killer Sudoku
- Addition of 6x6 Killer Sudoku
- Ability to take notes in pencil mode without errors
Cracking the Cryptic
Reported bugs
4 issues- Puzzle progress and purchases disappearing after updates
- Incorrect rules or hints in certain puzzles
- Crashes and freezes, especially on older devices or Macs
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between portrait and landscape modes
Requested features
5 requests- Add more color options for pencil marking and highlighting
- Implement a way to clear progress or start puzzles from scratch
- Integrate all CTC apps into a single app for better organization
- Add keyboard support, especially on Mac
- Improve the quality and clarity of hints
In-app purchases
Sudoku Mega Bundle
- Remove Ads$1.991 Month
- Get 20 Hints$0.99
- Get 50 Hints$1.99
- Remove Ads$9.99
Cracking the Cryptic
- CTC Worms - James Sinclair$0.99
- CTC Worms - Marty Sears$0.99
- CTC Worms - Zetamath$1.99
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- CTC Worms - Blobz$1.99
- CTC Worms - Michael Lefkowitz$1.99
- CTC Worms - Phistomefel$1.99
- GAS Volume #1$2.99
- GAS Volume #2$2.99
- CTC Approachable Sudoku #1$2.99
- Domino Sudoku Pack$4.99
- Lines Variety Pack$4.99
- Classic Volume #2$4.99
- CTC Fog Pack #1$4.99
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