Sudoku Express vs Slide Puzzle Classic Widget
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sudoku Express
Enjoy a classic Sudoku experience with a clean, minimalist interface designed for focused puzzle-solving. Customize your game with multiple color and font options. Offers over 1,000 unique puzzles across easy, medium, and hard difficulties for extended gameplay.
- Minimalist flat UI design
- Easy noting system
- Multiple color schemes
- Font selection for customization
- 1,001 unique puzzles per difficulty
- Easy, Medium, and Hard difficulty levels
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The classic Sudoku game at its best for iOS! A version for those who just want to solve the puzzles. A minimalist, flat UI design and easy noting allow you to focus on the point of the game, which is solving the puzzles! Multiple color schemes and font selections allow you to customize the experience to your preferences. With 1,001 unique puzzles each for the included Easy, Medium and Hard puzzles, you will be challenged for hours, days and weeks.
Slide Puzzle Classic Widget
Enjoy a classic sliding number puzzle directly on your iOS Home Screen. Arrange numbers in order to solve challenges with logic and visual skills. Unlock additional themes and disable ads with a game pass or individual purchases.
- Play on Home Screen widgets
- Classic sliding puzzle gameplay
- Logic and visual skill testing
- Unlockable themes
- Ad-free option via purchase
- Available on Mac, iPhone, iPad
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Play Slide Puzzle right on your iOS 17 device’s Home Screen! Harnessing the power of iOS 17’s interactive widgets, this app brings a fresh twist to the classic game. Playing a Slide Puzzle game has never been this accessible or convenient. Whether you’re waiting for a bus, on your lunch break, or just relaxing at home, your next move is right at your fingertips. Arrange the numbers in order, testing your logic and visual skills with every move. Can you solve the puzzle in the fewest moves possible? Get ready to slide, rearrange, and solve. It’s fun, it’s challenging, and it’s right on your Home Screen. "Slide Puzzle Classic Widget Game" is part of our collection of Classic Widget Games you can play right on your iOS Home Screen or Mac desktop. Download all 6 today! Get the Classic Widget Game Pass to unlock themes and disable ads in all of the games for one low price or opt to unlock just the games you want separately. Subscriptions will automatically renew unless canceled within 24-hours before the end of the current period. You can cancel anytime within your iTunes account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial will be forfeited if you purchase a subscription. The privacy policy for this app is located here: https://www.cromulentlabs.com/widget-games/privacy/ The terms of use for this app are the standard Apple terms located here: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Slide Puzzle Classic Widget at Free against Sudoku Express's $3.99. Sudoku Express's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and review sentiment (23% vs 0%). On rating, ratings volume, 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
Slide Puzzle Classic Widget is free to download; Sudoku Express costs $3.99 up front. Slide Puzzle Classic Widget sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per year. Sudoku Express asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.5 for Sudoku Express against 4.4 for Slide Puzzle Classic Widget. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 85 and 34 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 23% of Sudoku Express's written reviews are positive against 0% of Slide Puzzle Classic Widget's.
Sudoku Express ships an update every 6 weeks, Slide Puzzle Classic Widget every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sudoku Express | Slide Puzzle Classic Widget |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $3.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.5 (85 ratings) — better | 4.4 (34 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 23.1% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 34 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks | Every 5 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pheinex, LLC | Cromulent Labs |
Customer experience
Sudoku Express
Slide Puzzle Classic Widget
In-app purchases
Sudoku Express
No in-app purchases
Slide Puzzle Classic Widget
- Classic Widget Game Pass7 Days trial$4.991 Year
- Slide Puzzle Classic Premium$2.99
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